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Sri Sri Radha Krishna

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“The heart is like a mirror but it’s covered up with so much layers of dirt, thick like the Himalayan mountain; huge amount of dirt is there accumulated from many, many lakhs of lives. How it will be cleansed up? Any material scientist can cleanse it? They don’t know how to clean. They may clean the intestines, but they cannot cleanse the heart from this material contamination accumulated there from time immemorial. The process is, you engage yourself in hari-sankirtan, chanting ‘Hare Krishna’ then your heart becomes cleansed of all contaminations there, all layers of dirt are finished.” Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharja, Purport by Srila Gaurahari Das: CC Ādi 8.16 — If one is infested with the ten offenses in the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, despite his endeavor to chant the holy name for many births, he will not get the love of Godhead that is the ultimate goal of this chanting. The above statement of  Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharja, is certainly true yet is the external or surface meaning. One who just follows this instruction, without deeper understanding, it will take one many lifetimes, due to ones offenses, to get the desired result of Krishna prema as almost all vaishnava gurus conclude. Practically we see that from the followers of Srila Bhaktisidanta, and Srila Prabhupada hardly more than one person can we say may have attained this rare gift of Premabhakti. Therefore, inorder to speed up the process of attaining the valuable jewel of Premabhakti in this lifetime one must undertand a great secret...  In the following verse the great secret is revealed and our explanation here unlocks this mysterious confidential truth for all who listen attentively. CC Ādi 8.21 — Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, is fully independent. Therefore, although it is the most confidentially stored benediction, He can distribute love of Godhead to anyone and everyone without consideration. When Lord Caitanya appeared in this world with his confidential associates 500 years ago he freely distributed devotion to Krishna or prema bhakti so that engaging in hearing and chanting the Holy Name would cause ecstatic devotional love for Krishna to arise in ones heart. He then disappeared from our external vision and continued the distribution of his confidential treasure of Love of God through empowered Spiritual Masters like Srinivasa, Narotama and Syamananda. Then quickly the great jewel of love of God wained  in its distribution due to lack of personal associates being sent to continue the distribution of premabhakti. To begin this Bhakti movement of free distribution of prema or ecstatic devotion, which makes worshiping Krishna name every transcendentally sweet, he empowers his devotees.  They relish premabhakti themselves and due to this, are naturally empowered to distribute it to others who believe in their preaching and ecstatic mode of worship. So by good fortune this free distribution of devotion to Krishna is going on at the time of this writing here in our humble sanga. The first fruits of this unprecedented revival of premabhakti worship of Krishna can be practically seen in our witnesses who have recieved this wonderful mercy flowing through our grace place. Proof is in the pudding and people can say they don't believe it because no one else is able to distribute this outstanding mercy but the proof his here in the witnesses personal testimonies of their experiences of following this path taught here.

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