(6/6) Preach for the Math

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Jaipur, evening class,
4 November 2019, part 6
Translated from Bengali

I have a request to you all, especially to the devotees from South India and here Jaipur. Please preach about our Guru Maharaj and about Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. Preach in South India, preach here in Jaipur. You know, it is not a problem for me to make temples in various places. Gurudev told me that I could open a temple whenever I wanted. It is not a big deal. But the problem is that there is a lack of servitors – there is a lack of people who have a service mood. That is why we try to preach to collect servitors. So, please try to preach and increase the number of servitors and devotees, then you will see that one day there will be a temple in your regions, too. You do not need to worry about this. Always continue serving the way you are serving now.

Our Gaura Purnima festival is coming soon, you should come for the parikrama. We do parikramas of Vrindavan, Nabadwip and Puri every year, and each of you should try to join these parikramas. You must definitely come. We do three parikramas a year. For newcomers, Sri Gaura Mandal parikrama (Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama) is the most important. Sri Puri Dham parikrama is very good for those who have progressed a little in their spiritual lives. And Sri Vraja Mandal parikrama (Sri Vrindavan Dham parikrama) is for those who have advanced to the highest class. Not everybody can actually understand the glory of Sri Vrindavan parikrama and the goswamis.

You can actually understand this during the prasadam time. If somebody thinks when taking prasad, 'Oh, they did not give me paneer!', 'Oh, they did not give me eggplant fritters (begun-bhaja)!', 'Oh, they did not give me poppy-seed fritters (posta-bora)!' – if you are conscious of getting or not getting some tasty or coveted preparations – then it is not taking prasad. Sri Vraja Dham parikrama or staying in Vrindavan is not for such people. For such people, Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama is of utmost necessity. That is why you must come for Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama every year. After that, you can try to join Sri Purusottam Dham parikrama. Keep four–five days a year for Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama and join every year. I am inviting you all.

I would like to finish here.

বাঞ্ছাকল্পতরুভ্যশ্চ কৃপাসিন্ধুভ্য এব চ ।
পতিতানাং পাবনেভ্যো বৈষ্ণবেভ্যো নমো নমঃ ॥

vanchha-kalpatarubhyas cha krpa-sindhubhya eva cha
patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah

‘Again and again I offer obeisances to the Supreme Lord’s devotees, who are saviours of the fallen, oceans of mercy and wish-fulfilling trees.’

Let us chant some kirtan now and finish for today.

There is one more thing you must always remember. One the one hand, you are practising Krishna consciousness, you are chanting the Holy Name on the beads. On the other hand, you are also making offences to the Holy Name, making offences to service, holy places and devotees. It does not work like this. You cannot do something and then do something that negates your first effort. You cannot make one step forward and then a step back. Suppose you are doing a fire sacrifice. To make a fire sacrifice, you must put ghee into fire. But if you put one spoon of ghee and then one spoon of water, then again one spoon of ghee and one spoon of water, you can never do a fire sacrifice like that. So, if you do something good and then do something bad, it does not work like this. It is necessary to always do what is good.

Meeting ** Prabhu today, I noticed that many foreigners come to see the Jaipur architecture. There are many tourists in this place. So, if you could make some arrangement for preaching, I would send preachers from other countries here. They could come here from time to time, and I could also come sometimes. It is not necessary to make any grand arrangements. You know, when I saw my room here today, it reminded me of Dvaraka and Sudama Vipra – I felt like poor Sudama Vipra who had come to opulent Dvaraka. I asked them how much they had paid for the room and I was astonished to hear the price. I do not need all this luxury and posh things. I do not like such things. Sometimes when it is very hot, I can use an A/C, but it is not even hot now, so it was not necessary to get such an expensive room. Get a small simple room, and some preachers can come there from time to time – you will see that Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math's preaching will increase more and more through that.

Let us chant some kirtan now.

Jay Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay.
Harinam sankirtan ki jay.

[His Divine Grace chants 'Jaya Radha Madhava' and 'Hari Haraye Nama Krsna', concluding the class.]

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