20211126 Lord Kṛṣṇa Manifests a Form Just Suitable for His Pastimes in the Material World

The following is a class given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on November 26th 2021 in Śrī Dhāma Māyāpur, India. The Class was About Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Līlā.

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

Hariḥ oṁ tat sat!

Hare Kṛṣṇa! Dear Devotees! Today is the compilation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya līlā book, the chapter today is entitled:

Lord Kṛṣṇa Manifests a Form Just Suitable for His Pastimes in the Material World
Under the section: The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.90

(d) kṛṣṇera tad-rūpa-vaibhava-dhāmagata 4rtha (gṛḍha) artha:—

‘tryadhīśvara’-śabdera artha ‘gūḍha’ āra haya
‘tri’-śabde kṛṣṇera tina loka kaya

Translation: There is a very deep meaning in the word ‘try-adhīśvara,’ which indicates that Kṛṣṇa possesses three different lokas, or natures.

Purport: The word try-adhīśvara means proprietor of the three worlds.” There are three worlds, and Kṛṣṇa is the supreme proprietor of them all.

Jayapatākā Swami: This is explained by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā (5.29):

bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram
suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati

A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries.”

The word sarva-loka means all three worlds,” and the word maheśvara means the supreme proprietor.” Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor of both the material and the spiritual world. The spiritual world is divided into two portions — Goloka Vṛndāvana and the Vaikuṇṭhas. The material world is a combination of universes unlimited in number.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, by the three worlds it means Devī-dhāma, material world including unlimited universes, Hari-dhāma, Vaikuṇṭha dhāma which is part of the spiritual world and Goloka dhāma which is Kṛṣṇa's own abode.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.91

kṛṣṇera dhāmatraya:-

golokākhya gokula, mathurā, dvārāvatī
ei tina loke kṛṣṇera sahaje nitya-sthiti

Translation: The three lokas are Gokula (Goloka), Mathurā and Dvārakā. Kṛṣṇa lives eternally in these three places.

Purport: Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments that in the Goloka planet there are three divisions: Gokula, Mathurā and Dvārakā. In His incarnation as Gaurasundara, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Lord conducts His pastimes in three areas: Navadvīpa, Jagannātha Purī (and South India) and Vraja-maṇḍala (the area of Vṛndāvana-dhāma).

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Caitanya stayed in Navadvīpa for the first twenty-four years and then He went to Jagannātha Purī, from there He travelled to South India and to Vṛndāvana dhāma. He spent six years in travelling and 18 years in Jagannātha Purī. Here they include Jagannātha Purī and south India together and they put Vṛndāvana as separate although Vṛndāvana includes going alongside the side of Ganges to Prayāga, to Benares, to Patliputra to Kānāi Nāṭaśālā and to Koladvīpa and Śāntipura and back to Jagannātha Purī.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.92

svayaṁ kṛṣṇai dhāmatrayera samrāṭ:—

antaraṅga-pūrṇaiśvarya-pūrṇa tina dhāma
tinera adhīśvara—kṛṣṇa svayaṁ bhagavān

Translation: These three places are full of internal potencies, and Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is their sole proprietor.

Jayapatākā Swami: Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is the proprietor of all, the two, spiritual worlds and the material world.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.93-94

ananta vaikuṇṭha, brahmāṇḍa o diksamūhera adhipatigaṇera vandita-caraṇa kṛṣṇa:—

pūrva-ukta brahmāṇḍera yata dik-pāla ananta vaikuṇṭhāvaraṇa, cira-loka-pāla
tāṅ-sabāra mukuṭa kṛṣṇa-pāda-pīṭha-āge daṇḍavat-kāle tāra maṇi pīṭhe lāge

Translation: As previously mentioned, the jewels on the helmets of all the predominating deities of all the universes and Vaikuṇṭha planets touched the throne and the lotus feet of the Lord when those deities all offered obeisances.

Jayapatākā Swami: Kṛṣṇa is the source of all the portions of spiritual and material worlds and all the leaders of the different universes and different planets in the spiritual world offer their respects and obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.95

maṇi-pīṭhe ṭhekāṭheki, uṭhe jhanjhani
pīṭhera stuti kare mukuṭa—hena anumāni

Translation: When the gems on the helmets of all the predominating deities collided before the throne and the Lord’s lotus feet, there was a jingling sound, which seemed like prayers offered by the helmets at Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, this is a poetic analogy, how the different deities, the Brahmās etc., offer their obeisances to Kṛṣṇa and their helmets and bangles made a very beautiful jingling sound.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.96

svārājya-lakṣmīra artha:—

nija-cic-chakte kṛṣṇa nitya virājamāna
cic-chakti-sampattira ‘ṣaḍ-aiśvarya’ nāma

Translation: Kṛṣṇa is thus situated eternally in His spiritual potency, and the opulence of that spiritual potency is called ṣaḍ-aiśvarya, indicating six kinds of opulences.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa is known as Yogendra, He is the Lord of all transcendental potencies.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.97

tini—kṛṣṇa-sevikā:—

sei svārājya-lakṣmī kare nitya pūrṇa kāma
ataeva vede kahe ‘svayaṁ bhagavān’

Translation: Because He possesses the spiritual potencies, which fulfill all His desires, Kṛṣṇa is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the Vedic version.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa's potencies are fully dedicated for satisfying Kṛṣṇa's desires.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.98

kṛṣṇaiśvarya—agādha amṛta-sindhu:—

kṛṣṇera aiśvarya—apāra amṛtera sindhu
avagāhite nāri, tāra chuilaṅ eka bindu

Translation: The unlimited potencies of Kṛṣṇa are just like an ocean of nectar. Since one cannot bathe within that ocean, I have only touched a drop of it.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja is just mentioning a little bit of the unlimited opulences of Kṛṣṇa. Actually Kṛṣṇa has so many opulences it is not possible to enumerate.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.99

aiśvarya-mādhurī varṇana karite giyā prabhura kṛṣṇa-vigraha-mādhurī-sphūrtti:—

aiśvarya kahite prabhura kṛṣṇa-sphūrti haila
mādhurye majila mana, eka śloka paḍila

Translation: When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was describing the opulences and spiritual potencies of Kṛṣṇa in this way, there was an awakening of love of Kṛṣṇa within Him. His mind became immersed in the sweetness of conjugal love, and He quoted the following verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Caitanya He was experiencing love of Kṛṣṇa by discussing the glories and sweetness of Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.100

yan martya-līlaupayikaṁ sva-yoga-māyā-balaṁ darśayatā gṛhītam
vismāpanaṁ svasya ca saubhagardheḥ paraṁ padaṁ bhūṣaṇa-bhūṣaṇāṅgam

Translation: ‘To exhibit the strength of His own spiritual potency, Lord Kṛṣṇa manifested a form just suitable for His pastimes in the material world. This form was wonderful even for Him and was the supreme abode of the wealth of good fortune. Its limbs were so beautiful that they increased the beauty of the ornaments worn on different parts of His body.’

Purport: This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.2.12) is stated in a conversation between Vidura and Uddhava. Uddhava thus begins his description of the pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa in His form exhibited by yogamāyā.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa's forms is adapted to what His pastimes would be. When He is a friend, he is the best friend and when He is a child, He is the most wonderful child to His parents. When He is lover, husband, His body is like that beautiful and attractive.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.101

dvibhuja cirakiśora muralīdhara-vigraha:— [yathā rāgaḥ]

kṛṣṇera yateka khelā, sarvottama nara-līlā, nara-vapu tāhāra svarūpa nara-vapu tāhāra svarūpa gopa-veśa, veṇu-kara, nava-kiśora, naṭa-vara, nara-līlāra haya anurūpa

Translation: Lord Kṛṣṇa has many pastimes, of which His pastimes as a human being are the best. His form as a human being is the supreme transcendental form. In this form He is a cowherd boy. He carries a flute in His hand, and His youth is new. He is also an expert dancer. All this is just suitable for His pastimes as a human being.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, this gives some of the natural opulences and abilities of Lord Kṛṣṇa, why His devotees are so much attracted to Him.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.102

kṛṣṇe śrī-vigraha-mādhurī-varṇana; kṛṣṇa-rūpa—sarva-sattvākarṣaka:—

kṛṣṇera madhura rūpa, śuna, sanātana ye rūpera eka kaṇa, ḍubāya saba tribhuvana, sarva prāṇī kare ākarṣaṇa

Translation: My dear Sanātana, the sweet, attractive transcendental form of Kṛṣṇa is so nice. Just try to understand it. Even a fractional understanding of Kṛṣṇa’s beauty can merge all three worlds in the ocean of love. He attracts all living entities within the three worlds.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, His beauty is inconceivable, He has all-beauty and He is the most attractive, that’s why His name is Kṛṣṇa or all-attractive or reservoir of pleasure. When He plays His flute, the yogis in the mountains who are meditating they feel such separation from Kṛṣṇa that they start to hit their heads against the rock, they want to be with Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.103

nitya-līlā-prakaṭane yogamāyāra prabhāva-pradarśana:—

yogamāyā cic-chakti, viśuddha-sattva-pariṇati, tāra śakti loke dekhāite ei rūpa-ratana, bhakta-gaṇera gūḍha-dhana, prakaṭa kailā nitya-līlā haite

Translation: The transcendental form of Kṛṣṇa is shown to the world by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s internal, spiritual energy, which is a transformation of pure goodness. This jewellike form is the most confidential treasure of the devotees. This form is manifested from Kṛṣṇa’s eternal pastimes.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa's form in Vraja is so attractive that even Kṛṣṇa in Dvārakā sees this form He feels attractive so this form attracts everyone.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.104

nijarūpa-bhogārtha nijerai tīvra ākāṅakṣā:—

rūpa dekhi’ āpanāra, kṛṣṇera haila camatkāra,
āsvādite mane uṭhe kāma
‘sva-saubhāgya’ yāṅra nāma, saundaryādi-guṇa-grāma,
ei-rūpa nitya tāra dhāma

Translation: The wonderful form of Kṛṣṇa in His personal feature is so great that it attracts even Kṛṣṇa to taste His own association. Indeed, Kṛṣṇa becomes very eager to taste it. Total beauty, knowledge, wealth, strength, fame and renunciation are the six opulences of Kṛṣṇa. He is eternally situated in His opulences.

Purport: Kṛṣṇa has many pastimes, of which His pastimes in Goloka Vṛndāvana (the Gokula-līlā) are supreme. He also has pastimes in the Vaikuṇṭhas, the spiritual world, as Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. In His pastimes in the material sky, He lies down in the Causal Ocean as Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī, the Puruṣa-avatāra. His incarnations as a fish, tortoise and so on are called His causal incarnations. He incarnates in the modes of nature as Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and Lord Viṣṇu. He also incarnates as empowered living entities like Pṛthu and Vyāsa. The Supersoul is His localized incarnation, and His all-pervasive aspect is the impersonal Brahman.

When we consider impartially all the unlimited pastimes of the Lord, we find that His pastimes as a human being on this planet — wherein He sports as a cowherd boy with a flute in His hands and appears youthful and fresh like a ballet dancer — are pastimes and features that are never subjected to material laws and inebrieties. The wonderful beauty of Kṛṣṇa is presented in the supreme planet, Gokula (Goloka Vṛndāvana). Inferior to that is His representation in the spiritual sky, and inferior to that is His representation in the external energy (Devī-dhāma). A mere drop of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness can drown these three worlds — Goloka Vṛndāvana, Hari-dhāma (Vaikuṇṭhaloka) and Devī-dhāma (the material world). Everywhere, Kṛṣṇa’s beauty merges everyone in the ecstasy of transcendental bliss. Actually the activities of yogamāyā are absent in the spiritual sky and the Vaikuṇṭha planets. She simply works in the supreme planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, and she works to manifest the activities of Kṛṣṇa when He descends to the material universe to please His innumerable devotees within the material world. Thus a replica of the Goloka Vṛndāvana planet and the pastimes there is manifested on this planet on a specific tract of land — Bhauma Vṛndāvana, the Vṛndāvana-dhāma on this planet.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana are incomparable and He manifests a feature which is most sweet, Lord Caitanya was describing this to Sanātana Gosvāmī and is simultaneously being inspired by love of Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.105

golokera āśrayavarga viṣayera rūpe mugdha o ākṛṣṭa:—

bhūṣaṇera bhūṣaṇa aṅga, tāheṅ lalita tri-bhaṅga,
tāhāra upara bhrūdhanu-nartana
terache netrānta bāṇa, tāra dṛḍha sandhāna,
vindhe rādhā-gopī-gaṇa-mana

Translation: Ornaments caress that body, but the transcendental body of Kṛṣṇa is so beautiful that it beautifies the ornaments He wears. Therefore Kṛṣṇa’s body is said to be the ornament of ornaments. Enhancing the wonderful beauty of Kṛṣṇa is His three-curved style of standing. Above all these beautiful features, Kṛṣṇa’s eyes dance and move obliquely, acting like arrows to pierce the minds of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the gopīs. When the arrow succeeds in hitting its target, their minds become agitated.

Jayapatākā Swami: Kṛṣṇa manifests His pastimes in Vraja to attract the minds of His devotees especially Rādhārānī and the gopīs and in this way Kṛṣṇa has the Supreme sweetness and He plays on His flute and He is dancing and His wonderful devotees. He is so beautiful, that people wear ornaments to be beautified but He is the ornament of the ornaments.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.106

kṛṣṇarūpe paravyomera nārāyaṇa o lakṣmīgaṇao ākṛṣṭa:—

brahmāṇḍopari paravyoma, tāhāṅ ye svarūpa-gaṇa,
tāṅ-sabāra bale hare mana
pati-vratā-śiromaṇi, yāṅre kahe veda-vāṇī,
ākarṣaye sei lakṣmī-gaṇa

Translation: The beauty of Kṛṣṇa’s body is so attractive that it attracts not only the demigods and other living entities within this material world but the personalities of the spiritual sky as well, including the Nārāyaṇas, who are expansions of Kṛṣṇa’s personality. The minds of the Nārāyaṇas are thus attracted by the beauty of Kṛṣṇa’s body. In addition, the goddesses of fortune [Lakṣmīs], who are the wives of the Nārāyaṇas and are the women described in the Vedas as most chaste, are also attracted by the wonderful beauty of Kṛṣṇa.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, here are some practical examples of Lord Kṛṣṇa's wonderful beauty.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.107

rādhā-saṅge yadā bhāti, tadā madana-mohanaḥ”:—

caḍi’ gopī-manorathe, manmathera mana mathe, nāma dhare ’madana-mohana’ jini’ pañcaśara-darpa, svayaṁ nava-kandarpa, rāsa kare lañā gopī-gaṇa

Translation: Favoring the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa rides on the chariots of their minds, and just to receive loving service from them, He attracts their minds like Cupid. Therefore He is also called Madana-mohana, the attractor of Cupid. Cupid has five arrows, representing form, taste, smell, sound and touch. Kṛṣṇa is the owner of these five arrows, and with His Cupid-like beauty He conquers the minds of the gopīs, though they are very proud of their superexcellent beauty. Becoming a new Cupid, Kṛṣṇa attracts their minds and engages in the rāsa dance.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa's pastimes are most beautiful and His devotees are attracted to Kṛṣṇa out of pure love and want to please Kṛṣṇa and thus their love for Kṛṣṇa is unparalleled.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.108

kṛṣṇa-veṇu-mādhurī varṇana:—

nija-sama sakhā-saṅge, go-gaṇa-cāraṇa raṅge,
vṛndāvane svacchanda vihara yāṅra
veṇu-dhvani śuni’, sthāvara-jaṅgama prāṇī,
pulaka, kampa, aśru vahe dhāra

Translation: When Lord Kṛṣṇa wanders in the forest of Vṛndāvana with His friends on an equal level, there are innumerable cows grazing. This is another of the Lord’s blissful enjoyments. When He plays on His flute, all living entities — including trees, plants, animals and human beings — tremble and are saturated with jubilation. Tears flow constantly from their eyes.

Jayapatākā Swami: Kṛṣṇa's flute playing puts all living entities sthāvara and jaṅgama in ecstasy.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.109

kṛṣṇa-rūpa varṇana:—

muktā-hāra—baka-pāṅti, indra-dhanu-piñcha tati,
pītāmbara—vijurī-sañcāra
kṛṣṇa nava-jaladhara, jagat-śasya-upara,
variṣaye līlāmṛta-dhāra

Translation: Kṛṣṇa wears a pearl necklace that appears like a chain of white herons around His neck. The peacock feather in His hair appears like a rainbow, and His yellow garments appear like lightning in the sky. Kṛṣṇa appears like a newly risen cloud, and the gopīs appear like newly grown grains in the field. Constant rains of nectarean pastimes fall upon these newly grown grains, and it seems that the gopīs are receiving beams of life from Kṛṣṇa, exactly as grains receive life from the rains.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa in His ever-youthful form is enjoying the pastimes that enliven the gopīs. So Lord Caitanya is describing this to Sanātana Gosvāmī and He feels great spiritual bliss, He is enlivened by Love of Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.110

kṛṣṇa-mādhuryarūpa sarvotkṛṣṭa bhagavattā ekamātra bhāgavatei varṇita:—

mādhurya bhagavattā-sāra, vraje kaila paracāra,
tāhā śuka—vyāsera nandana
sthāne sthāne bhāgavate, varṇiyāche jānāite,
tāhā śuni’ māte bhakta-gaṇa

Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is full in all six opulences, including His attractive beauty, which engages Him in conjugal love with the gopīs. Such sweetness is the quintessence of His qualities. Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vyāsadeva, has described these pastimes of Kṛṣṇa throughout Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Hearing the descriptions, the devotees become mad with love of God.”

Jayapatākā Swami: How the Supreme Personality of Godhead makes Himself available to the loving devotees, is something that shows another aspect of the Supreme Person, that He exchanges pure love with His devotees in a very sweet way and through various moods and mellows are one can worship Kṛṣṇa, but the conjugal mellow included all the other mellows. So, this is fully manifested in Vṛndāvana dhāma.

Thus ends the chapter entitled, Lord Kṛṣṇa Manifests a Form Just Suitable for His Pastimes in the Material World
Under the section: The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa