Tuning the Taṁburā in Los Angeles

0:00[harmonium]

0:00Prabhupāda: So you are beginning from here?

Instrument tuning and musical instruction

16:06Devotee: Yes

18:47Prabhupāda: Play like this. [taṁburā tuning] [indistinct] [harmonium tuning] . You cannot play. There. Play it nicely. [chants 3 times] nitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇiāniyā premer vanyā bhāsāilo avanīnitāi guṇa-maṇi, āniyā premer vanyā bhāsāilo avanī

29:34premer vanyā loiyā nitāi āilā gauḍa-deśepremer vanyā loiyā nitāi āilā gauḍa-deśeḍubilo bhakata-gaṇa dīna hīna bhāsepremer vanyā loiyā nitāi āilā gauḍa-deśeḍubilo bhakata-gaṇa dīna hīna bhāse[chants twice]

29:37nitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇiāniyā premer vanyā bhāsāilo avanīdīna hīna patita pāmara ..dīna hīna patita pāmara nāhi bāchebrahmār durlabha prema sabākāre jācedīna hīna patita pāmara nāhi bāchebrahmār durlabha prema sabākāre jāceābaddha karuṇā-sindhu nitāi kāṭiyā muhānābaddha karuṇā-sindhu nitāi kāṭiyā muhānghare ghare prema bule amiyār bānābaddha karuṇā-sindhu nitāi kāṭiyā muhānghare ghare prema bule amiyār bānlocan bole mor nitāi jebā nā bhajilojāniyāśuniyā sei ātma-ghātī hoilonitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇiāniyā premer vanyāḍubilo avanī[aside = indistinct]nitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇiāniyā premer vanyāḍubilo avanī

29:44[chants twice]

29:44premer vanyā loiyā nitāi āilā gauḍa-deśeḍubilo bhakata-gaṇa dīna hīna bhāsenitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇiāniyā premer vanyāḍubilo avanīdīna hīna patita pāmara nāhi bāchedīna hīna patita pāmara nāhi bāchebrahmār durlabha prema sabākāre jācedīna hīna patita pāmara..dīna hīna patita pāmara nāhi bāchebrahmār durlabha prema sabākāre jācedīna hīna patita pāmara nāhi bāche

29:48[chants twice] ābaddha karuṇā-sindhu nitāi kāṭiyā muhānghare ghare bule prema-amiyār bān[chants twice] nitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇiāniyā premer vanyā bhāsāilo avanī[chants twice]

29:49locan bole mor nitāi jebā nā bhajilojāniyāśuniyā sei ātma-ghātī hoilonitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇiāniyā premer vanyāḍubilo avanī[break]

29:51Try to play mṛdaṅga.

29:51Karāndhara: Yes. Karatālas are in the room?

29:52Prabhupāda: Yes. [mṛdaṅga plays, followed by karatālas] [tapping sound] One two three.

29:52Devotee: One?

29:52Prabhupāda: One two three. Yes. So. Permanent, you follow? [mṛdaṅga plays, followed by karatālas] [indistinct] [mṛdaṅga plays, followed by karatālas] . One two three, then one two, one two and three. [mṛdaṅga plays, followed by karatālas] . That’s not good.. [indistinct] Eh? [indistinct] Eh? No.

Modern education and social association

30:13[indistinct]

30:13Simply one two [indistinct]. [mṛdaṅga plays, followed by karatālas] Yes. [break] [mṛdaṅga plays, followed by karatālas] [break] [mṛdaṅga plays, then karatālas] [29.01] Well that’s all right.

30:13Devotee: I just don’t get it. [laughter] [break]

30:13Prabhupāda: ...from inside they bring [indistinct]. A small child and he cannot restrain? A small... [indistinct] That is nature’s way. Take care of the child immediately. When boys are spoiled? Simply by bad association, that’s all.

30:13The world is so much polluted any innocent child can be polluted. That is going on everywhere all over the world. The whole world is polluted even the best child is polluted. When?

30:22As soon as he goes to school and meets his friends, finished. The schools, colleges are slaughterhouses.

Qualities and mission of Nityananda

30:56[break] [purport]

30:56Nitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇi—this is a song sung by Locana Dāsa Ṭhākura, almost a contemporary of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He has got many books on the life and precepts of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

31:26So he is saying that Lord Nityānanda is full of good qualities, guṇa-maṇi. Guṇa-maṇi means the jewel of all qualities.

31:47So nitāi guṇa-maṇi āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇi. He is repeatedly uttering that Lord Nityānanda is the reservoir of all good qualities.

32:01Āniyā premera vanyā bhāsāilo avanī. And on account of His spiritual qualities, he inundated the whole world by the flood of love of God. It is by His kindness people can feel what is love of God.

32:36Premer vanyā loiyā nitāi āilā gauḍa-deśe. When Caitanya Mahāprabhu left home and took sannyas, He made His headquarter at Jagannātha Purī.

32:43So after His accepting the sannyas order, when He left His home and country Lord Nityānanda Prabhu also accompanied Him up to Jagannātha Purī.

32:59So after a few days, Lord Caitanya requested Him that "If both of us remain here, then who will preach in Bengal?" Bengal is known as gauḍa-deśe. So under the order of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He brought from Him the flood of love of Godhead and He distributed in the whole of Bengal, gauḍa-deśe. And in that flood of love of God, all devotees became drowned.

33:49Only those who were not devotees, they could not drown but they were floating, dīna hīna bāche. But so far Nityānanda Prabhu is concerned, He does not make any discrimination between devotees and nondevotees.

Universal distribution of divine love

34:08Dīna hīna patita pāmara nāhi bāche. Poor or rich or enlightened or foolish, everyone could take the instruction of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and become drowned in the ocean of love of Godhead.

34:33Such love of Godhead is brahmār durlabha. Even Lord Brahmā, who is the supreme teacher within this universe, he also cannot relish.

34:46But by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda Mahāprabhu, this love of Godhead was distributed to everyone without any discrimination.

35:02So ābaddha karuṇā-sindhu, it was just like a big ocean blocked all sides. Ocean of love of Godhead is a big ocean, but it was not inundated.

35:25So Nityānanda Prabhu cut a canal from the ocean, and He brought the canal in every door.

35:36Ghare ghare bule prema-amiyāra bān. The flood of the nectar of love of Godhead was thus distributed in each and every home in Bengal.

35:50Actually still Bengal is overwhelmed when there is talk of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda Prabhu.

Consequences of neglecting spiritual mercy

36:02Locan bole, now the author is speaking on his behalf that anyone who does not take the advantage given by Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, so in his opinion he thinks that such a person knowingly is committing suicide. [end]