Sri Caitanya Bhagavat ki Jai-ho!

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Haribol,

There are many important points in these first few sentences in Caitanya

Bhagavat, Madhya-khanda, First Chapter. It is good to meditate on these

things and try to somehow or other cultivate the desire to align ourselves

with this nectarean Krishna-katha, the highest, most potent and most sublime

mercy available in the world today.

 

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Caitanya Bhagavat Madhya-khanda 1: Sri Mahaprabhu Starts the Sankirtana

Movement

 

All glories, all glories to Lord Visvambhara the crest jewel amongst the

brahmanas! All glories to the beloved associates of Lord Visvambhara!

 

All glories to Lord Gauracandra, the stalwart amongst all religious

preachers, the safe bridge to the spiritual sky! He has fully subdued His

physical and mental urges.*

 

* viz, Nectar of Instruction, verse 1:

vaco vegam manasah krodha-vegam

jihva-vegam udaropastha-vegam

etan vegan yo visaheta dhirah

sarvam apimam prthivim sa sisyat

 

A sober person who can tolerate the urge to speak, the mind's demands, the

actions of anger and the urges of the tongue, belly and genitals is

qualified to make disciples all over the world.

 

 

 

All glories to the Lord, He possesses incomparable beauty and is the

embodiment of the congregational chanting of the Holy Name of Krsna!

 

All glories to Lord Gauracandra for He is the dearest friend and life of

Nityananda Prabhu, and the sublime object of love for Gadadhara Pandita and

Advaita Acarya Prabhu!

 

He is very dear to Sri Jagadananda Pandita, and the tender loving hearts of

Vakresvara Pandita and Kasisvara. He is the Lord and master of Srivasa and

His other beloved associates. O Lord, kindly look upon the living entities

with divine benevolence.**

 

** Note this is a proof of the Panca-tattva mantra:

Jai Sri-Krishna Caitanya, Prabhu Nityananda

Sri Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivasa-adi-gaura-bhakta-vrinda

 

"I offer my obeisances to Sri Krsna Caitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri

Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivasa and all others in the line of devotion."

 

'All devotees of Lord Caitanya or Nityananda are worshipable persons.'

>>> Ref. VedaBase =>Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila 7.165

 

 

The descriptions recorded in the Madhya-khanda are like streams of nectar,

which pours out into the ears. It melts the granite-like doubts and

atheistic thoughts in the deep recesses of the heart.

 

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My guru-maharaja worships his deities of Sri Krishna Caitanya and Prabhu

Nityananda every single day. He takes them with him wherever he goes in the

world and has been doing so for so many years, much longer than I can even

say I've been a devotee. Sri Krishna Caitanya is very dear to Guru-maharaja

and is securely situated in his heart. My spiritual master is dedicated to

Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu. I cannot even speak

of what kind of relation he has with them, but at least I can try to

understand. If I would like to call myself his disciple, then that is the

least I can do, to try to understand these things. If not then I could only

call myself very unfortunate.

 

Some may say that this is a very subtle and sublime matter, very difficult

for 'normal' people to understand. That may be, but at least everybody can

apply themselves to this meditation - if they at all consider themselves

interested in Love for God or 'being on the spiritual path' - and see that

it is actually the topmost treasure available in this world, Sri Krishna

Caitanya is the Crest Jewel. For His followers he is the *safe bridge* to

the spiritual world, to the eternal realm of pure, unalloyed divine love, in

full cognizance.

 

For those with spouses and/or offspring, who have love for these entities,

then I say it would be good to cultivate 10x *more* love for Sri Krishna

Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His devotees. This is the significance of "the

sublime object of love for Gadadhara Pandita and Advaita Acarya Prabhu."

For them, Lord Gauracandra is more dear than their life-air.

 

This is the humble mood of an aspiring devotee in our line, who is

interested in freeing himself from the temporary lights in this material

playground and attaining the eternal, onipotent, self-effulgent goal far

beyond common reckoning and the focus of all yogis, sages, rishis, devotees

and such, known variously as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan,

Govinda, Jehovah, Allah and Krishna.

 

Your friend and servant,

Vraja-kumara das

 

PS

Adi - I started writing this and I had a strong remembrance of you!

Haribol!

 

PPS

If any kind devotee in the Krishna-katha conference could help me with this

meditation in any way, I would be very happy! Haribol!