The Nectar Zone

So somehow or other to stay on the spiritual platform - to stay in the "zone of nectar " , that is my daily challenge, despite the ups and downs of the material world. On that platform there is no anxiety , no ill-feeling ,no misgivings ,no doubts. That is the platform of truth as opposed to illusion , the truth being that I am pure spirit soul , eternal servant of Krishna; illusion being that I am this body and everything in relationship to this body is mine.The only way to stay on that platform in this Kali -yuga, this age of quarrel and hypocrisy is, in Lord Caitanya s words - kirtaniyah sada hari - to always chant the holy names Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare , Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare . There is no other way. This Kali -yuga is likened to an ocean of faults - everything is contaminated. The only good thing is the chanting of the holy names - golokera premadhana harinam sankirtan - the treasure of divine love has descended from Goloka, the spiritual realm , in the form of the holy names. So I pray to my eternal spiritual masters for a humble state of mind, for more tolerance than a tree, so that by their grace, I may have an ever-increasing taste for the hearing and chanting of the holy names - that is my only hope.

Shrila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami prays , " The name of Radha is unprecedented, beautiful and enchanting like nectar.The name of Krishna is delicious like condensed milk. O my tongue , O you who are faint with hunger , please constantly drink these two unprecedented substances , which are made delightful by the ice of fragrant anuraga ." May Shrila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami have mercy on me and bless me with steady progress on the path of Radha-Krishna consciousness