(2/13) Wrong Worries

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Ekachakra Dham, 23 February 2021, part 2
Translated from Bengali

Srila Raghunath Das Goswami had come to Mahaprabhu many times, but he could not get His mercy. He left everything, all his wealth – his father was a rich landowner in Adisaptagram and earned twenty thousand rupees, which was an enormous sum of money, but Srila Raghunath Das Goswami left everything as if it were stool and urine. When we go to the toilet, we reject stool and urine as something filthy and do not even want to look at it ‒ Srila Raghunath Das Goswami had left everything he had in the world in the same way and went to Mahaprabhu, but he could not get Mahaprabhu’s mercy. Why could he not get it? Because he had not got Nityananda Prabhu’s mercy (‘Nitaiyera karuna habe, vraje radha-krsna pabe (নিতাইয়ের করুণা হবে, ব্রজে রাধাকৃষ্ণ পাবে). If you get Nitai’s mercy, you will come to Radha-Krishna in Vraja’). That is why Mahaprabhu sent him back again and again…

[Distracted by somebody’s phone ringing] Switch off your phones. Nothing will happen to you – if you listen to Hari-katha for one–two hours, you will not lose anything. You do not need to call home and answer all the questions (‘How are you?’, ‘What are you doing?’, etc.) – everything is always all right at Nitai's holy dham. Nothing will happen to you. Keep faith in that. If you do not have faith, you will suffer. The less faith you have, the more your devotion will be decreasing. I told you yesterday also:

'শ্রদ্ধা' শব্দে—বিস্বাস কহে সুদৃঢ় নিশ্চয় ।
কৃষ্ণে ভক্তি কৈলে সর্ব্বকর্ম্ম কৃত হয় ॥

‘sraddha’-sabde visvasa kahe sudrdha nischaya
krsne bhakti kaile sarva-karma krta haya

‘Sraddha is a firm, determined faith that by serving Krishna all actions are accomplished.’

(Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, 2.22.62)

You have a lack of faith. You have no faith, that is why you have no devotion.

Devotion (Bhakti Devi) does not stay where there is no faith. She runs away from such places. Bhakti Devi always wants a clean place. If there is kama, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, matsarya (lust, anger, greed, illusion, madness, envy), rupa, rasa, gandha, sabda, sparsa (desire for enjoyment with your eyes, tongue, nose, ears, skin), kanak, kamini, pratistha (desire for money, women, fame), Bhakti Devi will not stay there to suffer. Suppose you host a programme at your house and invite a Vaishnav. If you do not give any place for the Vaishnav to sit but instead stuff the room with sacks of potato, dal, rice, etc., where will you seat your Thakur (Lord)? The Lord comes to sit in your hearts, that is why you must first have space in your hearts so that the Lord can sit there. Do you know what Prabhupad Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur said? Mahaprabhu said, ‘Prthivite yata achhe nagaradi grama, sarvatra prachara haibe Mora Nama (পৃথিবীতে যত আছে নগরাদি গ্রাম, সর্ব্বত্র প্রচার হইবে মোর নাম). My Name will spread to every village and town on this earth,’ and Srila Prabhupad said, ‘No, not in every village and town – this Holy Name must dance in the heart of every man. It is necessary to make a temple in each and every person’s heart.’ So, the main point is not to make a temple in every village, but we must make a temple in every single person’s heart; otherwise, it will not do.

The problem is that every heart is ‘pancha-roge hata’, ruined by five diseases. These five diseases are avidya (ignorance), asmita (false identification), raga (misdirected love), dvesa (aversion to anything that goes against one’s enjoyment) and abhinivesa (being unable to give up unfavourable habits). Raga is not when somebody gets angry, raga means not being attracted to the Lord. We are afflicted by these five diseases. When our bodies and hearts are full of kanak, kamini, pratistha (desire for money, women, fame), kama, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, matsarya (lust, anger, greed, illusion, madness, envy), rupa, rasa, gandha, sabda, sparsa (desire for enjoyment with your eyes, tongue, nose, ears, skin), how will you get the Lord then?

If you want to make a temple in every person’s heart, it is necessary to make space for the Lord in the heart. Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur writes in one of the kirtans:

কবে নিত্যানন্দ, মোরে করি’ দয়া,
ছাড়াইবে মোর বিষয়ের মায়া ।

kabe nityananda, more kari’ daya,
chhadaibe mora visayera maya

‘When will Nityananda be merciful to me and make me leave all material attachment?’

(Saranagati, Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur)

আর কবে নিতাইচাঁদ করুণা করিবে ।
সংসার-বাসনা মোর কবে তুচ্ছ হ’বে ॥

ara kabe nitai-chand karuna karibe
samsara-vasana mora kabe tuchchha ha’be

‘When will Nitaichand give me His mercy? When will my material desires lose their appeal and become trifle?’

(Srila Narottam Das Thakur)

We always worry, ‘How will I live? How will I maintain my family?’ but one day you will go away – you will have to leave all this behind…

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1) This Is Not a Playground
2) Wrong Worries
3) Pure Identity
4) Worshipful Devotion
5) Meaning of Discipleship
6) Free Mercy, Exclusive Rights
7) Path of Devotion
8) Krishna Conscious Life
9) Sri Nityananda Prabhu's Glory (1)
10) Sri Nityananda Prabhu's Glory (2)
11) Sri Nityananda Prabhu's Glory (3)
12) Sri Nityananda Prabhu's Glory (4)
13) Clean Mood