Nectar of Govinda Lila

Queen Elizabeth Rose

Reading any book is like a journey it can take your thoughts places. Some days back i had read book called nectar of govinda lila.Below are some snips of the book .

he krsna karuna-sindho

dina-bandho jagat-pate

gopesa gopika-kanta

radha-kanta namo 'stu te

I offer pranama to krishna, who is an ocean of mercy, the friend of the distressed and the
source of all creation. He is the master of the gopas and the lover of the gopas headed by

sri-mati Radhika.

yuktahara-viaharsya

yukta-cestasya karmasu

yukta-svapnavabodhasya

yogo bhavati duhka-ha

Don't eat or sleep too much, and be regulated in working and recreation, otherwise you will
not be able to attain that rare yoga wherein a soul meets his Creator. In this general knowledge,
He has given the knowledge that we are not these bodies. Be detached from the desires of the
body and don't act for them.

asocyan anvasocas tvam
prajna-vadams ca bhasase
gatasun agatasums ca
nanusocanti panditah

Those who are wise despair neither for the living or the dead. Everyone will die, and those that
don't go today will go tomorrow or the next day. Don't cry or worry for them, because inside the body is the soul.

patram pushpam phalam toyam

yo me bhaktya prayachhati

tad aham bhakty-upahrtam

asnami prayatatmanah.

Krishna says here that if one simply offers Him a leaf, a flower, some fruit, or water with love, He will accept it. Whatever is offered with love He will accept. In a devotee's heart there should
always be this love that creates hunger in Krishna.

harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyath.

"'By taking harinama You will attain Your ultimate good. Besides this there is no other way, no
other way, no other way.'" Saying it once was not enough-he said it three times. Why? To make
our firm faith arise in harinama: "Definitely you will receive your highest good fortune by this!"
If He had not said it like this, would we have any faith in harinama? Besides harinama there is
no other way to attain happiness and peace of mind and cross over the ocean of material existence.
To make faith arise in the hearts of the jivas, Mahaprabhu has given this verse.
Suppose a man is sleeping. How will you awaken him? By calling him: "Hey, get up!" Similarly,
loudly singing nama-sankirtana acts as a mother who awakens the jiva who is deeply asleep in the night of illusion. And in Kali-yuga, the best of all harin.ma is the mah.-mantra: "Hare Krishn a,Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare; Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare."