By Damodar Das
Giriraj Swami read Srila Prabhupada’s purport and discussed the song Nitai-pada-kamala by Narottama Dasa Thakura during an evening program.
“We talk about association, but what does that mean? In The Nectar of Instruction, verse 4, Rupa Gosvami discusses:
dadati pratigrhnati
guhyam akhyati prcchati
bhunkte bhojayate caiva
sad-vidham priti-laksanam
Guhyam akhyati prcchati means ‘revealing ones mind in confidence.’ It is very important that devotees are able to do that. Otherwise they keep things inside, where they fester and grow bigger than what they really are. We need that type of association where we can reveal our minds in confidence. And we also have to be confidential. Otherwise we may reveal our minds in confidence and the next thing we know it’s all over Facebook and all over the town, and then we won’t reveal our mind in confidence again because we won’t have faith that the confidence will be maintained. So, coming back to Nitai-pada-kamala — the idea is that we realize the truth of this song in the association of devotees. And even if we are together now and have a sense of the import of this song, we may forget it and be carried away once we leave the association of devotees. So sticking to the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda means sticking to the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada’s devotees.”
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