1|Adi 10-1975: The Trunk, Branches and Subbranches of the
>|Caitanya Tree
2|Chapter 10
3|The Trunk, Branches and Subbranches of the Caitanya Tree
4|This chapter describes the branches of the tree named Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
5|Adi 10.1
6|TEXT 1
7|TEXT
8|sri-caitanya-padambhoja-
9|madhupebhyo namo namah
10|kathancid asrayad yesam
11|svapi tad-gandha-bhag bhavet
12|SYNONYMS
13|sri-caitanya-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; pada-ambhoja-the
>|lotus feet; madhu-honey; pebhyah-unto those who drink;
>|namah-respectful obeisances; namah-respectful obeisances;
>|kathancit-a little of it; asrayat-taking shelter of; yesam-
>|of whom; sva-dog; api-also; tat-gandha-the aroma of the
>|lotus flower; bhak-shareholder; bhavet-may become.
14|TRANSLATION
15|Let me repeatedly offer my respectful obeisances unto the
>|beelike devotees who always taste the honey of the lotus
>|feet of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. If even a doggish
>|nondevotee somehow takes shelter of such devotees, he
>|enjoys the aroma of the lotus flower.
16|PURPORT
17|The example of a dog is very significant in this connection.
>| A dog naturally does not become a devotee at any time, but
>|still it is sometimes found that a dog of a devotee
>|gradually becomes a devotee also. We have actually seen
>|that a dog has no respect even for the tulasi plant. Indeed,
>| a dog is especially inclined to pass urine on the tulasi
>|plant. Therefore the dog is the number one nondevotee. But
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's sankirtana movement is so strong
>|that even a doglike nondevotee can gradually become a
>|devotee by the association of a devotee of Lord Caitanya.
>|Srila Sivananda Sena, a great householder devotee of Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, attracted a dog on the street while
>|going to Jagannatha Puri. The dog began to follow him and
>|ultimately went to see Caitanya Mahaprabhu and was
>|liberated. Similarly, cats and dogs in the household of
>|Srivasa Thakura were also liberated. Cats and dogs and
>|other animals are not expected to become devotees, but in
>|the association of a pure devotee they are also delivered.
18|Adi 10.2
19|TEXT 2
20|TEXT
21|jaya jaya sri-krsna-caitanya-nityananda
22|jayadvaitacandra jaya gaura-bhakta-vrnda
23|SYNONYMS
24|jaya jaya-all glories; sri-krsna-caitanya-to Lord Sri Krsna
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; nityananda-Lord Nityananda; jaya
>|advaita-candra-all glories to Advaita Prabhu; jaya-all
>|glories; gaura-bhakta-vrnda-to the devotees of Lord
>|Caitanya, headed by Srivasa.
25|TRANSLATION
26|All glories to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Nityananda!
>| All glories to Advaita Prabhu, and all glories to the
>|devotees of Lord Caitanya, headed by Srivasa!
27|Adi 10.3
28|TEXT 3
29|TEXT
30|ei malira-ei vrksera akathya kathana
31|ebe suna mukhya-sakhara nama-vivarana
32|SYNONYMS
33|ei malira-of this gardener; ei vrksera-of this tree;
>|akathya kathana-inconceivable description; ebe-now; suna-
>|hear; mukhya-chief; sakhara-branches; nama-of the names;
>|vivarana-description.
34|TRANSLATION
35|The description of Lord Caitanya as the gardener and the
>|tree is inconceivable. Now hear with attention about the
>|branches of this tree.
36|Adi 10.4
37|TEXT 4
38|TEXT
39|caitanya-gosanira yata parisada-caya
40|guru-laghu-bhava tanra na haya niscaya
41|SYNONYMS
42|caitanya-Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; gosanira-of the supreme
>|spiritual master; yata-all; parisada-caya-groups of
>|associates; guru-laghu-bhava-conceptions of high and low;
>|tanra-of them; na-never; haya-become; niscaya-ascertained.
43|TRANSLATION
44|The associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were many, but
>|none of them should be considered lower or higher. This
>|cannot be ascertained.
45|Adi 10.5
46|TEXT 5
47|TEXT
48|yata yata mahanta kaila tan-sabara ganana
49|keha karibare nare jyestha-laghu-krama
50|SYNONYMS
51|yata yata-as many as there are; mahanta-great devotees;
>|kaila-made; tan-sabara-of all of them; ganana-counting;
>|keha-all of them; karibare nare-can not do; jyestha-elder;
>|laghu-younger; krama-chronology.
52|TRANSLATION
53|All the great personalities in the line of Lord Caitanya
>|enumerated these devotees, but they could not distinguish
>|between the greater and the lesser.
54|Adi 10.6
55|TEXT 6
56|TEXT
57|ataeva tan-sabare kari' namaskara
58|nama-matra kari, dosa na labe amara
59|SYNONYMS
60|ataeva-therefore; tan-sabare-to all of them; kari'-doing;
>|namaskara-offer my obeisances; nama-matra-that is also a
>|token; kari-I do; dosa-fault; na-do not; labe-take; amara-
>|of me.
61|TRANSLATION
62|I offer my obeisances unto them as a token of respect. I
>|request them not to consider my offenses.
63|Adi 10.7
64|TEXT 7
65|TEXT
66|vande sri-krsna-caitanya-
67|premamara-taroh priyan
68|sakha-rupan bhakta-ganan
69|krsna-prema-phala-pradan
70|SYNONYMS
71|vande-I offer my obeisances; sri-krsna-caitanya-to Lord Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; prema-amara-taroh-of the eternal tree
>|full of love of Godhead; priyan-those who are devotees;
>|sakha-rupan-represented as branches; bhakta-ganan-all the
>|devotees; krsna-prema-of love of Krsna; phala-of the fruit;
>|pradan-the givers.
72|TRANSLATION
73|I offer my obeisances to all the dear devotees of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the eternal tree of love of Godhead. I
>|offer my respects to all the branches of the tree, the
>|devotees of the Lord who distribute the fruit of love of
>|Krsna.
74|PURPORT
75|Sri Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami sets the example of offering
>|obeisances to all the preacher devotees of Lord Caitanya,
>|without distinction as to higher and lower. Unfortunately,
>|at present there are many foolish so-called devotees of
>|Lord Caitanya who make such distinctions. For example, the
>|title Prabhupada is offered to a spiritual master,
>|especially to a distinguished spiritual master such as
>|Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada, Srila Jiva Gosvami
>|Prabhupada or Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami
>|Prabhupada. When our disciples similarly wanted to address
>|their spiritual master as Prabhupada, some foolish people
>|became envious. Not considering the propaganda work of the
>|Hare Krsna movement, simply because these disciples
>|addressed their spiritual master as Prabhupada they became
>|so envious that they formed a faction along with other such
>|envious persons just to minimize the value of the Krsna
>|consciousness movement. To chastise such fools, Krsnadasa
>|Kaviraja Gosvami very frankly says, keha karibare nare
>|jyestha-laghu-krama. Anyone who is a bona fide preacher of
>|the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu must be respectful to
>|the real devotees of Lord Caitanya; one should not be
>|envious, considering one preacher to be very great and
>|another to be very lowly. This is a material distinction
>|and has no place on the platform of spiritual activities.
>|Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami therefore offers equal respect
>|to all the preachers of the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>| who are compared to the branches of the tree. ISKCON is
>|one of these branches, and it should therefore be respected
>|by all sincere devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
76|Adi 10.8
77|TEXT 8
78|TEXT
79|srivasa pandita, ara sri-rama pandita
80|dui bhai-dui sakha, jagate vidita
81|SYNONYMS
82|srivasa pandita-of the name Srivasa Pandita; ara-and; sri-
>|rama pandita- of the name Sri Rama Pandita; dui bhai-two
>|brothers; dui sakha-two branches; jagate-in the world;
>|vidita-well known.
83|TRANSLATION
84|The two brothers Srivasa Pandita and Sri Rama Pandita
>|started two branches that are well known in the world.
85|PURPORT
86|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 90 , Srivasa Pandita
>|(Srivasa Thakura) is described as an incarnation of Narada
>|Muni, and Sri Rama Pandita, his younger brother, is said to
>|be an incarnation of Parvata Muni, a great friend of Narada'
>|s. Srivasa Pandita's wife, Malini, is celebrated as an
>|incarnation of the nurse Ambika, who fed Lord Krsna with
>|her breast milk, and as already noted, his niece Narayani,
>|the mother of Thakura Vrndavana dasa, the author of Sri
>|Caitanya-bhagavata, was the sister of Ambika in krsna-lila.
>|We also understand from the description of Sri Caitanya-
>|bhagavata that after Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's acceptance
>|of the sannyasa order, Srivasa Pandita left Navadvipa,
>|possibly because of feelings of separation, and domiciled
>|at Kumarahatta.
87|Adi 10.9
88|TEXT 9
89|TEXT
90|sripati, srinidhi-tanra dui sahodara
91|cari bhaira dasa-dasi, grha-parikara
92|SYNONYMS
93|sripati-of the name Sripati; srinidhi- of the name Srinidhi;
>| tanra-their; dui-two; sahodara-own brothers; cari-four;
>|bhaira-brothers; dasa-dasi-family members, manservants and
>|maidservants; grha-parikara-all counted in one family.
94|TRANSLATION
95|Their two brothers were named Sripati and Srinidhi. These
>|four brothers and their servants and maidservants are
>|considered one big branch.
96|Adi 10.10
97|TEXT 10
98|TEXT
99|dui sakhara upasakhaya tan-sabara ganana
100|yanra grhe mahaprabhura sada sankirtana
101|SYNONYMS
102|dui sakhara-of the two branches; upasakhaya-on the
>|subbranches; tan-sabara-of all of them; ganana-counting;
>|yanra grhe-in whose house; mahaprabhura-of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; sada-always; sankirtana-congregational chanting.
103|TRANSLATION
104|There is no counting the subbranches of these two branches.
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu held congregational chanting daily
>|at the house of Srivasa Pandita.
105|Adi 10.11
106|TEXT 11
107|TEXT
108|cari bhai sa-vamse kare caitanyera seva
109|gauracandra vina nahi jane devi-deva
110|SYNONYMS
111|cari bhai-four brothers; sa-vamse-with all family members;
>|kare-do; caitanyera-of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; seva-
>|service; gauracandra-Gaurasundara (Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu)
>|; vina-except; nahi jane-they do not know; devi-goddess;
>|deva-or god.
112|TRANSLATION
113|These four brothers and their family members fully engaged
>|in the service of Lord Caitanya. They knew no other god or
>|goddess.
114|PURPORT
115|Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has said, anya-devasraya nai,
>|tomare kahinu bhai, ei bhakti parama-karana: if one wants
>|to become a pure, staunch devotee, one should not take
>|shelter of any of the demigods or -goddesses. Foolish
>|Mayavadis say that worshiping demigods is as good as
>|worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but that is
>|not a fact. This philosophy misleads people to atheism. One
>|who has no idea what God actually is thinks that any form
>|he imagines or any rascal he accepts can be God. This
>|acceptance of cheap gods or incarnations of God is actually
>|atheism. It is to be concluded, therefore, that those who
>|worship demigods or self-proclaimed incarnations of God are
>|all atheists. They have lost their knowledge, as confirmed
>|in the Bhagavad-gita (7.20): kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah
>|prapadyante 'nya-devatah. "Those whose minds are distorted
>|by material desires surrender unto demigods." Unfortunately,
>| those who do not cultivate Krsna consciousness and do not
>|properly understand the Vedic knowledge accept any rascal
>|to be an incarnation of God, and they are of the opinion
>|that one can become an incarnation simply by worshiping a
>|demigod. This philosophical hodge-podge exists under the
>|name of the Hindu religion, but the Krsna consciousness
>|movement does not approve of it. Indeed, we strongly
>|condemn it. Such worship of demigods and so-called
>|incarnations of God should never be confused with the pure
>|Krsna consciousness movement.
116|Adi 10.12
117|TEXT 12
118|TEXT
119|'acaryaratna' nama dhare bada eka sakha
120|tanra parikara, tanra sakha-upasakha
121|SYNONYMS
122|acaryaratna-of the name Acaryaratna; nama-name; dhare-he
>|accepts; bada-big; eka-one; sakha-branch; tanra-his;
>|parikara-associates; tanra-his; sakha-branch; upasakha-
>|subbranches.
123|TRANSLATION
124|Another big branch was Acaryaratna, and his associates were
>|subbranches.
125|Adi 10.13
126|TEXT 13
127|TEXT
128|acaryaratnera nama 'sri-candrasekhara'-
129|yanra ghare devi-bhave nacila isvara
130|SYNONYMS
131|acaryaratnera-of Acaryaratna; nama-name; sri-candrasekhara-
>|of the name Sri Candrasekhara; yanra-of whom; ghare-in the
>|home; devi-bhave-as the goddess; nacila-danced; isvara-Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
132|TRANSLATION
133|Acaryaratna was also named Sri Candrasekhara Acarya. In a
>|drama in his house, Lord Caitanya played the goddess of
>|fortune.
134|PURPORT
135|Dramatic performances were also enacted during the presence
>|of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, but the players who took part
>|in such dramas were all pure devotees; no outsiders were
>|allowed. The members of ISKCON should follow this example.
>|Whenever they stage dramatic performances about the lives
>|of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu or Lord Krsna, the players must
>|be pure devotees. Professional players and dramatic actors
>|have no sense of devotional service, and therefore although
>|they can perform very artistically, there is no life in
>|such performances. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
>|used to refer to such an actor as yatra-dale narada, which
>|means "farcical Narada." Sometimes an actor in a drama
>|plays the part of Narada Muni, although in his private life
>|he is not at all like Narada Muni because he is not a
>|devotee. Such actors are not needed in dramatic
>|performances about the lives of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and
>|Lord Krsna.
136|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to perform dramas with Advaita
>|Prabhu, Srivasa Thakura and other devotees in the house of
>|Candrasekhara. The place where Candrasekhara's house was
>|situated is now known as Vrajapattana. Srila
>|Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura established a branch of
>|his Sri Caitanya Matha at this place. When Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu decided to accept the renounced order of life,
>|Candrasekhara Acarya was informed of this by Sri Nityananda
>|Prabhu, and therefore he was also present when Lord
>|Caitanya accepted sannyasa from Kesava Bharati in Katwa. It
>|is he who first spread the word in Navadvipa of Lord
>|Caitanya's accepting sannyasa. Sri Candrasekhara Acarya was
>|present during many important incidents in the pastimes of
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He therefore forms the second
>|branch of the tree of Lord Caitanya.
137|Adi 10.14
138|TEXT 14
139|TEXT
140|pundarika vidyanidhi-bada-sakha jani
141|yanra nama lana prabhu kandila apani
142|SYNONYMS
143|pundarika vidyanidhi-of the name Pundarika Vidyanidhi; bada-
>|sakha-another big branch; jani-I know; yanra nama-whose
>|name; lana-taking; prabhu-the Lord; kandila-cried; apani-
>|Himself.
144|TRANSLATION
145|Pundarika Vidyanidhi, the third big branch, was so dear to
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu that in his absence Lord Caitanya
>|Himself would sometimes cry.
