Sri Godruma Kalpatavi, Part Fifteen
BY: SUN STAFF
Dec 26, 2021 — CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s original essay on Nama Hatta preaching.
“Market Activities”
In the above of Sri Navadvip, at Surabhi Kunj, Godruma, the Nama Hatta sweeper, preachers and other workers have been busily engaged on the occasion of Niyama Seva (Kartik month) with special religious observances and various festivals of the Name. From the last 27th Aswin until the 30th of Kartik every day aroti, sankirtana, reading from the scriptures, lectures from the books, darsana of the deity of Mahaprabhu and street sankirtan have been the agenda.
The above mentioned activities were performed at Gaura Daha, Sapta Rishon, Bhajana Sthana, Hamsa Bahan, Svarat Saila, Hari Hara Ksetra, Hiranya Kunj, and other places of the Lords pastimes. Devotional songs and special lectures connected with the particular pastimes of each place were also performed. It is not possible to explain how much bliss the villagers in those places experienced on hearing the glories of those places. Some of the people began to roll in the dust chanting the name of Gauranga in transcendental joy while others’eyes filled with tears which dampened the earth, and everyones’ hairs stood on end in realization of ecstasy. At Hiranya Kunj Sriyuta Naphal candra Pal Choundry did a special Kirtan of the Name displaying spontaneous bliss.
Under the care of the mahanta of Godruma, Sriyuta Nila Madhava chakravarti, along with loud sankirtan the party travelled around Navadvip and visited various temples such as Praudha Maya, the listeners were submerged in pure chanting of the Name. Gauranga kirtan was performed in the courtyard of Mahaprabhu, where babies, elderly and children were all stunned and with rapt attention listened and expressed great satisfaction. With body trembling and their eyes filled with tears of love, they began showering sweets like a rain of flowers upon the singers. Many talented and intelligent pandits were also present, and none had heard such a rendering of the Name, which delighted the hearts of all living beings.
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