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all over my body simply by attending to the Name of Gauranga? When will
there be incessant flowing of my tears simply by uttering Harer Nama of the
Lord? When will Lord Nityananda be merciful upon me, and all my desires
for material enjoyment become insignificant? When shall I be purified by
giving up all contaminations of material enjoyment; and when shall I be able
to see the transcendental Abode, Vrindaban? When shall I be eager to accept
the six Goswamis as my prime guidance? And when shall I be able to under-
stand the conjugal love of Krishna?” In other words, nobody should be eager
to understand the conjugal love of Krishna without undergoing disciplinary
training under the six Goswamis of Vrindaban.

The Samkirtan movement inaugurated by Lord Chaitanya is a transcendental
Pastime of the Lord: “So that I may live simultaneously to preach and popu-
larize this movement in the material world.” And in that Samkirtan movement
of Lord Chaitanya, Nityananda and Adwaita are His expansions, and Gadad-
hara and Srivas are His internal and marginal potencies.

The living entities are called marginal potency because they have, potenti-
ally, both attitudes, namely the tendency to surrender unto Krishna, and the
tendency for becoming independent of the Supreme Lord, and being con-
taminated by the material world through the propensity for material enjoy-
ment. When a living entity is predominated over by the desire for material
enjoyment and becomes entangled in material contamination, at that time he
is subjected to the three-fold miseries of material existence. There is a very
nice example in this connection. It is just like a seed sewn in the earth. If it
is overpowered by too much water, there is no possibility of the seed being
fructified. Similarly, even if a man is captivated by material enjoyment,
and even if the seed of such enjoyment is within the heart of the conditioned
soul but he is overwhelmed, over powered by a flood of transcendental
activities in love of God, then his potential seed cannot fructify into a con-
ditional life of material existence. The conditional living entities in the material
world, especially at the present age of Kali, are being overpowered by the
flood of love of God inaugurated by Lord Chaitanya and His Associates.

There is a nice verse in this connection, written by His Holiness Prabo-
dhananda Saraswati in his book Sri Chaitanya Chandramrita. In that verse it is
stated that materialistic persons are very enthusiastic in the matter of maintaining
their family. members, wife and children; and there are many mystic specu-
lators who are engaged in speculating on being liberated from the miseries of
material life, and therefore they undergo various kinds of austerities and
penances. But persons who have discovered the greatest transcendental flavor,
