20160719 Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.32

catur-dike veḍiyā vaisena śiṣya-gaṇa
madhye śāstra vākhānena śrī-śacīnandana

Jayapatākā Swami: In all four directions sat the disciples, in the middle was Śacīnandana giving his explanations of the scriptures.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.33

vaiṣṇava-sakale tabe sandhyā-kla haile
āsiyā vaisena gaṅgā-tīre kutuhale

Jayapatākā Swami: All the Vaisnavas at the time of the sunset they came and sat by the side of the Ganges in a very blissful attitude.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.34

dūre thāki’ prabhura vyākhyāna sabhe śune
hariṣe viṣāda sabhe bhāve’ mane mane

Jayapatākā Swami: The Vaisnavas were sitting at some distance, but they could all hear the explanations of Nimāi Paṇḍita. They were all thinking to themselves, simultaneously feeling bliss and also feeling lamentation. So they were thinking to themselves.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.35

keha bole,—“hena rūpa, hena vidyā yā’ra
nā bhajile kṛṣṇa, nahe kichu upakāra”

Jayapatākā Swami: Someone said, such a beautiful form, what scholarship, what knowledge he has! But without worshipping Kṛṣṇa there is no benefit.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.36

sabei bolena, “bhāi, uhāne dekhiyā

phāṅki-jijñāsāra bhaye yāi palāiyā”

Jayapatākā Swami: Everyone said, “Brother, look over there, he has some shrewd question and out of fear everyone runs away.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.37

keha bole,—“dekhā haile nā dena eḍiyā

mahādānī-prāya yena rākhena dhariyā

Jayapatākā Swami: Someone else said, “If he sees you he won’t let you escape like an influential tax collector. He will hold you physically there.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.38

keha bole,—“brāhmaṇera śakti amānuṣī

kona mahāpuruṣa vā haya—hena vāsi

Jayapatākā Swami: Someone else said, “that brāhmaṇa’s potency is inhuman. He is some great soul or something and he is just coming to manifest his own pastimes.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.39

yadyapiha nirantara vākhānena phāṅki!

tathāpi santoṣa baḍa pāṅa iṅhā dekhi’

Jayapatākā Swami: Although he is constantly asking shrewd questions even then people were very satisfied just to see him.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.40

manuṣyera emana pāṇḍitya dekhi nāi

kṛṣṇa nā bhajena,—sabe ei duḥkha pāi”

Jayapatākā Swami: I don’t see anyone with such knowledge and scholarship amongst all the humans but he doesn’t worship Kṛṣṇa he is giving everyone great sadness.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.41

anyo ‘nye sabei sādhena sabā’ prati

“sabhe bala,—’ihāna hauka kṛṣṇe rati’”

Jayapatākā Swami: To each other, everyone they said, “Please bless Him that He may be having spontaneous love for Kṛṣṇa.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.42

daṇḍavat hai’ sabhe paḍilā gaṅgāre

sarva bhāgavata meli’ āśīrvāda kare

Jayapatākā Swami: They paid their prostate obeisances to the Ganges falling like a stick and all the devotees together gave their blessings to Lord Kṛṣṇa.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.43

“hena kara kṛṣṇa—jagannāthera nandana

to’ra rase matta hau, chāḍi’ anya-mana

Jayapatākā Swami: Their blessing was, “Please Kṛṣṇa make him the son of Jagannath, make him mad after your transcendental mellows that he leaves other thoughts.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.44

niravadhi prema-bhāve bhajuka tomāre

hena, saṅga kṛṣṇa, deha’ āmā’ sabākāre”

Jayapatākā Swami: Let him constantly in the mood of pure love worship Yourself. Give us that association. Please give us all that transcendental association.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.45

antaryāmī prabhu,—citta jānena sabāra
śrīvāsādi dekhilei kare’ namaskāra

Jayapatākā Swami: So Lord Caitanya from whom the Ksirodaksayi Visnu or the supersoul in all the living entities is manifest, he can tell what each is thinking inside themselves. So such souls like Srivas and others, when he will meet them he will offer his obeisances.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.46

bhakta āśīrvāda prabhu śire kari’ laya

bhakta-āśīrvāde se kṛṣṇete bhakti haya

Jayapatākā Swami: What’s amazing is that although he is Kṛṣṇa himself, he takes the blessings of his devotees on his head because the blessings of the devotee are the source of kṛṣṇa-bhakti.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.47

keha keha sākṣāte o prabhu dekhi’ bole

“ki kārye goṅāo kāla tumi vidyā-bhole?”

