1|Adi 12-1975: The Expansions of Advaita Acarya and Gadadhara
>|Pandita
2|Chapter 12
3|The Expansions of Advaita Acarya and Gadadhara Pandita
4|Bhaktivinoda Thakura gives a summary of the Twelfth Chapter
>|of Adi-lila in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya. This Twelfth
>|Chapter describes the followers of Advaita Prabhu, among
>|whom the followers of Acyutananda, the son of Advaita
>|Acarya, are understood to be the pure followers who
>|received the cream of the philosophy Sri Advaita Acarya
>|enunciated. Other so-called descendants and followers of
>|Advaita Acarya are not to be recognized. This chapter also
>|includes narrations concerning he son of Advaita Acarya
>|named Gopala Misra and Advaita Acarya's servant named
>|Kamalakanta Visvasa. In his early life Gopala fainted
>|during the cleansing of the Gundica-mandira at Jagannatha
>|Puri and thus became a recipient of the mercy of Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The story of Kamalakanta Visvasa
>|concerns his borrowing three hundred rupees from
>|Prataparudra Maharaja to clear the debts of Advaita Acarya
>|, for which Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu chastised him when He
>|came to know of it. Kamalakanta Visvasa was then purified
>|by the request of Sri Advaita Acarya. After describing the
>|descendants of Advaita Acarya, the chapter concludes by
>|describing the followers of Gadadhara Pandita Gosvami.
5|Adi 12.1
6|TEXT 1
7|TEXT
8|advaitanghry-abja-bhrngams tan
9|sarasara-bhrto 'khilan
10|hitvasaran sara-bhrto
11|naumi caitanya-jivanan
12|SYNONYMS
13|advaita-anghri-the lotus feet of Advaita Acarya; abja-lotus
>|flower; bhrngan-bumblebees; tan-all of them; sara-asara-
>|real and not real; bhrtah-accepting; akhilan-all of them;
>|hitva-giving up; asaran-not real; sara-bhrtah-those who are
>|real; naumi-offer my obeisances; caitanya-jivanan-whose
>|life and soul was Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
14|TRANSLATION
15|The followers of Sri Advaita Prabhu were of two kinds. Some
>|were real followers, and the others were false. Rejecting
>|the false followers, I offer my respectful obeisances to
>|Sri Advaita Acarya's real followers, whose life and soul
>|was Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
16|Adi 12.2
17|TEXT 2
18|TEXT
19| jaya jaya mahaprabhu sri-krsna-caitanya
20|jaya jaya nityananda jayadvaita dhanya
21|SYNONYMS
22|jaya jaya-all glories; mahaprabhu-Mahaprabhu; sri-krsna-
>|caitanya-of the name Sri Krsna Caitanya; jaya jaya-all
>|glories; nityananda-to Lord Nityananda Prabhu; jaya advaita-
>|all glories to Advaita Prabhu; dhanya-who are all very
>|glorious.
23|TRANSLATION
24| All glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu! All glories to
>|Lord Nityananda! All glories to Sri Advaita Prabhu! All of
>|Them are glorious.
25|Adi 12.3
26|TEXT 3
27|TEXT
28| sri-caitanyamara-taror
29|dvitiya-skandha-rupinah
30|srimad-advaita-candrasya
31|sakha-rupan ganan numah
32|SYNONYMS
33|sri-caitanya-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; amara-eternal;
>|taroh-of the tree; dvitiya-second; skandha-big branch;
>|rupinah-in the form of; srimat-the all-glorious; advaita-
>|candrasya-of Lord Advaitacandra; sakha-rupan-in the form of
>|branches; ganan-to all the followers; numah-I offer my
>|respectful obeisances.
34|TRANSLATION
35| I offer my respectful obeisances to the all-glorious
>|Advaita Prabhu, who forms the second branch of the eternal
>|Caitanya tree, and to His followers, who form His
>|subbranches.
36|Adi 12.4
37|TEXT 4
38|TEXT
39| vrksera dvitiya skandha-acarya-gosani
40|tanra yata sakha ha-ila, tara lekha nani
41|SYNONYMS
42|vrksera-of the tree; dvitiya skandha-the second big branch;
>|acarya-gosani-Sri Advaita Acarya Gosvami; tanra-His; yata-
>|all; sakha-branches; ha-ila-became; tara-of that; lekha-
>|description; nani-there is not.
43|TRANSLATION
44| Sri Advaita Prabhu was the second big branch of the tree.
>|There are many subbranches, but it is impossible to mention
>|them all.
45|Adi 12.5
46|TEXT 5
47|TEXT
48| caitanya-malira krpa-jalera secane
49|sei jale pusta skandha bade dine dine
50|SYNONYMS
51|caitanya-malira-of the gardener named Caitanya; krpa-jalera-
>|of the water of His mercy; secane-by sprinkling; sei jale-
>|by that water; pusta-nourished; skandha-branches; bade-
>|increased; dine dine-day after day.
52|TRANSLATION
53| Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was also the gardener, and as He
>|poured the water of His mercy on the tree, all the branches
>|and subbranches grew, day after day.
54|Adi 12.6
55|TEXT 6
56|TEXT
57| sei skandhe yata prema-phala upajila
58|sei krsna-prema-phale jagat bharila
59|SYNONYMS
60|sei skandhe-on that branch; yata-all; prema-phala-fruits of
>|love of Godhead; upajila-grew; sei-those; krsna-prema-phale-
>|fruits of love of Krsna; jagat-the whole world; bharila-
>|spread over.
61|TRANSLATION
62| The fruits of love of Godhead that grew on those branches
>|of the Caitanya tree were so large that they flooded the
>|entire world with love of Krsna.
63|Adi 12.7
64|TEXT 7
65|TEXT
66| sei jala skandhe kare sakhate sancara
67|phale-phule bade,-sakha ha-ila vistara
68|SYNONYMS
69|sei jala-that water; skandhe-on the branches; kare-does;
>|sakhate-on the subbranches; sancara-growing; phale-phule-in
>|fruits and flowers; bade-increases; sakha-the branches; ha-
>|ila-became; vistara-widespread.
70|TRANSLATION
71| As the trunk and branches were watered, the branches and
>|subbranches spread lavishly, and the tree grew full with
>|fruits and flowers.
72|Adi 12.8
73|TEXT 8
74|TEXT
75| prathame ta' eka-mata acaryera gana
76|pache dui-mata haila daivera karana
77|SYNONYMS
78|prathame-in the beginning; ta'-however; eka-mata-one
>|opinion; acaryera-of Advaita Acarya; gana-followers; pache-
>|later; dui-mata-two opinions; haila-became; daivera-of
>|providence; karana-the cause.
79|TRANSLATION
80| At first all the followers of Advaita Acarya shared a
>|single opinion. But later they followed two different
>|opinions, as ordained by providence.
81|PURPORT
82| The words daivera karana indicate that by dint of
>|providence, or by God's will, the followers of Advaita
>|Acarya divided into two parties. Such disagreement among
>|the disciples of one acarya is also found among the members
>|of the Gaudiya Matha. In the beginning, during the presence
>|of Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya Astottara-sata
>|Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada,
>|all the disciples worked in agreement; but just after his
>|disappearance, they disagreed. One party strictly followed
>|the instructions of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, but
>|another group created their own concoction about executing
>|his desires. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, at the time
>|of his departure, requested all his disciples to form a
>|governing body and conduct missionary activities
>|cooperatively. He did not instruct a particular man to
>|become the next acarya. But just after his passing away,
>|his leading secretaries made plans, without authority, to
>|occupy the post of acarya, and they split into two factions
>|over who the next acarya would be. Consequently, both
>|factions were asara, or useless, because they had no
>|authority, having disobeyed the order of the spiritual
>|master. Despite the spiritual master's order to form a
>|governing body and execute the missionary activities of the
>|Gaudiya Matha, the two unauthorized factions began
>|litigation that is still going on after forty years with no
>|decision.
83| Therefore, we do not belong to any faction. But because
>|the two parties, busy dividing the material assets of the
>|Gaudiya Matha institution, stopped the preaching work, we
>|took up the mission of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
>|and Bhaktivinoda Thakura to preach the cult of Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu all over the world, under the protection of all
>|the predecessor acaryas, and we find that our humble
>|attempt has been successful. We followed the principles
>|especially explained by Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura
>|in his commentary on the Bhagavad-gita verse
>|vyavasayatmika buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana .
>|According to this instruction of Visvanatha Cakravarti
>|Thakura, it is the duty of a disciple to follow strictly
>|the orders of his spiritual master. The secret of success
>|in advancement in spiritual life is the firm faith of the
>|disciple in the orders of his spiritual master. The Vedas
>|confirm this:
84|yasya deve para bhaktir
85|yatha deve tatha gurau
86|tasyaite kathita hy arthah
87|prakasante mahatmanah
88| "To one who has staunch faith in the words of the
>|spiritual master and the words of the Supreme Personality
>|of Godhead, the secret of success in Vedic knowledge is
>|revealed." The Krsna consciousness movement is being
>|propagated according to this principle, and therefore our
>|preaching work is going on successfully, in spite of the
>|many impediments offered by antagonistic demons, because we
>|are getting positive help from our previous acaryas. One
>|must judge every action by its result. The members of the
>|self-appointed acarya's party who occupied the property of
>|the Gaudiya Matha are satisfied, but they could make no
>|progress in preaching. Therefore by the result of their
>|actions one should know that they are asara, or useless,
>|whereas the success of the ISKCON party, the International
>|Society for Krishna Consciousness, which strictly follows
>|guru and Gauranga, is increasing daily all over the world.
>|Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura wanted to print as
>|many books as possible and distribute them all over the
>|world. We have tried our best in this connection, and we
>|are getting results beyond our expectations.
89|Adi 12.9
90|TEXT 9
91|TEXT
92| keha ta' acarya ajnaya, keha ta' svatantra
93|sva-mata kalpana kare daiva-paratantra
94|SYNONYMS
95|keha ta'-some; acarya-the spiritual master; ajnaya-upon His
>|order; keha ta'-some; sva-tantra-independently; sva-mata-
>|their own opinions; kalpana kare-they concoct; daiva-
>|paratantra-under the spell of maya.
96|TRANSLATION
97|Some of the disciples strictly accepted the orders of the
>|acarya, and others deviated, independently concocting their
>|own opinions under the spell of daivi-maya.
98|PURPORT
99|This verse describes the beginning of a schism. When
>|disciples do not stick to the principle of accepting the
>|order of their spiritual master, immediately there are two
>|opinions. Any opinion different from the opinion of the
>|spiritual master is useless. One cannot infiltrate
>|materially concocted ideas into spiritual advancement. That
>|is deviation. There is no scope for adjusting spiritual
>|advancement to material ideas.
100|Adi 12.10
101|TEXT 10
102|TEXT
103|acaryera mata yei, sei mata sara
104|tanra ajna langhi' cale, sei ta' asara
105|SYNONYMS
106|acaryera-of the spiritual master (Advaita Prabhu); mata-
>|opinion; yei-what is; sei-that; mata-opinion; sara-active
>|principle; tanra-his; ajna-order; langhi'-transgressing;
>|cale-becomes; sei-that; ta'-however; asara-useless.
107|TRANSLATION
108|The order of the spiritual master is the active principle
>|in spiritual life. Anyone who disobeys the order of the
>|spiritual master immediately becomes useless.
109|PURPORT
110|Here is the opinion of Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.
>|Persons who strictly follow the orders of the spiritual
>|master are useful in executing the will of the Supreme,
>|whereas persons who deviate from the strict order of the
>|spiritual master are useless.
111|Adi 12.11
112|TEXT 11
113|TEXT
114|asarera name ihan nahi prayojana
115|bheda janibare kari ekatra ganana
116|SYNONYMS
117|asarera-of the useless persons; name-in their name; ihan-in
>|this connection; nahi-there is no; prayojana-use; bheda-
>|differences; janibare-to know; kari-I do; ekatra-in one
>|list; ganana-counting.
118|TRANSLATION
119|There is no need to name those who are useless. I have
>|mentioned them only to distinguish them from the useful
>|devotees.
120|Adi 12.12
121|TEXT 12
122|TEXT
123|dhanya-rasi mape yaiche patna sahite
124|pascate patna udana samskara karite
125|SYNONYMS
126|dhanya-rasi-heaps of paddy; mape-measures; yaiche-as it is;
>|patna-useless straw; sahite-with; pascate-later; patna-
>|useless straw; udana-fanning; samskara-purification; karite-
>|to do.
127|TRANSLATION
128|Paddy is mixed with straw at first, and one must fan it to
>|separate the paddy from the straw.
129|PURPORT
130|This example given by Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami is very
>|appropriate. In the case of the Gaudiya Matha members, one
>|can apply a similar process. There are many disciples of
>|Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, but to judge who is
>|actually his disciple, to divide the useful from the
>|useless, one must measure the activities of such disciples
>|in executing the will of the spiritual master.
