NITyaananda Gauraanga Hare Krishna NAAma BhaktI Yoga

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! In my recent yatra to Shri Mayapura Navadvipa Dhaama, I was constantly hearing this most wonderful song by Shrila Sacchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura. I felt the Holy Name unfolding before my eyes. I found my faith for the Holy Name growing exponentially. The more we praise the Name, the more the Naama Prabhu becomes merciful upon us. This song is perhaps the best praise of the Holy Name ever. It describes the great treasures which the Name imparts us, right from cooling our heart to awarding us our eternal spiritual body in Lord Gaura Krishna's Pastimes. I would recommend all devotees who want to attain success in Naama Bhajana to repeatedly hear or memorize this song and try to understand each word with the help of the word to word meanings which I will post in the next post. By hearing this song, one will develop irrevocable faith that the Holy Names can give us everything we desire and that there is no need for any other spiritual process.

http://www.nitaivideos.com/05-MP3-AAC-Spiritual-Audios/20-BENGALI-BHAJANS/274-krishna-nama-dhare-kata-bala.MP3

Shri Nama-Mahatmya:
The Glories of the Holy Name
Last and Final Song of Shrila Sacchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Sharanagati

(1)

krishna-nama dhare koto bal
vishaya-vasananale,  mora citta sada jwale,
ravi-tapta maru-bhumi-sam
karna-randhra-patha diya,  hridi majhe praveshiya,
varishoya sudha anupam

1) What power does the name of Krishna possess? My heart constantly burns in the fire of worldly desires, just like a desert scorched by the rays of the sun. The holy name, entering the core of my heart through the holes of my ears, showers unparalleled nectar upon my soul.

(2)

hridoya hoite bole,  jihvara agrete cale,
shabda-rupe nace anukshan
kanthe mora bhange swara,  anga kanpe thara thara,
sthira hoite na pare caran

2) The holy name speaks from within my heart, moves onto the tip of my tongue, and constantly dances on it in the form of transcendental sound. My throat becomes choked up, my body shivers again and again, and my feet cannot remain still.

(3)

cakshe dhara, dehe gharma,  pulakita saba carma,
vivarna hoilo kalevara
murchita hoilo man,  pralayera agaman,
bhave sarva-deha jara jara

3) Rivers of tears flow from my eyes, perspiration completely soaks my body, all my skin thrills with rapture, my hairs stand on end, and my complexion turns pale and discolored. My mind grows faint, I begin to experience devastation, and my entire body is shattered in a flood of ecstatic emotions.

(4)

kori' eto upadrava,  citte varshe sudha-drava,
more dare premera sagare
kichu na bujhite dilo,  more to' batula koilo,
mora citta-vitta saba hare

4) While causing such an ecstatic disturbance, the holy name showers liquid nectar on my heart and drowns me in the ocean of divine love of Godhead. He does not allow me to understand anything, for He has made me truly mad by having stolen away my mind and all my resources.

(5)

loinu ashroya ja'r,  heno vyavahara ta'r,
varnite na pari e sakal
krishna-nama iccha-moy,  jahe jahe sukhé hoy,
sei mora sukhera sambal

5) Such is the behavior of Him in whom I have taken shelter. I am not capable of describing all this. The holy name of Krishna is independent and thus acts on His own sweet will. In whatever way He becomes happy, that is also my way of happiness.

(6)

premera kalika nam,  adbhuta rasera dham,
heno bala karaye prakash
éshat vikashi' punah,  dekhay nija-rupa-guna,
citta hari' loya krishna-pash

6) The holy name is the bud of the flower of divine love, and is the very abode of astonishing mellows. Such is the power He manifests that when His holy name starts to blossom a little further, it then reveals His own divine form and qualities. Thus my heart is abducted and taken directly to Krishna.

(7)

purna vikashita hoiya,  braje more jaya loiya,
dekhay more swarupa-vilas
more siddha-deha diya,  krishna-pashe rakhe giya,
e dehera kore sarva-nash

7) Blossoming fully, the flower of the holy name takes me to Vraja and reveals to me His own love-dalliance. This name gives to me my own eternal spiritual body, keeps me right by Krishna's side, and completely destroys everything related to this mortal frame of mine.

