- Depend on the sweet Lord Govinda/ Holy Name with joy as a baby depends on it’s mother’s lap, and let the spontaneous service flow out to the pankaja palasa vilasa… to the soft, fragrant lotus feet of Govinda.
- But, how is it possible?
My mind is full of everything and everyone but Krsna!
My mind is full of every unpleasant feeling but Priti!
I am so confused, bewildered, lost and disconnected with Krsna!
I have so many things that are bothering me. I think I will be happy and can chant better after I fix them. May be I should ask Krsna to first fix those problems, expectations and demands first. Maybe then I will peacefully chant and serve.
Oh, I am bewildered! What to do? I am scattered! How to handle my material problems? How to make spiritual progress?
I wish I could be connected and brought back to the cooling and soothing shelter of Krsna! I need Him!!
- I have heard that serving You, the Holy Name/Govinda/Krsna, given by Sri Guru alone can take away all my miseries and struggles, dispel my confusion, give me the needed light to walk the path of this life with peace and joy. All my material and spiritual needs are met simply by deeply connecting with You.
- Oh! How can I revive my sweet relationship with You, Govinda/ Holy Name?
- Who is my rescue? I am caught up underneath this huge rubble of material modes?
- Nitai, Gaura!!! I have heard that you both are the most merciful incarnations with magnificent heart, so munificiently rescuing souls like me that got stuck underneath the rubble of these modes and are calling out for help.
parama karuṇa, pahū dui jana nitāi gauracandra
saba avatāra-sāra śiromaṇi kevala ānanda-kanda
(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)(Premananda thakura)
- Very kindly, swiftly come and pick me up too…I beg you…
- O Nityananda Ram, kindly smash all these rocks of material attachments on me and free me from this dirty rubble.
- O Gauranga, kindly take me into your loving embrace and teach me the ways of Saranagati, soften my heart and sweeten it with fondness for Govinda!
uttama adhama, kichu nā bāchila, yāciyā dileka kolakahe premānande, emana gaurāńge, antare dhariyā dola
(Without discriminating as to who is elevated or fallen, They embraced everyone. Sri Premananda says, “O brothers, keep that Sri Gaurasundara locked in your heart of hearts)
- Only then, only then, can I float in the nectar of service to the HolyName/ Govinda, and swim in the joy that flows out of it.