>|Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura tried his best to spread
>|the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to countries outside
>|India. When he was present he patronized the disciples to
>|go outside India to preach the cult of Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu, but they were unsuccessful because within their
>|minds they were not actually serious about preaching His
>|cult in foreign countries; they simply wanted to take
>|credit for having gone to foreign lands and utilize this
>|recognition in India by advertising themselves as
>|repatriated preachers. Many svamis have adopted this
>|hypocritical means of preaching for the last eighty years
>|or more, but no one could preach the real cult of Krsna
>|consciousness all over the world. They merely came back to
>|India falsely advertising that they had converted all the
>|foreigners to the ideas of Vedanta or Krsna consciousness,
>|and then they collected funds in India and lived satisfied
>|lives of material comfort. As one fans paddy to separate
>|the real paddy from useless straw, by accepting the
>|criterion recommended by Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami one can
>|very easily understand who is a genuine world-preacher and
>|who is useless.
131|Adi 12.13
132|TEXT 13
133|TEXT
134|acyutananda-bada sakha, acarya-nandana
135|ajanma sevila tenho caitanya-carana
136|
137|SYNONYMS
138|acyutananda-of the name Acyutananda; bada sakha-a big
>|branch; acarya-nandana-the son of Advaita Acarya; ajanma-
>|from the very beginning of life; sevila-served; tenho-he;
>|caitanya-carana-the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya.
139|TRANSLATION
140|A big branch of Advaita Acarya was Acyutananda, His son
>|. From the beginning of his life he engaged in
>|the service of the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya.
141|Adi 12.14
142|TEXT 14
143|TEXT
144|caitanya-gosanira guru-kesava bharati
145|ei pitara vakya suni' duhkha paila ati
146|SYNONYMS
147|caitanya-Lord Caitanya; gosanira-the spiritual master; guru-
>|His spiritual master; kesava bharati-of the name Kesava
>|Bharati; ei-these; pitara-his father's; vakya-words; suni'-
>|hearing; duhkha-unhappiness; paila-got; ati-very much.
148|TRANSLATION
149|When Acyutananda heard from his father that Kesava Bharati
>|was the spiritual master of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he
>|was very unhappy.
150|Adi 12.15
151|TEXT 15
152|TEXT
153|jagad-gurute tumi kara aiche upadesa
154|tomara ei upadese nasta ha-ila desa
155|SYNONYMS
156|jagat-gurute-on the spiritual master of the universe; tumi-
>|You; kara-do; aiche-such; upadesa-instruction; tomara-Your;
>|ei upadese-by this instruction; nasta-spoiled; ha-ila-will
>|become; desa-the country.
157|TRANSLATION
158|He told his father, "Your instruction that Kesava Bharati
>|is the spiritual master of Caitanya Mahaprabhu will spoil
>|the entire country.
159|Adi 12.16
160|TEXT 16
161|TEXT
162|caudda bhuvanera guru-caitanya-gosani
163|tanra guru-anya, ei kona sastre nai
164|SYNONYMS
165|caudda-fourteen; bhuvanera-planetary systems; guru-master;
>|caitanya-gosani-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; tanra guru-
>|His spiritual master; anya-someone else; ei-this; kona-any;
>|sastre-in scripture; nai-there is no mention.
166|TRANSLATION
167|"Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the spiritual master of the
>|fourteen worlds, but You say that someone else is His
>|spiritual master. This is not supported by any revealed
>|scripture."
168|Adi 12.17
169|TEXT 17
170|TEXT
171|pancama varsera balaka kahe siddhantera sara
172|suniya paila acarya santosa apara
173|SYNONYMS
174|pancama-five; varsera-years; balaka-small boy; kahe-says;
>|siddhantera-conclusive; sara-essence; suniya-hearing; paila-
>|got; acarya-Advaita Acarya; santosa-satisfaction; apara-
>|very much.
175|TRANSLATION
176|When Advaita Acarya heard this statement from His five-year-
>|old son Acyutananda, He felt great satisfaction because of
>|his conclusive judgment.
177|PURPORT
178|Commenting on verses 13 through 17, Bhaktisiddhanta
>|Sarasvati Thakura gives an extensive description of the
>|descendants of Advaita Acarya. The Caitanya-bhagavata,
>|Antya-khanda, Chapter One, states that Acyutananda was the
>|eldest son of Advaita Acarya. The Sanskrit book Advaita-
>|carita states, "Advaita Acarya Prabhu had three sons, named
>| Acyuta,
>|Krsna Misra and Gopala dasa, all born of the
>|womb of His wife, Sitadevi , who were devotees of Lord
>|Caitanya. Advaita Acarya also had three more sons, whose
>|names were Balarama, Svarupa and Jagadisa. Thus there were
>|six sons of Advaita Acarya." Among the six sons, three were
>|strict followers of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and of these
>|three, Acyutananda was the eldest.
179|Advaita Prabhu married in the beginning of the fifteenth
>|century sakabda (late fifteenth century A.D.). When Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to visit the village of Ramakeli
>|while going from Jagannatha Puri to Vrndavana during the
>|sakabda years 1433 and 1434 (A.D. 1512 and 1513),
>|Acyutananda was only five years old. The Caitanya-bhagavata,
>| Antya-khanda, Fourth Chapter, describes Acyutananda at
>|that time as panca-varsa vayasa madhura digambara, "only
>|five years old and standing naked." Therefore it is to be
>|concluded that Acyutananda was born sometime in the year
>|1428 (A.D. 1507). Before the birth of Acyutananda, Advaita
>|Prabhu's wife, Sitadevi, came to see Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu at His birth. Thus it is not impossible that she
>|had the other three sons by Advaita within the twenty-one
>|years between 1407 and 1428 sakabda (A.D. 1486 and 1507).
>|In an unauthorized book of the name Sitadvaita-carita,
>|published in Bengali in the unauthorized newspaper
>|Nityananda-dayini in 1792 sakabda (A.D. 1871), it is
>|mentioned that Acyutananda was a class friend of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. According to Caitanya-bhagavata,
>|this statement is not at all valid. When Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu accepted the renounced order of sannyasa
>|, He came to the house of
>|Advaita Prabhu at Santipura in the year 1431 sakabda (A.D.
>|1510). At that time, as stated in Caitanya-bhagavata,
>|Antya-khanda, Chapter One, Acyutananda was only three years
>|old. The Caitanya-bhagavata further states that the naked
>|child, the son of Advaita Prabhu, immediately came and fell
>|down at the lotus feet of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The
>|Lord immediately took him on His lap, although he was not
>|very clean, having dust all over his body. Lord Caitanya
>|said, "My dear Acyuta, Advaita Acarya is My father, and
>|thus we are brothers."
180|Before Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited His spiritual
>|forms during His residence at Navadvipa, He asked Sri Rama
>|Pandita, Srivasa Thakura's brother, to go to Santipura and
>|bring back Advaita Acarya. Acyutananda joined his father at
>|that time. It is said, advaitera tanaya 'acyutananda' nama
>|parama-balaka, seho kande avirama. Acyutananda also joined
>|in crying in transcendental bliss. Again, when Lord
>|Caitanya beat Advaita Acarya for explaining Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam from an impersonalist viewpoint opposed to the
>|principles of bhakti-yoga, Acyutananda was also present.
>|Therefore all these incidents must have occurred only two
>|or three years before Lord Caitanya accepted the sannyasa
>|order. in the Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya-
>|khanda, Chapter One, it is stated that Acyutananda, the son
>|of Advaita Acarya, offered his obeisances to the Lord.
>|Therefore it should be concluded that from the very
>|beginning of his life Acyutananda was a great devotee of
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
181|There is no information that Acyutananda ever married, but
>|he is described as the biggest branch of the Advaita Acarya
>|family. From a book named Sakha-nirnayamrta it is
>|understood that Acyutananda was a disciple of Gadadhara
>|and that he took shelter of Lord Caitanya in
>|Jagannatha Puri and engaged in devotional service. The
>|Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, Chapter Ten, states that
>|Acyutananda, the son of Advaita Acarya, lived in Jagannatha
>|Puri, taking shelter of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Gadadhara
>|Pandita, in the last years of his life, also lived with
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. There is no
>|doubt, therefore, that Acyutananda was a disciple of
>|Pandita Gadadhara. In the accounts of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu's dancing in front of the car during the Ratha-
>|yatra festival, Acyutananda's name is to be found many
>|times. It is stated that in the party of Advaita Acarya
>|from Santipura, Acyutananda was dancing and others were
>|singing. At that time the boy was only six years old.
>|the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, compiled by Sri Kavi-
>|karnapura, has described Acyutananda as a disciple
>|of Gadadhara Pandita and a great and dear devotee of Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. According to the opinion of some, he
>|was an incarnation of Karttikeya, the son of Lord Siva, and
>|according to others he was formerly the gopi named Acyuta.
>|The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika has supported both these
>|opinions. Another book, Narottama-vilasa, compiled by Sri
>|Narahari dasa, mentions Acyutananda's presence during the
>|festival at Khetari. According to Sri Narahari dasa, during
>|the last days of his life Acyutananda stayed in his house
>|at Santipura, but during the presence of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu he lived at Jagannatha Puri with Gadadhara
>|Pandita.
182|Of the six sons of Advaita Acarya, three-Acyutananda, Krsna
>|Misra and Gopala dasa-lived faithfully in the service of
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Since Acyutananda did not accept a
>|wife, he had no issue. The second son of Advaita Acarya,
>|Krsna Misra, had two sons, Raghunatha Cakravarti and Dola-
>|govinda. The descendants of Raghunatha still live in
>|Santipura in the neighborhoods of Madana-gopala-pada,
>|Ganakara, Mrjapura and Kumarakhali. Dola-govinda had three
>|sons, namely, Canda, Kandarpa and Gopinatha. The
>|descendants of Kandarpa live in Maldah in the village
>|Jikabadi. Gopinatha had three sons, Srivallabha,
>|Pranavallabha and Kesava. The descendants of Srivallabha
>|live in the villages known as Masiyadara (Mahisadera),
>|Damukadiya and Candipura. There is a genealogical table for
>|the family of Sri Vallabha beginning from his eldest son,
>|Ganga-narayana. The descendants of Sri Vallabha's youngest
>|son, Ramagopala, still live in Damukadiya, Candipura,
>|Solamari, and so on. The descendants of Pranavallabha and
>|Kesava live in Uthali. The son of Pranavallabha was
>|Ratnesvara, and his son was Krsnarama, whose youngest son
>|was Laksmi-narayana. His son was Navakisora, and Navakisora'
>|s second son was Ramamohana, whose eldest son was
>|Jagabandhu and whose third son, Viracandra, accepted the
>|sannyasa order and established a Deity of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu in Katwa. These two sons of Ramamohana were
>|known as Bada Prabhu and Chota Prabhu, and they inaugurated
>|the circumambulation of Navadvipa-dhama. One may refer to
>|the Vaisnava-manjusa for the complete genealogical table of
>|Advaita Prabhu in the line of Krsna Misra.
183|Adi 12.18
184|TEXT 18
185|TEXT
186|krsna-misra-nama ara acarya-tanaya
187|caitanya-gosani baise yanhara hrdaya
188|SYNONYMS
189|krsna-misra-of the name Krsna Misra; nama- name; ara-
>|and; acarya-tanaya-the son of Advaita Acarya; caitanya-
>|gosani-Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; baise-sits; yanhara-in
>|whose; hrdaya-heart.
190|TRANSLATION
191|Krsna Misra was a son of Advaita Acarya. Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu always sat in his heart.
192|Adi 12.19
193|TEXT 19
194|TEXT
195|sri-gopala-name ara acaryera suta
196|tanhara caritra, suna, atyanta adbhuta
197|
198|SYNONYMS
199|sri-gopala-of the name Sri Gopala; name-by the name; ara-
>|another; acaryera-of Advaita Acarya; suta-son; tanhara-his;
>|caritra-character; suna-hear; atyanta-very; adbhuta-
>|wonderful.
200|TRANSLATION
201|Sri Gopala was another son of Sri Advaita Acarya Prabhu.
>|Now just hear about his characteristics, for they are all
>|very wonderful.
202|PURPORT
203|Sri Gopala was one of the three devoted
>|sons of Advaita Acarya. He is described in the
>|Madhya-lila of Caitanya-caritamrta, Chapter Twelve, texts
>|143 through 149.
204|Adi 12.20
205|TEXT 20
206|TEXT
207|gundica-mandire mahaprabhura sammukhe
208|kirtane nartana kare bada prema-sukhe
209|
210|SYNONYMS
211|gundica-mandire-in the Gundica-mandira in Jagannatha Puri;
>|mahaprabhura-of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; sammukhe-in front;
>| kirtane-in sankirtana; nartana-dancing; kare-does; bada-
>|very; prema-sukhe-in transcendental bliss.