(8)

krishna-nama-cintamani,  akhila rasera khani,
nitya-mukta shuddha-rasa-moy
namera balai jata,  saba lo'ye hoi hata,
tabe mora sukhera udoy

8) The name of Krishna is a transcendental touchstone, a mine of all devotional mellows. It is eternally liberated, and the embodiment of pure rasa. When all impediments to the pure chanting of the holy name are taken away and destroyed, then my happiness will know its true awakening.

Thus ends Sharanagati by Thakura Bhaktivinoda.

Daaso'smi, BRS Swami Gaurangapada.

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear Hadai, thx for this very beautiful video. I have been reflecting in the past week what is the defining difference between the souls condition of being encased in a human body and an animal body. For example, what is the gift of this human birth?

The animal kingdom is truly wonderful. The bat has sonar as its gift of communication. The whale can communicate vast distance. What is our gift I have pondered?

The animal lives in concordance with the energy of the Lord. This is evident throughout all nature as in the above two examples, such wonder mystifies many people. We also have a very very wonderful gift....to awaken to! Conscious awareness of service to the super-soul. Service to Sri Krsna.

The Holy Name is the key. Thx Hadai for sharing.

y.s. Nava.

Respected Swamiji and all Vaisnavas,

        Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

Jaya Visnupada Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Swami Gaurangpada!

All glories to the guru parampara!

All glories to the Vaisnavas!

         Recently some devotees have embarked on a wonderful project where they have made great efforts into assimilating all of Srila Prabhupada's transcendental words (whatever available and recorded throughout history) in a wiki based site.

        The link is http://www.vanisource.org

         It contains all the major books of Srila Prabhupada, along with his letters from 1947 dated.... , his lectures (all his lectures), purports to various Vaisnava songs, room conversations, and all....absolutely free and open!

         Well, as one can put it, all of Prabhupada that is available.....

What is Vanisource?

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna! Yes the zoom buttons work on the fly.

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Yes Maharaja the gnochm has a very simple search. The xchm has bookmarks. One thing that would be nice in these readers is if they could re-open at last page browsed, like pdf.

It is excellent though, that we can have so many books in one small machine, and with zoom the reading quality is good. I am certain with this portability, Nitaai Veda will be used much more by me. Thx.

y.s.

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! That's excellent work Nava. Do rollover menus work on the NITAAI Veda pages in xchm? And the Chm Search? The upcoming 8.9" Dell E (1 kg) with the 1.6 GHz Atom processor in August for only US $299 seems to be very good alternative to the costlier EeePC for the NITAAI Veda on the move. The Dell extended battery should give around 7-8 hours battery life for the atom processor which is quite useful while travelling.

Doing with a single E what takes ASUS three, Dell's mini netbook looks to be on track for an August kill sprEee. We've already seen Dell's launch timeline and specs, of course, and this morning we've got the hushed whispers of DigiTimes' "market sources" again claiming that the Compal manufactured Dell 8.9-inchers will launch in August for $299. For that price, assuming everything we've heard so far is correct, you'll get an instant-on Linux distro running atop Intel's 1.6GHz Atom processor, a 1,024 x 600 display, 3x USB, a wee SSD, integrated webcam, WiFi, and more in a 0.82-1.22-inch thick sled weighing about 2.2-pounds. With the netbook market now thoroughly saturated, we expect the Dell launch to mark the beginning of an industry shakeout. Any bets on who will survive? (From Engadget.com)

Daaso'smi, BRS Swami Gaurangapada.

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

The links to the linux viewer on Gurudeva's Nitaai Veda are very good. I have just installed the xchm viewer.

on the eeepc click,

ctrl alt t

then type after the prompt,

sudo apt-get install xchm

afterwards to open the the xchm viewer simply type: ctrl alt t , and when the window opens type, xchm

I spent about ten hours hours figuring this out, and was about to give up...then I petioned Lord Nitaai...please... :)

the xchm viewer is much better quality than the gnochm.

Hari Hari!

y.s.

