20160727 Caitanya Book

20160727 Caitanya Book

Mukam karoti vacalam

Pangum langhyate girim

Yat kripa tamaham vande sri gurum dina tarinam

Paramananda madhavan

Sri Chaitanya ishvaram

Hari om tat sat

So we are reading the Sri Krishna Caitanya book. He will read the verse in Benali and I will translate in English. Is there any Bengali translator?

(Original Text)

The Lord said, “You have a great wealth and secret and you are enjoying it privately but we will soon reveal it and then how will you cheat us anymore?

(Original Text)

To see the Lord in his disclosure to Sridhar that you are already very rich and you are very happy in your Krishna consciousness and there is no need for you to display external enjoyment or external mundane wealth. Therefore you don’t consider that external poverty as real poverty.

“What I want is to be engaged in the transcendental service of the Lord who is fully in possession of the six opulence’s, he cannot have any weakness or scarcity at all. After some time I will reveal to the human society the ignorance of their position and the glories of the vaisnavas. That the vaisnavas are the sole proprietors of all wealth. It will no longer remain a secret, the vaisnavas are situated on the topmost platform, and they are the proprietor of everything including all opulence’s. I will soon disclose this to all the foolish, ignorant people of the world.”

So the materialists who are attached to sense gratification and are greedy for mundane advancement cannot measure the supremacy and the expertise of the vaisnavas with their own limited, broken yardstick. That’s why they are completely cheated although receiving the vaisnava’s mercy and understanding the absolute truth.

Since the value of their qualification is so meagre the vaisnavas conceal their real identities from them.

Pundarik Vidyanidhi, he concealed his position by wealth. Some conceal their position by poverty but actually no one can understand the vaisnava except another vaisnava.

A vaisnava has spontaneous devotion for the Lord.

(Original Text)

So Sridhar, he said, “O Nimai Pandit, please go home. It’s not good that we argue.”

The Lord, Nimai, he externally accepted the doctrine of the materialist in worshipping the external energy of the Lord and whoever opposed to the path of devotional service followed by Sridhar, the Lord to actually display the real greatness of Sridhar, he took the position as an ordinary person who had a difference of opinion.

So in this way he was indirectly showing the real form of vaisnavism.

Some modern materialist said that whoever dies with the most toys wins. So he wanted all the toys to be… his own stereos and cars and all these things and he said that these are his toys and if he has two minutes more, he accumulated more toys he wins.

So this hedonistic attempt by the materialistic to enjoy actually causes them great misery and suffering whereas the vaisnavas have unlimited spiritual happiness and they enjoy unadulterated happiness. So Lord Nimai was showing the real form of pure vaisnava dharma on the pretext of his questions and answers.

(Original Text)

The Lord said, “I am not going to leave you so easily. First tell me what you are going to give me?”

So Sridhar and Lord Nimai, first they exchanged pastimes giving and taking. The Lord is trying to accept the portion of Sridhar’s confidential, internal  and ordinary external wealth.

(Original Text)

Sridhar said, “I maintain myself by selling banana products, my banana cups. So considering this what can I give you? Please tell me gosai.

Lord Nimai, he also displayed himself as a poverty stricken brahman and he was taking some charity from poverty stricken man like Sridhar for the purpose of benefitting him. By them doing a service to them, they were being rewarded in various levels. So Sridhar said, “According to your own calculations whatever wealth I have is not sufficient for me, therefore I cannot give charity like a wealthy person. What can I give you?”

The fruitive workers who are maddened in this material world are busy enjoying the fruits of their respective activities. They donate a portion of their wealth and become famous as charitable persons where there is no possibility of achieving such fame for a poor penniless person like me.

(Original Text)

The Lord said, “Well ! let your hidden treasure hidden for now. I will take that later. For now give me some bananas, some banana flowers and banana stocks, banana stock centres, give me free of charge, I won’t argue with you anymore in this visit.

So the Lord told Sridhar, “I don’t want any of your spiritual wealth now, I will just some of your external wealth, I will accept spiritual service of you after some time. For now I leave my needs with your service as a sadhaka, as a spiritual master, I am the worship able object of sadhana bhakti. So for now I will accept a portion of your ordinary wealth as an offering.

