Vrndaban das Thakura's devotion to Nityananda Prabhu

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Sri Caitanya-bhagavata Adi-khanda chap.17 Verse 154-158, with purport by

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura.

 

Verse spoken by Vrndaban das Thakura:

 

Someone says, "Nityananda Prabhu is Balarama," and another says, "He is the

most beloved devotee of Lord Caitanya." Someone else says, "He is a powerful

personality," and another says, "We don't understand who He is." Someone may

consider Nityananda a sannyasi, someone may consider Him a devotee, and

someone may consider Him a jnani. They may say whatever they like. Even if

Nityananda is a most insignificant servant of Lord Caitanya, I would still

keep His lotus feet in my heart. I therefore kick the head of any sinful

person who disregards the glories of Lord Nityananda and dares to criticize

Him.

 

Purport: In some people's opinion, Nityananda Prabhu is Balarama, the direct

manifestation of Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In other's

opinion, He is the servitor Personality of Godhead, the dearmost servant of

Caitanyadeva. There are others still who consider Him a maha-bhagavata,

avadhuta, paramahamsa. And there are some people who cannot understand who

He is. Nityananda Svarupa may be the paramahamsa avadhuta spiritual master

of the sannyasis, or He may be a devotee learned in the science of God;

people may address Him in any way they want, or He may have any kind of

relationship with Caitanyadeva, yet I will always hold Nityananda's

invaluable lotus feet within my heart. If an atheist considers that

suffering miseries in the hell known as Andhatamisra or Maha-raurava is most

palatable, and in order to achieve that he blasphemes my spiritual master,

then without considering his mundane prestigious position or exalted post I

will kick his head, which is the reservoir of all sinful propensities.

 

If a disciple lacks this quality of genuine, pure, topmost devotion at the

lotus feet of his bona fide spiritual master, then he cannot be called an

actual "disciple". Without understanding this fact, sinful hellish people

invite inauspiciousness by blaspheming the spiritual master rather then

serving him. As a result of the greatly beneficial topics that Thakura

Vrndavana manifest in this world in order to record in brightly effulgent

golden words the proper etiquette of a genuine disciple, the entire world of

pure Vaisnavas have accepted Thakura Vrndaban as the Gurudeva of the entire

Vaisnava community. For those who have the slightest doubt born of

abominable cheating propensities or sinful motives in this Vedic conclusion,

there is no possibility life after life in achieving devotion to

Gaura-Krsna. Receiving the mercy and inheriting the duties of Nityananda

Prabhu, Thakura Vrndavana has acted as acarya-guru in this world. The

ignorant, asslike, pseudo devotees who consider the prakrta-sahajiyas, who

are hellish living incarnations of cheating humility, as ideal spiritual

masters simply commit offenses at the lotus feet of Thakura Vrndavana. No

pure devotee under the shelter of Caitanya and Nityananda will ever

associate in any way with the sinful apa-sampradayas who are opposed to

Thakura Vrndavana. Yet if due to past misdeeds or misfortune one happens to

face such bad association, then Gaudiya Vaisnavas have no duty to associate

with that dishonest person whose illmotivated mind has deviated him from the

lotus feet of Vrndabana dasa Thakura. The community of arrogant persons will

take millions and millions of births to understand Vrndabana dasa Thakura's

causeless mercy, so until their offenses are exhausted, they will never have

the opportunity to receive a kick on the head from the sanctified all

auspicious feet of a pure Vaisnava. Even the genuine desire for receiving

the nonduplicitious mercy of a pure Vaisnava is a rare commodity for

ignorant mundane sinful people, pious fruitive workers, or mental

speculators. Living entities who are adverse to Hari, Guru and Vaisnava have

not accumulated sufficient piety in their previous lifetimes, nor have

thousands of their forefathers accumulated sufficient piety, that they are

qualified to receive the all-auspicious kick marks from the lotus feet of

the pure, transcendental, ultimate benefit awarding lotus feet of Thakura

Vrndabana. The moment that dust from the lotus feet of a pure Vaisnava will

fall on the heads of sinful persons, that very moment they will become free

from all material contamination and deceit and thus become proprietors of

the wealth of devotional service.