20201002 Lord Caitanya Reaches the House of Advaita Ācārya (Part 2)

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation By His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on 2nd October 2020 in Śrīdhāma Māyāpur, India

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram

Hariḥ oṁ tat sat!

Introduction: Continuation of yesterday’s part:

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.31

advaitera darśane prabhura sandeha o jijñāsā :—

āge ācārya āsi’ rahilā namaskāra kari’
ācārya dekhi’ bale prabhu mane saṁśaya kari’

Translation: When Advaita Ācārya arrived, He stood before the Lord and offered His obeisances. After seeing Him, the Lord began to wonder about the entire situation.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.50

Bhagavān: (quickly opening His eyes) Is this the noble Advaita Ācārya?

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.51

Nityānanda: Lord, it is so.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.52

Bhagavān: (firmly embracing Him) Tell me: How did You know I was here in this place? How did You follow Me and reach Vṛndāvana? Or else, is this my dream?

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.32

tumi ta’ ācārya-gosāñi, ethā kene āilā
āmi vṛndāvane, tumi ke-mate jānilā

Translation: Still in His ecstasy, the Lord asked Advaita Ācārya, “Why did You come here? How did You know that I was in Vṛndāvana?”

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.33

advaitera saralabhāve uttara dāna:—

ācārya kahe — tumi yāhāṅ, sei vṛndāvana
mora bhāgye gaṅgā-tīre tomāra āgamana

Translation: Advaita Ācārya disclosed the whole situation, telling Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, “Wherever You are, that is Vṛndāvana. Now it is My great fortune that You have come to the bank of the Ganges.”

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.53

Advaita: (with tears, to Himself) ah, the Lord believes this is Vṛndāvana. (openly) Lord, this is not your dream, but indeed I am the foolish Advaita. (He enacts stumbling (and falling down to offer danḍavat)).

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.54

Lord Caitanya: (Shedding tears, He embraces Advaita with both arms lifts Him up) It is so. Dear Advaita, You are the same Vṛndāvana because of being contact with Lord lotus feet. Now, tell Me where did I arrive?

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya in His ecstasy He wants to know where He is. In this situation the Lord is going along the site of Yamunā and He is thinking that in His ecstasy He is going to Vṛndāvana. Actually Vṛndāvana is over a thousand kilometers away, it will take many days to reach there but in His ecstasy He is thinking that He is in Vṛndāvana, then He is asking where did I arrive actually?

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.55

Advaita: This is Goddess Gaṅgā. On her other bank is my home.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.56

Lord Caitanya: (Enacting external consciousness) Śrīpāda, You told Me, “She is Yamunā”.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.57

Nityānanda: Only the Lord knows if Yamunā is not in her (water).

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.58

Bhagavān: I have simply acted in the drama by Śrīpāda Nityānanda.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.34

advaitera nikaṭa nitāira cāturya-kathana :—

prabhu kahe, — nityānanda āmāre vañcilā
gaṅgāke āniyā more yamunā kahilā

Translation: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then said, “Nityānanda has cheated Me. He has brought Me to the bank of the Ganges and told Me that it was the Yamunā.”

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.35

advaitakarttṛka nitāi vākya samarthana o satyatva-pratipādana —

ācārya kahe, mithyā nahe śrīpāda-vacana
yamunāte snāna tumi karilā ekhana

Translation: When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accused Nityānanda of cheating Him, Śrīla Advaita Ācārya said, “Whatever Nityānanda Prabhu has told You is not false. You have indeed just now taken Your bath in the river Yamunā.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Advaita Ācārya is saying that the Lord He bathed in Yamunā.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.36

gaṅgāya yamunā vahe hañā eka-dhāra
paścime yamunā vahe, pūrve gaṅgā-dhāra

Translation: Advaita Ācārya then explained that at that spot the Ganges and Yamunā flow together. On the western side was the Yamunā, and on the eastern side was the Ganges.

Purport: The Ganges and Yamunā mix at the confluence at Allahabad (Prayāga). The Yamunā flows from the western side and the Ganges from the eastern, and they merge. Since Caitanya Mahāprabhu bathed on the western side, He actually took His bath in the river Yamunā.

Jayapatākā Swami: So here the secret is revealed that how the Yamunā enters the southern side of Prayāga which is the western side of Śāntipura and the Ganges enters the northern side of Prayāga that’s is the eastern side of Śāntipur. Śrīla Prabhupāda lived in Allahabad for many years so He knew all these intimate details.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.59

Advaita: “Our life-breath cannot depart although tortured by separation from Him because of being tightly bound by the rope of hope of attaining the Lord and kind, amiable qualities He displayed towards us devotees. Ah! (Previously holding the life air was unbearable due to being separated from the Lord, but) At present, these life airs have benefitted us in seeing the Lord’s face. Though unfavorable, due to fate, suddenly it has become favorable.”)