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear devotees,

I finally got Nitaai Veda working on my eeePC Linux. I used gnochm viewer which is very basic (but the full tree is active). Intructions are here.

the eeepc linux is very basic in many ways, but saying that linux will take time for me to understand. The eepc makes a perfect portable book, so that Nitaai Veda is at hand all the time! I would recommend the Windows version eeePC (it is more costly though), as setting up the linux has been very time consuming.

On the above forum there is a kchm viewer, it maintans the color, unlike the gnochm, but the full tree was cut short.

I will tinker some more and try and find the best viewer in due course.

y.s. Nava.

Thakur Bhaktivinode’s greatest gift to the world consists in this; that he has brought about the appearance of those pure devotees who are, at present, carrying on the movement of unalloyed devotion to the Feet of Sri Krishna by their own wholetime spiritual service of the Divinity.

This statement by Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada gives full credit for the modern day Nitaai Gaura Hare Krishna movement to the most holy advent of Shrila Sacchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura in this modern age. It is only due to his causelessly merciful appearance that great Acharyas like Shrila Sarasvati Prabhupada and his illustrious disciples like Shrila Swami Prabhupada and his Godbrothers appeared after him. His books are the rock-solid root foundation on which all the consequent writings and all our preaching is based upon. His writings are on the unique level of the Six Goswamis. Thus, he is rightfully known as the Seventh Goswami. Thanks Srinath for posting such an important post.

I pray and request that the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust will seriously consider this prophecy and lecture by Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada and take up the translation and publication of the holy books of Shrila Sacchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura also, along with Shrila Swami Prabhupada's books, in the various languages of the world. This was desired by Shrila Swami Prabhupada himself. He wanted Shrila Sacchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura's books to be translated into many languages.

I have many realizations about the nice posts which are being posted on our Forum and would like to comment on each one of them. But somehow I do not get the time to pen them down. Maybe in the future, if I can quickly explain to a devotee with me and he can type them down. Or another option is I record them in video as soon as I am inspired about a topic and I set them to be auto-uploaded to blip.tv. Some devotee will have to check the new videos on our blip page and post them on the forums as a reply in the relevant topic or as a new topic with the embed code for silverlight wmv video which is common for all videos (just changing the url). Sometimes I get so overburdened by various services, then even though I record it, I am not able to immediately post it on the forums. Whenever possible, the videos would have to be also transcribed later so that the text is searchable and subject matter reaches a bigger audience via text. The Add Webcam Comment button is ok but it does not record such good quality video and audio and it stores them on Riffly servers. Let us see what can be done.

Daaso'smi, BRS Swami Gaurangapada.

Respected Swamiji and all Vaisnavas,

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

Jaya Visnupada Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Swami Gaurangpada!

All glories to the guru parampara!

All glories to the Vaisnavas!

         I came across this writing by Sarasvati Thakura on Bhaktivinode Thakura. It struck me as very profound and revealing. He says that in the near future, the writings of Bhaktivinode Thakura will be translated into all the languages of the world by those recipients of his mercy. As of now, those words are now becoming a reality thanks to the grace of Swamiji and many other devotees who are actively preaching the teachings of Bhaktivinode Thakura. I pray that in the near future the whole world becomes the recipient of the causeless mercy of his servants.

        This I believe is very very important subject matter.

The Inescapable Need for Association

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

We avail of the opportunity offered by the Anniversary Celebrations of the advent of Thakur Bhaktivinode to reflect on the right method of obtaining those benefits that have been made accessible to humanity by the grace of this great devotee of Krishna. Thakur Bhaktivinode has been specifically kind to those unfortunate persons who are engrossed in mental speculation of all kinds. This is the prevalent malady of the present Age. The other Acharyas who appeared before Thakur Bhaktivinode did not address their discourses so directly to the empiric thinkers. They had been more merciful to those who are naturally disposed to listen to discourses on the Absolute without being dissuaded by the specious arguments of avowed opponents of Godhead.

Srila Thakur Bhaktivinode has taken the trouble of meeting the perverse arguments of mental speculationists by the superior transcendental logic of the Absolute Truth. It is thus possible for the average modern readers to profit by the perusal of his writings. That day is not far distant when the priceless volumes penned by Thakur Bhaktivinode will be reverently translated, by the recipients of his grace, into all the languages of the world.

The writings of Thakur Bhaktivinode provide the golden bridge by which the mental speculationist can safely cross the raging waters of fruitless empiric controversies that trouble the peace of those who choose to trust in their guidance for finding the Truth. As soon as the sympathetic reader is in a position to appreciate the sterling quality of Thakur Bhaktivinode’s philosophy the entire vista of the revealed literatures of the world will automatically open out to his reclaimed vision.

There have, however, already arisen serious misunderstandings regarding the proper interpretation of the life and teachings of Srila Thakur Bhaktivinode. Those who suppose they understand the meaning of his message without securing the guiding grace of the Acarya are disposed to unduly favor the methods of empiric study of his writings. There are persons who have got by heart almost everything that he wrote without being able to catch the least particle of his meaning. Such study cannot benefit those who are not prepared to act up to the instructions lucidly conveyed by his words. There is no honest chance of missing the warnings of Thakur Bhaktivinode. Those, therefore, who are misled by the perusal of his writings are led astray by their own obstinate perversity in sticking to the empiric course which they prefer to cherish against his explicit warnings. Let these unfortunate persons look more carefully into their own hearts for the cause of their misfortunes.

The personal service of the pure devotee is essential for understanding the spiritual meaning of the words of Thakur Bhaktivinode. The Editor of this Journal, originally started by Thakur Bhaktivinode, has been trying to draw the attention of all followers of Thakur Bhaktivinode to this all-important point of his teachings. It is not necessary to try to place ourselves on a footing of equality with Thakur Bhaktivinode. We are not likely to benefit by any mechanical imitation of any practices of Thakur Bhaktivinode on the opportunist principle that they may be convenient for us to adopt. The Guru is not an erring mortal whose activities can be understood by the fallible reason of unreclaimed humanity. There is an eternally impassable line of demarcation between the Savior and the saved. Those who are really saved can alone know this.Thakur Bhaktivinode belongs to the category of the spiritual world-teachers who eternally occupy the superior position.

The present Editor has all along felt it his paramount duty to try to clear up the meaning of the life and teachings of Thakur Bhaktivinode by the method of submissive listening to the Transcendental Sound from the lips of the pure devotee. The Guru who realizes the transcendental meaning of all sounds, is in a position to serve the Absolute by the direction of the Absolute conveyed through every sound. The Transcendental Sound is Godhead, the mundane sound is non-Godhead. All sound has got these opposite aptitudes. All sound reveals its Divine face to the devotee and only presents its deluding aspect to the empiric pedant. The devotee talks apparently the same language as the deluded empiric pedant who had got by heart the vocabulary of the Scriptures. But notwithstanding apparent identity of performance, the one has no access to the reality while the other is absolutely free from all delusion.

Those who repeat the teachings of Thakur Bhaktivinode from memory do not necessarily understand the meaning of the words they mechanically repeat. Those who can pass an empiric examination regarding the contents of his writings are not necessarily also self-realized souls. They may not at all know the real meaning of the words they have learned by the method of empiric study. Take for example the Name “Krishna”. Every reader of Thakur Bhaktivinode’s works must be aware that the Name manifests Himself on the lips of His serving devotees although He is inaccessible to our mundane senses. It is one thing to pass the examination by reproducing this true conclusion from the writings of Thakur Bhaktivinode and quite another matter to realize the Nature of the Holy Name of Krishna by the process conveyed by the words.

Thakur Bhaktivinode did not want us to go to the clever mechanical reciter of the mundane sound for obtaining access to the Transcendental Name of Krishna. Such a person may be fully equipped with all the written arguments in explanation of the nature of the Divine Name. But if we listen to all these arguments from the dead source the words will only increase our delusion. The very same words coming from the lips of the devotee will have the diametrically opposite effect. Our empiric judgment can never grasp the difference between the two performances. The devotee is always right. The non-devotee in the shape of the empiric pedant is always and necessarily wrong. In the one case there is always present the Substantive Truth and nothing but the Substantive Truth. In the other case there is present the apparent or misleading hypothesis and nothing but un-truth. The wording may have the same external appearance in both cases. The identical verses of the Scriptures may be recited by the devotee and the non-devotee, may be apparently misquoted by the non-devotee but the corresponding values of the two processes remain always categorically different. The devotee is right even when he apparently misquotes, the non-devotee is wrong even when he quotes correctly the very words, chapter and verse of the Scriptures.

