Nitai Gunjan and Nitai Lekhan summarized
๐ What is Svarupa-siddha Bhakti, which includes everything else?
๐ฟ 1. Harinam Japa & Kirtan
๐ 2. Nam-Lila Kirtan
๐ 3. Nam-Lila Shravan & Reading
๐ฃ 4. Nitainam Gunjan
✍️ 5. Nitainam Lekhan
๐ฏ Harinam is rasa, Kirtan is prema, Shravan is sphurti, Gunjan is kama-vimukti, and Lekhan is shuddhi.
๐ฅ Prachar is svarupa-siddha-bhakti to the extent we make others and ourselves do the above five during prachar.
๐ เคนเคฐे 1-3 about Harinam Tattva is discussed on Nam.tv. 4 & 5 Nitai Tattva discussed here on Nitai.tv.
๐ฃ 4. Nitainam Gunjan
๐ Q. Why Nitainam Gunjan?
A. Nitainam Gunjan is the long calling out of Nitainam as a resonating kirtan for faster ruchi and kripa-siddhi in Harinam due to the all-forgiving and all-giving nature of Nitai, especially since the Panchtattva mantra is not allowed for more than a few times being not a shastric mantra. (nitai name aparadher vichar to nai he)
๐ Q. How to do Nitainam Gunjan?
A. Resonatingly call out long “Nitaaaaaaai” slowly, with a long “ta” sound. Repeat it as long you like. You can also hear its recording in sync while doing it, or listen to it while doing other things.
๐ Q. Where is Nitainam Gunjan in the shastra?
A. It is the literal implementation of the direct universal instruction of Srila Narottam das thakur (Champak manjari gopi of Sri Radha and the dearmost associate of Sri Gaura): “‘Nitai’ na bolilo mukhe, majilo sansar sukhe”. You can also read the 30+ shastra proof in the Nitainam Proof book at Nitai.tv.
๐ฟ Q. Is Nitainam Gunjan done on a japa mala?
A. No. It does not need a mala or counter, as it is only Nitainam Kirtan.
๐ต Q. Does Nitainam Gunjan need diksha, money, or to follow someone?
A. No. Anyone can do this namkirtan freely, before or after Harinam, as Nitai is the first Ishtadev of all Gaudiyas of all rasas.
๐ฅ Q. Are musical instruments needed since Nitainam Gunjan is a form of kirtan?
A. No. Only our mouth (bolilo mukhe) is enough, as the resonation itself is music.
✍️ 5. Nitainam Lekhan
๐ Mental Writing of Nitainam for Harinam-siddhi, Kirtan-rasa, Gunjan-ruchi, and Shravan-sphurti.
๐ Mentally write one-by-one and visualize the 10 strokes of “เคจिเคคाเค”, the Devanagari form of Nitainam, with closed or open eyes.
๐น เคจि = Sambandha (4 strokes). Nitai finds, pleads, touches, embraces, glances, watches, shelters, and protects a soul who mentally writes เคจि.
๐ท เคคा = Abhidheya (4 strokes). Nitai begins purifying a soul who mentally writes เคคा by plowing and smashing away all the sinful mentality, anarthas, and offences. Then He awards that soul the direct vision of His form first, and then the form, service, and shelter of Gaura.
๐บ เค = Prayojana (2 strokes). And finally, to the soul who mentally writes เค, Nitai quickly grants us the aural reception of Krishna’s flute and then the prema-manifestation of Radha Krishna’s or Krishna Balarama’s forms, lila, and service as per our rasa.
Bhaktiratna Sadhu Maharaj
Harinam Tattva and Nitai Tattva Speaker, Author, and Kirtaniya. Grand-disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta. Shiksha-disciple of Srila Bhaktivedanta. Diksha-disciple of Srila Bhaktishastri Parampada das. Sannyasa-disicple of Srila Santa Goswami. Brahmacharya: 1971-2001. Parivrakacharya Sannyasa: 2001+. Paramhansa Sannyasa (Gaudiya Math): 2018.
Beautiful wordings. I want to share some personal experience about Nitainam Lekhan right now. While chanting my Harinaam rounds, I was having glance of Nitainam Shila kept in our ashram, felt like amazing. To be frank , I felt as if Nitai was cooking something with blue cloth on his head and laughing. Just after that one devotee, Haresh prabhuji brought prasadam to be offered to Nitai. เคจिเคคाเค lekhan or even seeing its form is transcendental form of Nitai in its purest form. Joy Nitai!!!!! Hare Krishna!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDepression occurs only when the person hasnt experienced the connect with Nitai, the fearsome vacuum enveloping his being. Nitai Gunjan is that attempt of the jeeva to connect with Nitai who is sitting right next to the soul and attempt to realize that he has never been alone. Experience the marjan of your heart, the heart getting free of the stubborn grime, stuck like a parasite since many lifetimes which refused to allow Harinam to flow effortlessly. This is what i realized while Nitai Gunjan.
ReplyDeleteI am closing my mouth. i am starting to inhale. i am feeling the airflow gently entering my nostrils. My lungs are slowly expanding. i am letting anything connected to Nitai to come into my remembrance. i am stopping to inhale. Now i am opening my mouth and starting to resonate "Ni". Then i am resonating "taa" intensifying anything which came to my remembrance before. And finally resonating the "i" relishing the sweet fruits of one Nitai Gunjan cycle.
ReplyDeleteToday was the first day that I really understood that Nitai Gunjan can have a dramatic effect on one’s Harinam. I had gotten a taste of that very radical difference with Nitainam Lekhan fairly quickly, but I had not yet done Nitai Gunjan enough to taste and see that difference in Harinam. Maybe someday my brick like heart will be able to grasp even a little of Nitai’s inconceivable mercy to us.
ReplyDeleteI feel I am developing more regularity in chanting Harinam and also in singing kirtan automatically without efforts due to Nitainam Lekhan and Nitai Gunjan. Desires to become happy materially decreases due to experience of wonderful bliss while doing them.
ReplyDeleteToday I had recorded my Nitai Gunjan for 15 minutes and now listening the recording repeatedly. I am feeling amazing, senses are cleared from all dirty things, gives Harinam ruchi and I am feeling like wandering in Ekachakra. Nitai Gunjan is very helpful for the remembrance of Dham Lila. Sripad Madhavendra-puri tells : 'Nityananda heno bhakta sunile kane, avashya Krishna-chandra paibe se jone'..one who hears the Name Nitai definitely gets the service of Radha-Krishna. This instruction of Sripad Madhavendra-puri is so important, now I am realizing.
ReplyDeleteAll glories to Srila Bhaktiratna Sadhu Maharaj.
This Spiritual path is full of thorns but we are blessed to hear the Spiritual Sound Vibration from Your Divine Grace and Srila Prabhupada. Kindly shower your causeless mercy on the fallen souls of Kali Yuga who are drowning drowning always to the deepest regions of darkness and have no hope of deliverance except the all-merciful Nitainam.
ReplyDeleteMore focus and smaran is increased by Srila Gurudev's sound vibration. I do hearing of Nitai Gunjan track while doing Gunjan. ๐๐
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