146|PURPORT
147|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika Srila Pundarika
>|Vidyanidhi is described as the father of Srimati Radharani
>|in krsna-lila. Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore treated him as
>|His father. Pundarika Vidyanidhi's father was known as
>|Banesvara or, according to another opinion, Suklambara
>|Brahmacari, and his mother's name was Gangadevi. According
>|to one opinion, Banesvara was a descendent of Sri Sivarama
>|Gangopadhyaya. The original home of Pundarika Vidyanidhi
>|was in East Bengal , in a village near
>|Dacca named Baghiya, which belonged to the Varendra group
>|of brahmana families. Sometimes these Varendra brahmanas
>|were at odds with another group known as Radhiya brahmanas,
>|and therefore Pundarika Vidyanidhi's family was ostracized
>|and at that time was not living as a respectable family .
>|Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati informs us that one of the
>|members of this family is living in Vrndavana and is named
>|Sarojananda Gosvami. One special characteristic of this
>|family is that each of its members had only one son or no
>|son at all, and therefore the family was not very expansive.
>| There is a place in the district of Cattagrama in East
>|Bengal that is known as Hata-hajari, and a short distance
>|from this place is a village known as Mekhala-grama in
>|which Pundarika Vidyanidhi's forefathers lived. One can
>|approach Mekhala-grama from Cattagrama either on horseback,
>|by bullock cart or by steamer. The steamer station is known
>|as Annapurnara-ghata. The birthplace of Pundarika
>|Vidyanidhi is about two miles southwest of Annapurnara-
>|ghata. The temple constructed there by Pundarika Vidyanidhi
>|is now very old and much in need of repair. Without repair,
>|the temple may soon crumble. There are two inscriptions on
>|the bricks of that temple, but they are so old that one
>|cannot read them. There is another temple, however, about
>|two hundred yards south of this one, and some people say
>|that this is the old temple constructed by Pundarika
>|Vidyanidhi.
148|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu called Pundarika
>|Vidyanidhi "father ," and He
>|gave him the title
>| Premanidhi. Pundarika Vidyanidhi later
>|became the spiritual master of Gadadhara
>| Pandita and
>|an intimate friend of Svarupa Damodara 's.
>|Gadadhara Pandita at first misunderstood Pundarika
>|Vidyanidhi to be an
>|ordinary pounds- and -shillings man , but
>|later
>|, upon being corrected by
>|Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu , he became his
>| disciple . Another incident in
>| The life of Pundarika
>|Vidyanidhi involves his criticizing the priest of
>|the Jagannatha temple , for which
>|Jagannatha Prabhu chastised him personally by
>|slapping his cheeks . This is described in Sri
>|Caitanya -bhagavata, Antya - lila, Chapter Seven.
>|Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura informs us
>| that there are still two living
>|descendants of the family of Pundarika Vidyanidhi
>|, who are named Sri Harakumara Smrtitirtha and
>|Sri Krsnakinkara Vidyalankara . For further information one
>|should refer to the dictionary known as Vaisnava -
>| manjusa.
149|Adi 10.15
150|TEXT 15
151|TEXT
152|bada sakha,-gadadhara pandita-gosani
153|tenho laksmi-rupa, tanra sama keha nai
154|SYNONYMS
155|bada sakha-big branch; gadadhara pandita-gosani-the
>|descendants or disciplic succession of Gadadhara Pandita;
>|tenho-Gadadhara Pandita; laksmi-rupa-incarnation of the
>|pleasure potency of Lord Krsna; tanra-his; sama-equal; keha-
>|anyone; nai-there is none.
156|TRANSLATION
157|Gadadhara Pandita, the fourth branch, is described as an
>|incarnation of the pleasure potency of Sri Krsna. No one,
>|therefore, can equal him.
158|PURPORT
159|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verses 147 through 153,
>|it is stated : "The pleasure potency of Sri Krsna formerly
>|known as Vrndavanesvari is now personified in the form of
>|Sri Gadadhara Pandita in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu." Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami has pointed out
>|that in the shape of Laksmi, the pleasure potency of Krsna,
>|she was formerly very dear to the Lord as Syamasundara-
>|vallabha. The same Syamasundara-vallabha is now present
>|as Gadadhara Pandita. Formerly,
>|as Lalita-sakhi, she was always devoted to Srimati
>|Radharani
>|. In the
>|Twelfth Chapter of this part of the Caitanya-caritamrta
>|there is a description of the descendants or disciplic
>|succession of Gadadhara Pandita.
160|Adi 10.16
161|TEXT 16
162|TEXT
163|tanra sisya-upasisya,-tanra upasakha
164|eimata saba sakha-upasakhara lekha
165|SYNONYMS
166|tanra-his; sisya-disciples; upasisya-granddisciples and
>|admirers; tanra-his; upasakha-subbranches; eimata-in this
>|way; saba-all; sakha-branches; upasakhara-subbranches;
>|lekha-to describe by writing.
167|TRANSLATION
168|His disciples and granddisciples are his subbranches. To
>|describe them all would be difficult.
169|Adi 10.17
170|TEXT 17
171|TEXT
172|vakresvara pandita-prabhura bada priya bhrtya
173|eka-bhave cabbisa prahara yanra nrtya
174|SYNONYMS
175|vakresvara pandita-of the name Vakresvara Pandita; prabhura-
>|of the Lord; bada-very; priya-dear; bhrtya-servant; eka-
>|bhave-continuously in the same ecstasy; cabbisa-twenty-four;
>| prahara-a duration of time comprising three hours; yanra-
>|whose; nrtya-dancing.
176|TRANSLATION
177|Vakresvara Pandita, the fifth branch of the tree, was a
>|very dear servant of Lord Caitanya's. He could dance with
>|constant ecstasy for seventy-two hours.
178|PURPORT
179|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 71 , it is stated
>|that Vakresvara Pandita was an incarnation of Aniruddha,
>|one of the quadruple expansions of Visnu (Vasudeva,
>|Sankarsana, Aniruddha and Pradyumna). He could dance
>|wonderfully for seventy-two continuous hours. When Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu played in dramatic performances in the
>|house of Srivasa Pandita, Vakresvara Pandita was one of the
>|chief dancers, and he danced continuously for that length
>|of time. Sri Govinda dasa, an Oriya devotee of Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, has described the life of Vakresvara
>|Pandita in his book Gaura-krsnodaya. There are many
>|disciples of Vakresvara Pandita in Orissa, and they are
>|known as Gaudiya Vaisnavas although they are Oriyas. Among
>|these disciples are Sri Gopalaguru and his disciple Sri
>|Dhyanacandra Gosvami.
180|Adi 10.18
181|TEXT 18
182|TEXT
183|apane mahaprabhu gaya yanra nrtya-kale
184|prabhura carana dhari' vakresvara bale
185|SYNONYMS
186|apane-personally; mahaprabhu-Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; gaya-
>|sang; yanra-whose; nrtya-kale-at the time of dancing;
>|prabhura-of the Lord; carana-lotus feet; dhari'-embracing;
>|vakresvara-Vakresvara Pandita; bale-said.
187|TRANSLATION
188|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally sang while Vakresvara
>|Pandita danced, and thus Vakresvara Pandita fell at the
>|lotus feet of the Lord and spoke as follows.
189|Adi 10.19
190|TEXT 19
191|TEXT
192|"dasa-sahasra gandharva more deha' candramukha
193|tara gaya, muni nacon-tabe mora sukha"
194|SYNONYMS
195|dasa-sahasra-ten thousand; gandharva-residents of
>|Gandharvaloka; more-unto me; deha'-please deliver; candra-
>|mukha-O moon-faced one; tara gaya-let them sing; muni nacon-
>|let me dance; tabe-then; mora-my; sukha-happiness.
196|TRANSLATION
197|"O Candramukha! Please give me ten thousand Gandharvas. Let
>|them sing as I dance, and then I will be greatly happy."
198|PURPORT
199|The Gandharvas, who are residents of Gandharvaloka, are
>|celebrated as celestial singers. Whenever singing is needed
>|in the celestial planets, the Gandharvas are invited to
>|sing. The Gandharvas can sing continuously for days, and
>|therefore Vakresvara Pandita wanted to dance as they sang.
200|Adi 10.20
201|TEXT 20
202|TEXT
203|prabhu bale-tumi mora paksa eka sakha
204|akase uditama yadi pan ara pakha
205|SYNONYMS
206|prabhu bale-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied; tumi-you;
>|mora-My; paksa-wing; eka-one; sakha-one-sided; akase-in the
>|sky; uditama-I could fly; yadi-if; pan-I could get; ara-
>|another; pakha-wing.
207|TRANSLATION
208|Lord Caitanya replied, "I have only one wing like you, but
>|if I had another, certainly I would fly in the sky!"
209|Adi 10.21
210|TEXT 21
211|TEXT
212|pandita jagadananda prabhura prana-rupa
213|loke khyata yenho satyabhamara svarupa
214|SYNONYMS
215|pandita jagadananda-of the name Pandita Jagadananda;
>|prabhura-of the Lord; prana-rupa-life and soul; loke-in the
>|world; khyata-celebrated; yenho-who; satyabhamara-of
>|Satyabhama; svarupa-personification.
216|TRANSLATION
217|Pandita Jagadananda, the sixth branch of the Caitanya tree,
>|was celebrated as the life and soul of the Lord. He is
>|known to have been an incarnation of Satyabhama [one of the
>|chief queens of Lord Krsna].
218|PURPORT
219|There are many dealings of Jagadananda Pandita with Lord
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Most importantly, he was the Lord'
>|s constant companion and especially took part in all the
>|pastimes of the Lord in the houses of Srivasa Pandita and
>|Candrasekhara Acarya.
220|Adi 10.22
221|TEXT 22
222|TEXT
223|pritye karite cahe prabhura lalana-palana
224|vairagya-loka-bhaye prabhu na mane kakhana
225|SYNONYMS
226|pritye-in intimacy or affection; karite-to do; cahe-wanted;
>|prabhura-the Lord's; lalana-palana-maintenance; vairagya-
>|renouncement; loka-bhaye-fearing the public; prabhu-the
>|Lord; na-did not; mane-accept; kakhana-any time.
227|TRANSLATION
228|Jagadananda Pandita [as an incarnation of Satyabhama]
>|always wanted to see to the comfort of Lord Caitanya, but
>|since the Lord was a sannyasi He did not accept the
>|luxuries that Jagadananda Pandita offered.
229|Adi 10.23
230|TEXT 23
231|TEXT
232|dui-jane khatmati lagaya kondala
233|tanra prityera katha age kahiba sakala
234|SYNONYMS
235|dui-jane-two persons; khatmati-fighting over trifles;
>|lagaya-continued; kondala-quarrel; tanra-his; prityera-
>|affection; katha-narration; age-ahead; kahiba-I shall speak;
>| sakala-all.
236|TRANSLATION
237|They sometimes appeared to fight over trifles, but these
>|quarrels were based on their affection, of which I shall
>|speak later.
238|Adi 10.24
239|TEXT 24
240|TEXT
241|raghava-pandita-prabhura adya-anucara
242|tanra eka sakha mukhya-makaradhvaja kara
243|SYNONYMS
244|raghava pandita-of the name Raghava Pandita; prabhura-of
>|the Lord; adya-original; anucara-follower; tanra-his; eka-
>|one; sakha-branch; mukhya-chief; makaradhvaja- of the name
>|Makaradhvaja; kara-surname.
245|TRANSLATION
246|Raghava Pandita, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's original
>|follower, is understood to have been the seventh branch.
>|From him proceeded another subbranch, headed by
>|Makaradhvaja Kara.
247|PURPORT
248|Kara was the surname of Makaradhvaja. At present this
>|surname is generally found in the Kayastha community. The
>|Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 166 , states:
249|dhanistha bhaksya-samagrim
250|krsnayadad vraje 'mitam
251|saiva sampratam gauranga-
252|priyo raghava-panditah
253|Raghava Pandita was formerly a confidential gopi in Vraja
>|during the time of Lord Krsna's pastimes, and his former
>|name was Dhanistha. This gopi, Dhanistha, always engaged in
>|preparing foods for Krsna.
254|Adi 10.25
255|TEXT 25
256|TEXT
257|tanhara bhagini damayanti prabhura priya dasi
258|prabhura bhoga-samagri ye kare vara-masi
259|SYNONYMS
260|tanhara-his; bhagini-sister; damayanti-of the name
>|Damayanti; prabhura-of the Lord; priya-dear; dasi-
>|maidservant; prabhura-of the Lord; bhoga-samagri-cooking
>|materials; ye-who; kare-does; vara-masi-throughout the
>|whole year.
261|TRANSLATION
262|Raghava Pandita's sister Damayanti was the dear maidservant
>|of the Lord. She always collected various ingredients with
>|which to cook for Lord Caitanya.
263|PURPORT
264|
>|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse 167 , it
>|is mentioned, gunamala vraje yasid damayanti tu tat-svasa:
>|The gopi named Gunamala appeared as Raghava Pandita's
>|sister Damayanti. On the East Bengal railway line beginning
>|from the Sealdah station in Calcutta, there is a station
>|named Sodapura, which is not very far from Calcutta. Within
>|one mile of this station, toward the western side of the
>|Ganges, is a village known as Panihati, in which the
>|residential quarters of Raghava Pandita still exist. On
>|Raghava Pandita's tomb is a creeper on a concrete platform.
>|There is also a Madana-mohana Deity in a broken-down temple
>|nearby. This temple is managed by a local Zamindar of the
>|name Sri Sivacandra Raya Caudhuri. Makaradhvaja Kara was
>|also an inhabitant of Panihati.
265|Adi 10.26
266|TEXT 26
267|TEXT
268|se saba samagri yata jhalite bhariya
269|raghava la-iya ya'na gupata kariya
270|SYNONYMS
271|se saba-all those; samagri-ingredients; yata-all of them;
>|jhalite bhariya-packing in bags; raghava-Raghava Pandita;
>|la-iya-carried; ya'na-goes; gupata kariya-very
>|confidentially.
272|TRANSLATION
273|The foods Damayanti cooked for Lord Caitanya when He was at
>|Puri were carried in bags by her brother Raghava without
>|the knowledge of others.
274|Adi 10.27
275|TEXT 27
276|TEXT
277|vara-masa taha prabhu karena angikara
278|'raghavera jhali' bali' prasiddhi yahara
279|SYNONYMS
280|vara-masa-the whole year; taha-all those foods; prabhu-Lord
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; karena-did; angikara-accept;
>|raghavera jhali-the bags of Raghava Pandita; bali'-so
>|called; prasiddhi-celebrated; yahara-of which.
281|TRANSLATION
282|The Lord accepted these foods throughout the entire year.
>|Those bags are still celebrated as raghavera jhali ["the
>|bags of Raghava Pandita"].
283|Adi 10.28
284|TEXT 28
285|TEXT
286|se-saba samagri age kariba vistara
287|yahara sravane bhaktera vahe asrudhara
288|SYNONYMS
289|se-saba-all these things; samagri-ingredients of the foods;
>|age-further on; kariba-I shall describe; vistara-vividly;
>|yahara-of which; sravane-by the hearing; bhaktera-of a
>|devotee; vahe-flowing; asru-dhara-tears.
290|TRANSLATION
291|I shall describe the contents of the bags of Raghava
>|Pandita later in this book. Hearing this narration,
>|devotees generally cry, and tears glide down from their
>|eyes.
292|PURPORT
293|A vivid description of these raghavera jhali is to be found
>|in Chapter Ten of the Antya-lila portion of Sri Caitanya-
>|caritamrta.
294|Adi 10.29
295|TEXT 29
296|TEXT
297|prabhura atyanta priya-pandita gangadasa
298|yanhara smarane haya sarva-bandha-nasa
299|SYNONYMS
300|prabhura-of the Lord; atyanta-very much; priya-dear;
>|pandita gangadasa- of the name Pandita Gangadasa; yanhara-
>|who; smarane-by remembering; haya-it becomes; sarva-bandha-
>|nasa-freedom from all kinds of bondage.
