19850605 Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā 10.91-103

The following is the lecture given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami on June 5^th 1985 a New Pani Hatti Dham in Atlanta Georgia. The class begins with a reading from the Caitanya caritāmṛta Adi līlā Chapter 10 text 91 to 103.

mahāprabhura priya bhṛtya — raghunātha-dāsa

sarva tyaji’ kaila prabhura pada-tale vāsa

 

Translation:

Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, the forty-sixth branch of the tree, was one of the most dear servants of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He left all his material possessions to surrender completely unto the Lord and live at His lotus feet.

Purport:

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya, “Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was most probably born in the year 1416 Śakābda (A.D. 1494) in a kāyastha family as the son of Govardhana Majumadāra, who was the younger brother of the then zamindar, Hiraṇya Majumadāra. The village where he took birth is known as Śrī-kṛṣṇapura. On the railway line between Calcutta and Burdwan is a station named Triśābaghā [now known as Ādi-saptagrāma], and about one and a half miles away is the village of Śrī-kṛṣṇapura, where the parental home of Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was situated. A temple of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govinda is still there. In front of the temple is a large open area but no large hall for devotees to assemble. A rich Calcutta gentleman named Haricaraṇa Ghoṣa, who resided in the Simlā quarter, recently repaired the temple. The entire temple compound is surrounded by walls, and in a small room just to the side of the temple is a small platform on which Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī used to worship the Deity. By the side of the temple is the dying river Sarasvatī.”

The forefathers of Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī were all Vaiṣṇavas and were very rich men. His spiritual master at home was Yadunandana Ācārya. Although Raghunātha dāsa was a family man, he had no attachment for his estate and wife. Seeing his tendency to leave home, his father and uncle engaged special bodyguards to watch over him, but nevertheless he managed to escape their vigilance and went away to Jagannātha Purī to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. This incident took place in the year 1439 Śakābda (A.D. 1517). (Aside) Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī compiled three books, named Stava-mālā (or Stavāvalī), Dāna-carita and Muktā-carita. He lived for a long time, residing for most of his life at Rādhā-kuṇḍa. The place where Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī performed his devotional service still exists by Rādhā-kuṇḍa. He almost completely gave up eating, and therefore he was very skinny and of weak health. His only concern was to chant the holy name of the Lord. He gradually reduced his sleeping until he was almost not sleeping at all. It is said that his eyes were always full of tears.

When Śrīnivāsa Ācārya went to see Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, the Gosvāmī blessed him by embracing him. Śrīnivāsa Ācārya requested his blessings for preaching in Bengal, and Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī granted them. In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (186) it is stated that Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was formerly the gopī named Rasa-mañjarī. Sometimes it is said that he was Rati-mañjarī.

His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami: So there are six Goswami’s who resided in Vṛndāvan  and they're largely responsible for the explanation of the teachings of Lord Caitanya otherwise Lord Caitanya himself only wrote eight books eight verses what to speak of eight with eight verses but his followers especially the six Goswami's they wrote volumes and volumes of books so there's a verse glorifying Lord Caitanya by stating that each one of Lord Caitanya's energies his devotees are his different energies and each of them are blessed with some specific quality.

For instance, Rūpa and Sanātan especially Sanātana goswami their characteristic was he were very humble although he was the prime minister of one of the largest empire in India and he could practically say in the world at that time; he was very humble and when he approached Caitanya Mahāprabhu he took a piece of straw in his teeth to express his humility and throughout his life he was always excessively humble.

Rāmānanda Rāya another great devotee of Lord Caitanya he manifested the quality of being totally unagitated even in the presence of sense gratification so much so that he was training beautiful young girls how to dance for the Jagannātha temple there were devadasis, devadasis who were young girls who dedicated their their youthful life for dancing before Lord Jagannath at that time no other person was allowed to see it wasn't intended for outside view may other kept out only the Lord would watch their dancing it was their special offering.

