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Antya 5-1975: How Pradyumna Misra Received Instructions from Ramananda

Raya

Chapter 5

How Pradyumna Misra Received Instructions from Ramananda Raya

The following summary of the Fifth Chapter is given by Srila

Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya. Pradyumna Misra, a

resident of Srihatta, came to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear from

Him about Lord Krsna and His pastimes. The Lord, however, sent him to

Srila Ramananda Raya. Srila Ramananda Raya was training the deva-dasi

dancing girls in the temple, and when Pradyumna Misra heard about this,

he returned to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The Lord, however, elaborately

described the character of Srila Ramananda Raya. Then Pradyumna Misra

went to see Ramananda Raya again to hear about the transcendental truth

from him.

A brahmana from Bengal composed a drama about the activities of Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu and went to Jagannatha Puri to show it to the

associates of the Lord. When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's secretary,

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, heard the drama, he discerned a tinge of

Mayavada philosophy and pointed it out to the author. Although Svarupa

Damodara condemned the entire drama, by reference to secondary meanings

of the introductory verse he nevertheless satisfied the brahmana. That

brahmana poet thus became greatly obliged to Svarupa Damodara Gosvami,

renounced his family connections and stayed at Jagannatha Puri with the

associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.1

TEXT 1

TEXT

vaigunya-kita-kalitah

paisunya-vrana-piditah

dainyarnave nimagno 'ham

caitanya-vaidyam asraye

SYNONYMS

vaigunya -- of material activities; kita -- by the germs; kalitah --

bitten; paisunya -- of envy; vrana -- from boils; piditah -- suffering;

dainya-arnave -- in the ocean of humility; nimagnah -- merged; aham -- I;

caitanya-vaidyam -- to the physician known as Lord Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu; asraye -- I surrender.

TRANSLATION

I am infected by germs of material activity and suffering from

boils due to envy. Therefore, falling in an ocean of humility, I take

shelter of the great physician Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.2

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jaya jaya saci-suta sri-krsna-caitanya

jaya jaya krpa-maya nityananda dhanya

SYNONYMS

jaya jaya -- all glories; saci-suta -- to the son of mother Saci; sri-

krsna-caitanya -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; jaya jaya -- all glories;

krpa-maya -- to the most merciful; nityananda dhanya -- the glorious

Srila Nityananda Prabhu.

TRANSLATION

All glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the son of mother Saci! All

glories to Sri Nityananda Prabhu! Indeed, He is the most glorious and

merciful.

Antya 5.3

TEXT 3

TEXT

jayadvaita krpa-sindhu jaya bhakta-gana

jaya svarupa, gadadhara, rupa, sanatana

SYNONYMS

jaya advaita -- all glories to Advaita Prabhu; krpa-sindhu -- the ocean

of mercy; jaya bhakta-gana -- all glories to the devotees; jaya svarupa -

- all glories to Svarupa Damodara; gadadhara -- Gadadhara Pandita; rupa -

- Srila Rupa; sanatana -- Sanatana Gosvami.

TRANSLATION

I offer my respectful obeisances unto Advaita Prabhu, the ocean of mercy,

and to all the devotees, such as Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, Gadadhara

Pandita, Sri Rupa Gosvami and Sri Sanatana Gosvami.

Antya 5.4

TEXT 4

TEXT

eka-dina pradyumna-misra prabhura carane

dandavat kari' kichu kare nivedane

SYNONYMS

eka-dina -- one day; pradyumna-misra -- the devotee named Pradyumna

Misra; prabhura carane -- at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu;

dandavat kari' -- offering his respects; kichu -- something; kare

nivedane -- submits as a petition.

TRANSLATION

One day Pradyumna Misra came to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, offering

his respects and inquiring from Him with great submission.

Antya 5.5

TEXT 5

TEXT

"suna, prabhu, muni dina grhastha adhama!

kona bhagye panachon tomara durlabha carana

SYNONYMS

suna -- please hear; prabhu -- my Lord; muni -- I; dina -- very fallen;

grhastha -- householder; adhama -- the lowest of men; kona bhagye -- by

some good fortune; panachon -- I have gotten; tomara -- Your; durlabha --

rarely achieved; carana -- lotus feet.

TRANSLATION

"My Lord," he said, "kindly hear me. I am a cripple-minded householder,

the most fallen of men, but somehow, by my good fortune, I have received

the shelter of Your lotus feet, which are rarely to be seen.

Antya 5.6

TEXT 6

TEXT

krsna-katha sunibare mora iccha haya

krsna-katha kaha more hana sadaya"

SYNONYMS

krsna-katha -- discussions on the subject of Lord Krsna; sunibare -- to

hear; mora -- my; iccha -- desire; haya -- is; krsna-katha -- talks

about Lord Sri Krsna; kaha -- kindly speak; more -- unto me; hana --

being; sa-daya -- kind.

TRANSLATION

"I wish to hear topics concerning Lord Krsna constantly. Be merciful

unto me and kindly tell me something about Krsna."

Antya 5.7

TEXT 7

TEXT

prabhu kahena, -- "krsna-katha ami nahi jani

sabe ramananda jane, tanra mukhe suni

SYNONYMS

prabhu kahena -- the Lord replied; krsna-katha -- talks about Lord Krsna;

ami -- I; nahi jani -- do not know; sabe -- only; ramananda jane --

Ramananda Raya knows; tanra mukhe -- from his mouth; suni -- I hear.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, "I do not know about topics concerning

Lord Krsna. I think that only Ramananda Raya knows, for I hear these

topics from him.

Antya 5.8

TEXT 8

TEXT

bhagye tomara krsna-katha sunite haya mana

ramananda-pasa yai' karaha sravana

SYNONYMS

bhagye -- by fortune; tomara -- your; krsna-katha -- topics about Lord

Krsna; sunite -- to hear; haya mana -- there is an inclination;

ramananda-pasa -- to Ramananda Raya; yai' -- going; karaha sravana --

hear.

TRANSLATION

"It is your good fortune that you are inclined to hear topics regarding

Krsna. The best course for you would be to go to Ramananda Raya and hear

these topics from him.

Antya 5.9

TEXT 9

TEXT

krsna-kathaya ruci tomara -- bada bhagyavan

yara krsna-kathaya ruci, sei bhagyavan

SYNONYMS

krsna-kathaya -- in talking of Krsna; ruci -- taste; tomara -- your;

bada bhagyavan -- very fortunate; yara -- of whom; krsna-kathaya -- in

hearing about Krsna; ruci -- taste; sei bhagyavan -- he is very

fortunate.

TRANSLATION

"I see that you have acquired a taste for hearing talks regarding Krsna.

Therefore you are extremely fortunate. Not only you but anyone who has

awakened such a taste is considered most fortunate.

Antya 5.10

TEXT 10

TEXT

dharmah svanusthitah pumsam

visvaksena-kathasu yah

notpadayed yadi ratim

srama eva hi kevalam

SYNONYMS

dharmah -- execution of the system of varna and asrama; su-anusthitah --

properly executed; pumsam -- of men; visvaksena-kathasu -- in talks

about Visvaksena, or Krsna; yah -- which; na -- not; utpadayet --

awakens; yadi -- if; ratim -- taste; srama -- labor; eva -- without

doubt; hi -- certainly; kevalam -- only.

TRANSLATION

" 'A person who properly performs his regulative duties according to

varna and asrama but does not develop his dormant attachment for Krsna

or awaken his taste to hear and chant about Krsna is certainly

laboring fruitlessly.' "

PURPORT

This is a quotation from Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.2.8).

Antya 5.11

TEXT 11

TEXT

tabe pradyumna-misra gela ramanandera sthane

rayera sevaka tanre vasaila asane

SYNONYMS

tabe -- thereafter; pradyumna-misra -- of the name Pradyumna Misra; gela

-- went; ramanandera sthane -- to the place of Ramananda Raya; rayera

sevaka -- the servant of Ramananda Raya; tanre -- unto him; vasaila

asane -- gave a sitting place.

TRANSLATION

Pradyumna Misra, being thus advised by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, went to

the home of Ramananda Raya. There the servant of Ramananda Raya gave him

a proper place to sit down.

Antya 5.12

TEXT 12

TEXT

darsana na pana misra sevake puchila

rayera vrttanta sevaka kahite lagila

SYNONYMS

darsana -- audience; na -- not; pana -- getting; misra -- Pradyumna

Misra; sevake -- unto the servant; puchila -- inquired; rayera -- of

Ramananda Raya; vrttanta -- description; sevaka -- the servant; kahite

lagila -- began to speak.

TRANSLATION

Unable to see Ramananda Raya immediately, Pradyumna Misra inquired from

the servant, who then gave a description of Sri Ramananda Raya

Antya 5.13

TEXT 13

TEXT

"dui deva-kanya haya parama-sundari

nrtya-gite sunipuna, vayase kisori

SYNONYMS

dui -- two; deva-kanya -- dancing girls; haya -- are; parama-sundari --

very, very beautiful; nrtya-gite -- in singing and dancing; su-nipuna --

very expert; vayase -- in age; kisori -- very young.

TRANSLATION

"There are two dancing girls who are extremely beautiful. They are very

youthful, and they are expert in dancing and singing.

Antya 5.14

TEXT 14

TEXT

sei dunhe lana raya nibhrta udyane

nija-nataka-gitera sikhaya nartane

SYNONYMS

sei dunhe -- those two; lana -- taking; raya -- Ramananda Raya; nibhrta

udyane -- in a solitary place in the garden; nija-nataka -- of the drama

composed by him; gitera -- of the songs; sikhaya -- gives direction;

nartane -- in dancing.

TRANSLATION

"Srila Ramananda Raya has taken these two girls to a solitary place in

his garden, where he is teaching and directing them to dance according

to the songs he has composed for his drama.

PURPORT

The drama being rehearsed by Ramananda Raya and the two young girls was

the well-known Jagannatha-vallabha-nataka. The songs and dances were

meant for the pleasure of Lord Jagannatha; therefore Ramananda Raya was

personally giving instructions on how to sing and dance for the drama.

Antya 5.15

TEXT 15

TEXT

tumi ihan vasi' raha, ksaneke asibena

tabe yei ajna deha, sei karibena"

SYNONYMS

tumi -- you; ihan -- here; vasi' -- sitting; raha -- just wait; ksaneke

asibena -- he will come within a moment; tabe -- then; yei -- whatever;

ajna -- order; deha -- you give; sei -- he; karibena -- will do.

TRANSLATION

"Please sit here and wait for a few moments. As soon as he comes, he

will execute whatever order you give him."

Antya 5.16

TEXT 16

TEXT

tabe pradyumna-misra tahan rahila vasiya

ramananda nibhrte sei dui-jana lana

SYNONYMS

tabe -- then; pradyumna-misra -- of the name Pradyumna Misra; tahan --

there; rahila vasiya -- remained seated; ramananda -- Ramananda Raya;

nibhrte -- in a solitary place; sei -- those; dui-jana -- two girls;

lana -- taking.

TRANSLATION

While Pradyumna Misra remained seated there, Ramananda Raya took the two

girls to a solitary place.

Antya 5.17

TEXT 17

TEXT

sva-haste karena tara abhyanga-mardana

sva-haste karana snana, gatra sammarjana

SYNONYMS

sva-haste -- with his own hand; karena -- does; tara -- of those two

girls; abhyanga-mardana -- massaging the body with oil; sva-haste --

with his own hand; karana snana -- bathes them; gatra sammarjana --

cleansing the whole body.

TRANSLATION

With his own hand, Sri Ramananda Raya massaged their bodies with oil and

bathed them with water. Indeed, Ramananda Raya cleansed their entire

bodies with his own hand.

Antya 5.18

TEXT 18

TEXT

sva-haste parana vastra, sarvanga mandana

tabu nirvikara raya-ramanandera mana

SYNONYMS

sva-haste -- with his own hand; parana vastra -- dresses them; sarvanga

mandana -- decorating the whole body; tabu -- still; nirvikara --

without transformation; raya-ramanandera -- of Ramananda Raya; mana --

the mind.

TRANSLATION

Although he dressed the two young girls and decorated their bodies with

his own hand, he remained unchanged. Such is the mind of Srila Ramananda

Raya.

Antya 5.19

TEXT 19

TEXT

kastha-pasana-sparse haya yaiche bhava

taruni-sparse ramanandera taiche 'svabhava'

SYNONYMS

kastha -- wood; pasana -- stone; sparse -- by touching; haya -- there is;

yaiche -- as; bhava -- mental position; taruni-sparse -- by touching

the young girls; ramanandera -- of Ramananda Raya; taiche -- like that;

svabhava -- nature.

TRANSLATION

While touching the young girls, he was like a person touching wood or

stone, for his body and mind were unaffected.

Antya 5.20

TEXT 20

TEXT

sevya-bujhi aropiya karena sevana

svabhavika dasi-bhava karena aropana

SYNONYMS

sevya-bujhi aropiya -- considering worshipable; karena sevana --

engages in service; svabhavika -- by his natural position; dasi-bhava --

as a maidservant; karena aropana -- considers.

TRANSLATION

Srila Ramananda Raya used to act in that way because he thought of

himself in his original position as a maidservant of the gopis. Thus

although externally he appeared to be a man, internally, in his original

spiritual position, he considered himself a maidservant and considered

the two girls gopis.

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura writes in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya: "Srila

Ramananda Raya composed a drama named Jagannatha-vallabha-nataka, and he

engaged two young girls who were professional dancers and singers to

demonstrate the ideology of the drama. Such girls, who are called deva-

dasis, are still employed in the temple of Jagannatha, where they are

called maharis. Sri Ramananda Raya engaged two such girls, and because

they were meant to play the parts of gopis, he taught them how to awaken

thoughts like those of the gopis. Because the gopis are worshipable

personalities, Ramananda Raya, who considered the two girls gopis and

himself their maidservant, engaged in their service by massaging their

bodies with oil to cleanse them completely. Because Ramananda Raya

always placed himself in the position of a maidservant of the gopis, his

rehearsal with the girls was actually on the spiritual platform."

Because there was no question of personal sense gratification when Sri

Ramananda Raya was serving the girls, his mind was steady and his body

untransformed. This is not to be imitated, nor is such a mentality

possible for anyone but Sri Ramananda Raya, as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

will explain. The example of Sri Ramananda Raya is certainly unique. The

author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta has given this description because in

perfect devotional service one can attain such a position. Nevertheless,

one must understand this subject very seriously and never attempt to

imitate such activities.

Antya 5.21

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TEXT

mahaprabhura bhakta-ganera durgama mahima

tahe ramanandera bhava-bhakti-prema-sima

SYNONYMS

mahaprabhura -- of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakta-ganera -- of the

devotees; durgama -- difficult to understand; mahima -- greatness; tahe -

- in that connection; ramanandera -- of Sri Ramananda Raya; bhava-bhakti

-- of ecstatic devotion; prema-sima -- the limit of love of Krsna.

TRANSLATION

The greatness of the devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is exceedingly

difficult to understand. Sri Ramananda Raya is unique among them all,

for he showed how one can extend his ecstatic love to the extreme limit.

Antya 5.22

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tabe sei dui-jane nrtya sikhaila

gitera gudha artha abhinaya karaila

SYNONYMS

tabe -- thereupon; sei -- those; dui-jane -- two young girls; nrtya

sikhaila -- directed how to dance; gitera -- of the songs; gudha artha --

the deep meaning; abhinaya karaila -- taught how to express by dramatic

performances.

TRANSLATION

Ramananda Raya directed the two girls how to dance and express the deep

meaning of his songs through dramatic performances.

Antya 5.23

TEXT 23

TEXT

sancari, sattvika, sthayi-bhavera laksana

mukhe netre abhinaya kare prakatana

SYNONYMS

sancari -- passing; sattvika -- natural; sthayi -- continuously existing;

bhavera -- of ecstasies; laksana -- symptoms; mukhe -- in the facial

expressions; netre -- in the movement of the eyes; abhinaya -- the

dramatic performance; kare prakatana -- he demonstrates.

TRANSLATION

He taught them how to express the symptoms of continuous, natural and

transitional ecstasies with the movements of their faces, their eyes and

the other parts of their bodies.

Antya 5.24

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TEXT

bhava-prakatana-lasya raya ye sikhaya

jagannathera age dunhe prakata dekhaya

SYNONYMS

bhava -- ecstasy; prakatana -- manifesting; lasya -- feminine poses and

dancing; raya -- Ramananda Raya; ye -- which; sikhaya -- was teaching;

jagannathera age -- in front of Lord Jagannatha; dunhe -- both of them;

prakata dekhaya -- demonstrated.

TRANSLATION

Through the feminine poses and dances they were taught by Ramananda Raya,

the two girls precisely exhibited all these expressions of ecstasy

before Lord Jagannatha.

Antya 5.25

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TEXT

tabe sei dui-jane prasada khaoyaila

nibhrte dunhare nija-ghare pathaila

SYNONYMS

tabe -- then; sei -- to those; dui-jane -- two girls; prasada khaoyaila -

- gave prasada to eat; nibhrte -- without being exposed; dunhare --

both of them; nija-ghare -- their homes; pathaila -- sent.

TRANSLATION

Then Ramananda Raya fed the two girls sumptuous prasada and sent them

to their homes unexposed.

Antya 5.26

TEXT 26

TEXT

prati-dina raya aiche karaya sadhana

kon jane ksudra jiva kanha tanra mana?

SYNONYMS

prati-dina -- daily; raya -- Ramananda Raya; aiche -- in this way;

karaya sadhana -- teaches regularly; kon jane -- who can know; ksudra

jiva -- an insignificant living entity; kanha -- where; tanra -- his;

mana -- mind.

TRANSLATION

Every day he trained the two deva-dasis how to dance. Who among the

small living entities, their minds always absorbed in material sense

gratification, could understand the mentality of Sri Ramananda Raya?

PURPORT

Ramananda Raya's service to the gopis for the satisfaction of Krsna is

purely an affair of the spiritual world. Unless one is fully situated in

the spiritual atmosphere, the activities of Ramananda Raya are most

difficult to understand.

Antya 5.27

TEXT 27

TEXT

misrera agamana raye sevaka kahila

sighra ramananda tabe sabhate aila

SYNONYMS

misrera -- of Pradyumna Misra; agamana -- arrival; raye -- to Ramananda

Raya; sevaka kahila -- the servant informed; sighra -- very soon;

ramananda -- Ramananda Raya; tabe -- thereupon; sabhate aila -- came to

the assembly room.

TRANSLATION

When the servant informed Ramananda Raya of Pradyumna Misra's arrival,

Ramananda Raya immediately went to the assembly room.

Antya 5.28

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misrere namaskara kare sammana kariya

nivedana kare kichu vinita hana

SYNONYMS

misrere -- unto Pradyumna Misra; namaskara kare -- offers respectful

obeisances; sammana kariya -- with all respect; nivedana kare --

submitted; kichu -- something; vinita hana -- with great humility.

TRANSLATION

He offered his obeisances to Pradyumna Misra with all respect and then,

with great humility, spoke as follows.

Antya 5.29

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"bahu-ksana aila, more keha na kahila

tomara carane mora aparadha ha-ila

SYNONYMS

bahu-ksana -- long ago; aila -- you came; more -- me; keha na kahila --

no one informed; tomara carane -- unto your lotus feet; mora -- my;

aparadha -- offense; ha-ila -- there was.

TRANSLATION

"Sir, you came here long ago, but no one informed me. Therefore I have

certainly become an offender at your lotus feet.

Antya 5.30

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tomara agamane mora pavitra haila ghara

ajna kara, kya karon tomara kinkara"

SYNONYMS

tomara agamane -- because of your arrival; mora -- my; pavitra --

purified; haila -- became; ghara -- house; ajna kara -- kindly order;

kya karon -- what can I do; tomara kinkara -- I am your servant.

TRANSLATION

"My entire home has been purified by your arrival. Kindly order me. What

can I do for you? I am your servant."

Antya 5.31

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TEXT

misra kahe, -- "toma dekhite haila agamane

apana pavitra kailun tomara darasane"

SYNONYMS

misra kahe -- Pradyumna Misra replied; toma -- you; dekhite -- to see;

haila agamane -- I came; apana -- myself; pavitra kailun -- I have

purified; tomara darasane -- by seeing you.

TRANSLATION

Pradyumna Misra replied, "I came simply to see you. Now I have purified

myself by seeing Your Honor."

Antya 5.32

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atikala dekhi' misra kichu na kahila

vidaya ha-iya misra nija-ghara gela

SYNONYMS

atikala dekhi' -- seeing that it was too late; misra -- Pradyumna Misra;

kichu -- anything; na kahila -- did not say; vidaya ha-iya -- taking

leave; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; nija-ghara -- to his own place; gela --

returned.

TRANSLATION

Because Pradyumna Misra saw that it was late, he did not say anything

else to Ramananda Raya. Instead, he took leave of him and returned to

his own home.

Antya 5.33

TEXT 33

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ara dina misra aila prabhu-vidyamane

prabhu kahe, -- 'krsna-katha sunila raya-sthane'?

SYNONYMS

ara dina -- the next day; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; aila -- came; prabhu-

vidyamane -- in the presence of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; prabhu kahe --

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu inquired; krsna-katha -- talks about Krsna;

sunila -- have you heard; raya-sthane -- from Sri Ramananda Raya.

TRANSLATION

The next day, when Pradyumna Misra arrived in the presence of Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Lord inquired, "Have you heard talks about

Krsna from Sri Ramananda Raya?"

Antya 5.34

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tabe misra ramanandera vrttanta kahila

suni' mahaprabhu tabe kahite lagila

SYNONYMS

tabe -- thereupon; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; ramanandera -- of Sri

Ramananda Raya; vrttanta kahila -- described the activities; suni' --

hearing; mahaprabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; tabe -- then; kahite

lagila -- began to speak.

TRANSLATION

Pradyumna Misra thereupon described the activities of Sri Ramananda Raya.

After hearing about these activities, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu began to

speak.

Antya 5.35-36

TEXTS 35-36

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"ami ta' sannyasi, apanare virakta kari' mani

darsana rahu dure, 'prakrtira' nama yadi suni

tabahin vikara paya mora tanu-mana

prakrti-darsane sthira haya kon jana?"

SYNONYMS

ami -- I; ta' -- certainly; sannyasi -- in the renounced order of life;

apanare -- Myself; virakta kari' -- having renounced everything; mani --

I consider; darsana rahu dure -- what to speak of seeing; prakrtira --

of a woman; nama -- name; yadi -- if; suni -- I hear; tabahin --

immediately; vikara -- transformation; paya -- gets; mora -- My; tanu-

mana -- mind and body; prakrti-darsane -- by seeing a woman; sthira --

steady; haya -- is; kon jana -- what person.

TRANSLATION

"I am a sannyasi," He said, "and I certainly consider Myself renounced.

But not to speak of seeing a woman, if I even hear the name of a woman,

I feel changes in My mind and body. Therefore who could remain unmoved

by the sight of a woman? It is very difficult.

Antya 5.37

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ramananda rayera katha suna, sarva-jana

kahibara katha nahe, yaha ascarya-kathana

SYNONYMS

ramananda rayera -- of Sri Ramananda Raya; katha -- topics; suna --

please hear; sarva-jana -- all people; kahibara -- to be spoken; katha --

talks; nahe -- they are not; yaha -- which; ascarya-kathana --

wonderful and uncommon talks.

TRANSLATION

"Everyone please hear these topics about Ramananda Raya, although they

are so wonderful and uncommon that they should not be spoken.

Antya 5.38

TEXT 38

TEXT

eke deva-dasi, ara sundari taruni

tara saba anga-seva karena apani

SYNONYMS

eke -- on one side; deva-dasi -- the professional dancing girls; ara --

and; sundari taruni -- very beautiful and youthful; tara -- their; saba -

- all; anga -- of the body; seva -- service; karena apani -- performs

personally.

TRANSLATION

"The two professional dancing girls are beautiful and youthful, yet Sri

Ramananda Raya personally massages oil upon their bodies.

Antya 5.39

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snanadi karaya, paraya vasa-vibhusana

guhya angera haya taha darsana-sparsana

SYNONYMS

snana-adi karaya -- he performs their bathing and so on; paraya vasa-

vibhusana -- dresses and decorates the body with various types of

ornaments; guhya angera -- of the private parts of the body; haya --

there is; taha -- that; darsana-sparsana -- seeing and touching.

TRANSLATION

"He personally bathes and dresses them and decorates them with ornaments.

In this way, he naturally sees and touches the private parts of their

bodies.

Antya 5.40

TEXT 40

TEXT

tabu nirvikara raya-ramanandera mana

nana-bhavodgara tare karaya siksana

SYNONYMS

tabu -- still; nirvikara -- unchanged; raya-ramanandera mana -- the mind

of Sri Ramananda Raya; nana-bhava-udgara -- all the symptoms and

transformations of ecstasy; tare -- unto them; karaya siksana -- he

teaches.

TRANSLATION

"Nevertheless, the mind of Sri Ramananda Raya never changes, although he

teaches the girls how to physically express all the transformations of

ecstasy.

Antya 5.41

TEXT 41

TEXT

nirvikara deha-mana -- kastha-pasana-sama!

ascarya, -- taruni-sparse nirvikara mana

SYNONYMS

nirvikara -- unchanged; deha-mana -- body and mind; kastha-pasana-sama --

like wood or stone; ascarya -- wonderful; taruni-sparse -- in touching

young girls; nirvikara -- unchanged; mana -- mind.

TRANSLATION

"His mind is as steady as wood or stone. Indeed, it is wonderful that

even when he touches such young girls, his mind never changes.

Antya 5.42

TEXT 42

TEXT

eka ramanandera haya ei adhikara

tate jani aprakrta-deha tanhara

SYNONYMS

eka -- only one; ramanandera -- of Sri Ramananda Raya; haya -- there is;

ei -- this; adhikara -- special authority; tate -- in that way; jani --

we can understand; aprakrta -- spiritual; deha -- body; tanhara -- his.

TRANSLATION

"The authority for such acts is the prerogative of Ramananda Raya alone,

for I can understand that his body is not material but has been

completely transformed into a spiritual entity.

Antya 5.43

TEXT 43

TEXT

tanhara manera bhava tenha jane matra

taha janibare ara dvitiya nahi patra

SYNONYMS

tanhara -- his; manera -- of the mind; bhava -- position; tenha -- he;

jane -- knows; matra -- only; taha janibare -- to understand that; ara --

other; dvitiya -- second; nahi -- there is not; patra -- eligible

person.

TRANSLATION

"He alone, and no one else, can understand the position of his mind.

Antya 5.44

TEXT 44

TEXT

kintu sastra-drstye eka kari anumana

sri-bhagavata-sastra -- tahate pramana

SYNONYMS

kintu -- but; sastra-drstye -- according to the direction of the sastra;

eka -- one; kari anumana -- I make a guess; sri-bhagavata-sastra --

Srimad-Bhagavatam, the Vedic scripture; tahate -- in

that connection; pramana -- evidence.

TRANSLATION

"But I can make a guess in terms of directions from the sastra. Srimad-

Bhagavatam, the Vedic scripture, gives the direct

evidence in this matter.

Antya 5.45-46

TEXTS 45-46

TEXT

vraja-vadhu-sange krsnera rasadi-vilasa

yei jana kahe, sune kariya visvasa

hrd-roga-kama tanra tat-kale haya ksaya

tina-guna-ksobha nahe, 'maha-dhira' haya

SYNONYMS

vraja-vadhu-sange -- in the association of the damsels of Vrajabhumi;

krsnera -- of Lord Krsna; rasa-adi-vilasa -- pastimes like the rasa

dance; yei -- which; jana -- person; kahe -- describes; sune -- hears;

kariya visvasa -- with great faith; hrt-roga -- the disease of the heart;

kama -- lust; tanra -- of him; tat-kale -- at that time; haya ksaya --

becomes nullified; tina-guna -- of the three modes of material nature;

ksobha -- agitation; nahe -- is not; maha-dhira -- very sober; haya --

becomes.

TRANSLATION

"When one hears or describes with great faith the pastimes of Lord Krsna,

such as His rasa dance with the gopis, the disease of lusty desires in

his heart and the agitation caused by the three modes of material nature

are immediately nullified, and he becomes sober and silent.

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments in this connection, "

Any person seriously inclined to hear about the pastimes of Krsna's rasa

dance, as mentioned in Srimad-Bhagavatam, with great faith and a

transcendental, spiritually inspired mind, is immediately freed from the

natural lusty desires found within the heart of a materialistic man."

When a pure Vaisnava speaks on Srimad-Bhagavatam and another pure

Vaisnava hears Srimad-Bhagavatam from such a realized soul, both of them

live in the transcendental world, where the contamination of the modes

of material nature cannot touch them. Freed from the contamination of

the modes of nature, the speaker and hearer are fixed in a

transcendental mentality, knowing that their position on the

transcendental platform is to serve the Supreme Lord. The class

known as prakrta-sahajiya, who consider the transcendental pastimes of

Lord Krsna something like the behavior between a man and a woman in the

material field, artificially think that hearing the rasa-lila will help

them by diminishing the lusty desires of their diseased hearts. But

because they do not follow the regulative principles but instead violate

even ordinary morals, their contemplation of rasa-lila is a futile

attempt, which sometimes results in their imitating the dealings of the

gopis and Lord Krsna. To forbid such habits of the prakrta-sahajiyas,

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has excluded their material intelligence by

using the word visvasa ("faith"). In Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.33.31), Srila

Sukadeva Gosvami says:

naitat samacarej jatu

manasapi hy anisvarah

vinasyaty acaran maudhyad

yatha rudro 'bdhijam visam

"Certainly one who is not the Supreme Personality of Godhead should

never, even within his mind, imitate the activities of the

transcendental rasa-lila of Krsna. If out of ignorance one does so, he

will be destroyed, just as if he were to imitate Lord Siva, who drank

poison produced from the ocean."

Antya 5.47

TEXT 47

TEXT

ujjvala madhura prema-bhakti sei paya

anande krsna-madhurye vihare sadaya

SYNONYMS

ujjvala -- illuminated; madhura -- sweet; prema-bhakti -- ecstatic love

of Krsna; sei -- he; paya -- gets; anande -- in transcendental bliss;

krsna-madhurye -- the sweetness of Krsna's pastimes; vihare -- enjoys;

sadaya -- always.

TRANSLATION

"Tasting the transcendental, effulgent, sweetly ecstatic love of Krsna,

such a person can enjoy life twenty-four hours a day in the

transcendental bliss of the sweetness of Krsna's pastimes.

Antya 5.48

TEXT 48

TEXT

vikriditam vraja-vadhubhir idam ca visnoh

sraddhanvito 'nusrnuyad atha varnayed yah

bhaktim param bhagavati pratilabhya kamam

hrd-rogam asv apahinoty acirena dhirah

SYNONYMS

vikriditam -- the activity of the rasa dance; vraja-vadhubhih -- the

damsels of Vraja, the gopis; idam -- this; ca -- and; visnoh -- of Lord

Krsna; sraddha-anvitah -- with transcendental faith; anusrnuyat --

continuously hears in the parampara system; atha -- also; varnayet --

describes; yah -- one who; bhaktim -- devotional service; param --

transcendental; bhagavati -- unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead;

pratilabhya -- attaining; kamam -- lusty material desires; hrt-rogam --

the disease of the heart; asu -- very soon; apahinoti -- gives up;

acirena -- without delay; dhirah -- one who is sober because of advanced

devotional service.

TRANSLATION

" 'A transcendentally sober person who, with faith and love

continuously hears from a realized soul about the activities of Lord

Krsna in His rasa dance with the gopis, or one who describes such

activities, can attain full transcendental devotional service at the

lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus lusty material

desires, which are the heart disease of all materialistic persons, are

for him quickly and completely vanquished.'

PURPORT

All the activities of Lord Krsna are transcendental, and the gopis are

also transcendentally situated. Therefore the activities of the gopis

and Lord Krsna, if seriously understood, will certainly free one from

material attachment. Then there is no possibility that lusty material

desires will awaken.

Antya 5.49-50

TEXTS 49-50

TEXT

ye sune, ye pade, tanra phala etadrsi

sei bhavavista yei seve ahar-nisi

tanra phala ki kahimu, kahane na yaya

nitya-siddha sei, praya-siddha tanra kaya

SYNONYMS

ye sune -- anyone who hears; ye pade -- anyone who recites; tanra -- of

him; phala -- the result; etadrsi -- this; sei -- he; bhava-avista --

always absorbed in thoughts of Krsna; yei seve -- who serves; ahah-nisi -

- day and night; tanra -- his; phala -- result; ki kahimu -- what shall

I say; kahane na yaya -- it is impossible to express; nitya-siddha --

eternally liberated; sei -- such a person; praya-siddha --

transcendental; tanra -- his; kaya -- body.

TRANSLATION

"If a transcendentally situated person, following in the footsteps of

Srila Rupa Gosvami, hears and speaks about the rasa-lila dance of Krsna

and is always absorbed in thoughts of Krsna while serving the Lord day

and night within his mind, what shall I say about the result? It is so

spiritually exalted that it cannot be expressed in words. Such a person

is an eternally liberated associate of the Lord, and his body is

completely spiritualized. Although he is visible to material eyes, he is

spiritually situated, and all his activities are spiritual. By the will

of Krsna, such a devotee is understood to possess a spiritual body.

Antya 5.51

TEXT 51

TEXT

raganuga-marge jani rayera bhajana

siddha-deha-tulya, tate 'prakrta' nahe mana

SYNONYMS

raganuga-marge -- on the path of spontaneous love of Krsna; jani -- we

can understand; rayera bhajana -- the devotional service of Ramananda

Raya; siddha-deha -- spiritual body; tulya -- equal to; tate --

therefore; prakrta -- material; nahe -- is not; mana -- mind.

TRANSLATION

"Srila Ramananda Raya is situated on the path of spontaneous love of

Godhead. Therefore he is in his spiritual body, and his mind is not

materially affected.

Antya 5.52

TEXT 52

TEXT

amiha rayera sthane suni krsna-katha

sunite iccha haya yadi, punah yaha tatha

SYNONYMS

amiha -- I also; rayera sthane -- from Ramananda Raya; suni -- hear;

krsna-katha -- talks of Krsna; sunite -- to hear; iccha -- desire; haya -

- there is; yadi -- if; punah -- again; yaha -- go; tatha -- there.

TRANSLATION

"I also hear topics about Krsna from Ramananda Raya. If you want to hear

such topics, go to him again.

Antya 5.53

TEXT 53

TEXT

mora nama la-iha, -- 'teho pathaila more

tomara sthane krsna-katha sunibara tare'

SYNONYMS

mora -- My; nama -- name; la-iha -- take; teho -- He; pathaila -- sent;

more -- me; tomara sthane -- from you; krsna-katha -- topics of Krsna;

sunibara tare -- to hear.

TRANSLATION

"You can take My name before him, saying, 'He has sent me to hear

about Lord Krsna from you.'

Antya 5.54

TEXT 54

TEXT

sighra yaha, yavat tenho achena sabhate"

eta suni' pradyumna-misra calila turite

SYNONYMS

sighra yaha -- go hastily; yavat -- while; tenho -- he; achena -- is;

sabhate -- in the assembly room; eta suni' -- hearing this; pradyumna-

misra -- Pradyumna Misra; calila -- went; turite -- very hastily.

TRANSLATION

"Go hastily while he is in the assembly room." Hearing this, Pradyumna

Misra immediately departed.

Antya 5.55

TEXT 55

TEXT

raya-pasa gela, raya pranati karila

'ajna kara, ye lagi' agamana haila'

SYNONYMS

raya-pasa -- to Ramananda Raya; gela -- he went; raya -- Ramananda Raya;

pranati karila -- offered his respects; ajna kara -- please order me; ye

lagi' -- for what purpose; agamana haila -- have you come.

TRANSLATION

Pradyumna Misra went to Ramananda Raya, who offered him respectful

obeisances and said, "Please order me. For what purpose have you come?"

Antya 5.56

TEXT 56

TEXT

misra kahe, -- 'mahaprabhu pathaila more

tomara sthane krsna-katha sunibara tare'

SYNONYMS

misra kahe -- Pradyumna Misra said; mahaprabhu -- Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu; pathaila more -- has sent me; tomara sthane -- from you;

krsna-katha -- topics of Lord Krsna; sunibara tare -- to hear.

TRANSLATION

Pradyumna Misra answered, "Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has sent me to hear

topics about Lord Krsna from you."

Antya 5.57

TEXT 57

TEXT

suni' ramananda raya haila premavese

kahite lagila kichu manera harise

SYNONYMS

suni' -- hearing; ramananda raya -- Ramananda Raya; haila -- became;

prema-avese -- absorbed in ecstatic love; kahite lagila -- began to

speak; kichu -- something; manera harise -- in transcendental pleasure.

TRANSLATION

Hearing this, Ramananda Raya became absorbed in ecstatic love and began

to speak with great transcendental pleasure.

Antya 5.58

TEXT 58

TEXT

"prabhura ajnaya krsna-katha sunite aila etha

iha va-i maha-bhagya ami paba kotha?"

SYNONYMS

prabhura ajnaya -- under the instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu;

krsna-katha -- topics of Lord Krsna; sunite -- to hear; aila etha -- you

have come here; iha va-i -- without this; maha-bhagya -- great fortune;

ami -- I; paba -- will get; kotha -- where.

TRANSLATION

"Following the instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, you have come to

hear about Krsna. This is my great fortune. How else would I get such an

opportunity?"

Antya 5.59

TEXT 59

TEXT

eta kahi tare lana nibhrte vasila

'ki katha sunite caha?' misrere puchila

SYNONYMS

eta kahi -- saying this; tare -- him; lana -- taking; nibhrte vasila --

sat in a secluded place; ki katha -- what kind of topics; sunite caha --

do you want to hear; misrere puchila -- he inquired from Pradyumna Misra.

TRANSLATION

Saying this, Sri Ramananda Raya took Pradyumna Misra to a secluded place

and inquired from him, "What kind of krsna-katha do you want to hear

from me?"

Antya 5.60

TEXT 60

TEXT

tenho kahe, -- "ye kahila vidyanagare

sei katha krame tumi kahiba amare

SYNONYMS

tenho kahe -- he replied; ye -- what; kahila -- you spoke; vidya-

nagare -- at Vidyanagara; sei katha -- those topics; krame -- according

to the order; tumi -- you; kahiba -- please speak; amare -- to me.

TRANSLATION

Pradyumna Misra replied, "Kindly tell me about the same topics you spoke

about at Vidyanagara.

Antya 5.61

TEXT 61

TEXT

anera ki katha, tumi -- prabhura upadesta!

ami ta' bhiksuka vipra, tumi -- mora posta

SYNONYMS

anera ki katha -- what to speak of others; tumi -- you; prabhura

upadesta -- an instructor of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; ami -- I; ta' --

certainly; bhiksuka -- beggar; vipra -- brahmana; tumi -- you; mora --

my; posta -- maintainer.

TRANSLATION

"You are an instructor even for Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, not to speak

of others. I am but a beggar brahmana, and you are my maintainer.

Antya 5.62

TEXT 62

TEXT

bhala, manda -- kichu ami puchite na jani

'dina' dekhi' krpa kari' kahiba apani"

SYNONYMS

bhala -- good; manda -- bad; kichu -- something; ami -- I; puchite -- to

inquire; na jani -- do not know; dina -- very poor in knowledge; dekhi' -

- seeing (me); krpa kari' -- very mercifully; kahiba -- please; apani --

by your own good will.

TRANSLATION

"I do not know how to inquire, for I do not know what is good and what

is bad. Seeing me to be poor in knowledge, kindly speak whatever is good

for me by your own good will."

Antya 5.63

TEXT 63

TEXT

tabe ramananda krame kahite lagila

krsna-katha-rasamrta-sindhu uthalila

SYNONYMS

tabe -- thereupon; ramananda -- Ramananda Raya; krame -- gradually;

kahite lagila -- began to speak; krsna-katha -- of the topics of Krsna;

rasamrta-sindhu -- the ocean of transcendental mellow; uthalila --

became agitated.

TRANSLATION

Thereupon Ramananda Raya gradually began speaking on topics of Krsna.

Thus the ocean of the transcendental mellow of those topics became

agitated.

Antya 5.64

TEXT 64

TEXT

apane prasna kari' pache karena siddhanta

trtiya prahara haila, nahe katha-anta

SYNONYMS

apane -- personally; prasna kari' -- making the question; pache -- after

that; karena siddhanta -- gives the conclusion; trtiya prahara haila --

it became afternoon; nahe katha-anta -- there was no end to such topics.

TRANSLATION

He began personally posing questions and then answering them with

conclusive statements. When afternoon came, the topics still did not end.

Antya 5.65

TEXT 65

TEXT

vakta srota kahe sune dunhe premavese

atma-smrti nahi, kahan janiba dina-sese

SYNONYMS

vakta -- the speaker; srota -- the listener; kahe -- speaks; sune --

hears; dunhe -- both of them; prema-avese -- in ecstatic love; atma-

smrti nahi -- there was no bodily consciousness; kahan -- where; janiba -

- can understand; dina-sese -- the end of day.

TRANSLATION

The speaker and listener spoke and heard in ecstatic love. Thus they

forgot their bodily consciousness. How, then, could they perceive the

end of the day?

Antya 5.66

TEXT 66

TEXT

sevaka kahila, -- 'dina haila avasana'

tabe raya krsna-kathara karila visrama

SYNONYMS

sevaka kahila -- the servant informed; dina -- the day; haila avasana --

has ended; tabe -- at that time; raya -- Ramananda Raya; krsna-kathara --

the talks of Krsna; karila visrama -- ended.

TRANSLATION

The servant informed them, "The day has already ended." Then Ramananda

Raya ended his discourses about Krsna.

Antya 5.67

TEXT 67

TEXT

bahu-sammana kari' misre vidaya dila

'krtartha ha-ilana' bali' misra nacite lagila

SYNONYMS

bahu-sammana -- much respectful behavior; kari' -- doing; misre -- unto

Pradyumna Misra; vidaya dila -- bade farewell; krtartha ha-ilana -- I

have become very satisfied; bali' -- saying; misra -- Pradyumna Misra;

nacite lagila -- began to dance.

TRANSLATION

Ramananda Raya paid great respect to Pradyumna Misra and bade him

farewell. Pradyumna Misra said, "I have become very satisfied." He then

began to dance.

Antya 5.68

TEXT 68

TEXT

ghare giya misra kaila snana, bhojana

sandhya-kale dekhite aila prabhura carana

SYNONYMS

ghare giya -- returning home; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; kaila --

performed; snana -- bathing; bhojana -- eating; sandhya-kale -- in the

evening; dekhite -- to see; aila -- came; prabhura carana -- the lotus

feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

TRANSLATION

After returning home, Pradyumna Misra bathed and ate his meal. In the

evening he came to see the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.69

TEXT 69

TEXT

prabhura carana vande ullasita-mane

prabhu kake, -- 'krsna-katha ha-ila sravane'?

SYNONYMS

prabhura -- of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; carana -- the lotus feet; vande -

- he worships; ullasita-mane -- in great happiness; prabhu kahe -- Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu says; krsna-katha -- talks of Krsna; ha-ila sravane -

- did you hear.

TRANSLATION

In great happiness he worshiped the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. The Lord inquired, "Have you heard topics about Krsna?"

Antya 5.70

TEXT 70

TEXT

misra kahe, -- "prabhu, more krtartha karila

krsna-kathamrtarnave more dubaila

SYNONYMS

misra kahe -- Pradyumna Misra said; prabhu -- my dear Lord; more -- me;

krtartha -- satisfied; karila -- You have made; krsna-katha -- of talks

about Krsna; amrta-arnave -- in the ocean of the nectar; more -- me;

dubaila -- You have drowned.

TRANSLATION

Pradyumna Misra said, "My dear Lord, You have made me extremely obliged

to You because You have drowned me in a nectarean ocean of talks about

Krsna.

Antya 5.71

TEXT 71

TEXT

ramananda raya-katha kahile na haya

'manusya' nahe raya, krsna-bhakti-rasa-maya

SYNONYMS

ramananda raya-katha -- the speeches of Ramananda Raya; kahile --

describing; na haya -- is not possible; manusya -- an ordinary human

being; nahe -- is not; raya -- Ramananda Raya; krsna-bhakti-rasa-maya --

absorbed in the devotional service of Lord Krsna.

TRANSLATION

"I cannot properly describe the discourses of Ramananda Raya, for he is

not an ordinary human being. He is fully absorbed in the devotional

service of the Lord.

PURPORT

One is forbidden to accept the guru, or spiritual master, as an ordinary

human being (gurusu nara-matih). When Ramananda Raya spoke to Pradyumna

Misra, Pradyumna Misra could understand that Ramananda Raya was not an

ordinary human being. A spiritually advanced person who acts with

authority, as the spiritual master, speaks as the Supreme

Personality of Godhead dictates from within. Thus it is not he that is

personally speaking. When a pure devotee or spiritual

master speaks, what he says should be accepted as having been directly

spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the parampara system.

Antya 5.72

TEXT 72

TEXT

ara eka katha raya kahila amare

'krsna-katha-vakta kari' na janiha more

SYNONYMS

ara -- another; eka -- one; katha -- topic; raya -- Ramananda Raya;

kahila amare -- said to me; krsna-katha-vakta -- the speaker on the

talks of Krsna; kari' -- as; na janiha more -- do not consider me.

TRANSLATION

"There is one other thing Ramananda Raya said to me. 'Do not consider me

the speaker in these talks about Krsna.

Antya 5.73

TEXT 73

TEXT

mora mukhe katha kahena apane gauracandra

yaiche kahaya, taiche kahi, -- yena vina-yantra

SYNONYMS

mora mukhe -- in my mouth; katha -- topics; kahena -- speaks; apane --

personally; gaura-candra -- Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; yaiche kahaya -

- as He causes to speak; taiche kahi -- so I speak; yena -- like; vina-

yantra -- the stringed instrument called the vina.

TRANSLATION

" 'Whatever I speak is personally spoken by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Like a stringed instrument, I vibrate whatever He causes me to speak.

Antya 5.74

TEXT 74

TEXT

mora mukhe kahaya katha, kare paracara

prthivite ke janibe e-lila tanhara?'

SYNONYMS

mora mukhe -- in my mouth; kahaya -- causes to speak; katha -- words;

kare paracara -- preaches; prthivite -- in this world; ke janibe -- who

will understand; e-lila -- this pastime; tanhara -- His.

TRANSLATION

" 'In this way the Lord speaks through my mouth to preach the cult of

Krsna consciousness. Within the world, who will understand this pastime

of the Lord?'

Antya 5.75

TEXT 75

TEXT

ye-saba sunilun, krsna-rasera sagara

brahmadi-devera e saba na haya gocara

SYNONYMS

ye-saba -- all that; sunilun -- I heard; krsna-rasera -- of the nectar

of Lord Krsna; sagara -- the ocean; brahma-adi-devera -- of the demigods,

beginning with Lord Brahma; e saba -- all this; na haya gocara -- is

not possible to be understood.

