Gauranga Shata Nama 25 – Join the living tradition of divine glorification

Gaurangasita Naam Last verse Nadiya Nagare Nithai Nitchi Nitchi Gaye Re Bhakti Vinod Tara Pole Ranga Paye Re Nadiya Nagare In the place of Nadiya Nithai, Nithyanandu Nitchi Nitchi While dancing jubilantly, ecstatically, Gaye Re Dandru sings these names of Lord Chaitanya Bhakti Vinod Tara Pole Bhakti Vinod Thakur who has composed this Tara Pole Ranga Paye Re He falls down at his lotus feet which are reddish, effulgent Re, Re means O, O Bhakti Vinod Thakur is jubilant So Bhakti Vinod Thakur So these hundred, these names of Lord Gauranga are song not just composed by Bhakti Vinod Thakur but it is envisioned by him as it was as it was enacted by Lord Nithyananda So Movie star's glory is temporary and similarly the fan club also doesn't last for very long Depending on how charismatic a particular movie star is the fan club may last for a longer or a shorter time Now Nadiya Nagare Nithai Nitchi Nitchi Gaye Re So here when we participate in chanting the holy names of the Lord and relishing the holy names there is a long long tradition of not just ordinary people but great great saints chanting and relishing these holy names and it is this tradition that we join Joining this tradition is our supreme fortune because we are going to get the highest happiness and not only do we get the highest happiness by connecting with Krishna but just as Shukamukha dhamruta dravya samyatam that just as the glories of the Lord when they are spoken by Shukadeva Goswami they become sweeter as it is said in the tradition that an apple that is touched by a parrot beak becomes sweeter Now similarly when we get the glories of the Lord through the tradition then they become more accessible and relishable for us How? Because although Krishna's glories are eternal and they are eternally attractive every generation has its own ethos and although we want to transcend everything material including the generation we belong to and its ethos still we do belong to that generation and we cannot come out of it we cannot transcend it immediately so when we hear Krishna's glories as have been assimilated by those in our generation and when they are spoken by them then they are much more relishable for us because we can connect with them easily because those devotees who are in our generation usually think like think in a way similar to us because often they have been educated from a similar background often they come from the same socio-cultural socio-economic socio socio socio-intellectual ethos and thus in the language in the thought systems that we have been habituated to when Krishna's glories are presented then they become intelligible for us and they become relishable for us and as we understand and relish them more and more then we then Krishna enters more and more into our heart we embrace Krishna more and more in our heart and by this we gradually but steadily gradually and and surely restart rising our consciousness above whatever ethos we were we were born and brought up in and thus we transcend so Bhaktivinod Thakur was the first Acharya in our tradition who interacted with modality and his contribution in making Gaudiya Vaishnavism accessible to all of us is seminal Srila Prabhupada called Bhaktivinod Thakur as the founder of the modern day Krishna consciousness movement and the way he looked at the tradition he looked at the modern world and he presented in his vision how the tradition could could become intelligible and relishable for the modern mind that is path-breaking and along with his many intellectual contributions through his books he has also given us eminently relishable musical, poetic devotional contributions and the Gauranga Sita Naam is one such contribution by joining the by relishing what the tradition has offered us we can take our heart closer to Krishna and thus we can relish more and more the tradition's most precious gift that is the gift of remembrance of Krishna through various means through the holy name through the scripture through the association of devotees through service to Krishna through deity worship and in that way we can absorb ourselves in Krishna's glories in Krishna's glories as Paralama says that in singing your glories I am completely absorbed and therefore I have no show I have no worry about how to get out of mental existence because absorption in your glories already means that I am out of mental existence for all practical purposes for all essential purposes so we can also strive to absorb ourselves in remembrance of Krishna and the glorification of Krishna by seeking inspiration of the tradition that has preceded us and the tradition that lives around us.