 

So, but Rāmānanda Rāya was their trainer but it said that in spite of being with so many beautiful young girls he was never slightly ever agitated or disturbed at all and Lord Caitanya confirmed this that what he is doing is not possible for anybody else but for him it's possible. So then like that each one of the devotees of Lord Caitanya they've got some outstanding characteristic you see Swaroop Damodar his characteristic was he was always able to be a critic or editor a critic of any kind of philosophy he could immediately analyse even the most subtle Kṛṣṇa conscious philosophical points and pick out what were the defects where were the philosophical errors remarkably, I mean astoundingly he was able to do that you see so that was his specific quality.

So, Lord Caitanya He would never let anyone read any poetry to Him unless it was cleared by Swaroop Damodar because of Lord Chaitanya heard something which was philosophically off that like ruined His whole day you know or more so he just couldn't just like an expert musician probably would like to hear something totally out of tune or something much worse than that to hear something which is off just like rasa bhāsa would be totally just painful for Lord Caitanya.

So Swaroop Damaodar would check things first and there's some great histories in the Caitanya Caritāmṛta how he discovered there were some poetry and some songs were written by certain devotees or brāhmaṇas and he totally rejected those for different points and his analysis is so it's like x-ray vision or something it's so penetrating that it's very revealing.

So like that Raghunāth Das he is another one of the great devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu his quality was that he was the most austere the austerities that he did nobody can imitate that just like no one can imitate the others for the particular actions nobody can even hold the candle up to the austerities Raghunātha Dāsa Goswami did the amount of the example of just total absorption in devotional service and chanting and just the extreme austerity is its unparalleled you'll hear a little bit about some of the austerities he did of course not that he just did austerities and then nothing else but he was chanting many rounds every day he was bowing down in Govardhan hill he was worshipping Vṛndāvan  he was assisting Swaroop Damodar in Jagannath Purī he was writing transcendental literature and so many other things so many devotional services but he would because probably because in his early life he was the son of a Jamindar nephew of big Jamindar.

Jamindar is like a small King maybe in Europe would be like an Earl he's a lord he had a big landlord it means he had his own private army they had a palace they had collected taxes from the serfs they had like that but they were underneath the king they had to pay they had to whatever taxes they collected they had to pay I believe it's one third but or one half they have to pay to the king and the other part they can maintain for their establishment cost so he was in in opulence in his early life but in contrast in his devotional life he became very very austere not artificially austere it was just that he was naturally austere and naturally he was always filled in love for Kṛṣṇa sometimes if we tried to imitate austerity it makes our hard heart harmed but in his case he was just naturally absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness so he didn't waste any time with other material amenities.

Translation of verse 92 alright first the verse

 

prabhu samarpila tāṅre svarūpera hāte

prabhura gupta-sevā kaila svarūpera sāthe

 

ṣoḍaśa vatsara kaila antaraṅga-sevana

svarūpera antardhāne āilā vṛndāvana

 

When Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī approached Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī, the Lord entrusted him to the care of Svarūpa Dāmodara, His secretary. Thus they both engaged in the confidential service of the Lord.

Purport:

This confidential service was the personal care of the Lord. Svarūpa Dāmodara, acting as His secretary, attended to the Lord’s baths, meals, rest and massages, and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī assisted him. In effect, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī acted as the assistant secretary of the Lord.

Translation:

He rendered confidential service to the Lord for sixteen years at Jagannātha Purī, and after the disappearance of both the Lord and Svarūpa Dāmodara, he left Jagannātha Purī and went to Vṛndāvana.

So, you can see that how close he was to Lord Caitanya that he was with Lord Caitanya practically day and night for sixteen years the private secretary he was the servant of the servant being the servant of Swaroop Damodar so he knew so many of intimate pastimes of Lord Caitanya therefore Kṛṣṇa das kavirāja he heard from Raghunātha das goswami all about the pastimes of Lord Caitanya in Jagannath Purī therefore he wrote down everything as he heard from Raghunāth das goswami.

So this is Chaitanya Caritamrita is largely coming from the source of Raghunātha das goswami who is the most authoritative source because he was there for sixteen years as the assistant secretary to Caitanya Mahāprabhu if anyone ever wanted to know what is the how did Kṛṣṇa das kavirāja know these things because he went from Bengal directly to Vṛndāvan  this is how he knew he in Vṛndāvan  he learned everything from Raghunātha das goswami primarily plus other sources as well.

vṛndāvane dui bhāira caraṇa dekhiyā

govardhane tyajiba deha bhṛgupāta kariyā

 

Translation:

As a daily duty he regularly offered one thousand obeisance to the Lord chanted at least 100,000 holy name and offered obeisance’s 2,000 Vaishnava’s.

Prabhupāda explained that this is we chant sixteen rounds a day he would have a fixed number of times he pay obeisance one thousand times to the deity up down up down paying his obeisance’s thousand times and two thousand times to the Vaishnavas. So a lot of obeisance and this way he also be chatting a hundred thousand times Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra someone who pays that many obeisance naturally it's one way of becoming very fixed in humility before the Lord combined with chanting and other practices so like this he did so many extremely and no one else chanted just like we all chanting rounds of fixed number of times as standard but paying obeisance is a fixed number of times there's like something additional that I don't know of anyone else did it like that certainly no one to this extent.

rātri-dine rādhā-kṛṣṇera mānasa sevana

prahareka mahāprabhura caritra-kathana

Translation:

Day and night he rendered service within his mind to Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, and for three hours a day he discoursed about the character of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Purport:

 We have many things to learn about bhajana, or worship of the Lord, by following in the footsteps of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī. All the Gosvāmīs engaged in such transcendental activities, as described by Śrīnivāsa Ācārya in his poem about them (kṛṣṇot-kīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī).

Following in the footsteps of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī, one has to execute devotional service very strictly, specifically by chanting the holy name of the Lord.

In other words, Raghunātha dāsa in his whole life, his whole day it was totally occupied with devotional service there wasn't a second when he wasn't engaged in devotional service it was told even to the extreme extent then they even reduced his own eating and sleeping practically to nothing.

So here it mentions that he performed manasā pūjā that means mental worship that's described in a nectar of devotion how a person can serve the Lord in the mind in other words say a person is very poor like someone said well if you don't have wealth how can you serve the Lord opulently well in Nectar of devotion.

There's a story about one brāhmaṇa who was very poor so he couldn't afford to do opulent deity worship but he heard a lecture one day where it was explained how you can worship the Lord in your mind through meditation so he started sitting down hearing that and in his mind he imagined or he started creating the mental image of beautiful Thrones and there the Lord he established he'd cooked meals opulent preparations with ghee and cheese and so many things then he put them all in golden vessels and offered before the Lord and this way he'd go through our entire deity worship in his mind while he was sitting in meditation and be totally absorbed each thing and doing this for even years together every day it sit for so many hours and meditate.

So one day he was cooking a sweet rice and his meditation and he was wondering wonder if the sweet rice is too hot because sweet rice should be cool when you offer to the Lord he put his finger in the sweet rice and then immediately got burnt and he shouted out ahhh and he woke out of his meditation and looked and there on his finger he had a big blisters he knew his the status because he was meditating you know and they didn't expect put his finger him to get physically burned now in the spiritual sky there Kṛṣṇa in His Narayan form He was started to laugh, smiling and next to Him Laxmī was there and said what are you laughing about what happened?

You know why are You keeping it a secret the goddess of fortune wanted to know His eternal internal potency. So, He said alright I'll show you and He sent one of his transcendental airplanes down His Pushpa Viman and there they came picked up the Brahman he said come on Narayan wants to see you get on board picked him up took him back to the spiritual world in the self-same body and there of course it was transcendental eyes going there and then He explained to Laxmī the devotional service of the brāhmaṇa and in this way he was immediately reinstated back in the spiritual world.

So that's a what history we have about mental worship but we see that here in more the mood of Vṛndāvan  Raghunātha dāsa was performing a daily worship for the Lord and we know that there are many many pastimes about Raghunātha dāsa goswami I think it was at one time see Raghunātha dāsa. He was always go to the river and Yamunā went on rather than take the water and Sanātan Goswami saw that there was a big tiger there ready to to jump on Raghunātha dāsa and so Kṛṣṇa personally appeared and He was standing guard so that Raghunātha dāsa wouldn't get hurt so then after that Sanātana Goswami started to chastise Raghunātha dāsa that you're coming here to serve Kṛṣṇa by your excessive austerity you're forcing Kṛṣṇa to serve you.

