(3/6) Sri Ekachakra Dham: Our Fortune To Be Here

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Lord Varahadev's Appearance day, morning class
Sri Ekachakra Dham, 24 February 2021, part 3
Translated from Bengali

Today is the appearance day of Lord Varahadev. After that (the day after tomorrow), it will be Nityananda Prabhu’s appearance day. We are very fortunate to have come here.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur wanted to open a Gaudiya Math in Ekachakra, and, by the blessing of our Srila Gurudev, it has happened. Everybody knows our temple as Gaudiya Math (nobody calls our temple by its proper name, Sri Chaitanya Saraswata Krishnanusilana Sangha). In fact, there is a Gaudiya Math in Ekachakra, but Nityananda Prabhu has bestowed His mercy and given us this place here. This is how we are able to stay here today. If you just think about the dust of this holy dham, you will think that you must circumambulate this holy abode walking on your heads! The Lord Himself wandered in this land. Nityananda Prabhu is non-different from Mahaprabhu, the Lord Himself.

Nityananda Prabhu is asraya-vigraha (embodiment of shelter), and Gaura Hari is visaya-vigraha (embodiment of the object of worship). Nityananda Prabhu gives shelter, so He represents guru-tattva. That is why we always chant, ‘Guru-Nityananda, Gaura-Nityananda.’

We are present here in this holy abode of Nityananda Prabhu. I have also come here owing to you all; otherwise, I do not have time to come here. I visit Ekachakra very rarely, maybe one–two times a year because I do not have time. I have so much work, so much service in other places. Last time when I came here the cows had just had calves and the goshala had become too small for them, so I came and expanded the goshala. I gave the orders to the workers and after that managed the construction on the phone.

Also, every year during the festival, there is a lot of water falling behind the guesthouse. People use water in the rooms and outbuilding bathrooms, and all the water flows onto the land behind the temple. I have bought that land this year, and it can be now used for a garden or something like that. All the lands around are turning into trade places (shops and stalls), but I want to have some place to make a garden. I have already planted some trees there – rose apples, jackfruit and mango trees. I bought a banana grove also. Gurudev tried to come here many times – I actually made the nat-mandir so big because I thought Gurudev would come here by helicopter and it would land on top of it.

I first came to this holy dham in 2004. I had heard that there was Nityananda Prabhu’s dham, and Gurudev mercifully sent me here in 2004 with some foreign devotees. Gurudev himself visited Ekachakra only in 1989, after Srila Sridhar Maharaj’s disappearance…

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READ OTHER PARTS:

1) Clear Your Path
2) Nurture Exclusive Desire
3) Sri Ekachakra Dham: Our Fortune To Be Here
4) Forging Your Destiny
5) Extreme Mercy
6) About Nityananda Prabhu