Ashtakaliya lila of Sri Caitanya MAhaprabhu

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period 8 10:48pm -3:36am Midnight pastimes

 

Continuing well into the night the Lord dances and dances with Nityananda

Prabhu in the courtyard of Srivasa Thakura,surrounded by His most intimate

associates.His ecstatic singing is accompanied by the devotees who are expert

in playing very loud rhythms on the mrdanga drums.He wanders and dances with

Gadadhara Prabhu in the most astonishing way throughout the night,untill just

before dawn.Then He returns to His own home,where He retires ,until just

before dawn.Then He returns to His own home,where He retires to His bedchamber

and falls asleep.I thus meditate on the daily pastimes of Sri Gauranataraja.

 

benefit of reciting this prayer

 

Sri Gauranga,the moon over Navadvipa, is manifest in His own abode during

eight parts of each and every day.His pastimes during these periods should be

remembered by meditative devotees before they remember

the simultanously occuring pastimes of Sri Krsna,the moon of Gokula.If someone

lovingly reads or recietes the Lord's eternal daily pastimes as they are

illuminated in the 10 verses of this prayer,then the Lord is immensely pleades

with that person,by His own merciful compassion.

I thus meditate on the daily pastimes of Sri Gaura chandra.

 

End of Asthakaliya lila

 

YS

Payonidhi das