A short devotional offering by HG Hari-līlā Dāsa recounting a personal pastime with his Guru Maharaj during the Navya Pandal Parikrama. The speaker describes how Guru Maharaj narrated an emotional pastime of Lord Chaitanya (who wept with his devotees), reflects on his own unworthiness and gratitude for the Guru’s mercy, offers obeisances to Jayapataka Swami, and closes with traditional prayers and a channel outro.
Namashka. So originally I wrote my offering in Tamil, but I was asked to speak in English. So I will narrate one personal pastime which I had with Guru Maharaj, short pastime, and then I will close. So it was during this Navya Pandal Parikrama time, the first day of Parikrama, and the Parikrama party had already gone. We were doing some service with the South Indian Navya Pandal Parikrama party. But I stayed back because there was some meeting with some government officials with Guru Maharaj. So that meeting took some time and the meeting was over. It was a very fruitful meeting. So after everybody left, somehow I was there with Guru Maharaj alone. Guru Maharaj was there and I was there. So I told Guru Maharaj, I am here, but I am thinking about Parikrama. So I want to go. I wanted to take his permission saying that I want to go. Then Guru Maharaj, he took. He did not give me permission, so I was going. So since he did not give me permission, I stopped. And then I was looking at him. Then Guru Maharaj, he started narrating a pastime of Lord Chaitanya.
He said that after Rath Yatra, the.
Devotees who had come from Bengal, they were trying to go back, leaving Lord Chaitanya. And Lord Chaitanya, he saw the devotees who were trying to go back.
And then he became very emotional. And he started saying that you people, you have left your homes, your family, your everything, and you have come all the way to look at me, to see me, and I am on Sanyasi, I have nothing. What can I give you? Then Lord Chaitanya said that maybe I can cut my body into pieces and I can give you little, little pieces of that body and maybe you can do something with that. And when Gur Maharaj was saying this pastime, he was already crying. And I was stunned to actually receive this kind of mercy, to hear this intimate pastime between Lord Chaitanya and his devotees. And I was just standing there. I didn't know what to do. And then Guru Maharaj was crying. And after some time, he said, then all the associates of Lord Chaitanya, they were crying and Lord Chaitanya was crying. And they just spent one whole week crying with each other. And they were not able to go. Finally, Advaitacharya said to Mahaprabhu, if you speak like this, we'll never be able to go. We'll just stay here. So please give us permission that we have to go. Then Mahaprabhu, then Guru Mahaj explained all these things to me. And then he was looking at me. I didn't know what to say. I told Guru Maharaj, if you speak like this, I will never be able to go. Please give me permission to go. And Guru Maharaj said that. Okay. So then I paid obeisance to him. But when I paid obeisance to him many times in my life I heard different glorifications of Guru Maharaj. Many times I heard that he is an associate of Lord Chaitanya. Many times I have seen how extraordinary a person he is. But at that moment when I paid obeisance to him, I felt so unqualified. And I felt that here is a great personality. He lives with Chaitanya. Chaitanya is in his heart and here am I. How did I become his disciple? What is my good fortune? I was thinking like that. Then I realized that there is no good fortune. It's just his costless mercy that he.
Could accept even a person like me as his disciple.
So as disciples, we cannot. Even if we try to explain so many times or in so many words. There is not enough vocabulary in any language to fully express our good fortune that we are disciples of our beloved Gurudev. His Holiness Jayapata.
Go, Swami Maharaj.
We should try to realize this fact in our life. We should try to see what kind of good fortune has arisen out of the costless mercy of this great personality.
Who always lives with Lord Chaitanya in his heart. With Lord deals with Lord Nithyaranda in his heart.
So I pay my unlimited obeisances unto the lotus feet. Unto the dust of the lotus feet of my great spiritual master Israel Jayaptaga Swami Guru Maharaj on this most auspicious day. And I pray to see Sir Radha Madhava Sid Nasingadev Shishri Jagannal Pradeshodramai Srila Prabhupada that He spread his mercy all over this world unlimitedly and saved so many fallen souls like me. Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna. Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Ram Ram Ram Hare Hare.
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