20141108 The Advent of Lord Viśvarūpa

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book work 08th November 2014 in New Delhi, India

By His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Guru Mahārāja

Under the section: The Advent of Lord Viśvarūpa

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Jayapatākā Swami: Read the Caitanya-caritāmṛta and Viśvarūpa and was in eighth [00:34 to 00:37 - Not clear]

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: Okay! This is Viśvarūpa’s birth.

Jayapatākā Swami: You read.

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: I will read only translations from Caitanya-caritāmṛta pertaining to Viśvarūpa’s birth.

Jayapatākā Swami: You did not read the [not audible - 1:05]

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: I just read. Actually, I read it out already to you.

[Reads only translations from text 72 to 79 – skipped purports]

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi līlā 13.72

jagannāthamiśra-patnī śacīra udare
aṣṭa kanyā krame haila, janmi’ janmi’ mare

Translation: Before the birth of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, eight daughters took birth one after another from the womb of Śacīmātā, the wife of Jagannātha Miśra. But just after their birth, they all died.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi līlā 13.73

apatya-virahe miśrera duḥkhī haila mana
putra lāgi’ ārādhila viṣṇura caraṇa

Translation: Jagannātha Miśra was very unhappy at the death of his children one after another. Therefore, desiring a son, he worshiped the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi līlā 13.74

tabe putra janamilā ‘viśvarūpa’ nāma
mahā-guṇavān teṅha — ‘baladeva’-dhāma

Translation: After this, Jagannātha Miśra got a son of the name Viśvarūpa, who was most powerful and highly qualified because He was an incarnation of Baladeva.

Purport: Viśvarūpa was the elder brother of Gaurahari, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. When arrangements were being made for the marriage of Viśvarūpa, He took sannyāsa and left home. He took the sannyāsa name of Śaṅkarāraṇya. In 1431 Śakābda Era (A.D. 1509), He disappeared in Pāṇḍarapura, in the district of Sholapur. As an incarnation of Saṅkarṣaṇa, He is both the ingredient and immediate cause of the creation of this material world. He is nondifferent from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for the aṁśa and the aṁśī, or the part and the whole, are not different. As an incarnation of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Viśvarūpa belongs to the quadruple manifestation of catur-vyūha. In the Gaura-candrodaya it is said that Viśvarūpa, after His so-called demise, remained mixed within Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi līlā 13.75

baladeva-prakāśa — parama-vyome ‘saṅkarṣaṇa’
teṅha — viśvera upādāna-nimitta-kāraṇa

Translation: The expansion of Baladeva known as Saṅkarṣaṇa in the spiritual world is the ingredient and immediate cause of this material cosmic manifestation.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi līlā 13.76

tāṅhā ba-i viśve kichu nāhi dekhi āra
ataeva ‘viśvarūpa’ nāma ye tāṅhāra

Translation: The gigantic universal form is called the Viśvarūpa incarnation of Mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa. Thus, we do not find anything within this cosmic manifestation except the Lord Himself.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi līlā 13.77

naitac citraṁ bhagavati
hy anante jagad-īśvare
otaṁ protam idaṁ yasmin
tantuṣv aṅga yathā paṭaḥ

Translation: “As the threads in a cloth spread both lengthwise and breadthwise, so the Supreme Personality of Godhead exists directly and indirectly within everything we see in this cosmic manifestation. This is not very wonderful for Him.”

Purport: This is a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.15.35).

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi līlā 13.78

ataeva prabhu tāṅre bale, ‘baḍa bhāi’
kṛṣṇa, balarāma dui — caitanya, nitāi

Translation: Because Mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa is the ingredient and efficient cause of the cosmic manifestation, He is present in every detail of it. Lord Caitanya therefore called Him His elder brother. The two brothers are known as Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma in the spiritual world, but at the present moment they are Caitanya and Nitāi. Therefore, the conclusion is that Nityānanda Prabhu is the original Saṅkarṣaṇa, Baladeva.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi līlā 13.79

putra pāñā dampati hailā ānandita mana
viśeṣe sevana kare govinda-caraṇa

Translation: The husband and wife [Jagannātha Miśra and Śacīmātā], having gotten Viśvarūpa as their son, were very pleased within their minds. Because of their pleasure, they specifically began to serve the lotus feet of Govinda.

Purport: There is a common saying in India that everyone goes to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead when he is in distress, but when a person is in an opulent position, he forgets God. In the Bhagavad-gītā (7.16) this is confirmed:

catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ
janāḥ sukṛtino ’rjuna
ārto jijñāsur arthārthī
jñānī ca bharatarṣabha

“If backed by pious activities in the past, four kinds of men — namely those who are distressed, those in need of money, those searching after knowledge and those who are inquisitive — become interested in devotional service.” The husband and wife, Jagannātha Miśra and Śacīmātā, were very unhappy because their eight daughters had passed away. Now, when they got Viśvarūpa as their son, certainly they became extremely happy. They knew that it was by the grace of the Lord that they were endowed with such happiness and opulence. Therefore instead of forgetting the Lord, they became more and more adherent in rendering service to the lotus feet of Govinda. When a common man becomes opulent, he forgets God; but the more opulent a devotee becomes by the grace of the Lord, the more he becomes attached to the service of the Lord.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, are you read and then close it?

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: Yes! Guru Mahārāja.

Jayapatākā Swami: So now it is from Caitanya-caritāmṛta and I am referring to purport. And a nice thing was that, normally there is a saying that, when you’re in trouble you go to God but when you get out of trouble you forget God. This is only true for people who are not devotees. While the pure devotee they all believe it’s true. When Śacīmātā and Jagannātha Miśra became grace (great?) to Viśvarūpa as their son, they took it as the mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa upon them. So, they became more devotionally faithful and active. And all their actives were very pleased that Kṛṣṇa has blessed them this way.

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: Okay.

Jayapatākā Swami: So Śacīmātā and Jagannātha Miśra were so happy to get Viśvarūpa as their child and they took it as their great great fortune. And they saw that He was so attractive that He also was more attractive than cupid, He could even attract cupid.

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: Just one more verse which is about [not clear- 5:42]

Jayapatākā Swami: Viśvarūpa from His childhood He was, from His birth, He was, completely detached of any enchantment not connected to Kṛṣṇa’s service. And He became astute in discussing and understanding the scriptures from His very childhood.

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: All scriptures

Jayapatākā Swami: All scriptures from His very childhood.

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: Okay!

Jayapatākā Swami: Like Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura’s what comments in it?

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: What comments he had made? I will read out the comments.

Jayapatākā Swami: Clear, clear and more exacting sense.

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: yes!

Jayapatākā Swami: Okay.

Vidvān Gaurāṅga Dāsa: Okay, fine.