Try to spread the word about this conference. jive daya….. have some daya for others. Have kindness to others by reaching out to them. Get them to chant with us. That is jive daya. Get other devotees to join this japa-sanga, sadhu-sanga. Chant in the association of devotees.

Today I noticed my elder sister Sita Rani on the conference. She is ten years older. Many of you are new to our conference. We start losing our numbers, as I begin speaking in English. We have already lost ten. But they can always read. Transcription program is going on. The japa talk is transcribed in Hindi, English and Russian. That’s another reason, why you should learn English because your Guru Maharaja is talking in English. So get others. name ruci jive daya vaisnav sevan… Your ruci for the holy name will increase. Lord will give you more ruci if you do this jive daya part and specially Vaisnava sevan . So about ruci, that’s the way to get it. Vaisnava sevan- serve Vaisnavas. Serve devotees. Be kind to others, to newcomers or to everybody.

titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ
suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām
ajāta-śatravaḥ śāntāḥ
sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇāḥ

The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime. (SB 3.25.21)

If you are not kind then you are Mrigari – The Hunter. He was not kind at all. Then he stopped that hunting business and took to chanting. Narada Muni was very kind to Mrigari. Narada Muni was doing the jive daya part. He was very kind to Mrigari. He convinced him to chant for the Lord. As he chanted and chanted… well you know the result. One time Mrigari, the hunter became very kind. He was even kind to the ants. His Guru Maharaja was wondering, “Mrigari!(I don’t know his initiated name). Why you didn’t rush when you saw me? He replied, “How could I come? There were ants on the way.” He was avoiding them, putting them on the side. That’s the transformation. The hunter, the killer, most wicked ,unkind person could be transformed to become the most kind and compassionate. I was feeling that is jive daya is Narada Muni’s mercy. Narada Muni gave him the mantra and Mrigari chanted. He was a new person. This is the proof. This has happened so many, many times and that could happen to us also. It is very possible. We should have that kind of faith in the holy name. Not to have faith in holy name is another offense. We should be having faith in the holy name. So that is name ruci jive daya vaisnavs sevan. ( Caitanya Bhagavata. – Mahaprabhu explains to Sanatan Goswami) )

I offered aarti to Radha-Madhav this morning. Do you think that helps in chanting? We were talking about preparation for chanting. That is the part of the preparation. It was helpful. I was praying to Radha-Madhava for Their mercy. I was praying to Radha-Madhava ‘o be with me wherever I have to go to spread the mission in Their service. Wherever I go.’ yato yato yami tato narasimha bahir narasimha hridaye narasimha like that. Narasimha Dev also Radha-Madhava, You be with me wherever I go or whatever I sit. That was the prayer. Then I have to go. This morning I was also with the Hindi speaking devotee group of Navadvip-mandala Parikrama. We have to go to Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s samadhi and Surabhi kunj. That’s where I have to catch up with the party or sing for them.

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA
KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA
RAMA RAMA HARE HARE

In Navadvip dham each dvip represents one dham. One bhakti , one kind of devotional service. Beginning with sravanam, kirtanam and like that. Nine islands representing nine processes of devotional service. Today I am going to Godrum dvip, which is known for Kirtanam. Sravanam is Simant dvip. Kirtanam is Godrum dvip.

nadiya godrume nityanand mahajan patiyache nama-hata jivera karan. ( Geetavali by Bhaktivinoda Thakur.)

This is the place where Nityanand Prabhu propagated chanting. patiyache nama-hata jivera karan. For jivas like us Nityananda Prabhu started preaching. All over Navadvip including Surabhi kunj and Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s samadhi. You must be knowing that famous song – sraddhavan jan he sraddhavan jan. So it’s a kind of announcement. Bhaktivinoda Thakur is announcing, ‘All you folks, this announcement is for you. Take advantage of this namahat. Namahaats are everywhere. All our ISKCON temples are that Namahat. Our Bhaktivedanta Manor , or ISKCON Thane or ISKCON Ahmedabad are naamhats. What is a Naamhat? It’s a marketplace of the holy name. The world is opening more and more bazaars, super Bazaars. The smallest country in the world – Mauritius has has Hyper Bazaar. The first time I heard of Hyper Bazaar I was surprised. I had heard of super , but not Hyper Bazaars. So why not! Our temples are Hyper Bazaars for the holy name. Marketplace of the holy name. Nityanand Prabhu is a founder of this naamhata. He is the propagator of the holy name. Bhaktivinoda Thakur says , ‘ Oh! This announcement is for faithful people.’ If you hear this announcement and come to the shop , market place or Naamhata, but you don’t have faith or sraddha, then you can’t buy this product. You won’t get this product.’ Holy name will remain wherever it is and you will remain in your own world. There won’t be connection or any exchange.

The price you have to pay for the Holy name is sraddha. The more sraddha you have, the more of the holy name you get. To get more sraddha you will have to chant more and more. That’s the idea and you will get more out of the holy name. The holy name will reveal more unto you. The holy name is the Lord. So if you have only faith then that’s the whole thing that Bhaktivinoda Thakur is explaining.

So Bhaktivinoda Thakur writes in Godrum – Kalpatavi, we are all at different levels. Chanting is at sraddha level, then sadhu – sanga level, then bhajana-kriya level. Then at the level of anartha -nivritti. Then Nistha level. When sraddha becomes fixed, then that sraddha becomes Nistha. And if the chanting is at name – ruci level, that is also topmost. Asakti level, bhava level and prem level. So depending on where you stand or at what level you are on the ladder, how many steps you have gone higher then your buying power becomes greater. You get more out of the holy name. You realize the value of the holy name. You realize more the form, pastimes, qualities and the dham. All these things are one. Then he says , if you have one paisa then you can buy a few things from the shop. But if you have four paisa then you buy more. But if you have a chavanni ie. one fourth of a rupee, or a atthani(half the rupee) In our childhood days we didn’t have the present currency. If you had one full rupee then you could buy everything. Rupee meant lots of money. It was one hundred percent money. He compares these levels according to your evolution, progress you have made and to that degree you are benefitted from the chanting.

sraddhavan jan he sraddhavan jan

But we also have to understand that we can’t be just at the level of sraddha. There are different degrees of sraddha. We have more and more sraddha. Sadhu sanga level you have more sraddha. Then at Bhajana kriya level you are more sraddhavan. And at Anartha-Nivritti level you have more sraddha. Nisthavan means sraddha is so fixed that you won’t take U turn. Then ruci means more sraddha and asakti still more sraddha. With brava there is more sraddha ultimately leading to prema. So sraddhavan jan he sraddhavan jan. We should increase our sraddha more and more. ye yatha mam prapadyante ( BG. 4.11) that principal is also there. To the degree of your surrender to that degree you have faith. More faith means more surrender. And the more we surrender, the more He reveals. Still more faith, still more surrender and the Lord will reveal even more. All the glories of the holy name will be revealed. Glories of Krsna and Radha and Their pastimes and abode will be revealed unto us more and more.

So I am going to that place over there. I wish you also that would have been there. You are just enjoying being in Moscow or Noida and Nagpur. You are not leaving your comfort zone.

Tomorrow I will be travelling to Kolkata in morning hours to catch my flight. We will endeavour time permitting and internet functioning. So let’s see how it works. Otherwise if not tomorrow we will catch up again day after tomorrow.

Hare Krishna!