212|TRANSLATION
213|When Lord Caitanya personally cleansed the Gundica-mandira
>|in Jagannatha Puri, Gopala danced in front of the Lord with
>|great love and happiness.
214|PURPORT
215|The Gundica-mandira is situated in Jagannatha Puri, and
>|every year Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra come there
>|from the Jagannatha temple to stay for eight days. When
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu lived at Jagannatha Puri, every
>|year He personally cleansed this temple with His principal
>|devotees. The Gundica-marjana chapter of Caitanya-
>|caritamrta (Madhya 12) describes this vividly.
216|Adi 12.21
217|TEXT 21
218|TEXT
219|nana-bhavodgama dehe adbhuta nartana
220|dui gosani 'hari' bale, anandita mana
221|SYNONYMS
222|nana-various; bhava-udgama-ecstatic symptoms; dehe-in the
>|body; adbhuta-wonderful; nartana-dancing; dui gosani-the
>|two gosanis (Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Advaita Prabhu); hari
>|bale-chanted Hare Krsna; anandita-pleased; mana-mind.
223|TRANSLATION
224|While Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Advaita Prabhu chanted
>|the Hare Krsna mantra and danced, there were various
>|ecstatic symptoms in Their bodies, and Their minds were
>|very pleased.
225|Adi 12.22
226|TEXT 22
227|TEXT
228|nacite nacite gopala ha-ila murcchita
229|bhumete padila, dehe nahika samvita
230|SYNONYMS
231|nacite-while dancing; nacite-while dancing; gopala-the son
>|of Advaita Prabhu; ha-ila-became; murcchita-unconscious;
>|bhumete-on the ground; padila-fell down; dehe-in the body;
>|nahika-there was no; samvita-knowledge (consciousness).
232|TRANSLATION
233|While all of them danced, Gopala, dancing and dancing,
>|fainted and fell to the ground unconscious.
234|Adi 12.23
235|TEXT 23
236|TEXT
237|duhkhita ha-ila acarya putra kole lana
238|raksa kare nrsimhera mantra padiya
239|SYNONYMS
240|duhkhita-unhappy; ha-ila-became; acarya-Advaita Prabhu;
>|putra-His son; kole-on the lap; lana-taking; raksa-
>|protection; kare-does; nrsimhera-of Lord Nrsimha; mantra-
>|the hymn; padiya-by chanting.
241|TRANSLATION
242|Advaita Acarya Prabhu became very unhappy. Taking His son
>|on His lap, He began to chant the Nrsimha mantra for his
>|protection.
243|Adi 12.24
244|TEXT 24
245|TEXT
246|nana mantra padena acarya, na haya cetana
247|acaryera duhkhe vaisnava karena krandana
248|SYNONYMS
249|nana-various; mantra-hymns; padena-chants; acarya-Advaita
>|Acarya; na-not; haya-became; cetana-conscious; acaryera-of
>|Advaita Acarya; duhkhe-in unhappiness; vaisnava-all the
>|Vaisnavas; karena-do; krandana-cry.
250|TRANSLATION
251|Advaita Acarya chanted various mantras, but Gopala did not
>|come to consciousness. Thus all the Vaisnavas present cried
>|in sorrow at His plight.
252|Adi 12.25
253|TEXT 25
254|TEXT
255|tabe mahaprabhu, tanra hrde hasta dhari'
256|'uthaha, gopala,' kaila bala 'hari' 'hari'
257|SYNONYMS
258|tabe-at that time; mahaprabhu-Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu;
>|tanra-His; hrde-on the heart; hasta-hand; dhari'-keeping;
>|uthaha-get up; gopala-My dear Gopala; kaila-did say; bala-
>|chant; hari hari-the holy name of the Lord.
259|TRANSLATION
260|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu then put His hand on the chest of
>|Gopala and told him, "My dear Gopala, get up and chant the
>|holy name of the Lord!"
261|Adi 12.26
262|TEXT 26
263|TEXT
264|uthila gopala prabhura sparsa-dhvani suni'
265|anandita hana sabe kare hari-dhvani
266|SYNONYMS
267|uthila-got up; gopala-of the name Gopala; prabhura-of the
>|Lord; sparsa-touch; dhvani-sound; suni'-hearing; anandita-
>|jubilant; hana-becoming; sabe-all; kare-did; hari-dhvani-
>|chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra.
268|TRANSLATION
269|When he heard this sound and felt the touch of the Lord,
>|Gopala immediately got up, and all the Vaisnavas chanted
>|the Hare Krsna maha-mantra in jubilation.
270|Adi 12.27
271|TEXT 27
272|TEXT
273|acaryera ara putra-sri-balarama
274|ara putra-'svarupa'-sakha, 'jagadisa' nama
275|SYNONYMS
276|acaryera-of Srila Advaita Acarya; ara-another; putra-son;
>|sri-balarama-of the name Sri Balarama; ara putra-another
>|son; svarupa- of the name Svarupa; sakha-branch; jagadisa
>|nama-of the name Jagadisa.
277|TRANSLATION
278|The other sons of Advaita Acarya were Sri Balarama, Svarupa
>|and Jagadisa.
279|PURPORT
280|The Sanskrit book Advaita-carita states that Balarama,
>|Svarupa and Jagadisa were the fourth, fifth and sixth sons
>|of Advaita Acarya. Therefore Sri Advaita Acarya had six
>|sons. Balarama, Svarupa and Jagadisa, being smartas, or
>|Mayavadis, were rejected by Vaisnava society. Sometimes
>|Mayavadis pose themselves as Vaisnavas, or worshipers of
>|Lord Visnu, but actually they do not believe in Lord Visnu
>|as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for they consider
>|demigods like Lord Siva, Durga, the sun-god and Ganesa
>|equal to Him. They are generally known as pancopasaka-
>|smartas, and one should not count them among the Vaisnavas.
281|Balarama had three wives and nine sons. The youngest son of
>|his first wife was known as Madhusudana Gosvami. He took
>|the title Bhattacarya and accepted the path of the smarta
>|or Mayavada philosophy. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
>|Thakura notes that the son of Gosvami Bhattacarya, Sri
>|Radharamana Gosvami Bhattacarya, refused the title gosvami
>|because it is generally meant for sannyasis, those who have
>|taken the renounced order of life. One who is still in
>|family life should not misuse the title gosvami. Srila
>|Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura did not recognize the
>|caste gosvamis because they were not in the line of the six
>|Gosvamis in the renounced order who were direct disciples
>|of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu-namely, Srila Rupa Gosvami,
>|Srila Sanatana Gosvami, Srila Bhatta Raghunatha Gosvami,
>|Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami and Srila
>|Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
>|Thakura said that the grhastha asrama, or the status of
>|family life, is a sort of concession for sense
>|gratification. Therefore a grhastha should not falsely
>|adopt the title gosvami. The ISKCON movement has never
>|conferred the title gosvami upon a householder. Although
>|all the sannyasis we have initiated in ISKCON are young, we
>|have awarded them the titles of the renounced order of life,
>| svami and gosvami, because they have completely dedicated
>|their lives to preach the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
>|Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura mentions that not
>|only do the householder caste gosvamis disrespect the title
>|gosvami, but also, following the principles of the smarta
>|Raghunandana, they exhibit great foolishness by burning a
>|straw image of Advaita Acarya in a sraddha ceremony, thus
>|acting as Raksasas and disrespecting the cause of Hari-
>|bhakti-vilasa, which is the guide for Vaisnavas. Srila
>|Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that sometimes these
>|smarta caste gosvamis write books on Vaisnava philosophy or
>|commentaries on the original scriptures, but a pure devotee
>|should cautiously avoid reading them.
282|Adi 12.28
283|TEXT 28
284|TEXT
285|'kamalakanta visvasa'-nama acarya-kinkara
286|acarya-vyavahara saba-tanhara gocara
287|SYNONYMS
288|kamalakanta visvasa-of the name Kamalakanta Visvasa; nama-
>|name; acarya-kinkara-servant of Advaita Acarya;
>|acarya-vyavahara-the dealings of Advaita Acarya; saba-all;
>|tanhara-his; gocara- with in the knowledge.
289|TRANSLATION
290|Advaita Acarya's very confidential servant named
>|Kamalakanta Visvasa knew all the dealings of Advaita Acarya.
291|PURPORT
292|The name Kamalananda mentioned in the Adi-lila (10.149) and
>|the name Kamalakanta mentioned in the Madhya-lila (10.94)
>|both refer to the same man. Kamalakanta, a very
>|confidential servant of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu born in a
>|brahmana family, engaged in the service of Sri Advaita
>|Acarya as His secretary. When Paramananda Puri went from
>|Navadvipa to Jagannatha Puri, he took Kamalakanta Visvasa
>|with him, and they both went to see Lord Caitanya at
>|Jagannatha Puri. It is mentioned in the Madhya-lila (10.94)
>|that one of the devotees of Lord Caitanya, the brahmana
>|Kamalakanta, went with Paramananda Puri to Jagannatha Puri.
293|Adi 12.29
294|TEXT 29
295|TEXT
296|nilacale tenho eka patrika likhiya
297|prataparudrera pasa dila pathaiya
298|SYNONYMS
299|nilacale-at Jagannatha Puri; tenho-Kamalakanta; eka-one;
>|patrika-note; likhiya-writing; prataparudrera-Prataparudra
>|Maharaja; pasa-addressed to him; dila pathaiya-sent.
300|TRANSLATION
301|When Kamalakanta Visvasa was in Jagannatha Puri, he sent a
>|note through someone to Maharaja Prataparudra.
302|Adi 12.30
303|TEXT 30
304|TEXT
305|sei patrira katha acarya nahi jane
306|kona pake sei patri aila prabhu-sthane
307|SYNONYMS
308|sei patrira-of that note; katha-information; acarya-Sri
>|Advaita Acarya; nahi-does not; jane-know; kona-somehow or
>|other; pake-by means; sei-that; patri-note; aila-came;
>|prabhu-sthane-in the hand of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
309|TRANSLATION
310|No one knew of that note, but somehow or other it reached
>|the hands of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
311|Adi 12.31
312|TEXT 31
313|TEXT
314|se patrite lekha ache-ei ta' likhana
315|isvaratve acaryere kariyache sthapana
316|SYNONYMS
317|se-that; patrite-in the note; lekha ache-it is written; ei
>|ta'-this; likhana-writing; isvaratve-in the place of the
>|Supreme Lord; acaryere-unto Advaita Acarya; kariyache-
>|established; sthapana-situation.
318|TRANSLATION
319|That note established Advaita Acarya as an incarnation of
>|the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
320|Adi 12.32
321|TEXT 32
322|TEXT
323|kintu tanra daive kichu ha-iyache rna
324|rna sodhibare cahi tanka sata-tina
325|SYNONYMS
326|kintu-but; tanra-His; daive-in due course of time; kichu-
>|some; ha-iyache-there was; rna-debt; rna-debt; sodhibare-to
>|liquidate; cahi-I want; tanka-rupees; sata-tina-about three
>|hundred.
327|TRANSLATION
328|But it also mentioned that Advaita Acarya had recently
>|incurred a debt of about three hundred rupees that
>|Kamalakanta Visvasa wanted to liquidate.
329|Adi 12.33
330|TEXT 33
331|TEXT
332|patra padiya prabhura mane haila duhkha
333|bahire hasiya kichu bale candra-mukha
334|SYNONYMS
335|patra-note; padiya-reading; prabhura-of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; mane-in the mind; haila-became; duhkha-
>|unhappiness; bahire-externally; hasiya-smiling; kichu-
>|something; bale-says; candra-mukha-the moon-faced.
336|TRANSLATION
337|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu became unhappy upon reading the
>|note, although His face still shone as brightly as the moon.
>| Thus, smiling, He spoke as follows.
338|Adi 12.34
339|TEXT 34
340|TEXT
341|acaryere sthapiyache kariya isvara
342|ithe dosa nahi, acarya-daivata isvara
343|SYNONYMS
344|acaryere-unto Sri Advaita Acarya; sthapiyache-he
>|established; kariya-mentioning; isvara-as the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead; ithe-in this; dosa-fault; nahi-
>|there is not; acarya-Advaita Acarya; daivata isvara-He is
>|actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
345|TRANSLATION
346|"He has established Advaita Acarya as an incarnation of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is nothing wrong in
>|this, for He is indeed the Lord Himself.
347|Adi 12.35
348|TEXT 35
349|TEXT
350|isvarera dainya kari' kariyache bhiksa
351|ataeva danda kari' karaiba siksa
352|SYNONYMS
353|isvarera-of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; dainya-
>|poverty; kari'-establishing; kariyache-has done; bhiksa-
>|begging; ataeva-therefore; danda-punishment; kari'-giving
>|him; karaiba-shall cause; siksa-instruction.
354|TRANSLATION
355|"But he has made the incarnation of Godhead a poverty-
>|stricken beggar. Therefore I shall punish him for his
>|correction ."
356|PURPORT
357|To describe a man as an incarnation of God, or Narayana,
>|and at the same time present him as poverty-stricken is
>|contradictory, and it is the greatest offense. The Mayavadi
>|philosophers, engaged in the missionary work of spoiling
>|the Vedic culture by preaching that everyone is God,
>|describe a poverty-stricken man as daridra-narayana, or "
>|poor Narayana." Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu never accepted
>|such foolish and unauthorized ideas. He strictly warned,
>|mayavadi-bhasya sunile haya sarva-nasa: "
>|Anyone who follows the principles of Mayavada philosophy is
>|certainly doomed." Such a fool needs to be reformed by
>|punishment.
358|Although it is contradictory to say that the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead or His incarnation is poverty-
>|stricken, we find in the revealed scriptures that when the
>|Lord incarnated as Vamana, He begged some land from
>|Maharaja Bali. Everyone knows, however, that Vamanadeva was
>|not at all poverty-stricken. His begging from Maharaja Bali
>|was a device to favor him. When Maharaja Bali actually gave
>|the land, Vamanadeva exhibited His all-powerful position by
>|covering the three worlds with three steps. One should not
>|accept the so-called daridra-narayanas as incarnations
>|because they are completely unable to show the opulence of
>|the genuine incarnations of God.
359|Adi 12.36
360|TEXT 36
361|TEXT
362|govindere ajna dila,-"inha aji haite
363|bauliya visvase etha na dibe asite"
364|SYNONYMS
365|govindere-unto Govinda; ajna dila-ordered; inha-to this
>|place; aji-today; haite-from; bauliya-the Mayavadi; visvase-
>|unto Kamalakanta Visvasa; etha-here; na-do not; dibe-allow;
>|asite-to come.
366|TRANSLATION
367|The Lord ordered Govinda, "From today on, do not allow that
>|bauliya Kamalakanta Visvasa to come here."
368|PURPORT
369|The bauliyas, or baulas, are one of thirteen unauthorized
>|sects that pass as followers of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The
>|Lord ordered Govinda, His personal assistant, not to allow
>|Kamalakanta Visvasa to come in His presence because he
>|had become a bauliya. Thus although the baula-sampradaya,
>|aula-sampradaya and sahajiya-sampradaya, as well as the
>|smartas, jata-gosanis, atibadis, cudadharis and gauranga-
>|nagaris, claim to belong to the disciplic succession of
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Lord actually rejected them.
370|Adi 12.37
371|TEXT 37
372|TEXT
373|danda suni' 'visvasa' ha-ila parama duhkhita
374|suniya prabhura danda acarya harsita
375|SYNONYMS
376|danda-punishment; suni'-hearing; visvasa-Kamalakanta
>|Visvasa; ha-ila-became; parama-very; duhkhita-unhappy;
>|suniya-hearing; prabhura-of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; danda-
>|punishment; acarya-Sri Advaita Acarya Prabhu; harsita-very
>|much pleased.
377|TRANSLATION
378|When Kamalakanta Visvasa heard about this punishment by Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he was very unhappy, but when Advaita
>|Prabhu heard about it, He was greatly pleased.
379|PURPORT
380|In Bhagavad-gita the Lord says, samo 'ham sarva-
>|bhutesu na me dvesyo 'sti na priyah: "I envy no one, nor am
>|I partial to anyone. I am equal to all." (Bg. 9.29) The
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead being equal to everyone, no
>|one can be His enemy, nor can anyone be His friend. Since
>|everyone is a part or son of the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead, the Lord cannot partially regard
>|someone as a friend and someone as an enemy. Thus when Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu punished Kamalakanta Visvasa by no
>|longer allowing him to come in His presence, although the
>|punishment was actually very hard on him, Sri Advaita
>|Prabhu, understanding the inner meaning of such punishment,
>|was happy because He appreciated that the Lord had actually
>|favored Kamalakanta Visvasa. Therefore He was not at all
>|unhappy. Devotees should always be happy with all the
>|dealings of their master, the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead. A devotee may be put into difficulty or opulence,
>|but he should accept both as gifts of the Supreme
>|personality of Godhead and jubilantly engage in the service
>|of the Lord in all circumstances.
381|Adi 12.38
382|TEXT 38
383|TEXT
384|visvasere kahe,-tumi bada bhagyavan
385|tomare karila danda prabhu bhagavan
386|SYNONYMS
387|visvasere-unto Kamalakanta Visvasa; kahe-said; tumi-you;
>|bada-very; bhagyavan-fortunate; tomare-unto you; karila-did;
>| danda-punishment; prabhu-the Lord; bhagavan-the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead.
388|TRANSLATION
389|Seeing Kamalakanta Visvasa unhappy, Advaita Acarya Prabhu
>|told him, "You are greatly fortunate to have been punished
>|by the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
390|PURPORT
391|This is an authoritative judgment by Sri Advaita Prabhu. He
>|clearly advises that one should not be unhappy when
>|reverses come upon him by the order of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead. A devotee should always be happy to
>|receive the fortune awarded him by the Supreme Lord, which
>|seems pleasant or unpleasant according to one's judgment.
392|Adi 12.39
393|TEXT 39
394|TEXT
395|purve mahaprabhu more karena sammana
396|duhkha pai' mane ami kailun anumana
397|SYNONYMS
398|purve-previously; mahaprabhu-Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; more-
>|unto Me; karena-does; sammana-respect; duhkha-unhappy; pai'-
>|becoming; mane-in the mind; ami-I; kailun-made; anumana-a
>|plan.
399|TRANSLATION
400|"Formerly Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu always respected Me as
>|His senior, but I did not like such respect. Therefore, My
>|mind being afflicted by unhappiness, I made a plan.
401|Adi 12.40
402|TEXT 40
403|TEXT
404|mukti-srestha kari' kainu vasistha vyakhyana
405|kruddha hana prabhu more kaila apamana
406|SYNONYMS
407|mukti-liberation; srestha-the topmost; kari'-accepting;
>|kainu-I did; vasistha-the book known as Yoga-vasistha;
>|vyakhyana-explanation; kruddha-angry; hana-becoming; prabhu-
>|the Lord; more-unto Me; kaila-did; apamana-disrespect.
408|TRANSLATION
409|"Thus I expounded the Yoga-vasistha, which considers
>|liberation the ultimate goal of life. For this the Lord
>|became angry at Me and treated Me with apparent disrespect.
410|PURPORT
411|There is a book of the name Yoga-vasistha that Mayavadis
>|greatly favor because it is full of impersonal
>|misunderstandings regarding the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead, with no touch of Vaisnavism. Factually, all
>|Vaisnavas should avoid such a book, but Advaita Acarya
>|Prabhu, wanting punishment from the Lord, began to support
>|the impersonal statements of the Yoga-vasistha. Thus Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu became extremely angry at Him and
>|seemingly treated Him disrespectfully.
412|Adi 12.41
413|TEXT 41
414|TEXT
415|danda pana haila mora parama ananda
416|ye danda paila bhagyavan sri-mukunda
417|SYNONYMS
418|danda pana-receiving the punishment; haila-became; mora-My;
>|parama-very great; ananda-happiness; ye danda-the
>|punishment; paila-got; bhagyavan-the most fortunate; sri-
>|mukunda-of the name Sri Mukunda.
419|TRANSLATION
420|"When chastised by Lord Caitanya, I was very happy to
>|receive a punishment similar to that awarded Sri Mukunda.
421|PURPORT
422|Sri Mukunda, a great friend and associate of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu, used to visit many places where people were
>|against the Vaisnava cult. When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|came to know of this, He punished Mukunda, forbidding him
>|to see Him again. Although Caitanya Mahaprabhu was soft
>|like a flower, He was also strict like a thunderbolt, and
>|everyone was afraid to allow Mukunda to come again into the
>|presence of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Mukunda, therefore,
>|being very sorry, asked his other friends whether he would
>|one day be allowed to see Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When
>|the devotees brought this inquiry to Lord Caitanya, the
>|Lord replied, "Mukunda will get permission to see Me after
>|many millions of years." When they gave this information to
>|Mukunda, he danced with jubilation, and when Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu heard that Mukunda was so patiently waiting to
>|meet Him after millions of years, He immediately asked him
>|to return. There is a statement about this punishment of
>|Mukunda in the Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya- lila, Tenth
>|Chapter.
423|Adi 12.42
424|TEXT 42
425|TEXT
426|ye danda paila sri-saci bhagyavati
427|se danda prasada anya loka pabe kati
428|SYNONYMS
429|ye danda-the punishment; paila-got; sri-saci bhagyavati-the
>|most fortunate mother Sacidevi; se danda-the same
>|punishment; prasada-favor; anya-other; loka-person; pabe-
>|can get; kati-how.
430|TRANSLATION
431|"A similar punishment was awarded to mother Sacidevi. Who
>|could be more fortunate than she to receive such punishment?
>|"
432|PURPORT
433|Mother Sacidevi was similarly punished, as mentioned in the
>|Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya-lila, Chapter Twenty-two.
>|Mother Sacidevi, apparently showing her feminine nature,
>|accused Advaita Prabhu of encouraging her son to become a
>|sannyasi. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, taking this accusation as an
>|offense, asked Sacidevi to touch the lotus feet of Advaita
>|Acarya to mitigate the offense she had supposedly committed.
434|Adi 12.43
435|TEXT 43
436|TEXT
437|eta kahi' acarya tanre kariya asvasa
438|anandita ha-iya aila mahaprabhu-pasa
439|SYNONYMS
440|eta kahi'-speaking thus; acarya-Sri Advaita Acarya Prabhu;
>|tanre-unto Kamalakanta Visvasa; kariya-doing; asvasa-
>|pacification; anandita-happy; ha-iya-becoming; aila-went;
>|mahaprabhu-pasa-to the place of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
441|TRANSLATION
442|After pacifying Kamalakanta Visvasa in this way, Sri
>|Advaita Acarya Prabhu went to see Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
443|Adi 12.44
444|TEXT 44
445|TEXT
446|prabhuke kahena-tomara na bujhi e lila
447|ama haite prasada-patra karila kamala
448|SYNONYMS
449|prabhuke-unto the Lord; kahena-says; tomara-Your; na-do not;
>| bujhi-I understand; e-these; lila-pastimes; ama-Myself;
>|haite-more than; prasada-patra-object of favor; karila-You
>|did; kamala-unto Kamalakanta Visvasa.
450|TRANSLATION
451|Sri Advaita Acarya told Lord Caitanya, "I cannot understand
>|Your transcendental pastimes. You have shown more favor to
>|Kamalakanta than You generally show to Me.
452|Adi 12.45
453|TEXT 45
454|TEXT
455|amareha kabhu yei na haya prasada
456|tomara carane ami ki kainu aparadha
457|SYNONYMS
458|amareha-even upon Me; kabhu-at any time; yei-that; na-never;
>| haya-becomes; prasada-favor; tomara carane-at Your lotus
>|feet; ami-I; ki-what; kainu-have done; aparadha-offense.
459|TRANSLATION
460|"The favor You have shown Kamalakanta is so great that even
>|to Me You have never shown such favor. What offense have I
>|committed at Your lotus feet so as not to be shown such
>|favor?"
461|PURPORT
462|This is a reference to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's former
>|punishment of Advaita Acarya. When Advaita Acarya Prabhu
>|was reading Yoga-vasistha, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu beat
>|Him, but He never told Him not to come in His presence.
>|But Kamalakanta was punished with the order never to come
>|in the Lord's presence. Therefore Sri Advaita Acarya
>|Prabhu wanted to impress upon Caitanya Mahaprabhu that He
>|had shown more favor to Kamalakanta Visvasa because He had
>|prohibited Kamalakanta from seeing Him, whereas He had not
>|done so to Advaita Acarya. Therefore the favor shown
>|Kamalakanta Visvasa was greater than that shown Advaita
>|Acarya.
463|Adi 12.46
464|TEXT 46
465|TEXT
466|eta suni' mahaprabhu hasite lagila
467|bolaiya kamalakante prasanna ha-ila
468|SYNONYMS
469|eta suni'-thus hearing; mahaprabhu-Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu;
>| hasite-to laugh; lagila-began; bolaiya-calling;
>|kamalakante-unto Kamalakanta; prasanna-satisfied; ha-ila-
>|became.
470|TRANSLATION
471|Hearing this, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu laughed with
>|satisfaction and immediately called Kamalakanta Visvasa.
472|Adi 12.47
473|TEXT 47
474|TEXT
475|acarya kahe, ihake kene dile darasana
476|dui prakarete kare more vidambana
477|SYNONYMS
478|acarya kahe-Sri Advaita Acarya said; ihake-unto him; kene-
>|why; dile-You gave; darasana-audience; dui-two; prakarete-
>|in ways; kare-does; more-unto Me; vidambana-cheating.