TRANSLATION

"What I have heard from Ramananda Raya is like a nectarean ocean of

discourses about Krsna. Even the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahma,

cannot understand all these topics.

Antya 5.76

TEXT 76

TEXT

hena 'rasa' pana more karaila tumi

janme janme tomara paya vikailana ami

SYNONYMS

hena rasa -- such transcendental mellows; pana -- to drink; more -- me;

karaila tumi -- You have caused; janme janme -- life after life; tomara

paya -- at Your feet; vikailana ami -- I have become sold.

TRANSLATION

"My dear Lord, You have made me drink this transcendental nectar of

krsna-katha. Therefore I am sold to Your lotus feet, life after life."

Antya 5.77

TEXT 77

TEXT

prabhu kahe, -- "ramananda vinayera khani

apanara katha para-munde dena ani'

SYNONYMS

prabhu kahe -- the Lord replied; ramananda -- Ramananda Raya; vinayera

khani -- the mine of humility; apanara katha -- his own words; para-

munde -- on another's head; dena -- confers; ani' -- bringing.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Ramananda Raya is a source of all

humility. Therefore he has attributed his own words to another's

intelligence.

Antya 5.78

TEXT 78

TEXT

mahanubhavera ei sahaja 'svabhava' haya

apanara guna nahi apane kahaya"

SYNONYMS

mahanubhavera -- of those who are advanced in realization; ei -- this;

sahaja -- natural; svabhava -- characteristic; haya -- is; apanara guna -

- their own personal qualities; nahi -- do not; apane -- personally;

kahaya -- speak.

TRANSLATION

"This is a natural characteristic of those advanced in devotional

service. They do not personally speak of their own good qualities."

Antya 5.79

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TEXT

ramananda-rayera ei kahilu guna-lesa

pradyumna misrere yaiche kaila upadesa

SYNONYMS

ramananda-rayera -- of Sri Ramananda Raya; ei -- this; kahilu -- I have

spoken; guna-lesa -- a fraction of the transcendental attributes;

pradyumna misrere -- unto Pradyumna Misra; yaiche -- in which way; kaila

upadesa -- he gave instruction.

TRANSLATION

I have described but a fraction of the transcendental attributes of

Ramananda Raya, as revealed when he instructed Pradyumna Misra.

Antya 5.80

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TEXT

'grhastha' hana nahe raya sad-vargera vase

'visayi' hana sannyasire upadese

SYNONYMS

grhastha hana -- being a householder; nahe -- is not; raya -- Ramananda

Raya; sat-vargera vase -- under the control of the six kinds of bodily

change; visayi hana -- being a pounds-and-shillings man; sannyasire

upadese -- advises persons in the renounced order of life.

TRANSLATION

Although Ramananda Raya was a householder, he was not under the control

of the six kinds of bodily change. Although apparently a pounds-and-

shillings man, he advised even persons in the renounced order.

PURPORT

Sri Ramananda Raya externally appeared to be a grhastha who was under

the influence of the external, material energy, not a self-controlled

brahmacari, vanaprastha or sannyasi. Grhasthas (householders) who are

under the influence of the external energy accept householder life for

the purpose of sense enjoyment, but a transcendentally situated Vaisnava

is not subjected to the influence of the senses by the Lord's material

rule of the six kinds of bodily change (kama, krodha, lobha, moha, mada,

and matsarya), even when he plays the part of a grhastha. Thus although

Srila Ramananda Raya acted as a grhastha and was accepted as an ordinary

pounds-and-shillings man, he was always absorbed in the transcendental

pastimes of Lord Krsna. Therefore his mind was spiritually situated, and

he was interested only in the subject of Krsna. Ramananda Raya was not

among the Mayavadi impersonalists or materialistic logicians who are

opposed to the principles of Lord Krsna's transcendental pastimes. He

was already spiritually situated in the order of renounced life;

therefore he was able to turn sand into gold by spiritual potency, or,

in other words, to elevate a person from a material to a spiritual

position.

Antya 5.81

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TEXT

ei-saba guna tanra prakasa karite

misrere pathaila tahan sravana karite

SYNONYMS

ei-saba -- all these; guna -- attributes; tanra -- of Ramananda Raya;

prakasa karite -- to demonstrate; misrere -- Pradyumna Misra; pathaila --

He sent; tahan -- there; sravana karite -- to hear.

TRANSLATION

To demonstrate the transcendental attributes of Ramananda Raya, Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu sent Pradyumna Misra to hear discourses about Krsna

from him.

Antya 5.82

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TEXT

bhakta-guna prakasite prabhu bhala jane

nana-bhangite guna prakasi' nija-labha mane

SYNONYMS

bhakta-guna -- the attributes of a devotee; prakasite -- to manifest;

prabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhala jane -- knows very well how;

nana-bhangite -- by various ways; guna -- attributes; prakasi' --

manifesting; nija-labha -- His profit; mane -- He considers.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, knows very

well how to demonstrate the qualities of His devotees. Therefore, acting

like an artistic painter, He does so in various ways and considers this

His personal profit.

Antya 5.83

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TEXT

ara eka 'svabhava' gaurera suna, bhakta-gana

aisvarya-svabhava gudha kare prakatana

SYNONYMS

ara -- another; eka -- one; svabhava -- characteristic; gaurera -- of

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; suna -- hear; bhakta-gana -- O devotees;

aisvarya-svabhava -- opulences and characteristics; gudha -- very deep;

kare -- does; prakatana -- manifestation.

TRANSLATION

There is yet another characteristic of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. O

devotees, listen carefully to how He manifests His opulence and

characteristics, although they are exceptionally deep.

Antya 5.84

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TEXT

sannyasi pandita-ganera karite garva nasa

nica-sudra-dvara karena dharmera prakasa

SYNONYMS

sannyasi -- persons in the renounced order; pandita-ganera -- of the

learned scholars; karite -- to do; garva -- pride; nasa -- vanquishing;

nica -- lowborn; sudra -- a fourth-class man; dvara -- through; karena --

does; dharmera prakasa -- spreading of real religious principles.

TRANSLATION

To vanquish the false pride of so-called renunciants and learned

scholars, He spreads real religious principles, even through a sudra, or

lowborn fourth-class man.

PURPORT

When a man is greatly learned in the Vedanta-sutras, he is known as

pandita, or a learned scholar. Generally this qualification is

attributed to brahmanas and sannyasis. Sannyasa, the renounced order of

life, is the topmost position for a brahmana, a member of the highest of

the four varnas (brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra). According to

public opinion, a person born in a brahmana family, duly reformed by the

purificatory processes and properly initiated by a spiritual master, is

an authority on Vedic literature. When such a person is offered the

sannyasa order, he comes to occupy the topmost position. The brahmana is

supposed to be the spiritual master of the other three varnas, namely

ksatriya, vaisya and sudra, and the sannyasi is supposed to be the

spiritual master even of the exalted brahmanas.

Generally brahmanas and sannyasis are very proud of their spiritual

positions. Therefore, to cut down their false pride, Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu preached Krsna consciousness through Ramananda Raya, who was

neither a member of the renounced order nor a born brahmana. Indeed, Sri

Ramananda Raya was a grhastha belonging to the sudra class, yet Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu arranged for him to be the master who taught

Pradyumna Misra, a highly qualified brahmana born in a brahmana family.

Even Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself, although belonging to the

renounced order, took instruction from Sri Ramananda Raya. In this way

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited His opulence through Sri Ramananda

Raya. That is the special significance of this incident.

