20230114 Mutual Glorification By Lord Caitanya And Lord Nityānanda In Their Own Ecstatic Mood, Part 1

The following is a Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on January 14th,2023 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!

Hare Kṛṣṇa! Dear Devotees! Today we will continue with the compilation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book. Today's chapter is entitled as:

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.29

caitanya o nityānandera paraspara prema-sambhāṣaṇa—

dui-jana pradakṣiṇa kare duṅhākāre
duṅhe daṇḍavata hai’ paḍena duṅhāre

Jayapatākā Swami: The two Lords then circumambulated each other and the Two offered Their prostrated obeisances to each other.

Out of etiquette and out of natural love, They circumambulated each other and offered obeisances, prostrate. So this is to show a very loving respectful dealing.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.30

kṣaṇe dui prabhu kare prema-āliṅgana
kṣaṇe galā dhari’ kare ānanda-krandana

Jayapatākā Swami: One moment The Two Lords embraced each other in pure love, and at the next moment, They held the neck of each other and cried in transcendental bliss.

Both were experiencing great, spontaneous, loving emotions.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.31

kṣaṇe parānande gaḍi’ yāya dui jana
mahāmatta siṁha jini’ duṅhāra garjana

Jayapatākā Swami: In another moment the Lords in transcendental bliss rolled on the ground and then like maddened lions each of Them roared very loudly the Holy Name of Hari.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.32

ki adbhuta prīti se karena dui-jane
pūrve yena śuniyāchi śrī-rāma-lakṣmaṇe

Jayapatākā Swami: The wonderful loving exchange between the two Lords was like that previously heard as the loving exchange between Lord Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.

While Lord Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, They greeted each other with great love, similarly Lord Nityānanda and Lord Caitanya had exchanged Their loving sentiments in a similar way.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.33

dui jane śloka paḍi’ varṇena duṅhāre
duṅhārei duṅhe yoḍa-haste namaskare

Jayapatākā Swami: The Two Lords recited slokas, verses glorifying each other, They offered Their obeisances to each other with folded hands.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.34

aśru, kampa, hāsya, mūrcchā, pulaka, vaivarṇya
kṛṣṇa-bhakti-vikārera yata āche marma

Jayapatākā Swami: Shedding tears, shivering, laughing, losing consciousness, hairs standing on end, changing of bodily color, and other bodily transformations produced by devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa were fully manifest in those two Lords.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.35

ihā bai dui śrī-vigrahe āra nāi
sabe kare karāyena caitanya-gosāñi

Jayapatākā Swami: These transcendental symptoms were present only in the bodies of th tweo Lords. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally manifested such symptoms and also by His mercy Caitanya Gosāñi also manifested them in others.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.36

ki adbhuta prema-bhakti haila prakāśa
nayana bhariyā dekhe ye ekānta-dāsa

Jayapatākā Swami: Such wonderful, ecstatic devotional love was manifested, the unalloyed servant of the Lord whose eyes could be filled with ecstatic vision.

Purport: The phrase ekānta-dāsa, or unalloyed servants, refers to those who do not have and never will have separate interests. Many business-minded people with incomplete vision oppose the eternal master-servant relationship — their service is hardly unalloyed. Their deceitful display of opportunistic service is a manifestation of cheating, not of pure devotional service. Living entities averse to the service of the Lord exhibit samples of eternal service for as long as it suits their desires. But the moment their sense gratification is disturbed, they immediately give up service and begin to harass and rebel against their master by posing themselves as masters.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, when we first came to Calcutta in the early 1970’s, we went to one house. Suddenly the host started to enact a drama that Kṛṣṇa had come, “Kṛṣṇa You have come! You have come! But no one was impressed, one by one they left, no one was there except I was there. And since he had no audience he gave up his act. If Kṛṣṇa comes there, who cares who else is there? He was only performing a drama for the people. So there are all kinds of prākṛta sahajiyās and devotees with other purposes, and they like to show off ecstatic love. But Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda had displayed real symptoms.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.37

gauraharira nityānanda-stuti—

tabe kata-kṣaṇe prabhu yoḍa-hasta kari’
nityānanda-prati stuti kare gaurahari

Jayapatākā Swami: Then after some time Lord Gaurahari with folded hands, He offered prayers, praying to Lord Nityānanda, glorifying His transcendental glories.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.38

“nāma-rūpe tumi nityānanda mūrtimanta
śrī-vaiṣṇava-dhāma tumi—īśvara ananta

Jayapatākā Swami: “O Lord Nityānanda, You are the transcendental form of the holy name, You are the Holy abode of all the Vaiṣṇavas, and You Yourself are the Lord Ananta.

Purport: Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu is Ananta, the supreme controller, and the origin of all Vaiṣṇavas. He is the personification of His holy name and form. Temporary mundane names and forms are subordinate objects.

In the Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad (1.44) it is stated: paraṁ brahma kṛṣṇātmako nityānandaika-rūpaḥ— “He is the Supreme Brahman, He is the expansion of Kṛṣṇa, and He is the form of eternal bliss.” In the Nirālamba-śruti it is stated: nityānandam akhaṇḍaika-rasaṁ advitīyaṁ — “He is eternally blissful, He is the source of all relishable relationships, and He is one without a second.” In the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad (3.2.1) it is stated: sa vedaitat paramaṁ brahma-dhāma yatra viśvaṁ nihitaṁ bhāti śubhram — “A learned transcendentalist knows Lord Ananta, the superintending Deity of the spiritual world and the personification of the sandhinī energy, in whom both the material and spiritual worlds rest.”

In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.2) it is stated:

sahasra-patra-kamalaṁ gokulākhyaṁ mahat padam
tat-karṇikāraṁ tad-dhāma tad-anantāṁśa-sambhavam

“The superexcellent station of Kṛṣṇa, which is known as Gokula, has thousands of petals and a corolla like that of a lotus sprouted from a part of His infinitary aspect, the whorl of the leaves being the actual abode of Kṛṣṇa.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So here, the transcendental abode of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Goloka Vṛndāvana is described and how it is manifested through the energies and personality of Anantadeva who is non-different from Lord Nityānanda Prabhu. So, in this way Lord Caitanya is glorifying Lord Nityānanda.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.39

nityānandera śrīaṅgera alaṅkāra bhakti-yogāvatāra-svarūpa

yata kichu tomāra śrī-aṅgera alaṅkāra
satya satya satya bhakti-yoga-avatāra

Jayapatākā Swami: “All the ornaments decorating Your transcendental body, it is true! it is true! it is true! they are the incarnations of bhakti-yoga or devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.40

nityānandera śrīaṅgera svarṇa-muktādi navavidhā sāmagrī navadhābhakti-svarūpa—

svarṇa-muktā-hīrā-kasā-rudrākṣādi rūpe
nava-vidhā bhakti dhariyācha nija-sukhe

Translation: “You take transcendental pleasure in decorating Yourself with the nine processes of devotional service in the form of gold, pearls, diamonds, and rudrākṣa ornaments.

Purport: (By His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Śrīla Prabhupāda): The word kasā means “bedecked” or “set with.”

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.41

nīca-jāti patita adhama yata jana
tomā haite haila ebe sabāra mocana

Jayapatākā Swami: “All the people who are fallen, lowborn, wretched living entities will now be delivered by Your mercy.

Purport (by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura): The spiritual master removes the stigma of his disciple’s low birth resulting from past activities. He also frees him from misdirected learning and fallen conditions. He does not sit idly as a pure and most exalted personality while leaving his disciple fallen, wretched, and low-class. Nityānanda Prabhu delivers all living entities from the conceptions of piety and impiety and superiority and inferiority based on caste by giving them the science of self-realization.

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya has instructed that it doesn’t matter what one was on the according to the varṇāśrama system that if one knew the science of Kṛṣṇa that was the real qualification of the guru, and by Lord Nityānanda’s mercy the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness was delivered to the disciples.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, 7.42

abarakuleo nityānanda kartṛka muniyogeśvarādi vāñchita bhakti vitaraṇa—

ye bhakti diyācha tumi vaṇik-sabāre
tāhā vāñche sura-siddha-muni-yogeśvare

Jayapatākā Swami: “Lord Caitanya is saying to Lord Nityānanda that, “The devotional service which was given to the vaiśyas and others, that bhakti is desired by the great devas, siddhas, munis and yogeśvara, the great yogis.

Purport (by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura): The service propensity that You have given to the fortunate bankers and gold merchants, who are socially classified as inferior, is desired by the demigods, perfect mystics, and great sages, who are all free from the desire to enjoy the external world. But those who have taken birth in the mercantile community and think that they have attained devotional service in spite of committing offenses at the lotus feet of Nityānanda by opposing the devotees and the devotional service of the Lord are understood to be bereft of devotional service. They are unqualified to achieve the mercy of the spiritual master, who is nondifferent from Lord Nityānanda.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Nityānanda would give out His mercy, freely without considering who is qualified or who is not, He gave the highest benediction to people who were normally considered inferior, anyone who wants the mercy should approach Lord Nityānanda. Hari bol! Hari bol! ?

Thus ends the chapter titled: 

Haribol!