Reptiles in Human Form in CC

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Namaste People,

 

I posted this to a non-Vedic site a week or so ago, but you'll see

thatitis very interesting for us.

 

 

I ran across this text the other day from the Chaitanya Charitamrita,

a

mideval, Bengali work. The book describes the birth and life of

Krishna

Chaitanya, considered to be an avatar. It would be good to have some

background before you look at the text. Shree Chaitanya was active

around

the end of the 1400s, beginning of the 1500s. He had a huge impact.

He took

the attention of the masses away from the brahmin community, which had

become phoney-ritualistic and abusive, and allowed them to directly

participate in religion by chanting the names of God without and type

of

condition or restriction in terms of caste elegibility. He organized

civil

disobedience in this regard on a massive scale, and his impact was

felt all

over Bengal, across to Gujarat, across Northern India, and down as

far as

Puri.

 

The text below refers to the latter part of his life when he was

rather

stationary at Puri, already directing a chanting movement all across

India:

 

CC Antya 9:8

" The inhabitants of the seven higher planetary systems-including the

Demigods, the Gandharvas and the Kinnaras-and the inhabitants of the

seven

lower planetary systems (patalaloka), including the demons and

Serpentine

living entities,all visited Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the dress of

human

beings ."

 

The Bengali word translated as serpentine living entities is visa-

dhara .

 

Reptiles in theform of human beings. Incredible! In the Puranas which

describe the birth of Shree Krishna, it is openly explained that

demigods

took birth in human bodies in order to assist the Krishna incarnation

inb

his activities, and it is mentioned that King Kamsa was a demon in

previous

lives who took birth in human form to carry out his agendas. After

all,

Kamsa wasn't born as a beggar in the street, he was born in the

position of

a king from which he could and did create mischief.

 

Bhaktivinode Thakur mentions a text from the Varaha Purana which

states:

 

Raksasah kalim ashritya Jayante brahma-yonishu

 

" In the Kali-yuga demons take birth in the families of brahmins."

 

When I look at the behavior and activities of the brahmin community

over the

last thousand years or so, this doesn't surprise me. But I digress.

 

What surprises me is not that the author of the Puranas from before

the

advent of the Kali Yuga knew that demons appear in human form, but

that even

in mideval times there were pious people operating in Bengal who knew

these

things and who were able to recognize certain instances, certain

visits. The

merciful and pious activities of Chaitanya were certainly interesting

enough

for the pious, celestial beings to come and observe, and for the

demoniac,

reptile forms, too, each for different motives. This means that we

are not

entirely alone. Well-meaning humans with good intentions visit us and

bring

about social movements and such to help better the spiritual

condition of

the population, even though these are basically bad times- Kali Yuga.

 

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