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.60

Nityānanda: Dear Advaita, I have been punished (daṇḍa) ever since He has accepted daṇḍa (sannyāsa staff) by being deprived of food. But the Lord is satisfied by enjoying His own happiness. Enough with this loftiness (amplification) on the occasion of a conversation here.

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Nityānanda is saying that He has not eaten for three days. Since the Lord took sannyasa, He is ecstatic in His own love for Kṛṣṇa He is not in the consciousness of His body. But Nityānanda is saying that, “I have been punished, I am hungry!”

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.37

advaitera prabhuke nava kaupīna-dāna o nimantraṇa :—

paścima-dhāre yamunā vahe, tāhāṅ kaile snāna
ārdra kaupīna chāḍi’ śuṣka kara paridhāna

Translation: Advaita Ācārya then suggested that since Caitanya Mahāprabhu had taken His bath in the river Yamunā and His underwear was now wet, the Lord should change His underwear for dry garments.

Jayapatākā Swami: How expert Advaita Ācārya is, and He is thinking of Lord’s benefit and bringing dry kaupīna. So like this He showing the ideal mood of a servitor.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.38

premāveśe tina dina ācha upavāsa
āji mora ghare bhikṣā, cala mora vāsa

Translation: Advaita Ācārya said, “You have been fasting continuously for three days in Your ecstasy of love for Kṛṣṇa. I therefore invite You to My home, where You may kindly take Your alms. Come with Me to My residence.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Now that Lord Caitanya is a sannyāsī, He has to take His alms in the house of brāhmaṇa-gṛhasthas. So Advaita Ācārya is inviting Him to please come to His house and take prasāda.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.39

pāche prabhu asvīkāra karena, ei bhaye nijagṛhe bhikṣāra sāmānyabhāve varṇana—

eka-muṣṭi anna muñi kariyāchoṅ pāka
śukhārukhā vyañjana kailuṅ, sūpa āra śāka

Translation: Advaita Prabhu continued, “At My home I have just cooked one palmful of rice. The vegetables are always very simple. There is no luxurious cooking —simply a little— liquid vegetable and spinach.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So He knows Lord Caitanya’s mood of sannyāsa that He wants very simple prasāda. So, He is presenting like that but actually in His house He has cooked a feast for Lord Caitanya.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.61

Advaita: (Taking a fresh kaupīna and outer garment from an associate's hand, He bathes the Lord again, gives Him the new garments, and then says in a pitiful voice:) Now I am dressing the Lord with the garments of a sannyāsī who was previously dressed as suitable to the Gods. Even though You have the same pleasing face as that of Lakṣmī (just as when you were dressed with fine cloths despite your being clad in kaupīna) still it pains our eyes.

Jayapatākā Swami: The devotees in Navadvīpa find it very painful to see the Lord as sannyāsī. Why should He do austerities? Here are suitable for conditioned soul. But He being transcendental he doesn’t need to do any austerity. They like to see the Lord with his hair cloth and enacting His saṅkīrtana pastimes.

Translation: O Lord, My home is not very far away. Please decorate it with Your feet.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.62

Lord Caitanya: For this Śrīpāda Nityānanda tricked Me.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.63

Advaita Ācārya: Lord, no one can trick You. But, although You are the independent Supreme Personality of Godhead, by Your own māyā, You seem to be of various natures, similar to the crystal-stone that reflects whatever is nearby. Oh! What a wonder it is. Some of us say that such activities of the Lord in this world are factually almost like the pleasing activities of a child.

Jayapatākā Swami: The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya are wonderful. Although He is the Supreme Lord He come manifesting the mood of a devotee while teaching what pure love of Kṛṣṇa is by His own example.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.64

By these two ways you are not cheated. Because Lord Nityānanda is known as Śrīpāda, He is not at fault for taking You here. ‘śrī’ is ‘goddess of fortune’ and ‘śrīpa’ is Kṛṣṇa, who protects the goddess of fortune, and ‘āda’ means ‘he who takes or offers’. Because Nityānanda is known as ‘Śrīpāda’, He has done that by offering You (Gaurāṅga is Kṛṣṇa) to us. Lord, please come and accept Your first alms at My home.

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya is expressing that He feels cheated by Śrīpāda Nityānanda, but Advaita gives an example how the Śrīpāda can be divided up that means an appropriate thing that He had given Lord Caitanya to His devotees. These are all reminding the pastimes of Vṛndāvana.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.65

Bhagavān: As it pleases You. Show the path.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 5.66

Advaita: This way. This way. (He places Him on a boat).

Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.40

prabhuke śāntipure svagṛhe ānayana o abhyarthanā –

eta bali’ naukāya caḍāñā nila nija-ghara
pāda-prakṣālana kaila ānanda-antara

Translation: Saying this, Śrī Advaita Ācārya took the Lord into the boat and brought the Lord to His residence. There Advaita Ācārya washed the feet of the Lord and was consequently very happy within.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 1.213

śiśu acyutānanda—

digambara śiśu-rūpa advaita-tanaya
nāma `śrī-acyutānanda' mahā-jyotir-maya

Jayapatākā Swami: Śrī Acyutānanda, the son of Advaita, was there as a naked child and He was a greatly effulgent.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 1.214

parama sarva-jña tiṅho acintya-prabhāva
yogya advaitera putra sei mahābhāga

Jayapatākā Swami: He was transcendentally all-knowing, and His glories were inconceivable. He was most fortunate, being the qualified son of Lord Advaita Ācārya.

Purport (by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura): In the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad (1.1.9) it is stated: “He who is all-knowing, from whom the potency of all knowledge comes — He is the wisest of all.” In the Kūrma Purāṇa it is stated: “He is sarva-jña because He has realized knowledge of everything, and He is sarva because He contains everything.”

Jayapatākā Swami: This is indicating that since Lord Advaita is a Viṣṇu-tattva, he is all-knowing and thus his qualified son may have this transcendental opulence.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 1.215

dhūlā-maya sarva aṅga, hāsite hāsite
jāniyā āilā prabhu-caraṇa dekhite

Jayapatākā Swami: Dust covering His body smiling and knowing that the Lord had come there He arrived to see the Lord’s lotus feet.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 1.216

śiśu acyutānandera gaurapadatale luṇṭhana o prabhura acyutake kroḍe sthāpana—

āsiyā paḍilā gauracandra-pada-tale
dhūlāra sahita prabhu lailena kole

Jayapatākā Swami: He came and fell at the lotus feet of Gauracandra, and the Lord took the dust-covered child on His lap.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 1.217

prabhu bale,—“acyuta, ācārya mora
pitāse sambandhe tomāya āmāya dui-bhrātā”

Jayapatākā Swami: The Lord Caitanya said, “O Acyuta, Advaita Ācārya is My father by relationship. Seeing that relations, you and I are two brothers.”

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 1.218

bālaka acyutera mukhe siddhānta-kathā—

acyuta balena,—“tumi daive jīva-sakhāsa
bākāra bāpa tumi ei vede lekhā”

Jayapatākā Swami: Acyutānanda replied, “By Your sweet will You become the well-wisher and friend of all living entities, the Vedas declare that You are the father of all.”

Purport (by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura): When Śrī Gaurasundara visited the house of Śrī Advaita in Śāntipura in 1431 Śakābda (A.D. 1509), Acyutānanda was a five-year-old child. Śrī Acyutānanda probably took birth in 1426 Śakābda (A.D. 1504). This child said to Mahāprabhu, “You are the friend of all living entities. The Vedic scriptures, however, have established that You are the source of everything.” In this way, Śrī Acyutānanda established Śrī Caitanya as the object of the two Vedic statements: [The Taittirīya Upaniṣad (3.1.1) declares: “The Supreme Absolute Truth is that from which everything is born.]. In both the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad (3.1.1) and in the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (4.6) it is stated: “Two companion birds sit together in the shelter of the same pippala tree. One of them is relishing the taste of the tree's berries, while the other refrains from eating and instead watches over His friend.” Also in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (6.4.24) it is stated: “As the sense objects [form, taste, touch, smell, and sound] cannot understand how the senses perceive them, so the conditioned soul, although residing in his body along with the Supersoul, cannot understand how the supreme spiritual person, the master of the material creation, directs his senses. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that Supreme Person, who is the supreme controller.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So Acyutānanda even as a five-year-old child, He understood the actual position of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 1.219

hāse prabhu bhakta-gaṇa acyuta-vacane
vismaya sabāra baḍa upajila mane

Jayapatākā Swami: The Lord Caitanya and the devotees smiled on Acyutānanda’s words. They all were struck with wonder struck with wonder in their mind.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 1.220

“e sakala kathā ta' śiśura kabhu naya
nā jāni vā janmiyāche kon mahāśaya!”

Jayapatākā Swami: “A small child cannot speak such things. Who can know what great personality has taken birth as this child!” So Acyutānanda was a small child he had a special mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu he was accepted as His brother and He put him on his lap. All glories to Acyutānanda. Haribol!

Thus Ends the Chapter, Lord Caitanya Reaches the House of Advaita Ācārya