(1/5) Pure Vision Comes from Pure Heart

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Vrindavan Dham, evening class
31 October 2019, part 1
Translated from Bengali

Jay Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay.
Visva-varenya Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay.
Om Vishnupad Paramahamsa-kula-churamani Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay.
Jay saparikara Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva Govinda Sundarjiu ki jay.
Om Vishnupad Bhagavan Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupad ki jay.
Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Radha-rasa-bihari ki jay.
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math ki jay.
Chaitanya Saraswat Math Mission Vrindavan Dham ki jay.
Seva-kunja ki jay.
Bhakta-prabara Prahlad Maharaj ki jay.
Suddha-bhaktir-vighna-vinasa-kari Bhagavan Nrisinghadev ki jay.
Sri Sada-Siva Gangadhar, Giriraj Govardhan ki jay.
Jay Damodar-vrata, Kartik-vraja, ujjva-vrata-palankari bhakta-vrinda ki jay.
Niyom-seva-vrata-palankari bhakta-vrinda ki jay.
Vrindavan Dham ki jay.
Govardhan ki jay.
Govardhan Dham ki jay.
Sri Vraja Mandal ki jay.
Sri Vraja Mandal parikrama-kari bhakta-vrinda ki jay.
All the sannyasi-vrinda ki jay.
All the assembled devotees ki jay.
All the worldwide devotees ki jay.
Samagata Sri Gaura bhakta-vrinda ki jay.
Harinam sankirtan ki jay.
Nitai Gaura premanande Hari bol

So, we have now arrived in Vrindavan. By the mercy of Sri Gurupadpadma, we have done today the pancha-kroshi parikrama [five krosh is about ten miles or fifteen kilometres]. In total, there are over five thousand temples in Vrindavan, and when we do this parikrama, we get the chance to circumambulate them all. Tomorrow early in the morning, we will be leaving early. We will go to several main temples.

Actually, we have no capacity to have the darshan of these places:

অন্ধীভূত চক্ষু যার বিষয ধূলিতে ।
কেমনে সে পাইবে পরতত্ত্ব দেখিতে ॥

andhibhuta chaksu yara visaya dhulite
kemane se paibe para-tattva dekhite

‘My eyes are blind with the dust of visaya, the material world – how can I see the transcendental world?’

We have no eyes to see the transcendental form of all these holy places. But if we can keep listening to Hari-katha, keep practising spiritual life and kirtan, if we can keep chanting the Holy Name of Lord Krishna, then one day our hearts' eyes will open – only then will we be able to understand and have the darshan of our guru, of Vaishnavs and of the Lord.

Who can know the guru? If the guru lets his devotee or disciple know himself, then only the person can understand their guru. Otherwise, we see that gurudev goes to the bathroom just like us, he eats just like us, he sleeps just like us, so we think that he is like us – because of such external vision we cannot have the true darshan of the guru (we cannot see him with our internal eyes). We have eyes in our hearts, and until our hearts become clean – if there is dirt, garbage and offences to Vaishnavs and the Holy Name in our hearts – we will never be able to have the darshan of the Lord, neither will we ever be able to understand our guru and Vaishnavs. This is the main thing we must realise

You are doing Sri Dham parikrama, but what you see is the great buildings. Do you actually see the transcendental abode? If Maya Devi frees our eyes and mercifully allows us to have divine vision, then we will be able to behold transcendental abode and its paraphernalia. That is why the main thing when we do parikrama is kirtan. If we can chant kirtan and thereby clean our hearts – if our hearts and minds become pure by serving the Lord and His devotees – then we can attain everything. 'Chhadiya vaisnava-seva nistara payechhe keba (ছাড়িয়া বৈষ্ণব-সেবা নিস্তার পায়েছে কেবা): Without service to Vaishnavs, you cannot get any relief.' Do you know anybody who has got relief without vaishnav-seva?

We must always try to open our hearts' eyes. I am praying to you all: please never compare this holy abode to the soil, wood, bricks or buildings of this world. Never compare your guru or Vaishnavs to bodies of blood and flesh. If you do, it will be an offence: an offence to the Holy Name, to the holy abode, to service and to Vaishnavs.

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2) Parikrama Programme
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