301|TRANSLATION
302|Pandita Gangadasa was the eighth dear branch of the tree of
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. One who remembers his activities
>|attains freedom from all bondage.
303|Adi 10.30
304|TEXT 30
305|TEXT
306|caitanya-parsada-sri-acarya purandara
307|pita kari' yanre bale gauranga-sundara
308|SYNONYMS
309|caitanya-parsada-associate of Lord Caitanya; sri-acarya
>|purandara-of the name Sri Acarya Purandara; pita-father;
>|kari'-taking him; yanre-whom; bale-says; gauranga-sundara-
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
310|TRANSLATION
311|Sri Acarya Purandara, the ninth branch, was a constant
>|associate of Lord Caitanya. The Lord accepted him as His
>|father.
312|PURPORT
313|It is described in the Caitanya-bhagavata that whenever
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu visited the house of Raghava
>|Pandita, He also visited Purandara Acarya immediately upon
>|receiving an invitation. Purandara Acarya is to be
>|considered most fortunate because the Lord used to greet
>|him by addressing him as His father and embracing him in
>|great love.
314|Adi 10.31
315|TEXT 31
316|TEXT
317|damodara-pandita sakha premete pracanda
318|prabhura upare yenho kaila vakya-danda
319|SYNONYMS
320|damodara-pandita-of the name Damodara Pandita; sakha-
>|another branch (the tenth branch); premete-in affection;
>|pracanda-very much advanced; prabhura-the Lord; upare-upon;
>| yenho-he who; kaila-did; vakya-danda-chastisement by
>|speaking.
321|TRANSLATION
322|Damodara Pandita, the tenth branch of the Caitanya tree,
>|was so elevated in love of Lord Caitanya that he once
>|unhesitatingly chastised the Lord with strong words.
323|Adi 10.32
324|TEXT 32
325|TEXT
326|danda-katha kahiba age vistara kariya
327|dande tusta prabhu tanre pathaila nadiya
328|SYNONYMS
329|danda-katha-the narration of such chastisement; kahiba-I
>|shall speak; age-ahead; vistara-detailed description;
>|kariya-making; dande-in the matter of chastisement; tusta
>|prabhu-the Lord is very much satisfied; tanre-him; pathaila-
>|sent back; nadiya-Nadia (a district in Bengal).
330|TRANSLATION
331|Later in the Caitanya-caritamrta I shall describe this
>|incident of chastisement in detail. The Lord, being very
>|much satisfied by this chastisement, sent Damodara Pandita
>|to Navadvipa.
332|PURPORT
333|Damodara Pandita, who was formerly known as Saibya in Vraja-
>|dhama, used to carry messages from Lord Caitanya to
>|Sacimata, and during the Ratha-yatra festival he carried
>|messages from Sacimata to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
334|Adi 10.33
335|TEXT 33
336|TEXT
337|tanhara anuja sakha-sankara-pandita
338|'prabhu-padopadhana' yanra nama vidita
339|SYNONYMS
340|tanhara-his (Damodara Pandita's); anuja-younger brother;
>|sakha-the eleventh branch; sankara-pandita-of the name
>|Sankara Pandita; prabhu-the Lord's; pada-upadhana-shoes;
>|yanra-whose; nama-name; vidita-celebrated.
341|TRANSLATION
342|The eleventh branch, the younger brother of Damodara
>|Pandita, was known as Sankara Pandita. He was celebrated as
>|the shoes of the Lord.
343|Adi 10.34
344|TEXT 34
345|TEXT
346|sadasiva-pandita yanra prabhu-pade asa
347|prathamei nityanandera yanra ghare vasa
348|SYNONYMS
349|sadasiva-pandita-of the name Sadasiva Pandita; yanra-whose;
>|prabhu-pade-unto the lotus feet of the Lord; asa-constant
>|desire; prathamei-in the beginning; nityanandera-of Lord
>|Nityananda; yanra-of whom; ghare-in the home; vasa-
>|residence.
350|TRANSLATION
351|Sadasiva Pandita, the twelfth branch, was always anxious to
>|serve the lotus feet of the Lord. It was his good fortune
>|that when Lord Nityananda came to Navadvipa He resided at
>|his house.
352|PURPORT
353|It is mentioned in the Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya-lila,
>|Chapter Nine, that Sadasiva Pandita was a pure devotee and
>|that Nityananda Prabhu resided at his house.
354|Adi 10.35
355|TEXT 35
356|TEXT
357|sri-nrsimha-upasaka-pradyumna brahmacari
358|prabhu tanra nama kaila 'nrsimhananda' kari'
359|SYNONYMS
360|sri-nrsimha-upasaka-the worshiper of Lord Nrsimhadeva;
>|pradyumna brahmacari-of the name Pradyumna Brahmacari;
>|prabhu-the Lord; tanra-his; nama-name; kaila-turned into;
>|nrsimhananda- of the name Nrsimhananda; kari'-by such a
>|name.
361|TRANSLATION
362|The thirteenth branch was Pradyumna Brahmacari. Since he
>|was a worshiper of Lord Nrsimhadeva, Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu changed his name to Nrsimhananda Brahmacari.
363|PURPORT
364|Pradyumna Brahmacari is described in the Antya-lila, Second
>|Chapter, of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. He was a great devotee
>|of Lord Caitanya' s who changed his name to Nrsimhananda.
>|While coming from the house of Raghava Pandita at Panihati
>|to the house of Sivananda, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|appeared in the heart of Nrsimhananda Brahmacari. To
>|acknowledge this, Nrsimhananda Brahmacari used to accept as
>|eatables the food of three Deities, namely , Jagannatha,
>|Nrsimhadeva and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. This is stated in
>|the Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, Second Chapter, verses
>|48 through 78. Upon receiving information that Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu was proceeding toward Vrndavana from
>|Kuliya, Nrsimhananda absorbed himself in meditation and by
>|his mental activities began constructing a very nice road
>|from Kuliya to Vrndavana. All of a sudden, however, he
>|broke his meditation and told the other devotees that this
>|time Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu would not go to Vrndavana but
>|only as far as the place known as Kanai
>|Natasala. This is described in the Madhya-lila, Chapter One,
>| verses 155 through 162. The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse
>|74 , says, avesas ca tathajneyo misre pradyumna-samjnake:
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu changed the name of Pradyumna Misra,
>| or Pradyumna Brahmacari, to Nrsimhananda Brahmacari, for
>|in his heart Lord Nrsimhadeva was manifest. It is said that
>|Lord Nrsimhadeva used to talk with him directly.
365|Adi 10.36
366|TEXT 36
367|TEXT
368|narayana-pandita eka bada-i udara
369|caitanya-carana vinu nahi jane ara
370|SYNONYMS
371|narayana-pandita-of the name Narayana Pandita; eka-one;
>|badai-very; udara-liberal; caitanya-carana-the lotus feet
>|of Lord Caitanya; vinu-except; nahi-not; jane-know; ara-
>|anything else.
372|TRANSLATION
373|Narayana Pandita, the fourteenth branch, a great and
>|liberal devotee, did not know any shelter but Lord Caitanya'
>|s lotus feet.
374|PURPORT
375|Narayana Pandita was one of the associates of Srivasa
>|Thakura. It is mentioned in the Caitanya-bhagavata, Ninth
>| Chapter, verse 93, that he went to see Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri with Thakura's
>|brother Sri Rama Pandita.
376|Adi 10.37
377|TEXT 37
378|TEXT
379|sriman-pandita sakha-prabhura nija bhrtya
380|deuti dharena, yabe prabhu karena nrtya
381|SYNONYMS
382|sriman-pandita-of the name Sriman Pandita; sakha-branch;
>|prabhura-of the Lord; nija-own; bhrtya-servant; deuti-torch
>|light; dharena-carries; yabe-while; prabhu-Lord Caitanya;
>|karena-does; nrtya-dance.
383|TRANSLATION
384|The fifteenth branch was Sriman Pandita, who was a constant
>|servitor of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He used to carry a
>|torch while the Lord danced.
385|PURPORT
386|Sriman Pandita was among the companions of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu when the Lord performed sankirtana. When Lord
>|Caitanya dressed Himself in the form of the goddess Laksmi
>|and danced in the streets of Navadvipa, Sriman Pandita
>|carried a torch to light the way.
387|Adi 10.38
388|TEXT 38
389|TEXT
390|suklambara-brahmacari bada bhagyavan
391|yanra anna magi' kadi' khaila bhagavan
392|SYNONYMS
393|suklambara-brahmacari-of the name Suklambara Brahmacari;
>|bada-very; bhagyavan-fortunate; yanra-whose; anna-food;
>|magi'-begging; kadi'-snatching; khaila-ate; bhagavan-the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead.
394|TRANSLATION
395|The sixteenth branch, Suklambara Brahmacari, was very
>|fortunate because Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu jokingly or
>|seriously begged food from him or sometimes snatched it
>|from him forcibly and ate it.
396|PURPORT
397|It is stated that Suklambara Brahmacari, an inhabitant of
>|Navadvipa, was Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's first companion
>|in the sankirtana movement. When Lord Caitanya returned
>|from Gaya after initiation, He stayed with Suklambara
>|Brahmacari because He wanted to hear from this devotee
>|about the pastimes of Lord Krsna. Suklambara Brahmacari
>|collected alms of rice from the inhabitants of Navadvipa,
>|and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu took pleasure in eating the
>|rice that he cooked. It is said that Suklambara Brahmacari
>|was one of the wives of the yajnic brahmanas during the
>|time of Lord Krsna's pastimes in Vrndavana. Lord Krsna
>|begged food from the wives of the yajnic brahmanas, and
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu performed a similar pastime by
>|begging rice from Suklambara Brahmacari.
398|Adi 10.39
399|TEXT 39
400|TEXT
401|nandana-acarya-sakha jagate vidita
402|lukaiya dui prabhura yanra ghare sthita
403|SYNONYMS
404|nandana-acarya-of the name Nandana Acarya; sakha-the
>|seventeenth branch; jagate-in the world; vidita-celebrated;
>|lukaiya-hiding; dui-two; prabhura-of the Lords; yanra-of
>|whom; ghare-in the house; sthita-situated.
405|TRANSLATION
406|Nandana Acarya, the seventeenth branch of the Caitanya tree,
>| is celebrated within the world because the two Prabhus [
>|Lord Caitanya and Nityananda] sometimes hid in his house.
407|PURPORT
408|Nandana Acarya was another companion of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu during His kirtana pastimes in Navadvipa. Srila
>|Nityananda Prabhu, as Avadhuta, traveled on many
>|pilgrimages, and when He first came to Sri Navadvipa-dhama
>|He remained hidden in the house of Nandana Acarya. It is
>|there that He first met all the devotees of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu. When Caitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited His maha-
>|prakasa, He asked Ramai Pandita to call Advaita Prabhu, who
>|was hiding in the home of Nandana Acarya, for Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu could understand that He was hiding. Similarly,
>|Lord Caitanya also sometimes hid in the home of Nandana
>|Acarya. In this connection one may refer to Sri Caitanya-
>|bhagavata, Madhya-lila Chapters Six and Seventeen.
409|Adi 10.40
410|TEXT 40
411|TEXT
412|sri-mukunda-datta sakha-prabhura samadhyayi
413|yanhara kirtane nace caitanya-gosani
414|SYNONYMS
415|sri-mukunda-datta-of the name Sri Mukunda Datta; sakha-
>|another branch; prabhura-of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu;
>|samadhyayi-class friend; yanhara-whose; kirtane-in
>|sankirtana; nace-dances; caitanya-gosani-Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu.
416|TRANSLATION
417|Mukunda Datta, a class friend of Lord Caitanya's, was
>|another branch of the Caitanya tree. Lord Caitanya danced
>|while he sang.
418|PURPORT
419|Sri Mukunda Datta was born in the Cattagrama district, in
>|the village of Chanhara, which is under the jurisdiction of
>|the police station named Patiya. This village is situated
>|ten krosas, or about twenty miles, from the home of
>|Pundarika Vidyanidhi. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (140)
>|it is said:
420|vraje sthitau gayakau yau
421|madhukantha- madhuvratau
422|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|Mukunda
>|
>|-vasudevau
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|tau
423|dattau gauranga
>|
>|
>|-gayakau
>|
>|
>|
424|"In Vraja there were two very nice singers
>|named Madhukantha and Madhuvrata . They appeared
>|in caitanya -lila as Mukunda and Vasudeva Datta, who
>|were singers in the society of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu ." When Lord Caitanya was a
>|student , Mukunda Datta was His class friend , and
>| they frequently engaged in logical
>| arguments . Sometimes
>| Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>| would fight
>|with Mukunda Datta , using
>| tricks of logic . This is described in the
>|Caitanya -bhagavata, Adi-lila, Chapters Eleven and
>|Twelve. When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu returned
>|from Gaya , Mukunda Datta gave Him pleasure
>|by reciting verses from Srimad -Bhagavatam
>|about krsna - lila . It was by his
>| endeavor that Gadadhara Pandita Gosvami became a
>|disciple of Pundarika Vidyanidhi , as stated
>|in Sri Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya- lila, Chapter
>|Seven. When Mukunda Datta sang in
>| the courtyard of Srivasa Prabhu,
>|Mahaprabhu danced with His singing , and
>|when Lord Caitanya for twenty -one hours exhibited
>|an ecstatic manifestation known as sata-prahariya,
>|Mukunda Datta inaugurated the function by
>|singing.
425|Sometimes Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu chastised Mukunda Datta
>|by calling him khadajathiya beta because he attended many
>|functions held by different classes of nondevotees. This is
>|stated in the Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya-lila, Chapter Ten.
>|When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu dressed Himself as the
>|goddess of fortune to dance in the house of Candrasekhara,
>|Mukunda Datta began the first song.
426|Before disclosing His desire to take the renounced order of
>|life, Lord Caitanya first went to the house of Mukunda
>|Datta, but at that time Mukunda Datta requested Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu to continue His sankirtana movement for
>|a few days more before taking sannyasa. This is stated in
>|Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya-lila Chapter Twenty-six. The
>|information of Lord Caitanya's accepting the renounced
>|order was made known to Gadadhara Pandita, Candrasekhara
>|Acarya and Mukunda Datta by Nityananda Prabhu, and
>|therefore all of them went to Katwa and arranged for
>|kirtana and all the paraphernalia for Lord Caitanya's
>|acceptance of sannyasa. After the Lord took sannyasa, they
>|all followed Him, especially Sri Nityananda Prabhu,
>|Gadadhara Prabhu and Govinda, who followed Him all the way
>|to Purusottama-ksetra. In this connection one may refer to
>|Sri Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya-lila, Chapter Two. In the
>|place known as Jalesvara, Nityananda Prabhu broke the
>|sannyasa rod of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Mukunda Datta was also
>|present at that time. He went every year from Bengal to see
>|Lord Caitanya at Jagannatha Puri.
427|Adi 10.41
428|TEXT 41
429|TEXT
430|vasudeva datta-prabhura bhrtya mahasaya
431|sahasra-mukhe yanra guna kahile na haya
432|SYNONYMS
433|vasudeva datta-of the name Vasudeva Datta; prabhura-of Lord
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhrtya-servant; mahasaya-great
>|personality; sahasra-mukhe-with thousands of mouths; yanra-
>|whose; guna-qualities; kahile-describing; na-never; haya-
>|becomes fulfilled.
434|TRANSLATION
435|Vasudeva Datta, the nineteenth branch of the Sri Caitanya
>|tree, was a great personality and a most confidential
>|devotee of the Lord. One could not describe his qualities
>|even with thousands of mouths.
436|PURPORT
437|Vasudeva Datta, the brother of Mukunda Datta, was also a
>|resident of Cattagrama. In the Caitanya-bhagavata it is
>|said, yanra sthane krsna haya apane vikraya: Vasudeva Datta
>|was such a powerful devotee that Krsna was purchased by him.
>| Vasudeva Datta stayed at Srivasa Pandita's house, and in
>|the Caitanya-bhagavata it is described that Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu was so pleased with Vasudeva Datta and so
>|affectionate toward him that He used to say, "I am only
>|Vasudeva Datta's man. My body is only meant to please
>|Vasudeva Datta, and he can sell Me anywhere." Thrice He
>|vowed that this was a fact and that no one should
>|disbelieve these statements. "All My dear devotees," He
>|said, "I tell you the truth. My body is especially meant
>|for Vasudeva Datta." Vasudeva Datta initiated Sri
>|Yadunandana Acarya, the spiritual master of Raghunatha dasa,
>| who later became Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. This will be
>|found in the Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, Sixth Chapter,
>| verse 161. Vasudeva Datta spent money very liberally;
>|therefore Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked Sivananda Sena to
>|become his sarakhela, or secretary, in order to control his
>|extravagant expenses. Vasudeva Datta was so kind to the
>|living entities that he wanted to take all their sinful
>|reactions so that they might be delivered by Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu. This is described in the Fifteenth Chapter of
>|the Caitanya-caritamrta's Madhya-lila, verses 159 through
>|180.
438|
>|There is a railway station named Purvasthali
>|near the Navadvipa railway station, and about one mile away,
>| in a village known as Mamagachi, which is the birthplace
>|of Vrndavana dasa Thakura, there is presently a temple of
>|Madana-gopala that was established by Vasudeva Datta. The
>|Gaudiya Matha devotees have now taken charge of this temple,
>| and the seva-puja is going on very nicely. Every year all
>|the pilgrims on the navadvipa-parikrama visit Mamagachi.
>|Since Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura inaugurated the
>|navadvipa-parikrama function, the temple has been very well
>|managed.
439|Adi 10.42
440|TEXT 42
441|TEXT
442|jagate yateka jiva, tara papa lana
443|naraka bhunjite cahe jiva chadaiya
444|SYNONYMS
445|jagate-in the world; yateka-all; jiva-living entities; tara-
>|their; papa-sinful activities; lana-taking; naraka-hell;
>|bhunjite-to suffer; cahe-wanted; jiva-the living entities;
>|chadaiya-liberating them.
446|TRANSLATION
447|Srila Vasudeva Datta Thakura wanted to suffer for the
>|sinful activities of all the people of the world so that
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu might deliver them.
448|Adi 10.43
449|TEXT 43
450|TEXT
451|haridasa-thakura sakhara adbhuta carita
452|tina laksa nama tenho layena apatita
453|SYNONYMS
454|haridasa-thakura-of the name Haridasa Thakura; sakhara-of
>|the branch; adbhuta-wonderful; carita-characteristics; tina-
>|three; laksa-hundred thousand; nama-names; tenho-he; layena-
>|chanted; apatita-without fail.
455|TRANSLATION
456|The twentieth branch of the Caitanya tree was Haridasa
>|Thakura. His character was wonderful. He used to chant the
>|holy name of Krsna 300,000 times a day without fail.
457|PURPORT
458|Certainly the chanting of 300,000 holy names of the Lord is
>|wonderful. No ordinary person can chant so many names, nor
>|should one artificially imitate Haridasa Thakura's behavior.
>| It is essential, however, that everyone fulfill a specific
>|vow to chant the Hare Krsna mantra. Therefore we have
>|prescribed in our Society that all our students must chant
>|at least sixteen rounds daily. Such chanting must be
>|offenseless in order to be of high quality. Mechanical
>|chanting is not as powerful as chanting of the holy name
>|without offenses. It is stated in the Caitanya-bhagavata,
>|Adi-lila, Chapter Two, that Haridasa Thakura was born in
>|a village known as Budhana but after some time came to live
>|on the bank of the Ganges at Phuliya near Santipura. From
>|the description of his chastisement by a Muslim magistrate,
>|which is found in the Sixteenth Chapter of the Adi- lila
>|of Caitanya-bhagavata, we can understand how humble and
>|meek Haridasa Thakura was and how he achieved the causeless
>|mercy of the Lord. In the dramas performed by Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu, Haridasa Thakura played the part of a police
>|chief. While chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra in
>|Benapola, he was personally tested by Mayadevi herself.
>|Haridasa Thakura's passing away is described in the Antya-
>|lila of Caitanya-caritamrta, Eleventh Chapter. It is not
>|definitely certain whether Sri Haridasa Thakura appeared in
>|the village named Budhana that is in the district of Khulna.
>| Formerly this village was within a district of twenty-four
>|parganas within the Sataksira division.
459|Adi 10.44
460|TEXT 44
461|TEXT
462|tanhara ananta guna-kahi dinmatra
463|acarya gosani yanre bhunjaya sraddha-patra
464|SYNONYMS
465|tanhara-Haridasa Thakura's; ananta-unlimited; guna-
>|qualities; kahi-I speak; din-matra-only a small part;
>|acarya gosani-Sri Advaita Acarya Prabhu; yanre-to whom;
>|bhunjaya-offered to eat; sraddha-patra-prasada offered to
>|Lord Visnu.
466|TRANSLATION
467|There was no end to the transcendental qualities of
>|Haridasa Thakura. Here I mention but a fraction of his
>|qualities. He was so exalted that Advaita Gosvami, when
>|performing the sraddha ceremony of his father, offered him
>|the first plate.
468|Adi 10.45
469|TEXT 45
470|TEXT
471|prahlada-samana tanra gunera taranga
472|yavana-tadaneo yanra nahika bhru-bhanga
473|SYNONYMS
474|prahlada-samana-exactly like Prahlada Maharaja; tanra-his;
>|gunera-qualities; taranga-waves; yavana-of the Muslims;
>|tadaneo-even by the persecution; yanra-whose; nahika-there
>|was none; bhru-bhanga-even the slightest agitation of an
>|eyebrow.
475|TRANSLATION
476|The waves of his good qualities were like those of Prahlada
>|Maharaja. He did not even slightly raise an eyebrow when
>|persecuted by the Muslim ruler.
477|Adi 10.46
478|TEXT 46
479|TEXT
480|tenho siddhi paile tanra deha lana kole
481|nacila caitanya-prabhu maha-kutuhale
482|SYNONYMS
483|tenho-he; siddhi-perfection; paile-after achieving; tanra-
>|his; deha-body; lana-taking; kole-on the lap; nacila-danced;
>| caitanya-prabhu-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; maha-
>|kutuhale-in great ecstasy.
484|TRANSLATION
485|After the passing away of Haridasa Thakura, the Lord
>|Himself took his body on His lap, and He danced with it in
>|great ecstasy.
486|Adi 10.47
487|TEXT 47
488|TEXT
489|tanra lila varniyachena vrndavana-dasa
490|yeba avasista, age kariba prakasa
491|SYNONYMS
492|tanra-his; lila-pastimes; varniyachena-described; vrndavana-
>|dasa-Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura; yeba-whatever; avasista-
>|remained undescribed; age-later in the book; kariba-I shall
>|make; prakasa-manifest.
493|TRANSLATION
494|Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura vividly described the
>|pastimes of Haridasa Thakura in his Caitanya-bhagavata.
>|Whatever has remained undescribed I shall try to explain
>|later in this book.
495|Adi 10.48
496|TEXT 48
497|TEXT
498|tanra upasakha-yata kulina-grami jana
499|satyaraja-adi-tanra krpara bhajana
500|SYNONYMS
501|tanra upasakha-his subbranch; yata-all; kulina-grami jana-
>|the inhabitants of Kulina-grama; satyaraja-of the name
>|Satyaraja; adi-heading the list; tanra-his; krpara-of mercy;
>| bhajana-recipient.
502|TRANSLATION
503|One subbranch of Haridasa Thakura consisted of the
>|residents of Kulina-grama. The most important among them
>|was Satyaraja Khan, or Satyaraja Vasu, who was a recipient
>|of all the mercy of Haridasa Thakura.
504|PURPORT
505|Satyaraja Khan was the son of Gunaraja Khan and father of
>|Ramananda Vasu. Haridasa Thakura lived for some time during
>|the Caturmasya period in the village named Kulina-grama,
>|where he chanted the holy name, the Hare Krsna maha-mantra,
>|and distributed his mercy to the descendants of the Vasu
>|family. Satyaraja Khan was allotted the service of
>|supplying silk ropes for the Jagannatha Deity during the
>|Rathayatra festival. The
>|answers to his inquiries from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu about
>|the duty of householder devotees are vividly described in
>|the Madhya-lila, Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen . The village
>|of Kulina-grama is situated two miles from the railway
>|station named Jaugrama on the Newcord line from Howrah to
>|Burdwan. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu very highly praised the
>|people of Kulina-grama, and He stated that even a dog of
>|Kulina-grama was very dear to Him.
506|Adi 10.49
507|TEXT 49
508|TEXT
509|sri-murari gupta sakha-premera bhandara
510|prabhura hrdaya drave suni' dainya yanra
511|SYNONYMS
512|sri-murari gupta-of the name Sri Murari Gupta; sakha-branch;
>| premera-of love of Godhead; bhandara-store; prabhura-of
>|the Lord; hrdaya-the heart; drave-melts; suni'-hearing;
>|dainya-humility; yanra-of whom.
513|TRANSLATION
514|Murari Gupta, the twenty-first branch of the tree of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was a storehouse of love of Godhead.
>|His great humility and meekness melted the heart of Lord
>|Caitanya.
515|PURPORT
516|Sri Murari Gupta wrote a book called Sri Caitanya-carita.
>|He belonged to a vaidya physician family of Srihatta, the
>|paternal home of Lord Caitanya, and later became a resident
>|of Navadvipa. He was among the elders of Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu. Lord Caitanya exhibited His Varaha form in the
>|house of Murari Gupta, as described in the Caitanya-
>|bhagavata, Madhya-lila, Third Chapter. When Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu exhibited His maha-prakasa form, He appeared
>|before Murari Gupta as Lord Ramacandra. When Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu were sitting together in
>|the house of Srivasa Thakura, Murari Gupta first offered
>|his respects to Lord Caitanya and then to Sri Nityananda
>|Prabhu. Nityananda Prabhu, however, was older than Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu, and therefore Lord Caitanya remarked that
>|Murari Gupta had violated social etiquette, for he should
>|have first shown respect to Nityananda Prabhu and then to
>|Him. In this way, by the grace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>|Murari Gupta was informed about the position of Sri
>|Nityananda Prabhu, and the next day he offered obeisances
>|first to Lord Nityananda and then to Lord Caitanya. Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave chewed pan, or betel nut, to
>|Murari Gupta. Once Sivananda Sena offered food to Lord
>|Caitanya that had been cooked with excessive ghee, and the
>|next day the Lord became sick and went to Murari Gupta for
>|treatment. Lord Caitanya accepted some water from the
>|waterpot of Murari Gupta, and thus He was cured. The
>|natural remedy for indigestion is to drink a little water,
>|and since Murari Gupta was a physician, he gave the Lord
>|some drinking water and cured Him.
517|When Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared in the house of Srivasa
>|Thakura in His Caturbhuja murti, Murari Gupta became His
>|carrier in the form of Garuda, and in these pastimes of
>|ecstasy the Lord then got up on his back. It was the desire
>|of Murari Gupta to leave his body before the disappearance
>|of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, but the Lord forbade him to do so.
>|This is described in Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya- lila,
>| Chapter Twenty. When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu one day
>|appeared in ecstasy as the Varaha murti, Murari Gupta
>|offered Him prayers. He was a great devotee of Lord
>|Ramacandra, and his staunch devotion is vividly described
>|in the Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, Fifteenth Chapter,
>|verses 137 through 157.
518|Adi 10.50
519|TEXT 50
520|TEXT
521|pratigraha nahi kare, na laya kara dhana
522|atma-vrtti kari' kare kutumba bharana
523|SYNONYMS
524|pratigraha nahi kare-he did not accept charity from anyone;
>|na-not; laya-take; kara-anyone's; dhana-wealth; atma-vrtti-
>|own profession; kari'-executing; kare-maintained; kutumba-
>|family; bharana-provision.
525|TRANSLATION
526|Srila Murari Gupta never accepted charity from friends, nor
>|did he accept money from anyone. He practiced as a
>|physician and maintained his family with his earnings.
527|PURPORT
528|It should be noted that a grhastha (householder) must not
>|make his livelihood by begging from anyone. Every
>|householder of the higher castes should engage himself in
>|his own occupational duty as a brahmana, ksatriya or vaisya,
>| but he should not engage in the service of others, for
>|this is the duty of a sudra. One should simply accept
>|whatever he earns by his own profession. The engagements of
>|a brahmana are yajana, yajana, pathana, pathana, dana and
>|pratigraha. A brahmana should be a worshiper of Visnu, and
>|he should also instruct others how to worship Him. A
>|ksatriya can become a landholder and earn his livelihood by
>|levying taxes or collecting rent from tenants. A vaisya can
>|accept agriculture or general trade as an occupational duty.
>| Since Murari Gupta was born in a physician's family (
>|vaidya-vamsa), he practiced as a physician, and with
>|whatever income he earned he maintained his family. As
>|stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam, everyone should try to satisfy
>|the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the execution of
>|his occupational duty. That is the perfection of life. This
>|system is called daivi-varnasrama. Murari Gupta was an
>|ideal grhastha, for he was a great devotee of Lord
>|Ramacandra and Caitanya Mahaprabhu. By practicing as a
>|physician he maintained his family and at the same time
>|satisfied Lord Caitanya to the best of his ability. This is
>|the ideal of householder life.
529|Adi 10.51
530|TEXT 51
531|TEXT
532|cikitsa karena yare ha-iya sadaya
533|deha-roga bhava-roga,-dui tara ksaya
534|SYNONYMS
535|cikitsa-medical treatment; karena-did; yare-upon whom; ha-
>|iya-becoming; sadaya-merciful; deha-roga-the disease of the
>|body; bhava-roga-the disease of material existence; dui-
>|both; tara-his; ksaya-diminished.
536|TRANSLATION
537|As Murari Gupta treated his patients, by his mercy both
>|their bodily and spiritual diseases subsided.
538|PURPORT
539|Murari Gupta could treat both bodily and spiritual disease
>|because he was a physician by profession and a great
>|devotee of the Lord in terms of spiritual advancement. This
>|is an example of service to humanity. Everyone should know
>|that there are two kinds of diseases in human society. One
>|disease, which is called adhyatmika, or material disease,
>|pertains to the body, but the main disease is spiritual.
>|The living entity is eternal, but somehow or other, when in
>|contact with the material energy, he is subjected to the
>|repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. The
>|physicians of the modern day should learn from Murari Gupta.
