httpv://youtu.be/YjEaTtkbqKw
video: ISKCON Bangalore Group
Srila Prabhupada, Los Angeles, January 9, 1969: […] Nityananda Prabhu or Nitai-cand, is the original spiritual master. He is Baladeva. Bala means strength, and deva, the Personality of Godhead who gives strength. Therefore Nitai-cand is the symbol of spiritual master who gives strength to the disciples. This is the process of disciplic succession. We have to acquire the spiritual strength.
No amount of material strength can help me in the advancement of spiritual life. We must derive the spiritual strength. Just like we have to take electricity from the powerhouse by directly connecting with the powerhouse. Not the wiring but the electricity.
Similarly, this disciplic succession means the strength is descending from the original person through the spiritual master. That is the idea. So Narottama dasa Thakura explains that, “When Nitaicand will be pleased?” And the result of such pleasure of Nitaicand is that one becomes free from all desires for material enjoyment.
ara kabe nitai-cand koruna karibe samsara-basana mora kabe tuccha ha’be
So by the mercy of Nitai-cand, one will get free from all desires of material enjoyment.
The next line is visaya chadiya kabe suddha ha’be mana. (spells out) This kabe means when, aspiring. Suddha means purified. Ha’be, will be. Mana means mind. So when actually our spiritual master or Nityananda Prabhu is pleased upon us, at that time the symptom will be that we shall no longer hanker after material enjoyment.
When that stage of life is arrived, at that time only, we can understand what is Vrindavana, the abode of Krishna. Full Purport
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