20181216 The Beginning of Mahāprabhu’s Manifestations

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book work 16^th December 2018 in Chennai, India by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja. Reading from Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa 1.374-391.

Under the section: The Beginning of Mahāprabhu’s Manifestations

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mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-gurun dina tāriṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram

Harihi oṁ tat sat

Jayapatākā Swami: So last night we did a check whether we should do compilation of Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book or question-and-answer session. There was a partial vote for each one. So 15 minutes we will talk on the Caitanya Book and another 15-20 minutes’ questions-and-answers. Today we are starting a bit late. We had some special guest here from Bombay. Today we did not have physical therapy with the professional. But we did the morning exercises, in sets of 36. Each exercise is one mantra. So 36 sets means ten rounds. We did have voice therapy. Around 11.30 – 12. We practiced different kinds of sentences with different concentrations. So some going up, some going down, some we said loudly. So once a week we have the Dean of voice therapy, Head of the Department. As a senior person, we are grateful that Dr. Prakash is coming here. One of his students Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa comes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Tuesday and Sunday, Dr. Prakash comes. Also, today we received the 10^th, 11^th and 12^th cantos of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in Kannada, the state language of Karnataka. We are very grateful to the BBT and the devotees who worked incessantly and published these last three cantos. Prabhupāda wanted his followers to finish his work of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. He did the summary study of the 10^th canto as the Kṛṣṇa Book. But the 11^th and 12^th cantos were to be done fresh. So that was done by a group of his disciples and grand disciples in English and that was translated into Kannada by the BBT of Karnataka. So today was an eventful day. So now we will start.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.374

chātragaṇake nija nigūḍha gopībhāva-jñāpana

prabhu bale,—“bhāi saba! kahilā susatya
āmāra e-saba kathāanyatra akathya

Translation: The Lord said, “My dear brothers, whatever you have said is true. But do not tell anyone what I have said.

Commentary: The phrase anyatra akathya means “it is improper to disclose to anyone else.”

Jayapatākā Swami: The Lord said, listen My dear brothers, whatever you have said is true but do not tell anyone my discussions. Keep that to yourselves.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.375-376

sarvatra prabhura kṛṣṇa-darśana—

kṛṣṇa-varṇa eka śiśu muralī bājāya
sabe dekhi,—tāi bhāi! bali sarvathāya

yata śuni śravaṇe, sakala—kṛṣṇa-nāma
sakala bhuvana dekhi govindera dhāma

Translation: “O brothers, I speak in this way because all I see is a blackish complexioned child playing on His flute. I hear only the name of Kṛṣṇa, and I behold the entire world as the abode of Govinda.

Commentary: Śrī Gaurasundara is saying, “I am always seeing a blackish complexioned young boy attracting everyone with the sound of His flute. Since I constantly see Him only, I always chant His name and sing His glories. The sound vibration that enters your ears is simply the names of Kṛṣṇa; and the material world, the field of enjoyment, that you are presently seeing around you is not actually a place for your enjoyment, rather it is Vaikuṇṭha-Goloka, the place of Kṛṣṇa’s enjoyment.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Oh brothers, I speak in this way because I see that one blackish complexioned boy who plays on His flute, that is all I see.

All I hear is the name of Lord Kṛṣṇa. I see the entire world as Govinda’s dhāma, and the goal of Lord Govinda.

So what Gaurasundara is saying: “I am always seeing the blackish complexioned young boy, attracting everyone with the sound of His flute. Since I constantly see Him I always chant His name and sing His glories. The sound vibrations which enters your ears is simply the names of Kṛṣṇa and the particular word. The field of enjoyment that we have presently been around You is not actually a place for your enjoyment, rather it is Vaikuntha, Goloka, a place of Kṛṣṇa’s enjoyment.”

Lord Caitanya He was seeing how Navadvīpa dhāma the whole world as a place for Kṛṣṇa’s enjoyment. Everything belongs to Lord Kṛṣṇa and we are thinking this is me, my body and I am this body, and this world is meant for my enjoyment. I was giving a tour to the BBC Travel person and I was saying something like how people are all trying to get sense gratification and he replied, oh that doesn’t sound so bad - sense gratification, that’s what I want!