>| Although modern philanthropic physicians open gigantic
>|hospitals, there are no hospitals to cure the material
>|disease of the spirit soul. The Krsna consciousness
>|movement has taken up the mission of curing this disease,
>|but people are not very appreciative because they do not
>|know what this disease is. A diseased person needs both
>|proper medicine and a proper diet, and therefore the Krsna
>|consciousness movement supplies materially stricken people
>|with the medicine of the chanting of the holy name, or the
>|Hare Krsna maha-mantra, and the diet of prasada. There are
>|many hospitals and medical clinics to cure bodily diseases,
>|but there are no such hospitals to cure the material
>|disease of the spirit soul. The centers of the Krsna
>|consciousness movement are the only established hospitals
>|that can cure man of birth, death, old age and disease.
540|Adi 10.52
541|TEXT 52
542|TEXT
543|sriman sena prabhura sevaka pradhana
544|caitanya-carana vinu nahi jane ana
545|SYNONYMS
546|sriman sena-of the name Sriman Sena; prabhura-of the Lord;
>|sevaka-servant; pradhana-chief; caitanya-carana-the lotus
>|feet of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; vinu-except; nahi-does
>|not; jane-know; ana-anything else.
547|TRANSLATION
548|Sriman Sena, the twenty-second branch of the Caitanya tree,
>|was a very faithful servant of Lord Caitanya. He knew
>|nothing else but the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
549|PURPORT
550|Sriman Sena was one of the inhabitants of Navadvipa and was
>|a constant companion of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
551|Adi 10.53
552|TEXT 53
553|TEXT
554|sri-gadadhara dasa sakha sarvopari
555|kaji-ganera mukhe yenha bolaila hari
556|SYNONYMS
557|sri-gadadhara dasa-of the name Sri Gadadhara dasa; sakha-
>|another branch; sarva-upari-above all; kaji-ganera-of the
>|Kazis (Muslim magistrates); mukhe-in the mouth; yenha-one
>|who; bolaila-caused to speak; hari-the holy name of Hari.
558|TRANSLATION
559|Sri Gadadhara dasa, the twenty-third branch, was understood
>|to be the topmost, for he induced all the Muslim Kazis to
>|chant the holy name of Lord Hari.
560|PURPORT
561|About eight or ten miles from Calcutta on the banks of the
>|Ganges is a village known as Endiyadaha-grama. Srila
>|Gadadhara dasa was known as an inhabitant of this village (
>|endiyadaha-vasi gadadhara dasa). The Bhakti-ratnakara (
>|Seventh Wave), informs us that after the disappearance of
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Gadadhara dasa came from
>|Navadvipa to Katwa. Thereafter he came to Endiyadaha and
>|resided there. He is stated to be the luster of the body of
>|Srimati Radharani, just as Srila Gadadhara Pandita Gosvami
>|is an incarnation of Srimati Radharani Herself. Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu is sometimes explained to be radha-bhava-dyuti-
>|suvalita, or characterized by the emotions and bodily
>|luster of Srimati Radharani. Gadadhara dasa is this dyuti,
>|or luster. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika he is
>|described to be the expansion potency of Srimati
>|Radharani. He counts among the associates of both Srila
>|Gaurahari and Nityananda Prabhu; as a devotee of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu he was one of the associates of Lord
>|Krsna in conjugal love, and as a devotee of Lord Nityananda
>|he is considered to have been one of the friends of Krsna
>|in pure devotional service. Even though he was an associate
>|of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, he was not among the cowherd
>|boys but was situated in the transcendental mellow of
>|conjugal love. He established a temple of Sri Gaurasundara
>|in Katwa.
562|In 1434 sakabda (A.D. 1513), when Lord Nityananda Prabhu
>|was empowered by Lord Caitanya to preach the sankirtana
>|movement in Bengal, Sri Gadadhara dasa was one of Lord
>|Nityananda's chief assistants. He preached the sankirtana
>|movement by requesting everyone to chant the Hare Krsna
>|maha-mantra. This simple preaching method of Srila
>|Gadadhara dasa can be followed by anyone and everyone in
>|any position of society. One must simply be a sincere and
>|serious servant of Nityananda Prabhu and preach this cult
>|door to door.
563|When Srila Gadadhara dasa Prabhu was preaching the cult of
>|hari-kirtana, there was a magistrate who was very much
>|against his sankirtana movement. Following in the footsteps
>|of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Srila Gadadhara dasa one night
>|went to the house of the Kazi and requested him to chant
>|the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. The Kazi replied, "All right, I
>|shall chant Hare Krsna tomorrow." On hearing this, Srila
>|Gadadhara dasa Prabhu began to dance, and he said, "Why
>|tomorrow? You have already chanted the Hare Krsna mantra,
>|so simply continue."
564|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (verses 154-55) it is said:
565|radha-vibhuti-rupa ya
566|candrakantih pura vraje
567|sa sri- gauranga -nikate
568|dasa -vamsyo gadadharah
569|purnananda vraje yasid
570|baladeva-priyagrani
571|sapi karya-vasad eva
572|pravisat tam gadadharam
573|Srila Gadadhara dasa is considered to be a united form of
>|Candrakanti, who is the effulgence of Srimati Radharani,
>|and Purnananda, who is the foremost of Lord Balarama's very
>|dear girlfriends. Thus Srila Gadadhara dasa Prabhu was one
>|of the associates of both Caitanya Mahaprabhu and
>|Nityananda Prabhu.
574|Once while Srila Gadadhara dasa Prabhu was returning to
>|Bengal from Jagannatha Puri with Nityananda Prabhu, he
>|forgot himself and began talking very loudly as if he were
>|a girl of Vrajabhumi selling yogurt, and Srila Nityananda
>|Prabhu noted this. Another time, while absorbed in the
>|ecstasy of the gopis, he carried a jug filled with Ganges
>|water on his head as if he were selling milk. When Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared in the house of Raghava
>|Pandita while going to Vrndavana, Gadadhara dasa went to
>|see Him, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was so glad that He
>|put His foot on his head. When Gadadhara dasa Prabhu was
>|present in Endiyadaha he established a Bala Gopala murti
>|for worship there. Sri Madhava Ghosa performed a drama
>|known as "Dana-khanda " with the help of Sri Nityananda
>|Prabhu and Sri Gadadhara dasa. This is explained in the
>|Caitanya-bhagavata , Antya -lila 5.318 -94 .
575|The tomb of Gadadhara dasa Prabhu, which is in the village
>|of Endiyadaha, was under the control of the Samyogi
>|Vaisnavas and later under the direction of Siddha Bhagavan
>|dasa Babaji of Kalna. By his order, Sri Madhusudana Mullik,
>|one of the members of the aristocratic Mullik family of the
>|Narikeladanga in Calcutta, established a patavati (
>|monastery) there in the Bengali year 1256 (A.D. 1849). He
>|also arranged for the worship of a Deity named Sri
>|Radhakanta. His son Balaicanda Mullik established Gaura-
>|Nitai Deities there in the Bengali year 1312 (A.D. 1905).
>|Thus on the throne of the temple are both Gaura-Nityananda
>|Deities and Radha-Krsna Deities. Below the throne is a
>|tablet with an inscription written in Sanskrit. In that
>|temple there is also a small Deity of Lord Siva as
>|Gopesvara. This is all described on a stone by the side of
>|the entrance door.
576|Adi 10.54
577|TEXT 54
578|TEXT
579|sivananda sena-prabhura bhrtya antaranga
580|prabhu-sthane yaite sabe layena yanra sanga
581|SYNONYMS
582|sivananda sena-of the name Sivananda Sena; prabhura-of the
>|Lord; bhrtya-servant; antaranga-very confidential; prabhu-
>|sthane-in Jagannatha Puri, where the Lord was staying;
>|yaite-while going; sabe-all; layena-took; yanra-whose;
>|sanga-shelter.
583|TRANSLATION
584|Sivananda Sena, the twenty-fourth branch of the tree, was
>|an extremely confidential servant of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu. Everyone who went to Jagannatha Puri to visit
>|Lord Caitanya took shelter and guidance from Sri Sivananda
>|Sena.
585|Adi 10.55
586|TEXT 55
587|TEXT
588|prativarse prabhu-gana sangete la-iya
589|nilacale calena pathe palana kariya
590|SYNONYMS
591|prati-varse-every year; prabhu-gana-the devotees of Lord
>|Caitanya; sangete-along with; la-iya-taking; nilacale-to
>|Jagannatha Puri; calena-goes; pathe-on the road; palana-
>|maintenance; kariya-providing.
592|TRANSLATION
593|Every year he took a party of devotees from Bengal to
>|Jagannatha Puri to visit Lord Caitanya. He maintained the
>|entire party as they journeyed on the road.
594|Adi 10.56
595|TEXT 56
596|TEXT
597|bhakte krpa karena prabhu e-tina svarupe
598|'saksat,' 'avesa' ara 'avirbhava'-rupe
599|SYNONYMS
600|bhakte-unto devotees; krpa-mercy; karena-bestows; prabhu-
>|Lord Caitanya; e-these; tina-three; svarupe-features;
>|saksat-directly; avesa-empowered by the Lord; ara-and;
>|avirbhava-appearance; rupe-in the features.
601|TRANSLATION
602|Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu bestows His causeless mercy
>|upon His devotees in three features: His own direct
>|appearance [saksat], His prowess within someone He empowers
>|[avesa], and His manifestation [avirbhava].
603|PURPORT
604|The saksat feature of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is His
>|personal presence. Avesa refers to invested power, like
>|that invested in Nakula Brahmacari. Avirbhava is a
>|manifestation of the Lord that appears even though He is
>|personally not present. For example, Sri Sacimata offered
>|food at home to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu although He was far
>|away in Jagannatha Puri, and when she opened her eyes after
>|offering the food she saw that it had actually been eaten
>|by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Similarly, when Srivasa Thakura
>|performed sankirtana, everyone felt the presence of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, even in His absence. This is another
>|example of avirbhava.
605|Adi 10.57
606|TEXT 57
607|TEXT
608|'saksate' sakala bhakta dekhe nirvisesa
609|nakula brahmacari-dehe prabhura 'avesa'
610|SYNONYMS
611|saksate-directly; sakala-all; bhakta-devotees; dekhe-see;
>|nirvisesa-nothing peculiar but as He is; nakula brahmacari-
>|of the name Nakula Brahmacari; dehe-in the body; prabhura-
>|the Lord's; avesa-symptoms of power.
612|TRANSLATION
613|The appearance of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in every
>|devotee's presence is called saksat. His appearance in
>|Nakula Brahmacari as a symptom of special prowess is an
>|example of avesa.
614|Adi 10.58
615|TEXT 58
616|TEXT
617|'pradyumna brahmacari' tanra age nama chila
618|'nrsimhananda' nama prabhu pache ta' rakhila
619|SYNONYMS
620|pradyumna brahmacari-of the name Pradyumna Brahmacari;
>|tanra-his; age-previously; nama-name; chila-was;
>|nrsimhananda- of the name Nrsimhananda; nama-the name;
>|prabhu-the Lord; pache-afterward; ta'-certainly; rakhila-
>|kept it.
621|TRANSLATION
622|The former Pradyumna Brahmacari was given the name
>|Nrsimhananda Brahmacari by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
623|Adi 10.59
624|TEXT 59
625|TEXT
626|tanhate ha-ila caitanyera 'avirbhava'
627|alaukika aiche prabhura aneka svabhava
628|SYNONYMS
629|tanhate-in him; ha-ila-there was; caitanyera-of Lord Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; avirbhava-appearance; alaukika-
>|uncommon; aiche-like that; prabhura-of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; aneka-various; svabhava-features.
630|TRANSLATION
631|In his body there were symptoms of avirbhava. Such
>|appearances are uncommon, but Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|displayed many such pastimes through His different features.
632|PURPORT
633|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (74) it is said that
>|Nakula Brahmacari displayed the prowess (avesa) and
>|Pradyumna Brahmacari the appearance (avirbhava) of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. There are many hundreds and thousands
>|of devotees of Lord Caitanya among whom there are no
>|special symptoms, but when a devotee of Lord Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu functions with specific prowess, he displays the
>|feature called avesa. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally
>|spread the sankirtana movement, and He advised all the
>|inhabitants of Bharatavarsa to take up His cult and preach
>|it all over the world. The visible bodily symptoms of
>|devotees who follow such instructions are called avesa.
>|Srila Sivananda Sena observed such avesa symptoms in Nakula
>|Brahmacari, who displayed symptoms exactly like those of
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The Caitanya-caritamrta states
>|that in the Age of Kali the only spiritual function is to
>|broadcast the holy name of the Lord, but this function can
>|be performed only by one who is actually empowered by Lord
>|Krsna. The process by which a devotee is thus empowered is
>|called avesa, or sometimes it is called sakty-avesa.
634|Pradyumna Brahmacari was formerly a resident of a village
>|known as Piyariganja in Kalna. There is a description of
>|him in the Antya-lila of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Second
>|Chapter, and in the Antya-lila of Sri Caitanya-bhagavata,
>|chapters Three and Nine.
635|Adi 10.60
636|TEXT 60
637|TEXT
638|asvadila e saba rasa sena sivananda
639|vistari' kahiba age esaba ananda
640|SYNONYMS
641|asvadila-tasted; e-these; saba-all; rasa-mellows; sena
>|sivananda-Sivananda Sena; vistari'-describing vividly;
>|kahiba-I shall speak; age-later on; esaba -all this;
>|ananda-transcendental bliss.
642|TRANSLATION
643|Srila Sivananda Sena experienced the three features
>|saksat, avesa and avirbhava. Later I shall vividly describe
>|this transcendentally blissful subject.
644|PURPORT
645|Srila Sivananda Sena has been described by Srila
>|Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja as follows: He
>| was a resident of Kumarahatta, which is also known as
>|Halisahara, and was a great devotee of the Lord. About one
>|and a half miles from Kumarahatta is another village, known
>|as Kancadapada, in which there are Gaura-Gopala Deities
>|installed by Sivananda Sena, who also established a temple
>|of Krsnaraya that is still existing. Sivananda Sena was the
>|father of Paramananda Sena, who was also known as Puri dasa
>|or Kavi-karnapura. Paramananda Sena wrote in his Gaura-
>|ganoddesa-dipika (176) that two of the gopis of Vrndavana,
>|whose former names were Vira and Duti, combined to become
>|his father. Srila Sivananda Sena guided all the devotees of
>|Lord Caitanya who went from Bengal to Jagannatha Puri, and
>|he personally bore all the expenses for their journey. This
>|is described in the Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila,
>|Chapter Sixteen, verses 19 through 27. Srila Sivananda Sena
>|had three sons, named Caitanya dasa, Ramadasa and
>|Paramananda. this last son later became
>|Kavi-karnapura , and he is the author of Gaura-
>|ganoddesa-dipika. His spiritual master was Srinatha Pandita,
>| who was Sivananda Sena's priest. Due to Vasudeva Datta's
>|lavish spending, Sivananda Sena was engaged to supervise
>|his expenditures.
646|Sri Sivananda Sena actually experienced Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu's features of saksat, avesa and avirbhava. He
>|once picked up a dog while on his way to Jagannatha Puri,
>| and it is described in the Antya-lila, First Chapter, that
>|this dog later attained salvation by his association. When
>|Srila Raghunatha dasa, who later became Raghunatha dasa
>|Gosvami, fled his paternal home to join Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu, his father wrote a letter to Sivananda Sena to
>|get information about him. Sivananda Sena supplied him the
>|details for which he asked, and later Raghunatha dasa
>|Gosvami's father sent some servants and money to Sivananda
>|Sena to take care of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. Once Sri
>|Sivananda Sena invited Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu to his home
>|and fed Him so sumptuously that the Lord felt indigestion
>|and was somewhat sick. This became known to Sivananda Sena'
>|s son, who gave the Lord the kinds of
>|food that would help His digestion, and thus Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu was very pleased. This is described in the
>|Antya-lila, Tenth Chapter, verses 142 through 151.
647|Once while going to Jagannatha Puri all the devotees had
>|to stay underneath a tree, without the shelter of a house
>|or even a shed, and Nityananda Prabhu became very angry, as
>|if He were greatly disturbed by hunger. Thus He cursed
>|Sivananda's sons to die. Sivananda's wife was very much
>|aggrieved at this, and she began to cry. She very seriously
>|thought that since her sons had been cursed by Nityananda
>|Prabhu, certainly they would die. When Sivananda later
>|returned and saw his wife crying, he said, "Why are you
>|crying? Let us all die if Sri Nityananda Prabhu desires."
>|When Sivananda Sena returned and Srila Nityananda Prabhu
>|saw him, the Lord kicked him severely, complaining that He
>|was very hungry, and asked why he did not arrange for His
>|food. Such is the behavior of the Lord with His devotees.
>|Srila Nityananda Prabhu behaved like an ordinary hungry man,
>| as if completely dependent on the arrangements of
>|Sivananda Sena.
648|There was a nephew of Sivananda Sena's named Srikanta who
>|left the company in protest of Nityananda Prabhu's curse
>|and went directly to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha
>|Puri, where the Lord pacified him. On that occasion, Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu allowed His toe to be sucked by Puri
>|dasa, who was then a child. It is by the order of Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu that he could immediately compose Sanskrit
>|verses. During the misunderstanding with Sivananda's family,
>| Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered His personal attendant
>|Govinda to give them all the remnants of His food. This
>|is described in the Antya-lila, Chapter Twelve, verse 53.
649|Adi 10.61
650|TEXT 61
651|TEXT
652|sivanandera upasakha, tanra parikara
653|putra-bhrty-adi kari' caitanya-kinkara
654|SYNONYMS
655|sivanandera-of Sivananda Sena; upasakha-subbranch; tanra-
>|his; parikara-associates; putra-sons; bhrtya-servants; adi-
>|all these; kari'-taking together; caitanya-kinkara-servants
>|of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
656|TRANSLATION
657|The sons, servants and family members of Sivananda Sena
>|constituted a subbranch. They were all sincere servants of
>|Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
658|Adi 10.62
659|TEXT 62
660|TEXT
661|caitanya-dasa, ramadasa, ara karnapura
662|tina putra sivanandera prabhura bhakta-sura
663|SYNONYMS
664|caitanya-dasa-of the name Caitanya dasa; ramadasa- of the
>|name Ramadasa; ara-and; karnapura- of the name Karnapura;
>|tina putra-three sons; sivanandera-of Sivananda Sena;
>|prabhura-of the Lord; bhakta-sura-of the heroic devotees.
665|TRANSLATION
666|The three sons of Sivananda Sena, named Caitanya dasa,
>|Ramadasa and Karnapura, were all heroic devotees of Lord
>|Caitanya.
667|PURPORT
668|Caitanya dasa, the eldest son of Sivananda Sena, wrote a
>|commentary on Krsna-karnamrta that was later translated by
>|Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his paper Sajjana-tosani.
>|According to expert opinion, Caitanya dasa was the author
>|of the book Caitanya-carita (also known as Caitanya-
>|caritamrta), which was written in Sanskrit. The author was
>|not Kavi-karnapura, as generally supposed. This is the
>|opinion of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. Sri
>|Ramadasa was the second son of Sivananda Sena. It is stated
>|in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (145) that the two famous
>|parrots named Daksa and Vicaksana in krsna-lila became the
>|elder brothers of Kavi-karnapura, namely , Caitanya dasa
>|and Ramadasa. Karnapura, the third son, who was also known
>|as Paramananda dasa or Puri dasa, was initiated by Srinatha
>|Pandita, who was a disciple of Sri Advaita Prabhu.
>|Karnapura wrote many books that are important in Vaisnava
>|literature, such as Ananda-vrndavana-campu, Alankara-
>|kaustubha, Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika and the great epic
>|Caitanya-candrodaya-nataka. He was born in the year 1448
>|Sakabda (A.D. 1527). He continually wrote books for ten
>|years, from 1488 until 1498.
669|Adi 10.63
670|TEXT 63
671|TEXT
672|sri-vallabhasena, ara sena srikanta
673|sivananda-sambandhe prabhura bhakta ekanta
674|SYNONYMS
675|sri-vallabha-sena-of the name Srivallabha Sena; ara-and;
>|sena srikanta- of the name Srikanta Sena; sivananda-
>|Sivananda Sena; sambandhe-in relationship; prabhura-the
>|Lord's; bhakta-devotees; ekanta-unflinching.
676|TRANSLATION
677|Srivallabha Sena and Srikanta Sena were also subbranches of
>|Sivananda Sena, for they were not only his nephews but also
>|unalloyed devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
678|PURPORT
679|When Lord Nityananda Prabhu rebuked Sivananda Sena on the
>|way to Puri, these two nephews of Sivananda left the
>|company as a protest and went to see Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. The Lord could understand
>|the feelings of the boys, and He asked His personal
>|assistant Govinda to supply them prasada until the
>|party of Sivananda arrived. During the Ratha-yatra
>|sankirtana festival these two brothers were members of the
>|party led by Mukunda. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse
>|174 , it is said that the gopi whose name was Katyayani
>|appeared as Srikanta Sena.
680|Adi 10.64
681|TEXT 64
682|TEXT
683|prabhu-priya govindananda mahabhagavata
684|prabhura kirtaniya adi sri-govinda datta
685|SYNONYMS
686|prabhu-priya-the most dear to the Lord; govindananda-of the
>|name Govindananda; maha-bhagavata-great devotee; prabhura-
>|of the Lord; kirtaniya-performer of kirtana; adi-originally;
>| sri-govinda datta- of the name of Sri Govinda Datta.
687|TRANSLATION
688|Govindananda and Govinda Datta, the twenty-fifth and twenty-
>|sixth branches of the tree, were performers of kirtana in
>|the company of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Govinda Datta was
>|the principal singer in Lord Caitanya's kirtana party.
689|PURPORT
690|Govinda Datta appeared in the village of Sukhacara near
>|Khadadaha.
691|Adi 10.65
692|TEXT 65
693|TEXT
694|sri-vijaya-dasa-nama prabhura akhariya
695|prabhure aneka punthi diyache likhiya
696|SYNONYMS
697|sri-vijaya-dasa-of the name Sri Vijaya dasa; nama-name;
>|prabhura-of the Lord; akhariya-chief singer; prabhure-unto
>|the Lord; aneka-many; punthi-literatures; diyache-has given;
>| likhiya-by writing.
698|TRANSLATION
699|Sri Vijaya dasa, the twenty-seventh branch, another of the
>|Lord's chief singers, gave the Lord many books written by
>|hand.
700|PURPORT
701|Formerly there were no printing presses or printed books.
>|All books were handwritten. Precious books were kept in
>|manuscript form in temples or important places, and
>|anyone who was interested in a book had to copy it by hand.
>|Vijaya dasa was a professional writer who copied many
>|manuscripts and gave them to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
702|Adi 10.66
703|TEXT 66
704|TEXT
705|'ratnabahu' bali' prabhu thuila tanra nama
706|akincana prabhura priya krsnadasa-nama
707|SYNONYMS
708|ratnabahu-the title Ratnabahu; bali'-calling him; prabhu-
>|the Lord; thuila-kept; tanra-his; nama-name; akincana-
>|unalloyed; prabhura-of the Lord; priya-dear; krsnadasa-of
>|the name Krsnadasa; nama-name.
709|TRANSLATION
710|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave Vijaya dasa the name Ratnabahu
>|["jewel-handed"] because he copied many manuscripts for Him.
>| The twenty-eighth branch was Krsnadasa, who was very dear
>|to the Lord. He was known as Akincana Krsnadasa.
711|PURPORT
712|Akincana means "one who possesses nothing in this world."
713|Adi 10.67
714|TEXT 67
715|TEXT
716|khola-veca sridhara prabhura priya-dasa
717|yanha-sane prabhu kare nitya parihasa
718|SYNONYMS
719|khola-veca-a person who sells the bark of banana trees;
>|sridhara-Sridhara Prabhu; prabhura-of the Lord; priya-dasa-
>|very dear servant; yanha-sane-with whom; prabhu-the Lord;
>|kare-does; nitya-daily; parihasa-joking.
720|TRANSLATION
721|The twenty-ninth branch was Sridhara, a trader in banana-
>|tree bark. He was a very dear servant of the Lord. On many
>|occasions, the Lord played jokes on him.
722|PURPORT
723|Sridhara was a poor brahmana who made a living by selling
>|banana-tree bark to be made into cups. Most probably he had
>|a banana-tree garden and collected the leaves, skin and
>|pulp of the banana trees to sell daily in the market. He
>|spent fifty percent of his income to worship the Ganges,
>|and the balance he used for his subsistence. When Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu started His civil disobedience movement
>|in defiance of the Kazi, Sridhara danced in jubilation.The
>|Lord used to drink water from his water jug. Sridhara
>|presented a squash to Sacidevi to cook before Lord Caitanya
>|took sannyasa. Every year he went to see Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. According to Kavi-karnapura,
>|Sridhara was a cowherd boy of Vrndavana whose name was
>|Kusumasava. In his Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse 133 , it
>|is stated:
724|khola-vecataya khyatah
725|panditah sridharo dvijah
726|asid vraje hasya-karo
727|yo namna kusumasavah
728|"The cowherd boy known as Kusumasava in krsna-lila later
>|became Kholaveca Sridhara during Caitanya Mahaprabhu's lila
>|at Navadvipa."
729|Adi 10.68
730|TEXT 68
731|TEXT
732|prabhu yanra nitya laya thoda-moca-phala
733|yanra phuta-lauhapatre prabhu pila jala
734|SYNONYMS
735|prabhu-the Lord; yanra-whose; nitya-daily; laya-takes;
>|thoda-the pulp of the banana tree; moca-the flowers of the
>|banana tree; phala-the fruits of the banana tree; yanra-
>|whose; phuta-broken; lauha-patre-in the iron pot; prabhu-
>|the Lord; pila-drank; jala-water.
736|TRANSLATION
737|Every day Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu jokingly snatched fruits,
>| flowers and pulp from Sridhara and drank from his broken
>|iron pot.
738|Adi 10.69
739|TEXT 69
740|TEXT
741|prabhura atipriya dasa bhagavan pandita
742|yanra dehe krsna purve haila adhisthita
743|SYNONYMS
744|prabhura-of the Lord; atipriya-very dear; dasa-servant;
>|bhagavan pandita-of the name Bhagavan Pandita; yanra-whose;
>|dehe-in the body; krsna-Lord Krsna; purve-previously; haila-
>|became; adhisthita-established.
745|TRANSLATION
746|The thirtieth branch was Bhagavan Pandita. He was an
>|extremely dear servant of the Lord, but even previously he
>|was a great devotee of Lord Krsna who always kept the Lord
>|within his heart.
747|Adi 10.70
748|TEXT 70
749|TEXT
750|jagadisa pandita, ara hiranya mahasaya
751|yare krpa kaila balye prabhu dayamaya
752|SYNONYMS
753|jagadisa pandita-of the name Jagadisa Pandita; ara-and;
>|hiranya- of the name Hiranya; mahasaya-great personality;
>|yare-unto whom; krpa-mercy; kaila-showed; balye-in
>|childhood; prabhu-the Lord; dayamaya-merciful.
754|TRANSLATION
755|The thirty-first branch was Jagadisa Pandita, and the
>|thirty-second was Hiranya Mahasaya, unto whom Lord Caitanya
>|in His childhood showed His causeless mercy.
756|PURPORT
757|Jagadisa Pandita was formerly a great dancer in krsna-lila
>|and was known as Candrahasa. Regarding Hiranya Pandita, it
>|is said that once when Lord Nityananda, decorated with
>|valuable jewels, was staying at his home, a
>|great thief attempted all night long to plunder these
>|jewels but was unsuccessful. Later he came to Nityananda
>|Prabhu and surrendered unto Him.
758|Adi 10.71
759|TEXT 71
760|TEXT
761|ei dui-ghare prabhu ekadasi dine
762|visnura naivedya magi' khaila apane
763|SYNONYMS
764|ei dui-ghare-in these two houses; prabhu-the Lord; ekadasi
>|dine-on the Ekadasi day; visnura-of Lord Visnu; naivedya-
>|food offered to Lord Visnu; magi'-begging; khaila-ate;
>|apane-personally.
765|TRANSLATION
766|In their two houses Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu begged food on
>|the Ekadasi day and personally ate it.
767|PURPORT
768|The injunction to fast on Ekadasi is especially meant for
>|devotees; on Ekadasi there are no restrictions regarding
>|food that may be offered to the Lord. Lord Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu took the food of Lord Visnu in His ecstasy as
>|visnu-tattva.
769|Adi 10.72
770|TEXT 72
771|TEXT
772|prabhura paduya dui,-purusottama, sanjaya
773|vyakarane dui sisya-dui mahasaya
774|SYNONYMS
775|prabhura paduya dui-the Lord's two students; purusottama-of
>|the name Purusottama; sanjaya- of the name Sanjaya;
>|vyakarane-studying grammar; dui sisya-two disciples; dui
>|mahasaya-very great personalities.
776|TRANSLATION
777|The thirty-third and thirty-fourth branches were the two
>|students of Caitanya Mahaprabhu named Purusottama and
>|Sanjaya, who were stalwart students in grammar. They were
>|very great personalities.
778|PURPORT
779|These two students were inhabitants of Navadvipa and were
>|the Lord's first companions in the sankirtana movement.
>|According to the Caitanya-bhagavata, Purusottama Sanjaya
>|was the son of Mukunda Sanjaya, but the author of Sri
>|Caitanya-caritamrta has clarified that Purusottama and
>|Sanjaya were two people, not one.
780|Adi 10.73
781|TEXT 73
782|TEXT
783|vanamali pandita sakha vikhyata jagate
784|sonara musala hala dekhila prabhura hate
785|SYNONYMS
786|vanamali pandita-of the name Vanamali Pandita; sakha-the
>|next branch; vikhyata-celebrated; jagate-in the world;
>|sonara-made of gold; musala-club; hala-plow; dekhila-saw;
>|prabhura-of the Lord; hate-in the hand.
787|TRANSLATION
788|Vanamali Pandita, the thirty-fifth branch of the tree, was
>|very celebrated in this world. He saw a golden club
>|and plow in the hands of the Lord.
789|PURPORT
790|Vanamali Pandita saw Lord Caitanya in the ecstasy of
>|Balarama. This is described vividly in the Caitanya-
>|bhagavata, Antya-lila, Chapter Nine.
791|Adi 10.74
792|TEXT 74
793|TEXT
794|sri-caitanyera ati priya buddhimanta khan
795|ajanma ajnakari tenho sevaka-pradhana
796|SYNONYMS
797|sri-caitanyera-of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; ati priya-
>|very dear; buddhimanta khan-of the name Buddhimanta Khan;
>|ajanma-from the very beginning of his life; ajna-kari-
>|follower of the orders; tenho-he; sevaka-servant; pradhana-
>|chief.
798|TRANSLATION
799|The thirty-sixth branch, Buddhimanta Khan, was extremely
>|dear to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He was always prepared to
>|carry out the Lord's orders, and therefore he was
>|considered a chief servant of the Lord.
800|PURPORT
801|Sri Buddhimanta Khan was one of the inhabitants of
>|Navadvipa. He was very rich, and it is he who arranged for
>|the marriage of Lord Caitanya with Visnupriya, the daughter
>|of Sanatana Misra, who was the priest of the local Zamindar.
>| He personally defrayed all the expenditures for the
>|marriage ceremony. When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu was
>|attacked by vayu-vyadhi (derangement of the air within the
>|body) Buddhimanta Khan paid for all requisite medicines and
>|treatments to cure the Lord. He was the Lord's constant
>|companion in the kirtana movement. He collected ornaments
>|for the Lord when He played the part of the goddess of
>|fortune in the house of Candrasekhara Acarya. He also went
>|to see Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu when He was staying at
>|Jagannatha Puri.
802|Adi 10.75
803|TEXT 75
804|TEXT
805|garuda pandita laya srinama-mangala
806|nama-bale visa yanre na karila bala
807|SYNONYMS
808|garuda pandita-of the name Garuda Pandita; laya-takes; sri-
>|nama-mangala-the auspicious Hare Krsna maha-mantra; nama-
>|bale-by the strength of this chanting; visa-poison; yanre-
>|whom; na-did not; karila-affect; bala-strength.
809|TRANSLATION
810|Garuda Pandita, the thirty-seventh branch of the tree,
>|always engaged in chanting the auspicious name of the Lord.
>|Because of the strength of this chanting, even the effects
>|of poison could not touch him.
811|PURPORT
812|Garuda Pandita was once bitten by a poisonous snake, but
>|the snake's poison could not affect him because of his
>|chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra.
813|Adi 10.76
814|TEXT 76
815|TEXT
816|gopinatha simha-eka caitanyera dasa
817|akrura bali' prabhu yanre kaila parihasa
818|SYNONYMS
819|gopinatha simha-of the name of Gopinatha Simha; eka-one;
>|caitanyera dasa-servant of Lord Caitanya; akrura bali'-
>|famous as Akrura; prabhu-the Lord; yanre-whom; kaila-did;
>|parihasa-joking.
820|TRANSLATION
821|Gopinatha Simha, the thirty-eighth branch of the tree, was
>|a faithful servant of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The Lord
>|jokingly addressed him as Akrura.
822|PURPORT
823|Actually he was Akrura, as stated in the Gaura-
>|ganoddesa-dipika , verse 117.
824|Adi 10.77
825|TEXT 77
826|TEXT
827|bhagavati devananda vakresvara-krpate
828|bhagavatera bhakti-artha paila prabhu haite
829|SYNONYMS
830|bhagavati devananda-Devananda, who used to recite Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam; vakresvara-krpate-by the mercy of Vakresvara;
>|bhagavatera-of Srimad-Bhagavatam; bhakti-artha-the bhakti
>|interpretation; paila-got; prabhu haite-from the Lord.
831|TRANSLATION
832|Devananda Pandita was a professional reciter of Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam, but by the mercy of Vakresvara Pandita and the
>|grace of the Lord he understood the devotional
>|interpretation of the Bhagavatam.
833|PURPORT
834|In the Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya-lila, Chapter Twenty-
>|one, it is stated that Devananda Pandita and Sarvabhauma
>|Bhattacarya's father, Visarada, lived in the same village.
>|Devananda Pandita was a professional reciter of Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam, but Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu did not like his
>|interpretation of it. In the present town of Navadvipa,
>|which was formerly known as Kuliya, Lord Caitanya showed
>|such mercy to him that he gave up the Mayavadi
>|interpretation of Srimad-Bhagavatam and learned how to
>|explain Srimad-Bhagavatam in terms of bhakti. Formerly,
>|when Devananda was expounding the Mayavadi interpretation,
>|Srivasa Thakura was once present in his meeting, and when
>|he began to cry, Devananda's students drove him away. Some
>|days later, Caitanya Mahaprabhu passed that way, and when
>|He met Devananda He chastised him severely because of his
>|Mayavada interpretation of Srimad-Bhagavatam. At that time
>|Devananda had little faith in Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as an
>|incarnation of Lord Krsna, but one night some time later
>|Vakresvara Pandita was a guest in his house, and when he
>|explained the science of Krsna, Devananda was convinced
>|about the identity of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Thus he was
>|induced to explain Srimad-Bhagavatam according to the
>|Vaisnava understanding In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika ,
>|verse 106 , it is described that he was formerly Bhaguri
>|Muni, who was the sabha-pandita who recited Vedic
>|literature in the house of Nanda Maharaja.
835|Adi 10.78-79
836|TEXTS 78-79
837|TEXT
838|khandavasi mukunda-dasa, sri-raghunandana
839|narahari-dasa, ciranjiva, sulocana
840|ei saba mahasakha-caitanya-krpadhama
841|prema-phala-phula kare yahan tahan dana
842|SYNONYMS
843|khanda-vasi mukunda-dasa-of the name Mukunda dasa
>|; sri-raghunandana- of the name Raghunandana;
>|narahari-dasa- of the name Narahari dasa; ciranjiva- of the
>|name Ciranjiva; sulocana- of the name Sulocana; ei saba-all
>|of them; maha-sakha-great branches; caitanya-krpa-dhama-of
>|Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the reservoir of mercy; prema-
>|love of God; phala-fruit; phula-flower; kare-does; yahan-
>|anywhere; tahan-everywhere; dana-distribution.
844|TRANSLATION
845|Sri Khandavasi Mukunda and his son Raghunandana were the
>|thirty-ninth branch of the tree, Narahari was the fortieth,
>|Ciranjiva the forty-first and Sulocana the forty-second.
>|They were all big branches of the all-merciful tree of
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. They distributed the fruits and
>|flowers of love of Godhead anywhere and everywhere.
846|PURPORT
847|Sri Mukunda dasa was the son of Narayana dasa and eldest
>|brother of Narahari Sarakara. His second brother's name was
>|Madhava dasa, and his son was named Raghunandana dasa.
>|Descendants of Raghunandana dasa still live four miles west
>|of Katwa in the village named Srikhanda, where Raghunandana
>|dasa used to live. Raghunandana had one son named Kanai,
>|who had two sons-Madana Raya, who was a disciple of
>|Narahari Thakura, and Vamsivadana. It is estimated that at
>|least four hundred men descended in this dynasty. All their
>|names are recorded in the village known as Srikhanda. In
>|the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse 175 , it is stated that
>|the gopi whose name was Vrndadevi became Mukunda dasa,
>|lived in Srikhanda village and was very dear to Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. His wonderful devotion and love for
>|Krsna are described in the Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila,
>| Chapter Fifteen. It is stated in the Bhakti-ratnakara (
>|Eighth Wave) , that Raghunandana used to serve a Deity of
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
848|Narahari dasa Sarakara was a very famous devotee. Locana
>|dasa Thakura, the celebrated author of Sri Caitanya-mangala,
>| was his disciple. In the Caitanya-mangala it is stated
>|that Sri Gadadhara dasa and Narahari Sarakara were
>|extremely dear to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, but there is no
>|specific statement regarding the inhabitants of the village
>|of Srikhanda.
849|Ciranjiva and Sulocana were both residents of Srikhanda,
>|where their descendants are still living. Of Ciranjiva's
>|two sons, the elder, Ramacandra Kaviraja, was a disciple of
>|Srinivasacarya and an intimate associate of
>|Narottama dasa Thakura. The younger son was Govinda dasa
>|Kaviraja, the famous Vaisnava poet. Ciranjiva's wife was
>|Sunanda, and his father-in-law was Damodara Sena Kaviraja.
>|Ciranjiva previously lived on the bank of the Ganges River
>| in the village of Kumaranagara. The Gaura-ganoddesa-
>|dipika , verse 207 , states that he was formerly Candrika
>|in Vrndavana.
850|Adi 10.80
851|TEXT 80
852|TEXT
853|kulinagrama-vasi satyaraja, ramananda
854|yadunatha, purusottama, sankara, vidyananda
855|SYNONYMS
856|kulina-grama-vasi-the inhabitants of Kulina-grama;
>|satyaraja-of the name Satyaraja; ramananda- of the name
>|Ramananda; yadunatha- of the name Yadunatha; purusottama-
>|of the name Purusottama; sankara- of the name Sankara;
>|vidyananda- of the name Vidyananda.
857|TRANSLATION
858|Satyaraja, Ramananda, Yadunatha, Purusottama, Sankara and
>|Vidyananda all belonged to the twentieth branch. They were
>|inhabitants of the village known as Kulina-grama.
859|Adi 10.81
860|TEXT 81
861|TEXT
862|vaninatha vasu adi yata grami jana
863|sabei caitanya-bhrtya,-caitanya-pranadhana
864|SYNONYMS
865|vaninatha vasu-of the name Vaninatha Vasu; adi-heading the
>|list; yata-all; grami-of the village; jana-inhabitants;
>|sabei-all of them; caitanya-bhrtya-servants of Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; caitanya-prana-dhana-their life and
>|soul was Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
866|TRANSLATION
867|All the inhabitants of Kulina-grama village, headed by
>|Vaninatha Vasu, were servants of Lord Caitanya, who was
>|their only life and wealth.
868|Adi 10.82
869|TEXT 82
870|TEXT
871|prabhu kahe, kulinagramera ye haya kukkura
872|sei mora priya, anya jana rahu dura
873|SYNONYMS
874|prabhu-the Lord; kahe-says; kulina-gramera-of the village
>|of Kulina-grama; ye-anyone who; haya-becomes; kukkura-even
>|a dog; sei-he; mora-My; priya-dear; anya-others; jana-
>|persons; rahu-let them remain; dura-away.
875|TRANSLATION
876|The Lord said, "What to speak of others, even a dog in the
>|village of Kulina-grama is My dear friend.
877|Adi 10.83
878|TEXT 83
879|TEXT
880|kulinagramira bhagya kahane na yaya
881|sukara caraya doma, seha krsna gaya
882|SYNONYMS
883|kulina-gramira-the residents of Kulina-grama; bhagya-
>|fortune; kahane-to speak; na-not; yaya-is possible; sukara-
>|hogs; caraya-tending; doma-sweeper; seha-he also; krsna-
>|Lord Krsna; gaya-chants.
884|TRANSLATION
885|"No one can describe the fortunate position of Kulina-grama.
>| It is so sublime that even sweepers who tend their hogs
>|there also chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra."
886|Adi 10.84
887|TEXT 84
888|TEXT
889|anupama-vallabha, sri-rupa, sanatana
890|ei tina sakha vrksera pascime sarvottama
891|SYNONYMS
892|anupama-of the name Anupama; vallabha- of the name
>|Vallabha; sri-rupa- of the name Sri Rupa; sanatana- of the
>|name Sanatana; ei-these; tina-three; sakha-branches;
>|vrksera-of the tree; pascime-on the western side;
>|sarvottama-very great.
893|TRANSLATION
894|On the western side were the forty-third, forty-fourth and
>|forty-fifth branches-Sri Sanatana, Sri Rupa and Anupama.
>|They were the best of all.
895|PURPORT
896|Sri Anupama was the father of Srila Jiva Gosvami and
>|youngest brother of Sri Sanatana Gosvami and Sri Rupa
>|Gosvami. His former name was Vallabha, but after Lord
>|Caitanya met him He gave him the name Anupama. Because of
>|working in the Muslim government, these three brothers were
>|given the title Mullik. Our personal family is connected
>|with the Mulliks of Mahatma Gandhi Road in Calcutta, and we
>|often used to visit their Radha-Govinda temple. They belong
>|to the same family as we do. (Our family gotra, or original
>|genealogical line, is the Gautama-gotra, or line of
>|disciples of Gautama Muni, and our surname is De. ) But due
>|to their accepting the posts of Zamindars in the Muslim
>|government, they received the title Mullik. Similarly, Rupa,
>| Sanatana and Vallabha were also given the title Mullik.
>|Mullik means "lord." Just as the English government gives
>|rich and respectable persons the title "lord," so the
>|Muslims give the title Mullik to rich, respectable families
>|that have intimate connections with the government.
>|the title Mullik is found not only among the Hindu
>|aristocracy but also among Muslims . This
>|title is not restricted to a particular family but is given
>|to different families and castes. The qualifications for
>|receiving it are wealth and respectabilityi
897|Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami belonged to the
>|Bharadvaja-gotra, which indicates that they belonged either
>|to the family or disciplic succession of Bharadvaja Muni.
>|As members of the Krsna consciousness movement we belong to
>|the family, or disciplic succession, of Sarasvati Gosvami,
>|and thus we are known as Sarasvatas. Obeisances are
>|therefore offered to the spiritual master as sarasvata-deva,
>| or a member of the Sarasvata family (namas te sarasvate
>|deve), whose mission is to broadcast the cult of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu (gaura-vani-pracarine) and to fight
>|with impersonalists and voidists (nirvisesa-sunyavadi-
>|pascatya-desa-tarine). This was also the occupational duty
>|of Sanatana Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami and Anupama Gosvami.
898|The genealogical table of Sanatana Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami
>|and Vallabha Gosvami can be traced back to the twelfth
>|century sakabda, when a gentleman of the name Sarvajna
>|appeared in a very rich and opulent brahmana family in the
>|province of Karnata. He had two sons, named Aniruddhera
>|Rupesvara and Harihara, who were both bereft of their
>|kingdoms and thus obliged to reside in the highlands. The
>|son of Rupesvara, who was named Padmanabha, moved to a
>|place in Bengal known as Naihati on the bank of the Ganges.
>| There he had five sons, of whom the youngest, Mukunda, had
>|a well-behaved son named Kumaradeva, who was the father of
>|Rupa, Sanatana and Vallabha. Kumaradeva lived in
>|Baklacandradvipa
>|
>|, which was in the district
>|of Jessore and is now known as Phateyabad
>|. Of his many sons, three took to
>|the path of Vaisnavism. Later, Sri Vallabha and his elder
>|brothers Sri Rupa and Sanatana came from Candradvipa to the
>|village in the Maldah district of Bengal known as Ramakeli.
>|It is in this village that Srila Jiva Gosvami took birth,
>|accepting Vallabha as his father. Because of engaging in
>|the service of the Muslim government, the three brothers
>|received the title Mullik. When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|visited the village of Ramakeli, He met Vallabha there.
>|Later, Sri Rupa Gosvami, after meeting Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu, resigned from government service, and when he
>|went to Vrndavana to meet Lord Caitanya, Vallabha
>|accompanied him. The meeting of Rupa Gosvami and Vallabha
>|with Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Allahabad is described in the
>|Madhya-lila, Chapter Nineteen.
899|Actually, it is to be understood from the statement of
>|Sanatana Gosvami that Sri Rupa Gosvami and Vallabha went to
>|Vrndavana under the instructions of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
>| First they went to Mathura, where they met a gentleman
>|named Subuddhi Raya, who maintained himself by selling dry
>|fuel wood. He was very pleased to meet Sri Rupa Gosvami and
>|Anupama, and he showed them the twelve forests of Vrndavana.
>| Thus they lived in Vrndavana for one month and then again
>|went to search for Sanatana Gosvami. Following the course
>|of the Ganges, they reached Allahabad, or Prayaga-tirtha,
>|but because Sanatana Gosvami had come there by a different
>|road, they did not meet him there, and when Sanatana
>|Gosvami came to Mathura he was informed of the visit of
>|Rupa Gosvami and Anupama by Subuddhi Raya. When Rupa
>|Gosvami and Anupama met Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Benares,
>|they heard about Sanatana Gosvami's travels from Him, and
>|thus they returned to Bengal, adjusted their affairs with
>|the state and, on the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>|went to see the Lord at Jagannatha Puri.