479|TRANSLATION
480|Advaita Acarya then said to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, "Why have
>|You called back this man and allowed him to see You? He has
>|cheated Me in two ways."
481|Adi 12.48
482|TEXT 48
483|TEXT
484|suniya prabhura mana prasanna ha-ila
485|dunhara antara-katha dunhe se janila
486|SYNONYMS
487|suniya-hearing this; prabhura-of Caitanya Mahaprabhu; mana-
>|mind; prasanna-satisfaction; ha-ila-felt; dunhara-of both
>|of Them; antara-katha-confidential talks; dunhe-both of
>|Them; se-that; janila-could understand.
488|TRANSLATION
489|When Caitanya Mahaprabhu heard this, His mind was satisfied.
>| Only They could understand each other's minds.
490|Adi 12.49
491|TEXT 49
492|TEXT
493|prabhu kahe-bauliya, aiche kahe kara
494|acaryera lajja-dharma-hani se acara
495|SYNONYMS
496|prabhu kahe-the Lord said; bauliya-one who does not know
>|what is right; aiche-in that way; kahe-why; kara-do;
>|acaryera-of Sri Advaita Acarya; lajja-privacy; dharma-
>|religion; hani-loss; se-that; acara-you act.
497|TRANSLATION
498|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed Kamalakanta, "You are a
>|bauliya, one who does not know things as they are. Why do
>|you act in this way? Why do you invade the privacy of
>|Advaita Acarya and damage His religious principles?
499|PURPORT
500|Kamalakanta Visvasa, out of his ignorance, asked the King
>|of Jagannatha Puri, Maharaja Prataparudra, to liquidate the
>|three-hundred-rupee debt of Advaita Acarya, but at the same
>|time he established Advaita Acarya as an incarnation of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is contradictory. An
>|incarnation of the Supreme Godhead cannot be indebted to
>|anyone in this material world. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is never
>|satisfied by such a contradiction, which is technically
>|called rasabhasa, or overlapping of one humor (rasa) with
>|another. This is the same type of idea as the contradiction
>|that Narayana is poverty-stricken (daridra-narayana).
501|Adi 12.50
502|TEXT 50
503|TEXT
504|pratigraha kabhu na karibe raja-dhana
505|visayira anna khaile dusta haya mana
506|SYNONYMS
507|pratigraha-acceptance of alms; kabhu-at any time; na-not;
>|karibe-should do; raja-dhana-charity by kings; visayira-of
>|men who are materialistic; anna-food; khaile-by eating;
>|dusta-polluted; haya-becomes; mana-mind.
508|TRANSLATION
509|"Advaita Acarya, My spiritual master, should never accept
>|charity from rich men or kings because if a spiritual
>|master accepts money or grains from such materialists his
>|mind becomes polluted.
510|PURPORT
511|It is very risky to accept money or food from materialistic
>|persons, for such acceptance pollutes the mind of the
>|charity's recipient. According to the Vedic system, one
>|should give charity to sannyasis and brahmanas because one
>|who thus gives charity becomes free from sinful activities.
>|Formerly, therefore, brahmanas would not accept charity
>|from a person unless he were very pious. Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu gave this instruction for all spiritual masters.
>|Materialistic persons who are not inclined to give up their
>|sinful activities like illicit sex, intoxication, gambling
>|and meat-eating sometimes want to become our disciples, but,
>| unlike professional spiritual masters who accept disciples
>|regardless of their condition, Vaisnavas do not accept such
>|cheap disciples. One must at least agree to abide by the
>|rules and regulations for a disciple before a Vaisnava
>|acarya can accept him. In fact, a Vaisnava should not even
>|accept charity or food from persons who do not follow the
>|rules and regulations of the Vaisnava principles.
512|Adi 12.51
513|TEXT 51
514|TEXT
515|mana dusta ha-ile nahe krsnera smarana
516|krsna-smrti vinu haya nisphala jivana
517|SYNONYMS
518|mana-mind; dusta-polluted; ha-ile-becoming; nahe-is not
>|possible; krsnera-of Lord Krsna; smarana-remembrance; krsna-
>|smrti-remembrance of Lord Krsna; vinu-without; haya-becomes;
>| nisphala-without any result; jivana-life.
519|TRANSLATION
520|"When one's mind is polluted, it is very difficult to
>|remember Krsna; and when remembrance of Lord Krsna is
>|hampered, one's life is unproductive.
521|PURPORT
522|A devotee should always be alert, keeping his mind in a
>|sanguine state so that he can always remember Lord Sri
>|Krsna. The sastras state, smartavyah satatam visnuh: in
>|devotional life one should always remember Lord Visnu.
>|Srila Sukadeva Gosvami also advised Maharaja Pariksit,
>|smartavyo nityasah. In the Second Canto, First Chapter, of
>|Srimad-Bhagavatam, Sukadeva Gosvami advised Pariksit
>|Maharaja:
523|tasmad bharata sarvatma
524|bhagavan isvaro harih
525|srotavyah kirtitavyas ca
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
526|smartavyas cecchatabhayam
527|"O descendant of King Bharata, one who desires to be free
>|from all miseries must hear, glorify and also remember the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the
>|controller and the savior from all miseries." (Bhag. 2.1.5)
>|This is the summary of all the activities of a Vaisnava,
>|and the same instruction is repeated here (krsna-smrti vinu
>|haya nisphala jivana). Srila Rupa Gosvami states in Bhakti-
>|rasamrta-sindhu, avyartha-kalatvam: A Vaisnava must be very
>|alert not to waste even a second of his valuable lifetime.
>|This is a symptom of a Vaisnava. But association with
>|pounds-and-shillings men, or visayis, materialists who are
>|simply interested in sense gratification, pollutes one's
>|mind and hampers such continuous remembrance of Lord Krsna.
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore advised, asat-sanga-tyaga-
>|ei vaisnava-acara: a Vaisnava should behave in such a way
>|as to never associate with nondevotees or materialists (Cc.
>|Madhya 22.87). One can avoid such association simply by
>|always remembering Krsna within his heart.
528|Adi 12.52
529|TEXT 52
530|TEXT
531|loka-lajja haya, dharma-kirti haya hani
532|aiche karma na kariha kabhu iha jani'
533|SYNONYMS
534|loka-lajja-unpopularity; haya-becomes; dharma-religion;
>|kirti-reputation; haya-becomes; hani-damaged; aiche-such;
>|karma-work; na-do not; kariha-execute; kabhu-ever; iha-this;
>| jani'-knowing.
535|TRANSLATION
536|"Thus one becomes unpopular in the eyes of the people in
>|general, for this damages his religiosity and fame. A
>|Vaisnava, especially one who acts as a spiritual master,
>|must not act in such a way. One should always be conscious
>|of this fact."
537|Adi 12.53
538|TEXT 53
539|TEXT
540|ei siksa sabakare, sabe mane kaila
541|acarya-gosani mane ananda paila
542|SYNONYMS
543|ei-this; siksa-instruction; sabakare-for all; sabe-all
>|present; mane-in the mind; kaila-took it; acarya-gosani-
>|Advaita Acarya; mane-within the mind; ananda-pleasure;
>|paila-felt.
544|TRANSLATION
545|When Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave this instruction to
>|Kamalakanta, all present considered it to be meant for
>|everyone. Thus Advaita Acarya was greatly pleased.
546|Adi 12.54
547|TEXT 54
548|TEXT
549|acaryera abhipraya prabhu-matra bujhe
550|prabhura gambhira vakya acarya samujhe
551|SYNONYMS
552|acaryera-of Advaita Acarya; abhipraya-intention; prabhu-
>|matra-only Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bujhe-can understand;
>|prabhura-of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; gambhira-grave; vakya-
>|instruction; acarya-Advaita Acarya; samujhe-can understand.
553|TRANSLATION
554|Only Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu could understand the
>|intentions of Advaita Acarya, and Advaita Acarya
>|appreciated the grave instruction of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu.
555|Adi 12.55
556|TEXT 55
557|TEXT
558|ei ta' prastave ache bahuta vicara
559|grantha-bahulya-bhaye nari likhibara
560|SYNONYMS
561|ei ta'-in this; prastave-statement; ache-there are; bahuta-
>|many; vicara-considerations; grantha-of the book; bahulya-
>|of the expansion; bhaye-out of fear; nari-I do not;
>|likhibara-write.
562|TRANSLATION
563|In this statement there are many confidential
>|considerations. I do not write of them all, fearing an
>|unnecessary increase in the volume of the book.
564|Adi 12.56
565|TEXT 56
566|TEXT
567|sri-yadunandanacarya-advaitera sakha
568|tanra sakha-upasakhara nahi haya lekha
569|SYNONYMS
570|sri-yadunandana-acarya-of the name Sri Yadunandana Acarya;
>|advaitera-of Advaita Acarya; sakha-branch; tanra-his; sakha-
>|branches; upasakhara-subbranches; nahi-not; haya-there is;
>|lekha-writing.
571|TRANSLATION
572|The fifth branch of Advaita Acarya was Sri Yadunandana
>|Acarya, who had so many branches and subbranches that it is
>|impossible to write of them.
573|PURPORT
574|Yadunandana Acarya was the official initiator spiritual
>|master of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. In other words, when
>|Raghunatha dasa Gosvami was a householder, Yadunandana
>|Acarya initiated him at home. Later Raghunatha dasa Gosvami
>|took shelter of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri.
575|Adi 12.57
576|TEXT 57
577|TEXT
578|vasudeva dattera tenho krpara bhajana
579|sarva-bhave asriyache caitanya-carana
580|
581|SYNONYMS
582|vasudeva dattera-of Vasudeva Datta; tenho-he was; krpara-of
>|the mercy; bhajana-competent to receive; sarva-bhave-in all
>|respects; asriyache-took shelter; caitanya-carana-of the
>|lotus feet of Lord Caitanya.
583|TRANSLATION
584|Sri Yadunandana Acarya was a student of Vasudeva Datta, and
>|he received all his mercy. Therefore he could accept Lord
>|Caitanya's lotus feet, from all angles of vision, as the
>|supreme shelter.
585|PURPORT
586|The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 140 , describes that
>|Vasudeva Datta was formerly Madhuvrata, a singer in
>|Vrndavana.
587|Adi 12.58
588|TEXT 58
589|TEXT
590|bhagavatacarya, ara visnudasacarya
591|cakrapani acarya, ara ananta acarya
592|SYNONYMS
593|bhagavata-acarya-of the name Bhagavata Acarya; ara-and;
>|visnudasa-acarya- of the name Visnudasa Acarya; cakrapani
>|acarya- of the name Cakrapani Acarya; ara-and; ananta
>|acarya- of the name Ananta Acarya.
594|TRANSLATION
595|Bhagavata Acarya, Visnudasa Acarya, Cakrapani Acarya and
>|Ananta Acarya were the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth
>|branches of Advaita Acarya.
596|PURPORT
597|In his Anubhasya Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami
>|Prabhupada says that Bhagavata Acarya was formerly among
>|the followers of Advaita Acarya but was later counted among
>|the followers of Gadadhara Pandita. The sixth verse of
>|Sakha-nirnayamrta, a book written by Yadunandana dasa,
>|states that Bhagavata Acarya compiled a famous book of the
>|name Prema-tarangini. According to the Gaura-ganoddesa-
>|dipika, verse 195 , Bhagavata Acarya formerly lived in
>|Vrndavana as Sveta-manjari. Visnudasa Acarya was present
>|during the Khetari-mahotsava. He went there with
>|Acyutananda, as stated in the Bhakti-ratnakara, Tenth
>|Taranga. Ananta Acarya was one of the eight principal gopis.
>| His former name was Sudevi. Although he was among Advaita
>|Acarya's followers, he later became an important devotee of
>|Gadadhara Gosvami.
598|Adi 12.59
599|TEXT 59
600|TEXT
601|nandini, ara kamadeva, caitanya-dasa
602|durlabha visvasa, ara vanamali-dasa
603|SYNONYMS
604|nandini-of the name Nandini; ara-and; kamadeva- of the name
>|Kamadeva; caitanya-dasa- of the name Caitanya dasa;
>|durlabha visvasa- of the name Durlabha Visvasa; ara-and;
>|vanamali-dasa- of the name Vanamali dasa.
605|TRANSLATION
606|Nandini, Kamadeva, Caitanya dasa, Durlabha Visvasa and
>|Vanamali dasa were the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth
>|and fourteenth branches of Sri Advaita Acarya.
607|Adi 12.60
608|TEXT 60
609|TEXT
610|jagannatha kara, ara kara bhavanatha
611|hrdayananda sena, ara dasa bholanatha
612|SYNONYMS
613|jagannatha kara-of the name Jagannatha Kara; ara-and; kara
>|bhavanatha- of the name Bhavanatha Kara; hrdayananda sena-
>|of the name Hrdayananda Sena; ara-and; dasa bholanatha- of
>|the name Bholanatha dasa.
614|TRANSLATION
615|Jagannatha Kara, Bhavanatha Kara, Hrdayananda Sena and
>|Bholanatha dasa were the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth
>|and eighteenth branches of Advaita Acarya.
616|Adi 12.61
617|TEXT 61
618|TEXT
619|yadava-dasa, vijaya-dasa, dasa janardana
620|ananta-dasa, kanu-pandita, dasa narayana
621|SYNONYMS
622|yadava-dasa-of the name Yadava dasa; vijaya-dasa- of the
>|name Vijaya dasa; dasa janardana- of the name Janardana
>|dasa; ananta-dasa- of the name Ananta dasa; kanu-pandita-
>|of the name Kanu Pandita; dasa narayana- of the name
>|Narayana dasa.
623|TRANSLATION
624|Yadava dasa, Vijaya dasa, Janardana dasa, Ananta dasa, Kanu
>|Pandita and Narayana dasa were the nineteenth, twentieth,
>|twenty-first, twenty-second, twentythird and twenty-
>|fourth branches of Advaita Acarya.
625|Adi 12.62
626|TEXT 62
627|TEXT
628|srivatsa pandita, brahmacari haridasa
629|purusottama brahmacari, ara krsnadasa
630|
631|SYNONYMS
632|srivatsa pandita-of the name Srivatsa Pandita; brahmacari
>|haridasa- of the name Haridasa Brahmacari; purusottama
>|brahmacari- of the name Purusottama Brahmacari; ara-and;
>|krsnadasa- of the name Krsnadasa.
633|TRANSLATION
634|Srivatsa Pandita, Haridasa Brahmacari, Purusottama
>|Brahmacari and Krsnadasa were the twenty-fifth, twenty-
>|sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth branches of Advaita
>|Acarya.
635|Adi 12.63
636|TEXT 63
637|TEXT
638|purusottama pandita, ara raghunatha
639|vanamali kavicandra, ara vaidyanatha
640|
641|SYNONYMS
642|purusottama pandita-of the name Purusottama Pandita; ara
>|raghunatha-and Raghunatha; vanamali kavicandra- of the name
>|Vanamali Kavicandra; ara-and; vaidyanatha- of the name
>|Vaidyanatha.
643|TRANSLATION
644|Purusottama Pandita, Raghunatha, Vanamali Kavicandra and
>|Vaidyanatha were the twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first
>|and thirty-second branches of Advaita Acarya.
645|Adi 12.64
646|TEXT 64
647|TEXT
648|lokanatha pandita, ara murari pandita
649|sri-haricarana, ara madhava pandita
650|SYNONYMS
651|lokanatha pandita-of the name Lokanatha Pandita; ara-and;
>|murari pandita- of the name Murari Pandita; sri-haricarana-
>|of the name Sri Haricarana; ara-and; madhava pandita- of
>|the name Madhava Pandita.
652|TRANSLATION
653|Lokanatha Pandita, Murari Pandita, Sri Haricarana and
>|Madhava Pandita were the thirty-third, thirty-fourth,
>|thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth branches of Advaita Acarya.
654|Adi 12.65
655|TEXT 65
656|TEXT
657|vijaya pandita, ara pandita srirama
658|asankhya advaita-sakha kata la-iba nama
659|SYNONYMS
660|vijaya-pandita-of the name Vijaya Pandita; ara-and; pandita
>|srirama- of the name Srirama Pandita; asankhya-innumerable;
>|advaita-sakha-branches of Advaita Acarya; kata-how many; la-
>|iba-shall I enumerate; nama-their names.
661|TRANSLATION
662|Vijaya Pandita and Srirama Pandita were two important
>|branches of Advaita Acarya. There are innumerable branches,
>|but I am unable to mention them all.
663|PURPORT
664|Since Srivasa Pandita was an incarnation of Narada Muni,
>|his younger brother, Srirama Pandita, is
>|accepted as an incarnation of Parvata Muni, Narada Muni's
>|most intimate friend.
665|Adi 12.66
666|TEXT 66
667|TEXT
668|mali-datta jala advaita-skandha yogaya
669|sei jale jiye sakha,-phula-phala paya
670|SYNONYMS
671|mali-datta-given by the gardener; jala-water; advaita-
>|skandha-the branch known as Advaita Acarya; yogaya-supplies;
>| sei-by that; jale-water; jiye-lives; sakha-branches; phula-
>|phala-fruits and flowers; paya-grow.
672|TRANSLATION
673|The Advaita Acarya branch received the water supplied by
>|the original gardener, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In this way,
>| the subbranches were nourished, and their fruits and
>|flowers grew luxuriantly.
674|PURPORT
675|The branches of Advaita Acarya nourished by the water (jala)
>| supplied by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are to be considered
>|bona fide acaryas. As we have discussed hereinbefore, the
>|representatives of Advaita Acarya later divided into two
>|groups-the bona fide branches of the acarya's disciplic
>|succession and the pretentious branches of Advaita Acarya.
>|Those who followed the principles of Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|flourished, whereas the others, who are mentioned below in
>|the sixty-seventh verse, dried up.
676|Adi 12.67
677|TEXT 67
678|TEXT
679|ihara madhye mali pache kona sakha-gana
680|na mane caitanya-mali durdaiva karana
681|SYNONYMS
682|ihara-of them; madhye-within; mali-the gardener; pache-
>|later on; kona-some; sakha-gana-branches; na-does not; mane-
>|accept; caitanya-mali-the gardener Lord Caitanya; durdaiva-
>|unfortunate; karana-reason.
683|TRANSLATION
684|After the disappearance of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, some
>|of the branches, for unfortunate reasons, deviated from His
>|path.
685|Adi 12.68
686|TEXT 68
687|TEXT
688|srjaila, jiyaila, tanre na manila
689|krtaghna ha-ila, tanre skandha kruddha ha-ila
690|SYNONYMS
691|srjaila-fructified; jiyaila-maintained; tanre-Him; na-not;
>|manila-accepted; krtaghna-ungrateful; ha-ila-thus became;
>|tanre-to them; skandha-trunk; kruddha-angry; ha-ila-became.
692|TRANSLATION
693|Some branches did not accept the original trunk that
>|vitalized and maintained the entire tree. When they thus
>|became ungrateful, the original trunk was angry at them.
694|Adi 12.69
695|TEXT 69
696|TEXT
697|kruddha hana skandha tare jala na sancare
698|jalabhave krsa sakha sukaiya mare
699|SYNONYMS
700|kruddha hana-being angry; skandha-the trunk; tare-onto them;
>| jala-water; na-did not; sancare-sprinkle; jala-abhave-for
>|want of water; krsa-thinner; sakha-branch; sukaiya-dried up;
>| mare-died.
701|TRANSLATION
702|Thus Lord Caitanya did not sprinkle upon them the water of
>|His mercy, and they gradually withered and died.
703|Adi 12.70
704|TEXT 70
705|TEXT
706|caitanya-rahita deha-suskakastha-sama
707|jivitei mrta sei, maile dande yama
708|SYNONYMS
709|caitanya-rahita-without consciousness; deha-body; suska-
>|kastha-sama-exactly like dry wood; jivitei-while living;
>|mrta-dead; sei-that; maile-after death; dande-punishes;
>|yama-Yamaraja.
710|TRANSLATION
711|A person without Krsna consciousness is no better than dry
>|wood or a dead body. He is understood to be dead while
>|living, and after death he is punishable by Yamaraja.
712|PURPORT
713|In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Sixth Canto, Third Chapter,
>|twenty-ninth verse, Yamaraja, the superintendent of death,
>|tells his assistants what class of men they should bring
>|before him. There he states, "A person whose tongue never
>|describes the qualities and holy name of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, whose heart never throbs as he
>|remembers Krsna and His lotus feet, and whose head never
>|bows in obeisances to the Supreme Lord must be brought
>|before me for punishment." In other words, nondevotees are
>|brought before Yamaraja for punishment, and thus material
>|nature awards them various types of bodies. After death,
>|which is dehantara, a change of body, nondevotees are
>|brought before Yamaraja for justice. By the judgment of
>|Yamaraja, material nature gives them bodies suitable for
>|the reactions of their past activities. This is the process
>|of dehantara, or transmigration of the self from one body
>|to another. Krsna conscious devotees, however, are not
>|subject to be judged by Yamaraja. For devotees there is an
>|open road, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita. After giving
>|up the body (tyaktva deham), a devotee never again has to
>|accept another material body, for in a spiritual body he
>|goes back home, back to Godhead. The punishments of
>|Yamaraja are meant for persons who are not Krsna conscious.
714|Adi 12.71
715|TEXT 71
716|TEXT
717|kevala e gana-prati nahe ei danda
718|caitanya-vimukha yei sei ta' pasanda
719|SYNONYMS
720|kevala-only; e-this; gana-group; prati-unto them; nahe-it
>|is not; ei-this; danda-punishment; caitanya-vimukha-against
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; yei-anyone; sei-he; ta'-but;
>|pasanda-atheist.
721|TRANSLATION
722|Not only the misguided descendants of Advaita Acarya but
>|anyone who is against the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|should be considered an atheist subject to be punished by
>|Yamaraja.
723|Adi 12.72
724|TEXT 72
725|TEXT
726|ki pandita, ki tapasvi, kiba grhi, yati
727|caitanya-vimukha yei, tara ei gati
728|SYNONYMS
729|ki pandita-whether a learned scholar; ki tapasvi-whether a
>|great ascetic; kiba-or; grhi-householder; yati-or sannyasi;
>|caitanya-vimukha-one who is against the cult of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; yei-anyone; tara-his; ei-this; gati-
>|destination.
730|TRANSLATION
731|Be one a learned scholar, a great ascetic, a successful
>|householder or a famous sannyasi, if one is against the
>|cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu , he is destined to suffer
>|the punishment meted out by Yamaraja.
732|Adi 12.73
733|TEXT 73
734|TEXT
735|ye ye laila sri-acyutanandera mata
736|sei acaryera gana-maha-bhagavata
737|SYNONYMS
738|ye ye-anyone who; laila-accepted; sri-acyutanandera-of Sri
>|Acyutananda; mata-the path; sei-those; acaryera gana-
>|descendants of Advaita Acarya; maha-bhagavata-are all great
>|devotees.
739|TRANSLATION
740|The descendants of Advaita Acarya who accepted the path of
>|Sri Acyutananda were all great devotees.
741|PURPORT
742|In this connection, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, in his
>|Amrta-pravaha-bhasya, gives this short note: "Sri Advaita
>|Acarya is one of the important trunks of the bhakti-
>|kalpataru, or desire tree of devotional service. Lord Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, as a gardener, poured water on the
>|root of the bhakti tree and thus nourished all its trunks
>|and branches. But nevertheless, under the spell of maya,
>|the most unfortunate condition of a living entity, some of
>|the branches, not accepting the gardener who poured water
>|on them, considered the trunk the only cause of the great
>|bhakti-kalpataru. In other words, the branches or
>|descendants of Advaita Acarya who considered Advaita Acarya
>|the original cause of the devotional creeper, and who thus
>|neglected or disobeyed the instructions of Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu, deprived themselves of the effect of being
>|watered and thus dried up and died. It is further to be
>|understood that not only the misguided descendants of
>|Advaita Acarya but anyone who has no connection with
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu-even if he is independently a great
>|sannyasi, learned scholar or ascetic-is like a dead branch
>|of a tree."
743|This analysis by Sri Bhaktivinoda Thakura, supporting the
>|statements of Sri Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, depicts the
>|position of the present so-called Hindu religion, which,
>|being predominantly conducted by the Mayavada philosophy,
>|has become a hodgepodge institution of various concocted
>|ideas. Mayavadis greatly fear the Krsna consciousness
>|movement and accuse it of spoiling the Hindu religion
>|because it accepts people from all parts of the world and
>|all religious sects and scientifically engages them in the
>|daiva-varnasrama-dharma. As we have explained several times,
>| however, we find no such word as "Hindu" in the Vedic
>|literature. The word most probably came from Afghanistan, a
>|predominantly Muslim country, and originally referred to a
>|pass in Afghanistan known as Hindukush that is still a
>|part of a trade route between India and various Muslim
>|countries.
744|The actual Vedic system of religion is called varnasrama-
>|dharma, as confirmed in the Visnu Purana:
745|varnasramacaravata
746|purusena parah puman
747|visnur aradhyate pantha
748|nanyat tat
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|-
>|tosa
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|-karanam
>|
>|
>|
>|
749|(Visnu Purana 3.8.9)
750|The Vedic literature recommends that a human being follow
>|the principles of varnasrama-dharma. Accepting the process
>|of varnasrama-dharma will make a person's life successful
>|because this will connect him with the Supreme Personality
>|of Godhead, who is the goal of human life. Therefore the
>|Krsna consciousness movement is meant for all of humanity.
>|Although human society has different sections or
>|subdivisions, all human beings belong to one species, and
>|therefore we accept that they all have the ability to
>|understand their constitutional position in connection with
>|the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu confirms, jivera 'svarupa' haya-krsnera nitya-
>|dasa: "Every living entity is an eternal part, an eternal
>|servant, of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Every
>|living entity who attains the human form of life can
>|understand the importance of his position and thus become
>|eligible to become a devotee of Lord Krsna. We take it for
>|granted, therefore, that all humanity should be educated in
>|Krsna consciousness. Indeed, in all parts of the world, in
>|every country where we preach the sankirtana movement, we
>|find that people very easily accept the Hare Krsna maha-
>|mantra without hesitation. The visible effect of this
>|chanting is that the members of the Hare Krsna movement,
>|regardless of their backgrounds, all give up the four
>|principles of sinful life and come to an elevated standard
>|of devotion.
751|Although posing as great scholars, ascetics, householders
>|and svamis, the so-called followers of the Hindu religion
>|are all useless, dried-up branches of the Vedic religion.
>|They are impotent; they cannot do anything to spread the
>|Vedic culture for the benefit of human society. The essence
>|of the Vedic culture is the message of Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu. Lord Caitanya instructed:
752|yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna' upadesa
753|amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa
754|(Cc. Madhya 7.128)
755|One should simply instruct everyone he meets regarding the
>|principles of krsna-katha, as expressed in Bhagavad-gita As
>|It Is and Srimad-Bhagavatam. One who has no interest in
>|krsna-katha or the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is like
>|dry, useless wood with no living force. The ISKCON branch,
>|being directly watered by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, is
>|becoming undoubtedly successful, whereas the disconnected
>|branches of the so-called Hindu religion that are envious
>|of ISKCON are drying up and dying.
756|Adi 12.74
757|TEXT 74
758|TEXT
759|sei sei,-acaryera krpara bhajana
760|anayase paila sei caitanya-carana
761|SYNONYMS
762|sei sei-whoever; acaryera-of Advaita Acarya; krpara-of the
>|mercy; bhajana-eligible candidate; anayase-without
>|difficulty; paila-got; sei-he; caitanya-carana-the lotus
>|feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
763|TRANSLATION
764|By the mercy of Advaita Acarya, the devotees who strictly
>|followed the path of Caitanya Mahaprabhu attained the
>|shelter of Lord Caitanya's lotus feet without difficulty.
765|Adi 12.75
766|TEXT 75
767|TEXT
768|acyutera yei mata, sei mata sara
769|ara yata mata saba haila charakhara
770|SYNONYMS
771|acyutera-of Acyutananda; yei-which; mata-direction; sei-
>|that; mata-direction; sara-essential; ara-other; yata-all;
>|mata-directions; saba-all; haila-became; charakhara-
>|dismantled.
772|TRANSLATION
773|It should be concluded, therefore, that the path of
>|Acyutananda is the essence of spiritual life. Those who did
>|not follow this path simply scattered.
774|Adi 12.76
775|TEXT 76
776|TEXT
777|sei acarya-gane mora koti namaskara
778|acyutananda-praya, caitanya-jivana yanhara
779|SYNONYMS
780|sei-those; acarya-gane-unto the spiritual masters; mora-my;
>|koti-millions; namaskara-obeisances; acyutananda-praya-
>|almost as good as Acyutananda; caitanya-Caitanya Mahaprabhu;
>| jivana-life; yanhara-whose.
781|TRANSLATION
782|I therefore offer my respectful obeisances millions of
>|times to Acyutananda's actual followers, whose life and
>|soul was Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
783|Adi 12.77
784|TEXT 77
785|TEXT
786|ei ta' kahilan acarya-gosanira gana
787|tina skandha-sakhara kaila sanksepa ganana
788|SYNONYMS
789|ei ta'-thus; kahilan-I have spoken; acarya-Advaita Acarya;
>|gosanira-of the spiritual master; gana-descendants; tina-
>|three; skandha-of the trunk; sakhara-of branches; kaila-was
>|done; sanksepa-in brief; ganana-counting.
790|TRANSLATION
791|Thus I have briefly described the three branches [
>|Acyutananda, Krsna Misra and Gopala] of Sri Advaita Acarya'
>|s descendants.
792|Adi 12.78
793|TEXT 78
794|TEXT
795|sakha-upasakha, tara nahika ganana
796|kichu-matra kahi' kari dig-darasana
797|SYNONYMS
798|sakha-upasakha-branches and subbranches; tara-of them;
>|nahika-there is no; ganana-counting; kichu-matra-something
>|about them; kahi'-describing; kari-I am simply giving; dig-
>|darasana-a glimpse of the direction.
799|TRANSLATION
800|There are multifarious branches and subbranches of Advaita
>|Acarya. It is very difficult to enumerate them fully. I
>|have simply given a glimpse of the whole trunk and its
>|branches and subbranches.
801|Adi 12.79
802|TEXT 79
803|TEXT
804|sri-gadadhara pandita sakhate mahottama
805|tanra upasakha kichu kari ye ganana
806|SYNONYMS
807|sri-gadadhara pandita-Sri Gadadhara Pandita; sakhate-of the
>|branch; mahottama-very great; tanra-his; upasakha-branches
>|and subbranches; kichu-something; kari-let me do; ye-that;
>|ganana-counting.
808|TRANSLATION
809|After describing the branches and subbranches of Advaita
>|Acarya, I shall now attempt to describe some of the
>|descendants of Sri Gadadhara Pandita, the most important
>|among the branches.
810|Adi 12.80
811|TEXT 80
812|TEXT
813|sakha-srestha dhruvananda, sridhara brahmacari
814|bhagavatacarya, haridasa brahmacari
815|
816|SYNONYMS
817|sakha-srestha-the chief branch; dhruvananda-of the name
>|Dhruvananda; sridhara brahmacari- of the name Sridhara
>|Brahmacari; bhagavatacarya- of the name
>|Bhagavatacarya; haridasa brahmacari- of the name Haridasa
>|Brahmacari.
818|TRANSLATION
819|The chief branches of Sri Gadadhara Pandita were (1) Sri
>|Dhruvananda, (2) Sridhara Brahmacari, (3) Haridasa
>|Brahmacari and (4) Raghunatha Bhagavatacarya.
820|PURPORT
821|Verse 152 of the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika describes Sri
>|Dhruvananda Brahmacari as an incarnation of Lalita, and
>|verse 194 describes Sridhara Brahmacari as
>|the gopi known as Candralatika.
822|Adi 12.81
823|TEXT 81
824|TEXT
825|ananta acarya, kavidatta, misra-nayana
826|gangamantri mamu thakura, kanthabharana
827|SYNONYMS
828|ananta acarya-of the name Ananta Acarya; kavi-datta- of the
>|name Kavi Datta; misra-nayana- of the name Nayana Misra;
>|gangamantri- of the name Gangamantri; mamu thakura- of the
>|name Mamu Thakura; kanthabharana- of the name Kanthabharana.
829|TRANSLATION
830|The fifth branch was Ananta Acarya; the sixth, Kavi Datta;
>|the seventh, Nayana Misra; the eighth, Gangamantri; the
>|ninth, Mamu Thakura; and the tenth, Kanthabharana.
831|PURPORT
832|Verses 197 and 207 of the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika describe
>|Kavi Datta as the gopi named Kalakanthi, verses 196 and 207
>|describe Nayana Misra as the gopi named Nitya-manjari, and
>|verses 196 and 205 describe Gangamantri as the gopi named
>|Candrika. Mamu Thakura, whose real name was Jagannatha
>|Cakravarti, was the nephew of Sri Nilambara Cakravarti, Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu's grandfather. In Bengal a maternal
>|uncle is called mama, and in East Bengal and Orissa, mamu.
>|Thus Jagannatha Cakravarti was known as Mama or Mamu
>|Thakura. Mamu Thakura's residence was in the district of
>|Faridpur in the village known as Magadoba. After the
>|demise of Sri Gadadhara Pandita, Mamu Thakura became the
>|priest in charge of the temple known as Tota-gopinatha in
>|Jagannatha Puri. According to the opinion of some Vaisnavas,
>| Mamu Thakura was formerly known as Sri Rupa-manjari. The
>|followers of Mamu Thakura were Raghunatha Gosvami,
>|Ramacandra, Radhavallabha, Krsnajivana, Syamasundara,
>|Santamani, Harinatha, Navinacandra, Matilala, Dayamayi and
>|Kunjavihari.
833|Kanthabharana, whose original name was Sri Ananta Cattaraja,
>| was the gopi named Gopali in krsna-lila.
834|Adi 12.82
835|TEXT 82
836|TEXT
837|bhugarbha gosani, ara bhagavata-dasa
838|yei dui asi' kaila vrndavane vasa
839|SYNONYMS
840|bhugarbha gosani-of the name Bhugarbha Gosani; ara-and;
>|bhagavata-dasa- of the name Bhagavata dasa; yei dui-both of
>|them; asi'-coming; kaila-did; vrndavane vasa-residing in
>|Vrndavana.
841|TRANSLATION
842|The eleventh branch of Gadadhara Gosvami was Bhugarbha
>|Gosani, and the twelfth was Bhagavata dasa. Both of them
>|went to Vrndavana and resided there for life.
843|PURPORT
844|Bhugarbha Gosani, formerly known as Prema-manjari, was a
>|great friend of Lokanatha Gosvami, who constructed the
>|temple of Gokulananda, one of the seven important temples
>|of Vrndavana-namely, Govinda, Gopinatha, Madana-
>|mohana, Radharamana, Syamasundara, Radha-Damodara and
>|Gokulananda- that are authorized institutions of Gaudiya
>|Vaisnavas.
845|Adi 12.83
846|TEXT 83
847|TEXT
848|vaninatha brahmacari-bada mahasaya
849|vallabha-caitanya-dasa-krsna-premamaya
850|SYNONYMS
851|vaninatha brahmacari-of the name Vaninatha Brahmacari; bada
>|mahasaya-very great personality; vallabha-caitanya-dasa- of
>|the name Vallabha-caitanya dasa; krsna-prema-maya-always
>|filled with love of Krsna.
852|TRANSLATION
853|The thirteenth branch was Vaninatha Brahmacari, and the
>|fourteenth was Vallabha-caitanya dasa. Both of these great
>|personalities were always filled with love of Krsna.
854|PURPORT
855|Sri Vaninatha Brahmacari is described in the Tenth Chapter,
>|verse 114, of Adi-lila. A disciple of Vallabha-caitanya
>|named Nalini-mohana Gosvami established a temple of Madana-
>|gopala in Navadvipa.
856|Adi 12.84
857|TEXT 84
858|TEXT
859|srinatha cakravarti, ara uddhava dasa
860|jitamitra, kasthakata-jagannatha-dasa
861|SYNONYMS
862|srinatha cakravarti-of the name Srinatha Cakravarti; ara-
>|and; uddhava dasa- of the name Uddhava dasa; jitamitra- of
>|the name Jitamitra; kasthakata jagannatha-dasa- of the name
>|Kasthakata Jagannatha dasa.
863|TRANSLATION
864|The fifteenth branch was Srinatha Cakravarti; the sixteenth,
>| Uddhava; the seventeenth, Jitamitra; and the eighteenth,
>|Jagannatha dasa.
865|PURPORT
866|
>|The Sakha-nirnaya, verse 13, mentions Srinatha
>|Cakravarti as a reservoir of all good qualities and an
>|expert in the service of Lord Krsna. Similarly, verse 35
>|mentions Uddhava dasa as being greatly qualified in
>|distributing love of Godhead to everyone. The Gaura-
>|ganoddesa-dipika , verse 202 , mentions Jitamitra as the
>|gopi named Syama-manjari. Jitamitra wrote a book entitled
>|Krsna-mayurya. Jagannatha dasa was a resident of
>|Vikramapura, near Dacca. His birthplace was the village
>|known as Kasthakata or Kathadiya. His descendants now
>|reside in villages known as Adiyala, Kamarapada and
>|Paikapada. He established a temple of Yasomadhava. The
>|worshipers in this temple are the Gosvamis of Adiyala. As
>|one of the sixty-four sakhis, he was formerly an assistant
>|of Citradevi-gopi named Tilakini. The following is a list
>|of his descendants: Ramanrsimha, Ramagopala, Ramacandra,
>|Sanatana, Muktarama, Gopinatha, Goloka, Harimohana Siromani,
>| Rakhalaraja, Madhava and Laksmikanta. The Sakha-nirnaya
>|mentions that Jagannatha dasa preached the Hare Krsna
>|movement in the district or state of Tripura.