So people in the material world want to gratify their senses. Thus they are never satisfied because they are not the body. So just like if you pull up at the petrol station and the attendant wanted to give you petrol in your mouth you will say, no, no, I don’t want. Then where do you want the petrol in? In the car. We are spirit souls have our own separate food, the vehicle has its own diesel or petrol. So these things Lord Nimāi Paṇḍita has realized. That this world is meant for Govinda’s seva. Not for our enjoyment. So this realization is the basic realization that human beings should have.

TEXT 377

paravidyā-śāstrānuśīlane phala ‘kṛṣṇa-darśana’-hetu jaḍa-vidyā-pāṭhevirati o vidāya-yāṅkṣā—

tomā sabā sthāne mora ei parihāra
āji haite āra pāṭha nāhika āmāra

Translation: “I humbly apologize to all of you. From today on I will not continue with studies.

Commentary: The word parihāra means “to promise,” “to swear,” “to accept,” “to advertise,” “to appeal,” “to request,” “to pray,” “to submit,” or “to speak with humility.”

Jayapatākā Swami: I humbly apologize to all of you. From today I will not teach or study any more. In a very humble, apologetic way He said to all the students, to you all, I apologize, from today, I will not continue my lectures or studies any more.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.378

chātragaṇake anya adhyāpaka-samīpe adhyayanārtha anujñā-dāna—

tomā sabākāra—yāṅra sthāne citta laya
tāṅra sthāne paḍa’—āmi dilāṅa nirbhaya

Translation: “I am giving you permission to study with whomever you like without fear.

Jayapatākā Swami: All of you have My permission to study at that place wherever you like. Study with that person, I give you permission and you can study without fear.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.379

prabhu-kartṛka svīya citte kṛṣṇetaraśabdera sphurti-rāhitya-jñāpana—

kṛṣṇa-vinu āra vākya nā sphure āmāra
satya āmi kahilāṅa citta āpanāra”

Translation: “No word other than Kṛṣṇa manifests to Me. This is the true state of My mind.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Other than Kṛṣṇa no other word manifests in Me. I am telling the truth. The true state of My mind.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.380

prabhura grantha-bandhana—

ei bola mahāprabhu sabāre kahiyā
dilena puṅthite ḍora aśru-yukta haiyā

Translation: After speaking in this way, Mahāprabhu, with tears in His eyes, tied up His books.

Commentary: The phrase dilena ḍora indicates that the Lord tied His books with ropes or string.

Jayapatākā Swami: After saying this Mahāprabhu told everyone, He tied up His books with tears in His eyes.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.381

śiṣyagaṇera prabhuke anusaraṇa o prabhuvirahāśaṅkāya krandana evaṁ prabhura adhyāpanā-mahimā-praśaṁsā—

śiṣya-gaṇa balena kariyā namaskāra
“āmarā o karilāṅa saṅkalpa tomāra

Translation: The Lord’s students offered obeisances and said, “We also make the same resolution as You.

Commentary: The second line of this verse means “following Your footsteps, we are also retiring from studies.”

Jayapatākā Swami: The Lord’s students offering obeisances said, we make the same resolution as You do. So following Nimāi Paṇḍita’s footsteps the students said they also were retiring from studies.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.382

tomāra sthāne ye paḍilāṅa āmi-saba
āna-sthāne kariba ki grantha-anubhava?”

Translation: “Now that we have studied under You, what can we learn from anyone else?”

Commentary: The phrase grantha-anubhava refers to the purport, true meaning, substance, essence, intention, or purpose of the scriptures.

Jayapatākā Swami: Now that we have studied under You, all of us, what can we learn at other places from anyone else? What understanding of the scriptures can we get from anyone else?

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.383

gurura viccheda-duḥkha sarva-śiṣya-gaṇa
kahite lāgilā sabe kariyā krandana

Translation: Being afflicted with separation from their teacher, all the students wept and began to speak as follows.

