Krsna Prema is happening with every Hare Krsna mantra we utter, whether we are filled with anarthas or we can’t focus or we are neophytes or we are feeling hopeless and disqualified.
How is that possible?
Krsna Prema to a conditioned jiva is made possible only by Gauranga who brought this premadhana from Goloka Vrindavan, and Nitai who is flooding the world with the same treasure.
sei dvāre ācaṇḍāle kīrtana sañcāre
nāma-prema-mālā gāṅthi’ parāila saṁsāre (CC Adi 4.40)
Thus He spread kīrtana even among the untouchables. He wove a wreath of the holy name and prema, with which He garlanded the entire material world.
nitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇi
āniyā premer vanyā bhāsāilo avanī
( Chaitanya mangala)
- My Lord Nityananda, the jewel of all virtues, my Lord Nityananda, the jewel of all virtues, has brought the flood of ecstatic love of God that has drowned the entire world
- What is our great fortune that these most merciful Lordships gave Their cooling shelter to us?!
parama karuṇa, pahū dui jana
nitāi gauracandra
saba avatāra-sāra śiromaṇi
kevala ānanda-kanda
( Dhamali, Locana Das Thakur)
The two Lords, Nitai-Gauracandra, are very merciful. They are the essence of all incarnations. The specific significance of these incarnations is that They introduced a process of chanting and dancing that is simply joyful.
- How can I receive Their full mercy?
Saralata hi Vaishnavata. Simplicity is Vaishnavism.
(Srila Bhakti Sidhanta Saraswati)
(Acknowledge your disqualification) and simply with open arms beg for the mercy of Gaura and Nitai without any duplicity. ( Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Maharaj)