The mercy of Lord Nityananda...

Excerpts from a lecture given by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami on the appearance day of Lord Nityananda (28 Jan 2010) in Cape Town, South Africa

When we are reaching out, reaching out to people who have no knowledge, then we relax the rules and we look at the spontaneous service and in this way we can engage so many people and bring them closer and bring them in. And this is the movement of Nityananda- to bring everyone in. It’s an all-inclusive movement of great kindness. So Nityananda is the emblem of kindness, the emblem of positiveness...

Just like you know, sometimes you see parents- mother’s with their children or something- and they’re completely positive you know! And I’m seeing this little, squeaky monster; it’s ugly like anything, all red and spotty, and half blind- the eyes are puffy- hardly any hair on the head, all wrinkled, I mean...ugly! And then making hellish noises and then possibly the nappy changing rituals and things like that...so from the male perspective, sometimes it’s something not appreciated. But then you see this totally positive, parental mood, just seeing the positive thing in the child...like I just saw this little- it was grown a little and it turned into a little rat!- and this kid is just like hammering on things, (imitates)’ bang, bang, eeh, eeh!’ making horrible noises one after another and I was getting like, ‘shall I (smack him)?’ and then the mother comes and says, “Aw...he loves it so much!” Just this incredible positiveness you know. So positive, so positively disposed towards that child- so positive. That same mood is in Lord Nityananda! So positive, so positively... “Aw look, how nice! He wants to do a little service, how nice!”

So this is the mood of this movement, so it’s therefore a very liberal movement. Nityananda is the main preacher, Nityananda sets the pace, Nityananda, He is the one who is showing what the mood should be of our endeavours and activities- one of just great kindness, great kindness and seeing the good in everyone. Prabhupada said, find the spark and fan it! Find a little spark of bhakti and fan it. So that is the mood of Lord Nityananda...

Below is a slidehow of Nityananda's Appearance day in Cape Town: