20230414 Phalaśruti—Attains the lotus feet of Lord Gauracandra and will see Nityānanda Prabhu and Lord Caitanya

The following is a Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on April 14th,2023 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

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

Hariḥ oṁ tat sat!

Phalaśruti— Attains the lotus feet of Lord Gauracandra and will see Nityānanda Prabhu and Lord Caitanya
Under the Section: The Pastimes of Nityānanda

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.707

hena-mate nityānanda parama-kautuke
viharena abhaya-paramānanda-sukhe

Jayapatākā Swami: In this way, Lord Nityānanda, in great humor, performed His pastimes, fearlessly and in transcendental happiness.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.708

sapārṣada-nityānandera navadvīpera prati grāma-grāme kīrtana-sahita bhramaṇa—

tabe nityānanda sarva pāriṣada-saṅge
prati-grāme grāme bhrame kīrtanera raṅge

Jayapatākā Swami: Thereafter Lord Nityānanda, in the company of all His associates, went from village to village performing His blissful pastime of kīrtana.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.709

kakhanao gaṅgāra parapāra kuliyāya gamana—

khānacauḍā baḍagāchi āra dogāchiyā
gaṅgāra opāra kabhu yāyena kuliyā

khānacauḍā baḍagāchi āra dogāchiyā
gaṅgāra opāra kabhu yāyena kuliyā

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Nityānanda visited Khānacauḍā, Baḍagāchi and Dogāchiyā and sometimes He went to Kuliyā, which is situated on the western side of the Ganges.

Purport: Another reading for Khānacauḍā is Khālāchādā. Some people call it (Khānacauḍā) Khānājoḍā, Khānācautā, or Khānācauḍā. Khālāchādā refers to an old riverbed or a dried-up bed or ditch where the Ganges previously flowed. The village of Baḍagāchi exists even today and is situated near the villages of Kālaśira-khāla and Rukunapura. The house of Śrī Nityānanda’s father-in-law is in this village.

The village of Dogāchiyā is situated near Kṛṣṇanagara. One of Nityānanda’s servants used to live there.

Śrī Navadvīpa refers to Śrī Māyāpur, which is situated on the eastern bank of the Ganges. Koladvīpa, or Kuliyā, is situated on the western bank of the Ganges. According to the opinion of all learned persons, the present city of Navadvīpa was know as Kuliyā during the time of Mahāprabhu. Śrī Māyāpur-Navadvīpa is situated on the eastern bank, across from the village Kuliyā. According to the statement of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata: sabe mātra gaṅgā nadīyāya kuliyāya— “Only the Ganges lay between Nadia and Kuliyā,” Śrī Navadvīpa-Māyāpur is always situated on the eastern bank of the Ganges, and Kuliyā was and is always situated on the western bank of the Ganges. Even now, places like Kuliyāra-gañja, Āmāda-kola, Tegharira-kola, and Kuliyāra-daha indicate the location of ancient Kuliyā.

Jayapatākā Swami: There is a saying – aparādha-bhañjana kuliyā pāṭa. That you can ask for forgiveness from any offences at Kuliyā. When devotees do the parikramā in Koladvīpa, they pray to be forgiven for any offences and forgive anyone else who have committed any offence to them. How many of you have been in Navadvīpa parikramā? ? Maybe six or so. So we hope that you will come, sometime before Gaura-Pūrṇimā and do the Navadvīpa-maṇḍala parikramā. There are also camp sites, you can stay out on the parikramā, or you come every day by bus or by vehicle and do the parikramā and go back. Parikramā is around eight or nine days and one gets special mercy by accomplishing this parikramā. In Vṛndāvana, Vraja-maṇḍala parikramā takes almost a month. But in the Navadvīpa parikramā, nine islands, takes eight or nine days.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.710

viśeṣe sukṛti ati baḍagāchi-grāma
nityānanda-svarūpera vihārera sthāna

Jayapatākā Swami: Especially greatly pious is the village of Baḍagāchi, where Lord Nityānanda Svarūpa had His pastimes there.

I said how Suryadāsa Sarakhela, the father-in-law of Lord Nityānanda, he lived in Śāligrāma. And a few kilometers to the east of Baḍagāchi. There was a king there called Horakṛṣṇa dāsa and somehow, he became so poor, he was a kṣatriya, and so he could not work for anyone. He was very much embarrassed. His history is given in the Gazette of Nadia District. And there I went, there is a Deity of Nitāi-Gaura and at the bottom of the Deity is the Bengali year 500 years ago. So Baḍagāchi is still there, the Deity is still there.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.711

baḍagāchi-grāmera yateka bhāgyodaya
tāhāra karite nāi pāri samuccaya

Jayapatākā Swami: Baḍagāchi village is extremely fortunate. In fact, the good fortune cannot be adequately estimated.

Purport: The word samuccaya means “to fathom,” “to count,” or “to estimate.”

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.712

nityānandera nityasiddha pārṣadagaṇera caritra—

nityānanda-svarūpera pāriṣada-gaṇa
niravadhi sabei paramānanda-mana

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Nityānanda Svarūpa’s associates were constantly filled with great transcendental ecstasy.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.713

kāro kona karma nāi saṅkīrtana-vine
sabāra gopāla-bhāva bāḍe kṣaṇe kṣaṇe

Jayapatākā Swami: None of His associates had any work other than saṅkīrtana. All of the mood of the cowherd boys increased from moment to moment.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.714

vetra vaṁśī siṅgā chāṅda-daḍi guñjā-hāra
tāḍa khāḍu hāte, pāye nūpura sabāra

Jayapatākā Swami: As cowherd boys they carried sticks, flutes, horns, ropes that were used to bind the hind legs of cows while milking, garlands of guñjas, the small conch shells, bangles and bracelets were on their hands. On their legs were anklets, known as nūpuras. So all these associates of Lord Nityānanda were carrying all these natural ornaments as cowherd boys. Lord Nityānanda was in the mood of Balarāma, as a cowherd boy.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.715

niravadhi sabāra śarīre kṛṣṇa-bhāva
aśru-kampa-pulaka—yateka anurāga

Jayapatākā Swami: All of these associates were constantly absorbed in the mood of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They were crying, they were shivering in the body, their hairs were standing on head, they were very spontaneously filled with love toward Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.716

sabāra saundarya yena abhinna madana
niravadhi sabei karena saṅkīrtana

Jayapatākā Swami: They were all very beautiful to behold, as if non-different from Cupid. And constantly all of them were engaged in chanting the holy names in saṅkīrtana.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.717

pāiyā abhaya svāmī prabhu nityānanda
niravadhi kautuke thākena bhakta-vṛnda

Jayapatākā Swami: Having attained their fearless master, Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, the assembled devotees were always joyful.

People ask, how can I be happy even when there are obstacles? Here we see that the associates of Lord Nityānanda were constantly blissful.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.718

nityānanda-svarūpera dāsera mahimā
śata vatsare o karibāre nāhi sīmā

Jayapatākā Swami: The glories of Lord Nityānanda Svarūpa’s servitors, even in a hundred years one cannot reach the limit.

Sometimes we glorify Lord Caitanya, Lord Nityānanda, but here they are saying that even the associates of Lord Nityānanda, Lord Caitanya, they are also very special.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.719

tathāpiha nāma kahi—jāni yāṅra yāṅra
nāma mātra smaraṇe o tariye saṁsāra

Jayapatākā Swami: Still, I will mention the names of those whom I know, for simply by remembering even their names, one is delivered from material existence. Haribol!

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.720

yāṅra yāṅra saṅge nityānandera vihara
sabe nanda-goṣṭhī gopa-gopī-avatāra

Jayapatākā Swami: Whomsoever with Lord Nityānanda enjoyed the pastimes, were all incarnations of the cowherd boy and cowherd girl associates of Nanda Mahārāja.

Purport: The associates of Śrī Nityānanda were cowherd boys, cowherd girls, and family members of Nanda Mahārāja in Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, these devotees, they are not ordinary souls, they came down from Goloka Vṛndāvana in order to start the saṅkīrtana movement. You are very fortunate that you are able to continue to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. Haribol!

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.721

nityānanda-svarūpera niṣedha lāgiyā
pūrva-nāma nā likhila vidita kariyā

Jayapatākā Swami: Being prohibited by Lord Nityānanda Svarūpa, I am not writing their previous names to make then known.

Purport: Śrī Nityānanda prohibited His devotees from discussing in public the names by which His associates and companions were known during the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa. But for the information of the devotees, the names by which Śrī Nityānanda’s associates in the pastimes of Gaura were known in the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa are described by Śrī Kavi-karṇapūra in the book Śrī Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā.

Jayapatākā Swami: So all these associates of Lord Nityānanda, they had spiritual names at the time of their initiation. And those names are being referred to. Kavi-karṇapūra, he also wrote the Śrī Gaura-ganoddeśa-dīpikā, in which he describes which devotee was who in kṛṣṇa-līlā.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.700

abhūtapūrva mahāvadānyāvatāra śrī-nityānanda—

anya avatāre keha jhāṭa nāhi pāya
niravadhi nityānanda ’caitanya’ laoyāya

Jayapatākā Swami: In other incarnations of the Lord, no one quickly attains perfection, but Lord Nityānanda, He constantly takes them to Lord Caitanya.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.701

ye brāhmaṇa nityānanda-svarūpa nā mane
tāhāre laoyāya sei cora-dasyu-gaṇe

Jayapatākā Swami: Any brāhmaṇa who does not accept Lord Nityānanda Svarūpa, is taken by the thieves and rogues in their sinful groups.

Purport: If even the topmost brāhmaṇa endowed with humility and knowledge does not accept subordination to Śrī Nityānanda Svarūpa, then that foolish brāhmaṇa is welcomed by rogues and thieves as one of their own, or Śrī Nityānanda includes him in the category of rogues and thieves.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Nityānanda, He descended and gives out His mercy freely. In Jaipur, in the Rādhā Govinda temple, there is a picture of Lord Caitanya on one of the columns, He is called as prema-avatāra. There is a picture of Lord Nityānanda and He is called as the mercy avatāra.

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.702-703

nityānanda kṛpāra mahattva—

yogeśvara-sabe vāñche ye prema-vikāra
ye aśru, ye kampa, ye vā pulaka huṅkāra

cora ḍākāite haila hena bhakti
hena prabhu-nityānanda-svarūpera śakti

Jayapatākā Swami: The transformations of prema-bhakti, ecstatic love desired by the best of the yogīs, like shedding tears, shivering in the body and the hairs standing on end, and roaring loudly the holy names even if they were coras or dacoits or thieves, they were given bhakti, of this description. Thus such was the potency of Lord Nityānanda Svarūpa.

Purport: The word ḍākāita [Hindi] means “rogues” or “plunderers.”

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.704

bhaja bhaja bhāi, hena prabhu-nityānanda
yāṅhāra prasāde pāi prabhu-gauracandra

Jayapatākā Swami: Worship, worship, O brothers, such a merciful Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, by whose mercy one can attain Lord Gauracandra!

Caitanya Bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.705

ye śunaye nityānanda-prabhura ākhyāna
tāhāre miliba gauracandra bhagavān

Jayapatākā Swami: Anyone who hears the topics of Lord Nityānanda Svarūpa how He delivered thieves and dacoits, if they listen with attention and faith, will definitely see Lord Nityānanda Prabhu and Lord Caitanya.

Phalaśruti—Attains the lotus feet of Lord Gauracandra and will see Lord Nityānanda Prabhu and Lord Caitanya
Under the Section: The Pastimes of Nityānanda

Normally one doesn’t experience these transcendental emotions. But by the mercy of Lord Nityānanda, one gets the mercy of Lord Caitanya. And then all these transcendental mellows, ecstasies are experienced. And they make all the material happiness very insignificant. Any way as I mentioned, that Śrīla Prabhupāda in his lecture in 1973 in London, he wanted all his gṛhastha followers to become paramahaṁsas. Now, what does it mean to be a paramahaṁsa? You see, if you are fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you are a paramahaṁsa. A haṁsa, apparently he can drink from a mixture of water and milk, he can suck up the milk and leave the water. In the same way, how we can use the material existence in Kṛṣṇa’s service and leave the mundane behind, so this is a paramahaṁsa. So Lord Caitanya’s followers, they follow the system of yukta-vairāgya. That means - there are two types of vairāgya – the dry vairāgya and yukta-vairāgya. So, using what you have, using it in the service of Kṛṣṇa, that is yukta-vairāgya and śuṣka or dry vairāgya is renouncing, not using it in Kṛṣṇa’s service, just being renounced. So we practice yukta-vairāgya. That means whatever you do, do it in such a way that it is pleasing to Kṛṣṇa. Just like we cook something to eat, offer that to Kṛṣṇa, and then it is prasāda. All the activities we do, we do them as an offering to Lord Kṛṣṇa.

I saw a very nice drama in Chennai by children. Two were playing Yamadūtas and one girl who had painted a mustache, she played Yamarāja. The Yamadutas were complaining to Yamarāja, “These Kṛṣṇa consciousness gṛhasthas, they are worship Jagannātha and other Deities in their homes. They are offering their food to the Deities, the whole family, they chant the holy name they read Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. We cannot touch them, we cannot carry them and take them to hell. If everyone becomes like this, we will be out of job! What to do?” So how many of you want to have mercy on the Yamadūtas and let them take you and punish you? How many of them would like to give them a vacation and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa? Anyway, it was a very nice drama. So this is what we want to do and want everyone to be happy.

Hare Kṛṣṇa! Hare Kṛṣṇa!