(Original Text)

So Narada Muni in his Narada Sutra, he told that by practicing sadhana bhakti you can attain the highest position of prema bhakti.

“Some materialists, they think that they need to follow all the rules of the niti sastra, of the moral codes and by this as long as we have the human body we don’t need to do anything else and there is no need to practice devotional service because the absolute truth is not the product of this material world, nor perceivable by the sense, rather the absolute truth is just the opposite.

Therefore, as long as we are alive we will remain fruitive workers, enjoying the karma. Service to the supreme Lord is not our occupation. We will think about this in the next life or after death.”

But they do not know that the material objects are diametrically incompatible with each other.

Every object has inherent in it the mood of enjoyment the object of worship. No one should count the object of worship or his service attitude in the same level, as those with the pure service attitude, bhakti.

One thinks that the worship of Krishna is the object of enjoyment and totally disgusting. The worshipper is self-realized and his perception of the worship able object is purified and the ingredients he offers in worship are also purified.

In this regard people who are taking the pastime of Lord Caitanya and trying to enjoy them as objects of the senses are enjoyed are called Gauranga Nagaris. Rather we want to serve the Lord and satisfy him. By that we become satisfied.

So the process of pure devotion is totally different from the process of sense gratification.

Unalloyed devotional service is far beyond material enjoyment and renunciation.

Some mundanists, think that everything in this world which is visible is unfit for the service for the Lord. So we have to enjoy it. Since it can’t be used in the service of the Lord we have to enjoy it. (laughter)

“Oh, this is not good for Krishna. So I will take it.”

The other alternative is that they see the object of the senses as being material and so they give them up. Be renounce, and they say that will give them pure bhakti.

But all these things are in relation to the material enjoyment and not in relation to serving Krishna.

Lord Gaur Sundar says, “Everything can be seen in relation to Krishna. If we are attached to Krishna and we offer him nice food, nice cloth, nice temple, chant his holy names, we have Krishna conscious children, we do all the things which are there in material life but we do it for Krishna and if one is a brahmachari they do everything in the service of Krishna, they always keep busy worshipping Krishna’s senses

So if one renounces an object thinking of it as material but it can be used in the service of Krishna, that’s also misusing his renunciation.

The purpose of renunciation is to is to give up attachment from matter and engage the mind in the service of the supreme Lord.

(Original Text) 

Sridhar thought, “this brahman is very aggressive. I am afraid that he may beat me one day.”

(Original Text)

So if this brahman beats me what can I do? Even without payment I will give him…at the same time I cannot give him without any price.

(Original Text)

However, whatever this brahman takes by force to deceive that is my good fortune. So I will continue to give him everyday.

Sridhar thought that this brahman is very arrogant and if I don’t give him what he wants according to his will he may even beat me. I am personally poor and unable meet the expenses of my food and cloth. Therefore it is impossible for me to give everything and anything free of charge. Nevertheless, a Brahmana is the representative of the supreme Lord. If I can help him without duplicity in any way then there is a possibility of awakening my good fortune. For this reason whatever he will take away from me by force or trickery I have no objection. I will be prepared to give him everyday if it is by the exhibition of force or trickery, this Brahmana is benefited by me in anyway, then I will consider it the result of my good fortune.

By this pastimes, Sri Gaura Sundar and his devotee, Sridhar set an example for living entities who desire their own benefit to earn unknown piety although the smartas who are expert in worldly morality will consider the activities of both as unsatisfactory and apparently contradictory.

The living entity who is self-realized, can understand that such exchanges are the source of unlimited auspiciousness.

Great personalities who desire the welfare of other living entities, give fallen souls the opportunity to earn unlimited piety.

It is to be understood that this use of trickery or force is only for the benefit of others. In other words for the benefit of the fallen souls.

So thinking in this way, Sridhar said, “Listen Gosai, Don’t worry about money.”

Transcribed by: Sadananda Krishnaprem Das

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