867|Adi 12.85
868|TEXT 85
869|TEXT
870|sri-hari acarya, sadi-puriya gopala
871|krsnadasa brahmacari, puspa-gopala
872|SYNONYMS
873|sri-hari acarya-of the name Sri Hari Acarya; sadi-puriya
>|gopala- of the name Sadipuriya Gopala; krsnadasa brahmacari-
>| of the name Krsnadasa Brahmacari; puspa-gopala- of the
>|name Puspagopala.
874|TRANSLATION
875|The nineteenth branch was Sri Hari Acarya; the twentieth,
>|Sadipuriya Gopala; the twenty-first, Krsnadasa Brahmacari;
>|and the twenty-second, Puspagopala.
876|PURPORT
877|The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verses 196 and 207 , mentions
>|that Hari Acarya was formerly the gopi named Kalaksi.
>|Sadipuriya Gopala is celebrated as a preacher of the Hare
>|Krsna movement in Vikramapura, in East Bengal
>|. Krsnadasa Brahmacari was formerly among the
>|group of sakhis known as the asta-sakhis. His name was
>|Indulekha. Krsnadasa Brahmacari lived in Vrndavana. There
>|is a tomb in the Radha-Damodara temple known as Krsnadasa's
>|tomb. Some say that this is the tomb of Krsnadasa
>|Brahmacari and others Krsnadasa
>|Kaviraja Gosvami. In either case we offer our respects
>|because both of them were expert in distributing love of
>|Godhead to the fallen souls of this age. The Sakha-nirnaya
>|mentions that Puspagopala was formerly known as
>|Svarnagramaka.
878|Adi 12.86
879|TEXT 86
880|TEXT
881|sriharsa, raghu-misra, pandita laksminatha
882|bangavati-caitanya-dasa, sri-raghunatha
883|
884|SYNONYMS
885|sriharsa-of the name Sriharsa; raghu-misra- of the name
>|Raghu Misra; pandita laksminatha- of the name Laksminatha
>|Pandita; bangavati-caitanya-dasa- of the name Bangavati
>|Caitanya dasa; sri-raghunatha- of the name Sri Raghunatha.
886|TRANSLATION
887|The twenty-third branch was Sriharsa; the twenty-fourth,
>|Raghu Misra; the twenty-fifth, Laksminatha Pandita; the
>|twenty-sixth, Bangavati Caitanya dasa; and the twenty-
>|seventh, Raghunatha.
888|PURPORT
889|Raghu Misra is described in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika,
>|verses 195 and 201 , as Karpura-manjari. Similarly,
>|Laksminatha Pandita is mentioned as Rasonmada, and
>|Bangavati Caitanya dasa is mentioned as Kali. The Sakha-
>|nirnaya states that Bangavati Caitanya dasa was always seen
>|with eyes full of tears. He also had a branch of
>|descendants. Their names were Mathuraprasada, Rukminikanta,
>|Jivanakrsna, Yugalakisora, Ratanakrsna, Radhamadhava,
>|Usamani, Vaikunthanatha and Lalamohana, or Lalamohana Saha
>|Sankhanidhi. Lalamohana was a great merchant in the city of
>|Dacca. The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verses 194 and 200 ,
>|mentions that Raghunatha was formerly Varangada.
890|Adi 12.87
891|TEXT 87
892|TEXT
893|amogha pandita, hasti-gopala, caitanya-vallabha
894|yadu ganguli ara mangala vaisnava
895|SYNONYMS
896|amogha pandita-of the name Amogha Pandita; hasti-gopala- of
>|the name Hastigopala; caitanya-vallabha- of the name
>|Caitanya-vallabha; yadu ganguli- of the name Yadu Ganguli;
>|ara-and; mangala vaisnava- of the name Mangala Vaisnava.
897|TRANSLATION
898|The twenty-eighth branch was Amogha Pandita; the twenty-
>|ninth, Hastigopala; the thirtieth, Caitanya-vallabha; the
>|thirty-first, Yadu Ganguli; and the thirty-second, Mangala
>|Vaisnava.
899|PURPORT
900|
>|Sri Mangala Vaisnava was a resident of the
>|village Titakana in the district of Mursidabada. His
>|forefathers were saktas who worshiped the goddess
>|Kiritesvari. It is said that Mangala Vaisnava, formerly a
>|staunch brahmacari, left home and later married the
>|daughter of his disciple Prananatha Adhikari in the village
>|of Mayanadala. The descendants of this family are known as
>|the Thakuras of Kandada, which is a village in the district
>|of Burdwan near Katwa. Scattered descendants of Mangala
>|Vaisnava, thirty-six families altogether, still live there.
>|Among the celebrated disciples of Mangala Thakura are
>|Prananatha Adhikari, Purusottama Cakravarti of the village
>|of Kandada, and Nrsimha-prasada Mitra, whose family members
>|are well-known mrdanga players. Sudhakrsna Mitra and
>|Nikunjavihari Mitra are both especially famous mrdanga
>|players. In the family of Purusottama Cakravarti there are
>|famous persons like Kunjavihari Cakravarti and
>|Radhavallabha Cakravarti, who now live in the district of
>|Birbhum. They professionally recite songs from Caitanya-
>|mangala. It is said that when Mangala Thakura was
>|constructing a road from Bengal to Jagannatha Puri, he
>|found a Deity of Radhavallabha while digging a lake. At
>|that time he was living in the locality of Kandada in the
>|village named Ranipura. The salagrama-sila personally
>|worshiped by Mangala Thakura still exists in the village of
>|Kandada. A temple has been constructed there for the
>|worship of Vrndavana-candra. Mangala Thakura had three sons-
>|Radhikaprasada, Gopiramana and Syamakisora. The descendants
>|of these three sons are still living.
901|Adi 12.88
902|TEXT 88
903|TEXT
904|cakravarti sivananda sada vrajavasi
905|mahasakha-madhye tenho sudrdha visvasi
906|SYNONYMS
907|cakravarti sivananda-of the name Sivananda Cakravarti; sada-
>|always; vraja-vasi-resident of Vrndavana; maha-sakha-madhye-
>|amongst the great branches; tenho-he is; sudrdha visvasi-
>|possessing firm faith.
908|TRANSLATION
909|Sivananda Cakravarti, the thirty-third branch, who always
>|lived in Vrndavana with firm conviction, is considered an
>|important branch of Gadadhara Pandita.
910|PURPORT
911|The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 183 , mentions that
>|Sivananda Cakravarti was formerly Lavanga-manjari. The
>|Sakha-nirnaya, written by Yadunandana dasa, also names
>|other branches of Gadadhara Pandita, as follows: (1)
>|Madhava Acarya, (2) Gopala dasa, (3) Hrdayananda, (4)
>|Vallabha Bhatta (the Vallabha-sampradaya, or Pustimarga-
>|sampradaya, is very famous), (5) Madhu Pandita (this famous
>|devotee lived near Khadadaha in the village known as
>|Sanibona-grama, about two miles east of the Khadadaha
>|station, and constructed the temple of Gopinathaji in
>|Vrndavana), (6) Acyutananda, (7) Candrasekhara, (8)
>|Vakresvara Pandita, (9) Damodara, (10) Bhagavan Acarya, (11)
>| Ananta Acaryavarya, (12) Krsnadasa, (13) Paramananda
>|Bhattacarya, (14) Bhavananda Gosvami, (15) Caitanya dasa, (
>|16) Lokanatha Bhatta (this devotee, who lived in the
>|village of Talakhadi in the district of Yasohara
>|and constructed the temple of Radhavinoda, was the
>|spiritual master of Narottama dasa Thakura and a great
>|friend of Bhugarbha Gosvami), (17) Govinda Acarya, (18)
>|Akrura Thakura, (19) Sanketa Acarya, (20) Pratapaditya, (21)
>| Kamalakanta Acarya, (22) Yadava Acarya and (23) Narayana
>|Padihari (a resident of Jagannatha Puri).
912|Adi 12.89
913|TEXT 89
914|TEXT
915|ei ta' sanksepe kahilan panditera gana
916|aiche ara sakha-upasakhara ganana
917|
918|SYNONYMS
919|ei ta'-thus; sanksepe-in brief; kahilan-I have described;
>|panditera gana-the branches of Sri Gadadhara Pandita; aiche-
>|similarly; ara-another; sakha-upasakhara ganana-description
>|of branches and subbranches.
920|TRANSLATION
921|Thus I have briefly described the branches and subbranches
>|of Gadadhara Pandita. There are still many more that I have
>|not mentioned here.
922|Adi 12.90
923|TEXT 90
924|TEXT
925|panditera gana saba,-bhagavata dhanya
926|prana-vallabha-sabara sri-krsna-caitanya
927|SYNONYMS
928|panditera-of Gadadhara Pandita; gana-followers; saba-all;
>|bhagavata dhanya-glorious devotees; prana-vallabha-the
>|heart and soul; sabara-of all of them; sri-krsna-caitanya-
>|Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
929|TRANSLATION
930|All the followers of Gadadhara Pandita are considered great
>|devotees because they have Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as
>|their life and soul.
931|Adi 12.91
932|TEXT 91
933|TEXT
934|ei tina skandhera kailun sakhara ganana
935|yan-saba-smarane bhava-bandha-vimocana
936|SYNONYMS
937|ei tina-of all these three; skandhera-trunks; kailun-
>|described; sakhara ganana-enumeration of the branches; yan-
>|saba-all of them; smarane-by remembering; bhava-bandha-from
>|entanglement in the material world; vimocana-freedom.
938|TRANSLATION
939|Simply by remembering the names of all these branches and
>|subbranches of the three trunks I have described [
>|Nityananda, Advaita and Gadadhara], one attains freedom
>|from the entanglement of material existence.
940|Adi 12.92
941|TEXT 92
942|TEXT
943|yan-saba-smarane pai caitanya-carana
944|yan-saba-smarane haya vanchita purana
945|
946|SYNONYMS
947|yan-saba-all of them; smarane-by remembering; pai-I get;
>|caitanya-carana-the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu;
>|yan-saba-all of them; smarane-by remembering; haya-becomes;
>|vanchita purana-fulfillment of all desires.
948|TRANSLATION
949|Simply by remembering the names of all these Vaisnavas, one
>|can attain the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
>|Indeed, simply by remembering their holy names, one
>|achieves the fulfillment of all desires.
950|Adi 12.93
951|TEXT 93
952|TEXT
953|ataeva tan-sabara vandiye carana
954|caitanya-malira kahi lila-anukrama
955|SYNONYMS
956|ataeva-therefore; tan-sabara-of all of them; vandiye-I
>|offer prayers; carana-to the lotus feet; caitanya-malira-of
>|the gardener known as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kahi-I speak;
>| lila-anukrama-the pastimes in chronological order.
957|TRANSLATION
958|Therefore, offering my obeisances at the lotus feet of them
>|all, I shall describe the pastimes of the gardener Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu in chronological order.
959|Adi 12.94
960|TEXT 94
961|TEXT
962|gaura-lilamrta-sindhu-apara agadha
963|ke karite pare tahan avagaha-sadha
964|SYNONYMS
965|gaura-lilamrta-sindhu-the ocean of the pastimes of Lord
>|Caitanya; apara-immeasurable; agadha-unfathomable; ke-who;
>|karite-to do; pare-is able; tahan-in that ocean; avagaha-
>|taking a dip; sadha-execution.
966|TRANSLATION
967|The ocean of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is
>|immeasurable and unfathomable. Who can take the courage to
>|measure that great ocean?
968|Adi 12.95
969|TEXT 95
970|TEXT
971|tahara madhurya-gandhe lubdha haya mana
972|ataeva tate rahi' caki eka kana
973|SYNONYMS
974|tahara-His; madhurya-sweet and mellow; gandhe-by the
>|fragrance; lubdha-attracted; haya-becomes; mana-mind;
>|ataeva-therefore; tate-on the beach; rahi'-standing; caki-I
>|taste; eka-one; kana-particle.
975|TRANSLATION
976|It is not possible to dip into that great ocean, but its
>|sweet mellow fragrance attracts my mind. I therefore stand
>|on the shore of that ocean to try to taste but a drop of it.
977|Adi 12.96
978|TEXT 96
979|TEXT
980|sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
981|caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
982|SYNONYMS
983|sri-rupa-Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha-Srila Raghunatha
>|dasa Gosvami; pade-at their lotus feet; yara-whose; asa-
>|expectation; caitanya-caritamrta-the book named Caitanya-
>|caritamrta; kahe-describes; krsna-dasa-Srila Krsnadasa
>|Kaviraja Gosvami.
984|TRANSLATION
985|Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha,
>|always desiring their mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri
>|Caitanya-caritamrta, following in their footsteps.
986|Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-
>|caritamrta, Adi-lila, Twelfth Chapter, describing the
>|expansions of Advaita Acarya and Gadadhara Pandita.
987|