Jayapatākā Swami: All the disciples, students, were in separation from their guru, teacher and in great sadness they spoke, they wept and spoke as follows.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.384

“tomāra mukhete yata śuniluṅ vyākhyāna
janme-janme hṛdaye rahuka sei dhyāna

Translation: “May the explanations that we have heard from You remain in our hearts, birth after birth.

Jayapatākā Swami: What we have heard from Your mouth, with those explanations, stay in our hearts birth after birth. We will remain meditating on Your teachings.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.385

śiṣyagaṇerao grantha-bandhana, krandana o prabhura āśīrvāda—

kār sthāne giyā āra kibā paḍibāṅa?
sei bhāla,—tomā haite yata jānilāṅa”

Translation: “Whom can we approach, and what can we study? We are quite satisfied with whatever we have learned from You.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Who can be approached and what can we study? We are satisfied whatever we have learnt from You.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.386

eta bali’ prabhure kariyā hāta-joḍa
pustake dilena saba śiṣya-gaṇa ḍora

Translation: After speaking in this way, all the students offered respects to the Lord with folded hands and then tied up their books with cords.

Jayapatākā Swami: Saying those words, the students went to the Lord and offered obeisances with their folded hands. They tied up all their books with cords.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.387

‘hari’ bali’ śiṣya-gaṇa karilena dhvani
sabā kole kariyā kāndena dvija-maṇi

Translation: The students loudly chanted ’Hari, Hari.’ Then the crest jewel of the twice-born began to cry as He embraced everyone.

Jayapatākā Swami: All the students began to chant Hari Hari! HARI HARI! HARIII HARIIII! And the sun arose! The Lord embraced everyone and the Crown Jewel of the twice born began to cry, embracing everyone.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.388

śiṣya-gaṇa krandana karena adhomukhe

ḍubilena śiṣya-gaṇa parānanda-sukhe

Translation: The students cried with their heads down, and they all merged in the ocean of transcendental bliss.

Jayapatākā Swami: Then the students cried with their heads down, they merged in an ocean of transcendental bliss.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.389

ruddha-kaṇṭha hailena sarva-śiṣya-gaṇa
āśīrvāda kare prabhu śrī-śacīnandana

Translation: The voices of all the students became choked. Then the Lord, Śrī Śacīnandana, blessed them all.

Jayapatākā Swami: With a choked throat all the students became overwhelmed. Lord Śrī Śacīnanandana blessed them all.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.390

chātragaṇake ‘abhīṣṭa siddha haūka’ baliyā āśīrvāda—

“divas eko āmi yadi hai kṛṣṇa-dāsa
tabe siddha hau tomā sabāra abhilāṣa

Translation: “If I have been the servant of Kṛṣṇa for even one day, then may all of your desires be fulfilled.

Jayapatākā Swami: If I have been the servant of Kṛṣṇa maybe one day, your desires will be fulfilled. Then all your desires will be fulfilled.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.391

śiṣyagaṇake vṛthā pāṭha tyāgapūrvaka nirantara kṛṣṇera śaraṇāgata haiyā nāma-śravaṇa-kīrtanārtha upadeśa—

tomarāsakale laha kṛṣṇera śaraṇa
kṛṣṇa-nāme pürṇa hau sabāra vadana

Translation: “All of you take shelter at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, and may your mouths be filled with the names of Kṛṣṇa.

Jayapatākā Swami: All of you take shelter of Kṛṣṇa. May all of your mouths be filled with the sound and names of Kṛṣṇa.

So I wanted to stop at 9 but these pastimes of Lord Caitanya are very absorbing. How these students of Nimāi Paṇḍita were declared by Vṛndāvanadāsa Ṭhākura as eternal associates of Lord Caitanya. He said, what else can they be? They are so fortunate; they saw Lord Caitanya in His ecstasy of love of Kṛṣṇa. They are bathing with him in the Ganges and having so many different pastimes. So they are really fortunate.