900|In the year 1436 sakabda (A.D. 1515), the youngest brother,
>|Anupama, died and went back home, back to Godhead. He went
>|to the abode in the spiritual sky where Sri Ramacandra is
>|situated. At Jagannatha Puri, Sri Rupa Gosvami informed Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu of this incident. Vallabha was a great
>|devotee of Sri Ramacandra; therefore he could not seriously
>|consider the worship of Radha-Govinda according to the
>|instructions of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Yet he directly
>|accepted Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as an incarnation of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead Ramacandra. In the Bhakti-
>|ratnakara there is the following statement: "Vallabha was
>|given the name Anupama by Sri Gaurasundara, but he was
>|always absorbed in the devotional service of Lord
>|Ramacandra. He did not know anyone but Sri Ramacandra, but
>|he knew that Caitanya Gosani was the same Lord Ramacandra."
901|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (180) Sri Rupa Gosvami is
>|described to be the gopi named Sri Rupa-manjari. In the
>|Bhakti-ratnakara there is a list of the books Sri Rupa
>|Gosvami compiled. Of all his books, the following sixteen
>|are very popular among Vaisnavas: (1) Hamsaduta, (2)
>|Uddhava-sandesa, (3) Krsna-janma-tithi-vidhi, (4 and 5)
>|Radha-krsna-ganoddesa-dipika, Brhat (major) and Laghu (
>|minor), (6) Stavamala, (7) Vidagdha-madhava, (8) Lalita-
>|madhava, (9) Dana-keli-kaumudi, (10) Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu
>|(this is the most celebrated book by Sri Rupa Gosvami), (11)
>| Ujjvala-nilamani, (12) Akhyata-candrika, (13) Mathura-
>|mahima, (14) Padyavali, (15) Nataka-candrika and (16) Laghu-
>|bhagavatamrta. Sri Rupa Gosvami gave up all family
>|connections, joined the renounced order of life and divided
>|his money, giving fifty percent to the brahmanas and
>|Vaisnavas and twenty-five percent to his kutumba (family
>|members) and keeping twenty-five percent for personal
>|emergencies. He met Haridasa Thakura in Jagannatha Puri,
>|where he also met Lord Caitanya and His other associates.
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to praise the handwriting of
>|Rupa Gosvami. Srila Rupa Gosvami could compose verses
>|according to the desires of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and by
>|His direction he wrote two books named Lalita-madhava and
>|Vidagdha-madhava. Lord Caitanya desired the two brothers,
>|Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami, to publish many books in
>|support of the Vaisnava religion. When Sanatana Gosvami met
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Lord advised him also to go to
>|Vrndavana.
902|Sri Sanatana Gosvami is described in the Gaura-ganoddesa-
>|dipika (181). He was formerly known as Rati-manjari or
>|sometimes Lavanga-manjari. In the Bhakti-ratnakara it is
>|stated that his spiritual master, Vidyavacaspati ,
>| sometimes stayed in the village of Ramakeli, and Sanatana
>|Gosvami studied all the Vedic literature from him. He was
>|so devoted to his spiritual master that this cannot be
>|described. According to the Vedic system, if someone sees a
>|Muslim he must perform rituals to atone for the meeting.
>|Sanatana Gosvami always associated with Muslim kings. Not
>|giving much attention to the Vedic injunctions, he used to
>|visit the houses of Muslim kings, and thus he considered
>|himself to have been converted into a Muslim. He was
>|therefore always very humble and meek. When Sanatana
>|Gosvami presented himself before Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>|he admitted, "I am always in association with lower-class
>|people, and my behavior is therefore very abominable." He
>|actually belonged to a respectable brahmana family, but
>|because he considered his behavior to be abominable, he did
>|not try to place himself among the brahmanas but always
>|remained among people of the lower castes. He wrote the
>|Hari-bhakti-vilasa and Vaisnava-tosani, which is a
>|commentary on the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. In the
>|year 1476 sakabda (A.D. 1555) he completed the Brhad-
>|vaisnava-tosani commentary on Srimad-Bhagavatam. In the
>|year 1504 sakabda (A.D. 1583) he finished
>| the
>|Laghu-tosani.
903|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught His principles through four
>|chief followers. Among them, Ramananda Raya is exceptional,
>|for through him the Lord taught how a devotee can
>|completely vanquish the power of Cupid. By Cupid's power,
>|as soon as one sees a beautiful woman he is conquered by
>|her beauty. Sri Ramananda Raya, however, vanquished Cupid's
>|pride. Indeed, while rehearsing the Jagannatha-vallabha-
>|nataka he personally directed extremely beautiful young
>|girls in dancing, but he was never affected by their
>|youthful beauty. Sri Ramananda Raya personally bathed these
>|girls, touching them and washing them with his own hands,
>|yet he remained calm and passionless, as a great devotee
>|should be. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu certified that this was
>|possible only for Ramananda Raya. Similarly, Damodara
>|Pandita was notable for his objectivity as a critic. He did
>|not even spare Caitanya Mahaprabhu from his criticism. This
>|also cannot be imitated by anyone else. Haridasa Thakura is
>|exceptional for his forbearance because although he was
>|beaten with canes in twenty-two marketplaces, nevertheless
>|he was tolerant. Similarly, Sri Sanatana
>|Gosvami, although he belonged to a most respectable
>|brahmana family, was exceptional for his humility and
>|meekness.
904|In the Madhya-lila, Chapter Nineteen, the device adopted by
>|Sanatana Gosvami to get free from the government service is
>|described. He served a notice of sickness to the Nawab, the
>|Moslem governer, but actually he was studying Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam with brahmanas at home. The Nawab received
>|information of this through a royal physician, and he
>|immediately went to see Sanatana Gosvami to discover his
>|intentions. The Nawab requested Sanatana to accompany him
>|on an expedition to Orissa, but when Sanatana Gosvami
>|refused, the Nawab ordered that he be imprisoned. When Rupa
>|Gosvami left home, he wrote a note for Sanatana Gosvami
>|informing him of some money that he had entrusted to a
>|local grocer. Sanatana Gosvami took advantage of this money
>|to bribe the jail keeper and get free from detention. Then
>|he left for Benares to meet Caitanya Mahaprabhu, bringing
>|with him only one servant, whose name was Isana. On the way
>|they stopped at a sarai, or hotel, and when the hotel
>|keeper found out that Isana had some gold coins with him,
>|he planned to kill both Sanatana Gosvami and Isana to take
>|away the coins. Later Sanatana Gosvami saw that although
>|the hotel keeper did not know them, he was being especially
>|attentive to their comfort. Therefore he concluded that
>|Isana was secretly carrying some money and that the hotel
>|keeper was aware of this and therefore planned to kill them
>|for it. Upon being questioned by Sanatana Gosvami, Isana
>|admitted that he indeed had money with him, and immediately
>|Sanatana Gosvami took the money and gave it to the hotel
>|keeper, requesting him to help them get though the jungle.
>|Thus with the help of the hotel keeper, who was also the
>|chief of the thieves of that territory, he
>|crossed over the Hazipur mountains, which are presently
>|known as the Hazaribags. He then met his brother-in-law
>|Srikanta, who requested that he stay with him. Sanatana
>|Gosvami refused, but before they parted Srikanta gave him a
>|valuable blanket.
905|Somehow or other Sanatana Gosvami reached Varanasi and met
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu at the house of Candrasekhara. By
>|the order of the Lord, Sanatana Gosvami was cleanly shaved
>|and his dress changed to that of a mendicant, or babaji. He
>|put on old garments of Tapana Misra and took prasada at
>|the house of a Maharashtran brahmana. Then, in discourses
>|with Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Lord Himself explained
>|everything about devotional service to Sanatana Gosvami. He
>|advised Sanatana Gosvami to write books on devotional
>|service, including a book of directions for Vaisnava
>|activities, and to excavate the lost places of pilgrimage
>|in Vrndavana. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave him His
>|blessings to do all this work and also explained to
>|Sanatana Gosvami the import of the atmarama verse from
>|sixty-one different angles of vision.
906|Sanatana Gosvami went to Vrndavana by the main road, and
>|when he reached Mathura he met Subuddhi Raya. Then he
>|returned to Jagannatha Puri through Jharikhanda
>|, the Uttar Pradesh jungle. At Jagannatha Puri
>|he decided to give up his body by falling down beneath a
>|wheel of the Jagannatha ratha, but Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|saved him. Then Sanatana Gosvami met Haridasa Thakura and
>|heard about the disappearance of Anupama. Sanatana Gosvami
>|later described the glories of Haridasa Thakura. Sanatana
>|observed the etiquette of Jagannatha's temple by going
>|through the beach to visit Lord Caitanya, although it was
>|extremely hot due to the sun. He requested Jagadananda
>|Pandita to give him permission to return to Vrndavana. Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu praised the character of Sanatana
>|Gosvami, and He embraced Sanatana, accepting his body as
>|spiritual. Sanatana Gosvami was ordered by Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu to live at Jagannatha Puri for one year. When he
>|returned to Vrndavana after many years, he again met Rupa
>|Gosvami, and both brothers remained in Vrndavana to execute
>|the orders of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
907|The place where Sri Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami
>|formerly lived has now become a place of pilgrimage. It is
>|generally known as Gupta Vrndavana, or hidden Vrndavana,
>|and is situated about eight miles south of English Bazaar.
>|There the following places are still visited: (1) the
>|temple of Sri Madana-mohana Deity, (2) the Keli-kadamba
>|tree under which Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu met Sanatana
>|Gosvami at night and (3) Rupasagara, a large pond excavated
>|by Sri Rupa Gosvami. A society named Ramakeli-samskara-
>|samiti was established in 1924 to repair the temple and
>|renovate the pond.
908|Adi 10.85
909|TEXT 85
910|TEXT
911|tanra madhye rupa-sanatana-bada sakha
912|anupama, jiva, rajendradi upasakha
913|SYNONYMS
914|tanra-within that; madhye-in the midst of; rupa-sanatana-
>|the branch known as Rupa-Sanatana; bada sakha-the big
>|branch; anupama-of the name Anupama; jiva- of the name Jiva;
>| rajendra-adi-and Rajendra and others; upasakha-their
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915|TRANSLATION
916|Among these branches, Rupa and Sanatana were principal.
>|Anupama, Jiva Gosvami and others, headed by Rajendra, were
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917|PURPORT
918|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 195 , it is said that
>|Srila Jiva Gosvami was formerly Vilasa-manjari gopi. From
>|his very childhood Jiva Gosvami was greatly fond of Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam. He later came to Navadvipa to study Sanskrit,
>|and, following in the footsteps of Sri Nityananda Prabhu,
>|he circumambulated the entire Navadvipa-dhama. After
>|visiting Navadvipa-dhama he went to Benares to study
>|Sanskrit under Madhusudana Vacaspati, and after finishing
>|his studies in Benares he went to Vrndavana and took
>|shelter of his uncles, Sri Rupa and Sanatana. This is
>|described in the Bhakti-ratnakara. As far as our
>|information goes, Srila Jiva Gosvami composed and edited at
>|least twenty-five books. They are all very celebrated,
>|and they are listed as follows: (1) Hari-namamrta-vyakarana,
>| (2) Sutra-malika, (3) Dhatu-sangraha, (4) Krsnarca-dipika,
>|(5) Gopala-virudavali, (6) Rasamrta-sesa, (7) Sri Madhava-
>|mahotsava, (8) Sri Sankalpa-kalpavrksa, (9) Bhavartha-
>|sucaka-campu, (10) Gopala-tapani-tika, (11) a commentary on
>|the Brahma-samhita, (12) a commentary on the Bhakti-
>|rasamrta-sindhu, (13) a commentary on the Ujjvala-nilamani,
>|(14) a commentary on the Yogasara-stava, (15) a commentary
>|on the Gayatri-mantra, as described in the Agni Purana, (16)
>| a description of the Lord's lotus feet derived from the
>|Padma Purana, (17) a description of the lotus feet of
>|Srimati Radharani, (18) Gopala-campu (in two parts) and (19
>|-25) seven sandarbhas: the Krama-, Tattva-, Bhagavat-,
>|Paramatma-, Krsna-, Bhakti- and Priti-sandarbha. After the
>|disappearance of Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami in
>|Vrndavana, Srila Jiva Gosvami became the acarya of all the
>|Vaisnavas in Bengal, Orissa and the rest of the world, and
>|it is he who used to guide them in their devotional service.
>| In Vrndavana he established the Radha-Damodara temple,
>|where we had the opportunity to live
>|and retire until the age of sixty-five, when we decided
>|to come to the United States of America. When Jiva Gosvami
>|was still present, Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami
>|compiled his famous Caitanya-caritamrta. Later, Srila Jiva
>|Gosvami inspired Srinivasa Acarya, Narottama dasa Thakura
>|and Duhkhi Krsnadasa to preach Krsna consciousness in
>|Bengal. Jiva Gosvami was informed that all the manuscripts
>|that had been collected from Vrndavana and sent to Bengal
>|for preaching purposes were plundered near Visnupura, in
>|Bengal, but later he received the information that the
>|books had been recovered. Sri Jiva Gosvami awarded the
>|designation Kaviraja to Ramacandra Sena, a disciple of
>|Srinivasa Acarya's, and to Ramacandra's younger brother
>|Govinda. While Jiva Gosvami was alive, Srimati Jahnavi-devi,
>| the pleasure potency of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, went to
>|Vrndavana with a few devotees. Jiva Gosvami was very kind
>|to the Gaudiya Vaisnavas, the Vaisnavas from Bengal.
>|Whoever went to Vrndavana he provided with a residence and
>|prasada. His disciple Krsnadasa Adhikari listed all the
>|books of the Gosvamis in his diary.
919|The sahajiyas level three accusations against Srila Jiva
>|Gosvami. This is certainly not congenial for the execution
>|of devotional service. The first accusation concerns a
>|materialist who was very proud of his reputation as a great
>|Sanskrit scholar and approached Sri Rupa and Sanatana to
>|argue with them about the revealed scriptures. Srila Rupa
>|Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami, not wanting to waste their
>|time, gave him a written statement that he had defeated
>|them in a debate on the revealed scriptures. Taking this
>|paper, the scholar approached Jiva Gosvami for a similar
>|certificate of defeat, but Jiva Gosvami did not agree to
>|give him one. On the contrary, he argued with him regarding
>|the scriptures and defeated him. Certainly it was right for
>|Jiva Gosvami to stop such a dishonest scholar from
>|advertising that he had defeated Srila Rupa Gosvami and
>|Sanatana Gosvami, but due to their illiteracy the sahajiya
>|class refer to this incident to accuse Srila Jiva Gosvami
>|of deviating from the principle of humility. They do not
>|know, however, that humility and meekness are appropriate
>|when one's own honor is insulted but not when Lord Visnu or
>|the acaryas are blasphemed. In such cases one should not be
>|humble and meek but must act. One should follow the example
>|given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Lord Caitanya says in His
>|Siksastaka (3):
920|trnad api sunicena
921|taror ivasahisnuna
922|amanina manadena
923|kirtaniyah sada harih
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>|in a humble state of mind , thinking himself
>|lower than the straw in the street .
>|One should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of
>|all sense of false prestige , and should
>|be ready to offer all respect to others .
>|In such a state of mind one can chant the
>|holy name of the Lord constantly.