So he enforced him to build a small grass hut to stay in some little place and rather otherwise Raghunātha dāsa was simply sleeping under a different tree every night he would not even live in a house he was so austere. In Jagannath Purī he was taking simply what he would do is he thought why should I take the prashad which is you know for the other devotees I'm not worthy he instead... there were some leftovers they throw in the back and so he would take those leftover prasādam but then he saw that there are other dogs and animals would come up and take the leftover prashad also so he thought I'm depriving them why should I deprive them?

By eating they'll become purified so he wouldn't take that he'd let it wait and after the dogs and everything already eaten everything that they could there would still be say some clumps of rice or something that were so rotten outside that even the animals would eat he'd take those break them open and from the center he’ll take the little piece of rice that was left and eat that and he just take the rice that was fallen in the drain the gutter coming out from the temple and in this way he did austerities that you know you can't even because... Prabhupāda explain that if someone tries to imitate that even if you eat the food offer someone else's plate if you think that this is contaminated it's not pure something if you have any kind of material vision but then just to put on a show you eat it then you're getting it sick but actually Raghunātha dāsa  goswami he could see he had that type of elevated vision he could actually see that prashadam was not different from Kṛṣṇa so for him because he was so much in the trance of play he could take this prasādam which normally no one would take because physically it had become apparently decomposed and all that but somehow he was able to take it because of his elevated vision.

So obviously we cannot imitate them because we'll see oh this is rotten or this is so if we try to imitate in our mind we won't be able to free ourselves from that type of thought and it would become just an artificial thing but himself these thoughts never even entered his mind he had so much intense faith and devotion for the prasādam that he was firmly convinced that it would never be polluted and with that deep faith he could take any kind of prasādam and he was always on the transcendental platform in fact one time Lord Caitanya saw him sitting eating prasādam like that and He said what are you doing? you see and he hid the prasādam, nothing, no you're taking prasādam let Me have some of that prasādam oh no no no this is that although he was eating like that he would see that Lord Caitanya was offered always the best opulent prasādam as the assistant to the secretary but he himself for his own self he would just take the throwaways he said no no no this is not suitable for you He says no what do you mean if it's suitable for you and you mean to say that it's not suitable for Me?

You give Me some of that prasādam why are you depriving me - Raghunātha dāsa no no no he was because how can Lord Caitanya can take this is thrown out and everything we offer about Lord Caitanya is only the best you know then he said no no this is can't be offered to you then Lord Caitanya started to pursue him no you give me some and ten he ran off then Lord Caitanya being seven feet height and very powerful He was able to quickly overcome him and before as he grabbed out some of the Prasad from his hand that thrown away rice and He just took a little and put in His mouth He said ah this is the best prashad I ever had. So even Lord Caitanya He said no one just to tell us how that they were not even try nobody can match Raghunātha dāsa austerity. It just their certain devotees’ kind of just set the standard in a specific field of excellence in that particular quality.

sārdha sapta-prahara kare bhaktira sādhane

cāri daṇḍa nidrā, seha nahe kona-dine

Translation:

He engaged himself in devotional service for more than twenty-two and a half hours a day, and for less than two hours he slept, although on some days that also was not possible.

Twenty-two and a half hours a day less than two hours a day sleep and some days he didn't even do that he was so busy with his devotional service like sometimes devotees say I have no time to finish my rounds so devotees like Raghunātha dāsa goswami they would first finish their rounds and then sleep and eat their idea was what was the greater priority devotional service or sleeping and eating? so because of their intense devotion they actually were able to practically transcend sleeping and eating.

 

tāṅhāra sādhana-rīti śunite camatkāra

sei rūpa-raghunātha prabhu ye āmāra

 

Translation:

 

I am struck with wonder when I hear about the devotional service, he [Raghunat das] executed. I accept Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī as my guides.

Purport:

Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī accepted Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī as his special guide. Therefore, at the end of every chapter he says, śrī-rūpa-raghunātha-pade yāra āśa caitanya-caritāmṛta kahe kṛṣṇadāsa. Sometimes it is misunderstood that by using the word raghunātha he wanted to offer his respectful obeisances to Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, for it is sometimes stated that Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī was his initiating spiritual master.

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī does not approve of this statement; he does not accept Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī as the spiritual master of Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī.

So Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was the devotee who sponsored when he was with his parents when he was the acting landlord or the assistant landlord, he was punished by Lord Nityananda to provide chida dahi flattened rice and yogurt and popped rice and condensed milk feast for all of the devotees during this season about a month from now and that will be celebrating at Atlanta this year at that time there were so many associates of Lord Nityananda present and everyone took their feast so that was considered as a punishment by Lord Nityananda of course Raghunātha dāsa was very happy to see all of the Vaishnavas he took that punishment as a blessing which it was. So that will discuss more respect to Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī past times in Atlanta.

The special feature of Raghunātha dāsa of course was that he was always absorbed in Radha Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, in Lord Caitanya's pastimes, it said that he would daily worship Radha Kṛṣṇa, he'd lecture on Lord Caitanya in this way he was constantly preaching in fact it mentioned that Srinivas acharya asked for his blessings in order that he'll be able to preach in Bengal so similarly we can... yesterday was the appearance name of Srinivas acharya but day before yesterday and maybe even Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī I forget there was two three at the same day Kṛṣṇadas kaviraja also in any case we want to preach the message of Lord Caitanya mahaprabhu we want to distribute the books of the six Goswami’s so we can pray to Rupa and Raghunatha, you can pray to the six goswamis “vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau” to give us their blessings to be able to preach you see one shouldn't think that he can preach because of his own meagre capability, it's not that one is a great orator, one is a great learning scholar or some other material qualification that will enable one to actually be able to penetrate the hard heart of the conditioned Souls and plant the seed of pure devotional service that ability is a blessing from the spiritual master and the previous Acharyas and the great Vaishnavas and the Lord Himself.

Sometimes you might wonder when you read about the abilities of some of the great Kshatriya warriors who fought in the Kurukṣetra battle the maharatis, atirathis and rathis so on they were so powerful that they could fight with literally thousands of people at one time and be victorious it wasn't sheer for them it wasn't sheer material strength but they had performed great austerities, Arjuna performed austerities and he was given weapons personally by Lord Śiva, different demigods including he was given the Gāṇḍīva bow and so many other weapons and basically by their austerities by the blessings of the guru by chanting mantra so they became empowered to fight in the battlefield and to be able to have power far beyond what a human being normally could present this wise such extraordinary descriptions about those great warriors are not like this exaggeration some kind of mythology but it was because they achieved that they were practically like a mystic powers that they are achieved through their austerities and to worshiping of getting blessings from different brāhmaṇas and demigods so on that's where the Warriors I mean say.

