[Nectar] Nityananda Trayodasi

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Wednesday is the appearance day of Sri Nityananda Prabhu.

 

avijnata-tattva dui bhai ara bhakta

tathapi krpaya tattva karena suvyakta

 

Although the truths of the two brothers and Their devotees are

incomprehensible, they can be realized by the mercy of Their

Lordships.

 

COMMENTARY

Both Lords, Gaura and Nitai, as well as Their pure devotees are beyond

the reach of material senses and eternally full of knowledge and

bliss. Therefore proud mundane speculators who are simply interested

in sense gratification cannot understand Their real forms. They

mercifully manifest Their incomprehensible forms only to Their fully

surrendered servants who have taken shelter of Them. Srila Kaviraja

Gosvami has prayed to Gaura-Nitai in the Sri Caitanya-caritamrta (Adi

1.2) as follows: "I offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Krsna

Caitanya and Lord Nityananda, who are like the sun and moon. They have

arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauda to dissipate the

darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon

all." Also in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta (Adi 1.98) he writes: "But these

two brothers [Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda] dissipate the

darkness of the inner core of the heart, and thus They help one meet

the two kinds of bhagavatas [persons or things in relationship with

the Personality of Godhead]."

 

The word avijnata-tattva indicates that the truth of these two

brothers is unknown to one with a materialistic enjoying mentality. In

other words, They are beyond the jurisdiction of material knowledge or

sense perception.

 

Caitanya-bhagavat, Adi-khanda 2.7

 

 

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