Nectar of the Nectarine
By Śrīla Bhakti-rakṣaka Śrīdhara Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāja, excerpted from The Golden Volcano of Divine Love
The concluding verse of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says, “Kṛṣṇa’s Holy Name can relieve us from all undesirable sinfulness, all filthy characteristics, and all miseries. Let us all bow down to Him.” Uttering this verse, the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam stops; that great treatise becomes silent. The last word in the Bhāgavatam is nāma-saṅkīrtana. The Bhāgavatam has given such great importance to chanting the Holy Name of Kṛṣṇa, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu developed it from there. The last publication of the compiler of Vedic literatures, ṣrÈla VyĀsadeva, took theism to that stage, and gave it to the public announcing, “Chant the name of Kṛṣṇa! Do this; nothing more is necessary. Take this!” This is the very conclusion of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the greatest spiritual gift of Śrīla Vyāsadeva: “Chant the Holy Name of Kṛṣṇa and begin your life in this dark age with the most broad and wide theistic conception.”
We may consider ourselves fortunate that we have come to the verge of this most generous and useful thought, that we have come close enough to touch it, to accept it, and float ourselves in its waves according to our capacity. After passing through so many conceptions and the charm of different prospects, we have left them all behind and have come to the shore of the ocean of nāma-saṅkīrtana. Now we may throw our bodies in this ocean and begin to swim in the waves of nāma-saṅkīrtana, the nectar of the nectarine, by the grace of our guru and the mercy of the Vaiṣṇavas.
It is their property, and we are their slaves. We have such audacity to throw our body into this ocean of nāma-saṅkīrtana and swim in that nectarine ocean! Swimming in Rādhā-kuṇḍa, the highest conception of spiritual attainment, can also be found in the highest form of nāma-saṅkīrtana.
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