So similarly a preacher is not simply going out if a preacher thinks is he's going to go out with his own limited ability and succeed so the success definitely be either nothing at all or very limited one might discounted causeless mercy of the Lord even without but I'm one's own material ability it's not possible to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness that is confirmed in the different scriptures Kali Kāle dharma nāma sankirtan Kṛṣṇa Kripa vinā nahe tāra pravartana. Without the mercy of Kṛṣṇa no one can spread the saṅkīrtana movement. So actually this but we need to do is get the blessings from the spiritual master from the great devotees from the six Goswami's like Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī & others to the previous acharyas to pray up to the disciplic succession requesting for their benediction to being able to carry out the preaching mission of the spiritual master Lord Caitanya in this way if they give their blessings one is a sure of success you see so even though Raghunātha dāsa himself may not have travelled everywhere but you could say that there's someone fair says that while he was just doing bhajan we should imitate him and simply do bhajan no one can imitate his bhajan one, two that he also wanted he was also a preacher at heart is confirmed by the fact that he blessed Srinivas Acharya to preach and he was assigned a specific duty of excavating the holy place in Vṛndāvan  there he practically established Rādhā kunda as a supreme most spiritual tīrtha along with in the world and similarly he also established Govardhan and it's a sacred holy place by his pre plan but his actual mood was also one of preaching and there even though he stayed in one place he was lecturing every day for so many hours, writing books and by his blessing one of the greatest preachers in our disciplic succession was completely successful so we can understand that although the six Goswami's appeared to be very austere to the absorbed in this type of very type of private bhajan solitary worship that they are actually great preachers their mood is one of Gostiyanandi they want the devotees to expand the number of devotees to expand and they're not Bhajananadis in the way that people might think them to be they're not Bhajananadis at all but people might mistake them to be definitely those who imitate them are trying to be like that actually their intention is to carry out the order of Lord Caitanya and because they were practically in the platform they did that best by doing when Lord Caitanya said and remaining in Vṛndāvan  but their blessings have been the source of delivering this entire world you can say that it's their blessings coming down to the disciplic succession because for instance Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī thakur he also claims great inspiration from the Six Goswami's for his preaching movement and Prabhupāda of course he also says that his primary inspiration was his spiritual master Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Thakur and we know that Prabhupāda was always... he taught us to sing this six goswami ashtakam and he himself saying so many times he wrote the Nectar of devotion, the ishopanishad excuse me the Upadeshamrata, and so many other works written by the Six Goswami's he wanted that the six sandarbas of Jīva goswami would be written in the future I feel personally and I've been trying to encourage ācāryadeva in this regard he's only one who could do that great work that is the most important work in our disciplic succession.

Prabhupāda said that Jīva goswami had so expansively written about Vaishnava philosophy that if anyone reads the six sandarbhas the six or seven sandarbas of Jīva goswami is so systematically presented the Kṛṣṇa conscious philosophy from every angle of vision that any open-minded philosopher in the world would have to be convinced about the Kṛṣṇa cognitive validity of the Kṛṣṇa conscious philosophy but it's very very stiff kind of elevated philosophical treatise so I'm very hopeful that Acaryadev will benedict us after he finishes the Western philosophers he'll go to the greatest philosopher who appeared in the in the in the in the sampradāya after Lord Chaitanya Jīva Goswami’s works in the six sandarbas but whether Jīva goswami or Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī & the other Goswami's their intention was always to expand the movement of Caitanya mahāprabhu so if we want to be able to preach, then we need the blessings of guru and Vaishnava and Kṛṣṇa in this way then we can be empowered to take up and to actually present Kṛṣṇa consciousness in an effective manner we should always be dependent upon the mercy of these great acharyas—we should never think ourselves to be an island unto ourselves and that simply by our own intellect we're going to be able to answer questions and to preach but we should always be humble and dependent on the mercy of the spiritual master, the Vaishnavas and the Lord and by their blessings everything can be achieved which would ordinarily be impossible.

Jai śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

May Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī he have his blessings upon us so that we may be empowered to preach the message of Caitanya mahāprabhu as was handed down to us the disciplic succession by His divine grace Abhaya caraṇa bhakti Vedānta Swami Prabhupāda.

Hari bol.

 

Any other questions?

(In audible: 41.06-12)

His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami: Well they weren't all gopīs but Śrīla Prabhupāda mention that at least three of them are but there's different no these different opinions that have to look at the [Not Clear - 00:41.32] that of deepika what they present some opinion are the three are three were souls who appeared just to so to assist Lord Caitanya but they come from a position the material world [Not Clear - 00: 41:53].

Rūpa Mañjarī is the ninth Gopī others may not be gopīs but assistant to the gopīs some of them assistant mañjarīs it's the first hundred and eight gopīs and then there's others mañjarīs to assistant gopīs and then there's assistants to the assistant to the mañjarīs. [Not Clear - 00:42:26] yes, getting a weapon or something like that that's some special benediction but anyway those are for the Ksatriyas, for the brāhmaṇas they're always with initiation and the brāhmaṇas aren't engaged in warfare like Kṣatriyas, they're engaged in preaching and in instructing and establishing God consciousness in the world and primarily in the Kṛṣṇa conscious movement we are teaching Brahminical culture of course there are some Kṣatriyaswho are also training up to defend the devotees and everything but you'd have to discuss with those Kṣatriyastheir special feature and everything.

Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jai