20210308 Gadādhara Paṇḍita Recites Bhāgavatam for Lord Caitanya and Accompanies Him to the Devotee’s Houses

The following is a Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on March 8th, 2021 in Śrī Dhāma 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!

Continuation of the Compilation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya book, today’s chapter entitled:

Gadādhara Paṇḍita Recites Bhāgavatam for Lord Caitanya and Accompanies Him to the Devotees' Houses 
Under the section transcendental Pastimes Lord Caitanya’s associates in Nilācala

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.211

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya, On the shore of the ocean a most secluded place, performed kīrtana with great joy.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.212

tāṇḍava-paṇḍita prabhu nija-prema-rase
karena tāṇḍava bhakta-gaṇa sukhe bhāse

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya, who was an expert in wild dancing, danced wildly in the mellows of His own ecstatic love, and the devotees danced wildly, floating in an ocean of spiritual happiness.

Purport: The word tāṇḍava means “dancing” or “vigorous dancing.”

In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.16.26) it is stated:

“Thus Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the original master of all fine arts, began to dance, His lotus feet deeply reddened by the touch of the numerous jewels upon the serpent's heads.”

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.213

romaharṣa, aśru, kampa, huṅkāra, garjana
sveda, bahuvidha-varṇa haya kṣaṇe kṣaṇa

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya’s hairs stood on end and He cried intensely and His body was quivering and He was shouting loudly and roaring. He was perspiring and various colours were shown by the Lord from moment to moment.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.214

yata bhakti-vikāra—sakala ekebāre
paripūrṇa haya āsi' prabhura śarīre

Jayapatākā Swami: All the transformations of devotional service appeared at one time completely Lord Caitanya's transcendental body. would simultaneously come and fully manifest Lord Caitanya's transcendental body.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.215

yata bhakti-vikāra—sabei murtimanta
sabei īśvara-kalāmahājñānavanta

Jayapatākā Swami: All the symptoms of devotion were all personified as the expansions of the Lord. They were all fully cognizant portions of the Lord's plenary portions.

Purport: The various characteristics of devotional service assumed their respective, fully cognizant forms and began to expand the Lord's service. In the material world the word vikāra indicates a state of distaste or abomination, but in reference to the devotional service of the Lord the vikāras of devotional service are not disrespectable. The concept of nondevotional vikāras, or the concept of vivarta, is condemnable according to Vedānta. The vikāras of devotional service are most wonderful and transcendental.

Jayapatākā Swami: The different manifestations of devotional ecstasy in the body of Lord Caitanya were all wonderful and transcendental and all devotees were extremely inspired by these manifestations of the Lord’s loving ecstasy.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.216

āpane īśvara nāce vaiṣṇava-āveśe
jāni' sabe niravadhi thāke prabhu-pāśe

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya danced in the mood of a Vaiṣṇava. Realizing this, all the personified ecstatic symptoms of devotional service constantly remained by the side of the Lord.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.217

ataeva tilārddha viccheda prema-sane
nāhika śrī-gaurasundarera kona kṣaṇe

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Śrī Gaurasundara therefore was never separated for even a moment from the feelings of ecstatic love.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.218

yata śakti īṣat līlāya kare prabhu
seha āra anye sambhāvanā nahe kabhu

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya What Lord Chaitanya exhibited in His spiritual pastimes was always divine potency and other persons could not exhibit even a small portion of that at any time.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.219

ihāte se tāna śakti asambhāvya naya
sarva vede īśvarera ei tattva kaya

Jayapatākā Swami: That is why His potencies are unfathomable. This is confirmed by all the Vedas., that the Supreme Lord has His unlimited potencies.

Purport: All varieties of contradictory potencies are present in the Supreme Lord, because He never lacks any potency. This is the opinion of all Vedic literatures regarding the Absolute Truth.

In the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (6.8) it is stated:

“The Supreme Lord has multipotencies, which act so perfectly that all consciousness, strength, and activity are being directed solely by His will.”

In the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (1.3) it is stated: 

“Those who meditate on the Supreme Personality of Godhead can see His confidential, divine power (cit-śakti).” In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.39.55) it is stated:

“Also in attendance were the Lord's principal internal potencies— Śrī, Puṣṭi, Gīr, Kānti, Kīrti, Tuṣṭi, Ilā, and Ūrjā as were His material potencies Vidyā, Avidyā, and Māyā, and His internal pleasure potency, Śakti.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the Lord is assisted by unlimited potencies of different natures. they do everything simply by the Lord’s desire.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.220

ye prema-prakāśe prabhu caitanya gosāñi
tāṅhā' bai ananta brahmāṇḍe āra nāi

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya Gosāi manifested pure love of Kṛṣṇa in an unfathomable way. No one else in all the unlimited universes cannot manifest Something like that.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.221

eteke ye śrī-caitanya prabhura upamā
tāṅhā'-bai āra dite nāhi kabhu sīmā

Jayapatākā Swami: For that reason, no one can compare Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu with anyone other than the Lord Himself. As His manifestation of love is beyond the limits of anyone else.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.222

sabe yāre śubha-dṛṣṭi karena āpane
se tāhāna śakti dare, tāṅra tattva jāne

Jayapatākā Swami: All those who had received His auspicious glance, for those on whom Lord Caitanya bestowed Personally His transcendental merciful glance is empowered by Him and can understand Him in truth.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.223

ataeva sarva-bhāve īśvara-śaraṇa
laile se bhakti haya, khaṇḍaye bandhana

Jayapatākā Swami: Therefore By taking complete shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that means the devotional service one receives, frees one from all material entanglement. So, Lord Caitanya’s ecstatic symptoms are not ordinary, no one else can perform such ecstatic loving symptoms. He does that as part of His unlimited spiritual nature, and so every pastime of the Lord has some particular mellow. In this pastime of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He has the transcendental mellow of pure love for Kṛṣṇa, in an incomparable, unlimited way.

Purport: By taking shelter of the Supreme Lord, living entities become completely liberated from the entanglement of material enjoyment.

In the Bhagavad-gītā (18.66) it is stated:

“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.”

See also Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (2.7.42).

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.224-225

ye prabhure aja-bhava-ādi īśa-gaṇe
pūrṇa haiyā o niravadhi bhāve mane
hena prabhu āpane sakala bhakta-saṅge
nṛtya kare āpanāra prema-yoga-raṅge

Jayapatākā Swami: That Supreme Personality of Godhead which Lord Brahma Lord Siva and other devas who were universal controllers, fully concentrate on the Lord constantly. That Supreme Personality of Godhead was Himself with all His devotees dancing and enjoying the transcendental devotional bhakti-yoga with great pleasure.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.226

se saba bhaktera pāye mora namaskāra
gauracandra saṅge yāṅra kīrtana-vihāra

Jayapatākā Swami: I offer my obeisances to all the devotees' lotus feet with whom Lord Gauracandra enjoyed His kīrtana pastimes.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.227

hena mate sindhu-tīre śrī-gaurasundara
sarva-rātri nṛtya kare ati manohara

Jayapatākā Swami: In this way Śrī Gaurasundara enchantingly danced throughout the night on the shore of the ocean. most enchantingly

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.228

niravadhi gadādhara thākena saṁhati
prabhu-gadādharera viccheda nāhi kati

Jayapatākā Swami: Gadādhara Prabhu constantly remained with the Lord. Lord Caitanya and Gadādhara prabhu were never separated any time.

Purport: The word kati means “even a little” or “ever.”

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.229

ki bhojane, ki śayane, kibā paryaṭane
gadādhara prabhure sevena anukṣaṇe

Jayapatākā Swami: Whether Lord Caitanya was eating or resting or roaming around Gadādhara Prabhu was constantly serving the Lord.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.230

gadādhara sammukhe paḍena bhagavata
śuni' prabhu hena prema-rase mahāmatta

Jayapatākā Swami: When Gadādhara Prabhu read the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam before Lord Caitanya, the Lord listening to this recital of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam would become completely intoxicated by the mellows of ecstatic love.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.231

gadādhara-vākye mātra prabhu sukhī haya
bhrame gadādhara-saṅge vaiṣṇava-ālaya

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya was always pleased hearing the words of Gadādhara Prabhu, and He would take Gadādhara Prabhu with Him to visit the residences of the Vaiṣṇavas.

Purport: Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita Gosvāmī would always remain with Mahāprabhu, and he would please Gaurasundara by chanting and dancing throughout the night on the shore of the ocean. Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita Prabhu would never live separate from the Lord. While eating, sleeping, or wandering around, Gadādhara Paṇḍita Prabhu always served the Lord. It was Gadādhara Paṇḍita who constantly recited Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam before Mahāprabhu. Śrī Gaurasundara would visit the residences of the Vaiṣṇavas with Gadādhara Paṇḍita Prabhu.

Jayapataka Swami: So Rādhārāṇī in Vrindavana, She was expressing one time She would like to come in a male form thus would be able to associate with Kṛṣṇa all the time. So, Gadādhara Prabhu is the incarnation of Rādhārāṇī in the male form, so He took advantage to be with the Lord and serve the Lord all the time.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 10.32

prabhu-samīpe gadādharera bhāgavata-pāṭha o prabhura premabhāva—
ei-mata prabhu priya gadādhara-saṅge
tāna mukhe bhāgavata śuni’ thāke raṅge

Jayapatākā Swami: In this way Lord Caitanya associated with His dear Gadādhara Prabhu and from His mouth He would hear the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and thus would spend His days in ecstasy.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 10.33

gadādhara paḍena sammukhe bhagavata
śuniñā prakāśe prabhu prema-bhāva yata

Jayapatākā Swami: Whenever Gadādhara Prabhu would read the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, in front of the Lord, listening, Lord Caitanya would manifest various symptoms of ecstatic love. So, we see how Lord Caitanya, He was constantly in this ecstatic love of Krsna and Gadādhara Prabhu was facilitating that by reading the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 10.34

prahlāda caritra o dhruvera caritra punaḥ/ punaḥ samanoyoge śravaṇa—
prahlāda-caritra āra dhruvera caritra
śatāvṛtti kariyāśunena sāvahita

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya would hear the characteristics of Prahlāda Mahārāja and hear the glories of Dhruva Mahārāja hundreds of times, and He would attentively hear these pastimes.

Purport: The characteristics of Prahlāda are described in the Seventh Canto of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and the characteristics of Dhruva are described in the Fourth Canto of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita Gosvāmī was the speaker of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and Śrī Gaurasundara was the listener. He attentively heard topics of Prahlāda and Dhruva’s cultivation of devotional service from the mouth of Śrī Gadādhara hundreds of times.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, we can understand that these topics never grow old, one can listen again and again and again. Lord Caitanya listened hundreds of times. Some of our devotees haven’t heard these pastimes even once. If they read the book Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam two or three times or even one time they are very proud. Here we see how Lord Caitanya would listen again and again hundreds of times. So, we are hoping devotees will develop the taste and hear the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam again and again. Hare Kṛṣṇa

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 10.35

āra kārye prabhura nāhika avasara
nāma-guṇa balena śunena nirantara

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya had no time for any other activity, for He was engaged in hearing he name and qualities of the Lord Kṛṣṇa constantly.

Purport: Hearing and chanting the names and qualities of Kṛṣṇa and His devotees constantly. Rather than speaking about any other topic, Śrī Gaurasundara always glorified topics regarding the Supreme Lord’s names, forms, qualities, and pastimes as if He had one hundred mouths. He had no time to pay any attention to any subject other than Kṛṣṇa’s names, forms, qualities, associates, characteristics, and pastimes.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, this how one can be in the transcendental world even while living in this material world. So, we can see how Lord Caitanya was constantly absorbed in the service of Kṛṣṇa

Caitanya-Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 10.36

svarūpa-dāmodarera ucca-kīrtana-śravaṇe mūrtimanta sāttvika vikārera sahita prabhura nṛtya o bhāvāveśa—
bhāgavata-pāṭhe gadādhara mahāśaya
dāmodara-svarūpera kīrtana viṣaya

Jayapatākā Swami: So Gadādhara Prabhu He was expert in the readind, reciting of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Similarly Svarūpa Dāmodara was expert in performing kīrtana.

Purport:  Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita was most expert in explaining Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The four objectives of life—religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation—ultimately become the goal of those who study and teach Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to accumulate food, cloth, family maintenance, and other insignificant fruits. But Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita’s recitation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Śrīman Mahāprabhu’s hearing and chanting of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam were not aimed at attaining these four objectives of life.

Śrī Dāmodara Svarūpa was always engaged in glorifying the topics of Hari. He had no engagement other than glorifying the qualities of Hari. Śrī Dāmodara Svarūpa was the topmost authority on the conclusions regarding devotional service. He would always engage in pure kṛṣṇa-kīrtana without becoming influenced by other’s opinions, persistent requests, or mixed doctrines. The Māyāvādīs’ desire for liberation and the attached householders’ desire for sense gratification did not induce Śrī Dāmodara Svarūpa to indulge in associating with outsiders. He exclusively gave pleasure to Śrī Gaurasundara’s heart.

Thus, ends the chapter entitled, Gadādhara Paṇḍita Recites Bhāgavatam for Lord Caitanya and Accompanies Him to the Devotee’s Houses. 
Under the section transcendental Pastimes Lord Caitanya’s associates in Nilācala

Jayapatākā Swami: So, this section was totally from the Caitanya-bhāgavata. so this normally the devotees don’t have this opportunity. We can see that Lord Caitanya’s transcendental pastimes of dancing in kīrtana and hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was something unique to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as a devotee. That He was manifesting this prema in such a way that no one else could ever think, what to speak of doing such a wonderful thing. So, Lord Caitanya’s mercy if it falls on anyone they can be fully absorbed in love of Kṛṣṇa.

Hare Kṛṣṇa!