It is not empiric wisdom that is the object of quest of the devotee. Those who read the scriptures for gathering empiric wisdom will be pursuing the wild goose chase. There are not a few dupes of their empiric Scriptural erudition. These dupes have their admiring under-dupes. But the mutual admiration society of dupes does not escape, by the mere weight of their number, the misfortunes due to the deliberate pursuit of the wrong course in accordance with the suggestions of our lower selves.

What are the Scriptures? They are nothing but the record by the pure devotees of the Divine Message appearing on the lips of the pure devotees. The Message conveyed by the devotees is the same in all ages. The words of the devotees are ever identical with the Scriptures. Any meaning of the Scriptures that belittles the function of the devotee who is the original communicant of the Divine Message contradicts its own claim to be heard. Those who think that the Sanskrit language in its lexicographical sense is the language of the Divinity are as deluded as those who hold that the Divine Message is communicable through any other spoken dialects. All languages simultaneously express and hide the Absolute. The mundane face of all languages hides the Truth. The Transcendental face of all sound expresses nothing but the Absolute. The pure devotee is the speaker of the Transcendental language. The Transcendental Sound makes His appearance on the lips of His pure devotee. This is the direct, unambiguous appearance of Divinity. On the lips of non-devotees the Absolute always appears in His deluding aspect. To the pure devotee the Absolute reveals Himself under all circumstances. To the conditioned soul, if he is disposed to listen in a truly submissive spirit, the language of the pure devotee can alone impart the knowledge of the Absolute. The conditioned soul mistakes the deluding for the real aspect when he chooses to lend his ear to the non-devotee. This is the reason why the conditioned soul is warned to avoid all association with non-devotees.

Thakur Bhaktivinode is acknowledged by all his sincere followers as possessing the above powers of the pure devotee of Godhead. His words have to be received from the lips of a pure devotee. If his words are listened from the lips of a non-devotee they will certainly deceive. If his works are studied in the light of one’s own worldly experience their meaning will refuse to disclose itself to such readers. His works belong to the class of the eternal revealed literature of the world and must be approached for their right understanding through their exposition by the pure devotee. If no help from the pure devotee is sought the works of Thakur Bhaktivinode will be grossly misunderstood by their readers. The attentive reader of those works will find that he is always directed to throw himself upon the mercy of the pure devotee if he is not to remain unwarrantably self-satisfied by the deluding results of his wrong method of study.

The writings of Thakur Bhaktivinode are valuable because they demolish all empiric objections against accepting the only method of approaching the Absolute in the right way. They cannot and were never intended to give access to the Absolute without help from the pure devotee of Krishna. They direct the sincere enquirer of the Truth, as all the revealed scriptures do, to the pure devotee of Krishna to learn about Him by submitting to listen with an open mind to the Transcendental Sound appearing on His lips. Before we open any of the books penned by Thakur Bhaktivinode we should do well to reflect a little on the attitude, with which as the indispensable pre-requisite, to approach its study. It is by neglecting to remember this fundamental principle that the empiric pedants find themselves so hopelessly puzzled in their vain endeavor to reconcile the statements of the different texts of the Scriptures. The same difficulty is already in process of overtaking many of the so-called followers of Thakur Bhaktivinode and for the same reason.

The person to whom the Acharya is pleased to transmit his power is alone in a position to convey the Divine Message. This constitutes the underlying principle of the line of succession of the spiritual teachers. The Acharya thus authorized has no other duty than that of delivering intact the message received from all his predecessors. There is no difference between the pronouncements of one Acharya and another. All of them are perfect mediums for the appearance of the Divinity in the Form of the Transcendental Name Who is identical with His Form, Quality, Activity and Paraphernalia.

The Divinity is Absolute Knowledge. Absolute Knowledge has the character of indivisible Unity. One particle of the Absolute Knowledge is capable of revealing all the potency of the Divinity. Those who want to understand the contents of the volumes penned by the piece-meal acquisitive method applicable to deluding knowledge available to the mind on the mundane plane, are bound to be self-deceived. Those who are sincere seekers of the Truth are alone eligible to find Him, in and through the proper method of His quest.

