20181120 Śrī Krishna Caitanya Book

Nama Om…

Mukham karoti vacalam..

Today is the sacred Dwadashi day. Yesterday was the Ekadasi. This is the second day of the Bhishma Panchaka. First day was lotus on the feet we offer and second day to His knees to thigh we offer. So every day we will offer worship to different parts of the Lord’s body. At noon we went to the Ganges and did tarpan, aargya and pranam to Bhishmadev. We are in Chennai so we are some distance from the Ganges. So we invoked the Ganges to come in a bowl of water, a large bowl, and we did our puja there. So like this hope you all are enjoying Bhishma Panchaka. I just finished offering the lamp to Lord Damodar and other deities. So today I had the physio at 8.45 and that went till about 10 o clock and they will come back tomorrow and also tomorrow I have voice therapy at 11. I am gradually recuperating my strength but it is a very gradual process. I used to be able to walk with one person steadying me but now I don’t have the strength to walk and so my physio said my legs need to be strengthened, my core, my spine needs to be straightened, so this therapy is going on. So I have a spirometer which I do several times a day, some exercises for the lungs. So that is my health report. 

Hope that everyone is taking the last days of Damodar month to invite people to offer lamps. So we continue with the compilation of the Caitanya Book. Lord Caitanya has gone to Gaya. He received initiation from Ishwara Puri, He went to Kanainaathshaala and had darshan of Krishna. Now He has returned to Navadvip completely changed. He is crying for Krishna. Now the devotees of Navadvip are being informed that Lord Caitanya has changed completely and Nimai Pandit is now a Maha Bhaagavat. So we continue from Caitanya Bhagavat, please read.

Hearing all these words, Gadaadhar prabhu went to the house of Shuklambhar Brahmachari very quickly. 

So let me hear what topics of Krishna He will relate, and he (Shuklambhar Brahmachari) stayed hidden in the house.

The companions of Lord Caitanya who were prema bhaktas or loving devotees met together at the house of Shuklambhar Brahmachari. So there was Sadashiva, Murari, Sriman Pandit and Shuklambhar Brahmachari himself. They all gathered together. 

At that time, Vishwambhar, king of the twice born, He came, He arrived there and met all the assembled vaishnavas. 

So all the devotees greeted the Lord with great happiness but the Lord He didn’t express any external vision. He did not manifest any external vision. 

As soon as the Lord saw the devotees, He started to recite shlokas which were glorifying the characteristics of devotional service. So the Lord seeing the enthusiasm of all the devotees, He was overwhelmed with love for Krishna. So He recited some auspicious verses, glorifying pure devotional service. So devotional service or bhakti means engaging all the senses in the service of the Lord who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Master of all the senses. So by one’s service reaching the Supreme Lord there are two effects: One is being freed from all material designations and one’s senses are purified. The Lord went on to say that by rendering transcendental service to the Supreme Lord Krishna, carefully and without any material desire without any material profit or gain, thru philosophical activities or mental speculation, that is called pure devotional service. Then He recited a verse spoken by Madhavendra Puri.

 Ayi Dina dayalanath hey

Mathuranaatha kadaa va lokya se

Hridayam tvad aloka katharam daite

Brahmyati kim karomi aham

So He is crying out to His merciful master, Master of Mathura, when I shall see You again? Because I am not seeing You My agitated heart has become unsteady. My most beloved one, WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? This verse indicates the mood of separation from the Lord. When Madhavendra Puri was reciting this verse, Ramachandra Puri criticized, why are you suffering? You should be on the transcendental level of Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti.  So when Madhavendra Puri feeling love for Krishna and separation from Krishna, the disciples started telling him about impersonal Brahman realization, he became so angry that he chased Ramachandra Puri off. This verse is first spoken by Radharani and Madhavendra Puri was saying in that mood and it is not material, it is fully spiritual. Ramachandra Puri was such that he would find fault with anybody. He would go invite and people would come to his house and he would criticize them, oh, you eat so much, you are a glutton, YOU ARE A GLUTTON!  What kind of spiritual life you are practicing? He was such a guy. He was trying to find fault with Lord Caitanya. Because he was the god brother of Lord Caitanya’s guru Lord Caitanya was respectful to him but he couldn’t see any fault in Lord Caitanya. Then he went to his house and there he saw some ants crossing across the floor! AH!  see He must be eating sweets, what kind of sanyasi are You? Eating sweets? Sometimes there are such people in devotional service. They like to criticize everybody and they are actually rejected by the guru.

I attained My Lord but oh, WHERE HAS HE GONE? WHICH WAY HAS HE GONE? Saying this holding a pillar He fell to the ground. So He was expressing, alas, I attained Krishna but He has left Me. So speaking this way the Lord tightly embraced the pillar of the house of Shuklambhar Brahmachari, out of love for Krishna. 

So the Lord’s embrace broke the house pillar. He cried out where is Krishna? WHERE IS KRISHNA? And He fell down and His hair was scattered everywhere. 

So as soon as the Lord fell to the ground, oh Krishna, ah Krishna, all the devotees, they also fell down to the ground. 

So inside the house Gadaadhar prabhu, He also fell unconscious. Who fell in one direction, nobody could ascertain. That means that some may have fallen on others but they were unaware of who they were falling on. They were overwhelmed by the love of Krishna. 

Being absorbed in the ecstatic mood of love for Krishna everyone fell unconscious. Finally, Jahnavi devi was amazed. Jahnavi devi is mother Ganges. So she was witnessing all this as Shuklambhar Brahmachari’s temple was near the Ganges. 

After sometime Vishwambhar Prabhu manifested His external consciousness. He started to cry very loudly and called out Krishna, Krishna, KRISHNA! Calling out the names of Krishna. 

Oh Krishna, Oh My lord, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE? Saying this again the Lord fell to the ground!

The son of mother Sachi cried loudly out of love of Krishna and all the devotees surrounding the Lord also cried loudly. 

Being in the ecstatic love of Krishna, the Lord again and again fell to the ground with great force. But He did not know, He did not feel anything, due to the ecstatic Krishna Prema. So being absorbed in pure love, the lord repeatedly fell to the ground but because of His absorption in love of Krishna, there was no resulting injury to His transcendental body. He did not feel any external happiness or distress. He was absorbed in His internal mood. 

So the kirtan chanting and the crying in ecstatic love combined to fill the house of Shuklambhar Brahmachari with love of Godhead. 

So we will end here. (1.95 is the next.) Hare Krishna!