Jayapatākā Swami: Some people would directly tell the Lord, “Why are you endeavoring so hard with this mundane scholarship, what will you gain by this pursuit of knowledge?”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.48

keha bole,—“hera dekha, nimāñi-paṇḍita!

vidyāya ki lābha?—kṛṣṇa bhajaha tvarita

Jayapatākā Swami: Someone else said, “Please see Nimāi Paṇḍita, what is the profit of this mundane knowledge. Immediately worship Kṛṣṇa, that is the only valuable thing.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.49

paḍe kene loka?—kṛṣṇa-bhakti jānibāre

se yadi nahila, tabe vidyāya ki kare?”

Jayapatākā Swami: The goal of life is to worship Lord Kṛṣṇa, to know about the science of kṛṣṇa-bhakti, if you don’t know that then what is the use of this mundane knowledge?

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.50

hāsi’ bole prabhu,—“baḍa bhāgya se āmāra

tomarā śikhāo more kṛṣṇa-bhakti sāra

Jayapatākā Swami: So the Lord laughing He would say, “big good fortune for me, that you are teaching me about kṛṣṇa-bhakti - the essence.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.51

tumi saba yā’ra kara śubhānusandhāna

mora citte hena laya, sei bhāgyavān

Jayapatākā Swami: You are all endeavoring to find the auspicious goal of life. Please be my consciousness be attracted, then I will be very fortunate.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.52

kata-dina paḍāiyā, mora citte āche

calimu bujhiyā bhāla vaiṣṇavera kāche”

Jayapatākā Swami: So the Lord said, “Ah! for some days I will study and teach, my consciousness tells me I will go when I am so inclined and seek out some good Vaisnava association.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.53

eta bali’ hāse’ prabhu sevakera sane

prabhura māyāya keha prabhure nā cine

Jayapatākā Swami: So saying this the Lord laughed with his servants.
By the Lord’s illusory potency  no one could understand who the Lord was.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.54

ei-mata ṭhākura sabāra citta hare’

hena nāhi, ye jane apekṣā nāhi kare

Jayapatākā Swami: In this way the Lord He stole away everyone’s consciousness. He didn’t delay for anyone, He did whatever he wanted to do.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.55

ei-mata kṣaṇe prabhu vaise gaṅgā-tīre

kakhana bhramena prati nagare nagare

Jayapatākā Swami: So in this way he will sit down of the Ganges for some time and then He will wander around the town and Navadvīpa from neighborhood to neighborhood.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.56

prabhu dekhilei mātra nagariyā-gaṇa

parama ādara kari’ vandena caraṇa

Jayapatākā Swami: People of the city of Navadvīpa would see the Lord. As soon as they saw the Lord, they would great affection offer their offenses to His lotus feet.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.57

nārī-gaṇa dekhi’ bole,—“ei ta’ madana

strī-loke pāuka janme janme hena dhana”

Jayapatākā Swami: The ladies when they saw they Lord they said, “this is cupid, may the ladies of the world they receive such husbands birth after birth and get this inconceivable wealth.”

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.58

paṇḍite dekhaye bṛhaspatira samāna

vṛddha-ādi pāda-padme karaye praṇāma

Jayapatākā Swami: Seeing his knowledge and scholarship (His pāṇḍitya) as equal to that of Bṛhaspati, the guru of the devas, even the elders and old people would pay their obeisance’s to his lotus feet.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.59

yogi-gaṇe dekhe,—yena siddha-kalevara

duṣṭa-gaṇe dekhe,—yena mahā-bhayaṅkara

Jayapatākā Swami: The yogīs would see the Lord and think, “He has a form that is filled with mystic powers, the miscreants would see the Lord and feel that Oh! He is mahā-bhayaṅkara, a great object of fear.”

So Śrī Gaura Sundara was so beautiful, extraordinarily beautiful and all the ladies were overwhelmed seeing his unmatched form. The yogīs saw Him as a perfected being and the jñānīs saw him as being equal to Bṛhaspati and the ill-behaved sinful people saw him as a great chastiser as the Yamarāja. Everyone saw Him in His own way. This shows us how Kṛṣṇa also when he went into the arena of Mathurā, He was seen by different people in different ways. So as Lord Caitanya would wander throughout the town He was seen by different people in their own perspective.

Śrī Caitanya-Bhāgavata, Ādi 12.60

divas-eko yā’re prabhu karena santoṣa

bandi-prāya haya yena, pare’ prema-phāṅsa

Jayapatākā Swami: Those who had satisfied the Lord they became bound by his ropes of prema or pure love.

This is verse 60 of the Caitanya-Bhāgavata.

So we will stop here. I was thinking that since Lord Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa, he didn’t reject the blessings of the devotees to be a devotee. So please bless me that I can be a devotee for love for Kṛṣṇa.

Devotee: Guru Mahārāja please bless us.

Haribol! (by everyone)