In order to be put on the track of the Absolute, listening to the words of the pure devotee is absolutely necessary. The spoken word of the Absolute is the Absolute. It is only the Absolute Who can give Himself away to the constituents of His power. The Absolute appears to the listening ear of the conditioned soul in the form of the Name on the lips of the sadhu. This is the key to the whole position. The words of Thakur Bhaktivinode direct the empiric pedant to discard his wrong method and inclination on the threshold of the real quest of the Absolute. If the pedant still chooses to carry his errors into the Realm of the Absolute Truth he only marches by a deceptive bye-path into the regions of darker ignorance by his arrogant study of the scriptures. The method offered by Thakur Bhaktivinode is identical with the object of the quest. The method is not really grasped except by the grace of the pure devotee. The arguments, indeed, are these. But they can only corroborate, but can never be a substitute for, the word from the living source of the Truth who is no other than the pure devotee of Krishna, the concrete Personal Absolute.

Thakur Bhaktivinode’s greatest gift to the world consists in this; that he has brought about the appearance of those pure devotees who are, at present, carrying on the movement of unalloyed devotion to the Feet of Sri Krishna by their own wholetime spiritual service of the Divinity. The purity of the soul is only analogously describable by the resources of the mundane language. The highest ideal of empiric morality is no better than the grossest wickedness to the Transcendental perfect purity of the bona fide devotee of the Absolute. The word ‘morality’ itself is a mischievous misnomer when it is applied to any quality of the conditioned soul. The hypocritical contentment with a negative attitude is part and parcel of the principle of undiluted immorality.

Those who pretend to recognize the Divine Mission of Thakur Bhaktivinode without aspiring to the unconditional service of those pure souls who really follow the teachings of the Thakur by the method enjoined by the scriptures and explained by Thakur Bhaktivinode in a way that is so eminently suited to the requirements of the sophisticated mentality of the present Age, only deceive themselves and their willing victims by their hypocritical professions and performances. These persons must not be confounded with the bona fide members of the flock.

Thakur Bhaktivinode has predicted the consummation of religious unity of the world by the appearance of the only universal church which bears the eternal designation of the Brahma Sampradaya. He has given mankind the blessed assurance that all Theistic churches will shortly merge in the one eternal spiritual community by the grace of the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna Chaitanya. The spiritual community is not circumscribed by the conditions of time and space, race and nationality. Mankind had been looking forward to this far-off Divine Event through the Long Ages. Thakur Bhaktivinode has made the conception available in its practicable spiritual form to the open minded empiricist who is prepared to undergo the process of enlightenment. The key stone of the Arch has been laid which will afford the needed shelter to all awakened animation under its ample encircling arms. Those who would thoughtlessly allow their hollow pride of race, pseudo-knowledge or pseudo-virtue to stand in the way of this long hoped for consummation, would have to thank only themselves for not being incorporated in the spiritual society of all pure souls.

These plain words need not be misrepresented, by arrogant persons who are full of the vanity of empiric ignorance, as the pronouncements of aggressive sectarianism. The aggressive pronouncement of the concrete Truth is the crying necessity of the moment for silencing the aggressive propaganda of specific untruths that is being carried on all over the world by the preachers of empiric contrivances for the amelioration of the hard lot of conditioned souls. The empiric propaganda clothes itself in the language of negative abstraction for deluding those who are engrossed in the selfish pursuit of worldly enjoyment.

But there is a positive and concrete function of the pure soul which should not be perversely confounded with any utilitarian form of worldly activity. Mankind stands in need of that positive spiritual function of which the hypocritical impersonalists are in absolute ignorance. The positive function of the soul harmonizes the claims of extreme selfishness with those of extreme self-abnegation in the society of pure souls even in this mundane world. In its concrete realizable form the function is perfectly inaccessible to the empiric understanding. Its imperfect and misleading conception alone is available by the study of the Scriptures to the conditioned soul that is not helped by the causeless grace of the pure devotees of Godhead.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, The Harmonist, December 1931, vol. XXIX No.6

In your service,

Trying to be of some use to the Vaisnavas,
Srinath