According to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's philosophy, yei krsna-tattva-

vetta, sei 'guru' haya: anyone who knows the science

of Krsna can become a spiritual master, without reference to whether or

not he is a brahmana or sannyasi. Ordinary people cannot understand the

essence of sastra, nor can they understand the pure character, behavior

and abilities of strict followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's

principles. The Krsna consciousness movement is creating pure, exalted

Vaisnavas even from those born in families considered lower than those

of sudras. This is proof that a Vaisnava may appear in any family, as

confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam:

kirata-hunandhra-pulinda-pulkasa

abhira-sumbha yavanah khasadayah

ye 'nye ca papa yad-apasrayasrayah

sudhyanti tasmai prabhavisnave namah

"Kirata, Huna, Andhra, Pulinda, Pulkasa, Abhira, Sumbha, Yavana

and the Khasa races, and even others addicted to sinful acts,

can be purified by taking shelter of the devotees of the Lord, for He

is the supreme power. I beg to offer my respectful obeisances

unto Him." (Bhag. 2.4.18) By the grace of the Supreme Lord Visnu, one

can be completely purified, become a preacher of Krsna consciousness,

and become the spiritual master of the entire world. This principle is

accepted in all Vedic literature. Evidence can be quoted from

authoritative sastras showing how a lowborn person can become the

spiritual master of the entire world. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is to be

considered the most munificent personality, for He distributes the real

essence of Vedic sastras to anyone who becomes qualified by becoming

His sincere servant.

Antya 5.85

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TEXT

'bhakti', 'prema', 'tattva' kahe raye kari' 'vakta'

apani pradyumna-misra-saha haya 'srota'

SYNONYMS

bhakti -- devotional service; prema -- ecstatic love; tattva -- truth;

kahe -- He says; raye -- Ramananda Raya; kari' -- by making; vakta --

the speaker; apani -- Himself; pradyumna-misra -- Pradyumna Misra;

saha -- with; haya srota -- becomes the listener.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu preached about devotional service, ecstatic love

and the Absolute Truth by making Ramananda Raya, a grhastha born in a

low family, the speaker. Then Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself, the

exalted brahmana-sannyasi, and Pradyumna Misra, the purified brahmana,

both became the hearers of Ramananda Raya.

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura says in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya that

sannyasis in the line of Sankaracarya always think that they have

performed all the duties of brahmanas and that, furthermore, having

understood the essence of Vedanta-sutra and become sannyasis, they

are the natural spiritual masters of all society. Similarly, persons

born in brahmana families think that because they execute the

ritualistic ceremonies recommended in the Vedas and follow the

principles of smrti, they alone can become spiritual masters of society.

These highly exalted brahmanas think that unless one is born in a

brahmana family, one cannot become a spiritual master and teach the

Absolute Truth. To cut down the pride of these birthright brahmanas and

Mayavadi sannyasis, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu proved that a person like

Ramananda Raya, although born in a sudra family and situated in the

grhastha-asrama, can become the spiritual master of such exalted

personalities as Himself and Pradyumna Misra. This is the principle of

the Vaisnava cult, as evinced in the teachings of Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. A person who knows what is spiritual and what is material

and who is firmly fixed in the spiritual position can be jagad-guru, the

spiritual master of the entire world. One cannot become jagad-guru

simply by advertising oneself as jagad-guru without knowing the

essential principles for becoming jagad-guru. Even people who never see

what a jagad-guru is and never talk with other people become puffed-up

sannyasis and declare themselves jagad-gurus. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

did not like this. Any person who knows the science of Krsna and who is

fully qualified in spiritual life can become jagad-guru. Thus Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally took lessons from Sri Ramananda Raya and

also sent Pradyumna Misra, an exalted brahmana, to take lessons from him.

Antya 5.86

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TEXT

haridasa-dvara nama-mahatmya-prakasa

sanatana-dvara bhakti-siddhanta-vilasa

SYNONYMS

haridasa-dvara -- by Haridasa Thakura; nama-mahatmya -- of the

glories of chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra; prakasa -- manifestation;

sanatana-dvara -- by Sanatana Gosvami; bhakti-siddhanta-vilasa --

spreading the essence of devotional life.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited the glories of the holy name of the

Lord through Haridasa Thakura, who was born in a Mohammedan family.

Similarly, He exhibited the essence of devotional service through

Sanatana Gosvami, who had almost been converted into a Mohammedan.

Antya 5.87

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TEXT

sri-rupa-dvara vrajera prema-rasa-lila

ke bujhite pare gambhira caitanyera khela?

SYNONYMS

sri-rupa-dvara -- through Sri Rupa Gosvami; vrajera -- of Vrndavana;

prema-rasa-lila -- description of ecstatic love and pastimes; ke -- who;

bujhite pare -- can understand; gambhira -- deep; caitanyera khela --

the activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

TRANSLATION

The Lord also fully exhibited the ecstatic love and transcendental

pastimes of Vrndavana through Srila Rupa Gosvami. Considering all this,

who can understand the deep plans of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu?

Antya 5.88

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TEXT

sri-caitanya-lila ei -- amrtera sindhu

trijagat bhasaite pare yara eka bindu

SYNONYMS

sri-caitanya-lila -- transcendental activities of Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu; ei -- these; amrtera sindhu -- the ocean of nectar; tri-

jagat -- the three worlds; bhasaite -- to inundate; pare -- is able;

yara -- of which; eka bindu -- one drop.

TRANSLATION

The activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are just like an ocean of

nectar. Even a drop of this ocean can inundate all the three worlds.

PURPORT

To inundate the three worlds with nectar is the purpose of the pastimes

of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. How this could be possible was exhibited by

Srila Raghunatha Gosvami and later by Thakura Narottama dasa and

Syamananda Gosvami, who all represented the mercy of Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. Now that same mercy is overflooding the entire world through

the Krsna consciousness movement. The present Krsna consciousness

movement is nondifferent from the pastimes performed by Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu when He was personally present, for the same principles are

being followed and the same actions performed without fail.

Antya 5.89

TEXT 89

TEXT

caitanya-caritamrta nitya kara pana

yaha haite 'premananda', 'bhakti-tattva-jnana'

SYNONYMS

caitanya-caritamrta -- this transcendental literature known as Caitanya-

caritamrta; nitya -- daily; kara pana -- do relish; yaha haite -- by

which; prema-ananda -- transcendental bliss; bhakti-tattva-jnana --

transcendental knowledge in devotional service.

TRANSLATION

O devotees, relish daily the nectar of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and the

pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for by doing so one can merge in

the transcendental bliss and full knowledge of devotional service.

Antya 5.90

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TEXT

ei-mata mahaprabhu bhakta-gana lana

nilacale viharaye bhakti pracariya

SYNONYMS

ei-mata -- in this way; mahaprabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakta-

gana lana -- accompanied by His pure devotees; nilacale -- at Jagannatha

Puri; viharaye -- enjoys transcendental bliss; bhakti pracariya --

preaching the cult of devotional service.

TRANSLATION

Thus Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, accompanied by His associates, His

pure devotees, enjoyed transcendental bliss in Jagannatha Puri [Nilacala]

preaching the bhakti cult in many ways.

Antya 5.91

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TEXT

banga-desi eka vipra prabhura carite

nataka kari' lana aila prabhuke sunaite

SYNONYMS

banga-desi -- from Bengal; eka vipra -- one brahmana; prabhura carite --

about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's characteristics; nataka kari' -- making

a drama; lana -- taking; aila -- came; prabhuke sunaite -- to induce

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear.

TRANSLATION

A brahmana from Bengal wrote a drama about the characteristics of Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu and came with his manuscript to induce the Lord to

hear it.

Antya 5.92

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TEXT

bhagavan-acarya-sane tara paricaya

tanre mili' tanra ghare karila alaya

SYNONYMS

bhagavan-acarya -- the devotee of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu named

Bhagavan Acarya; sane -- with; tara paricaya -- his acquaintance; tanre

mili' -- meeting him; tanra ghare -- at his place; karila alaya -- made

residence.

TRANSLATION

The brahmana was acquainted with Bhagavan Acarya, one of the devotees of

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Therefore after meeting him at Jagannatha Puri,

the brahmana made his residence at Bhagavan Acarya's home.

Antya 5.93

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TEXT

prathame nataka tenho tanre sunaila

tanra sange aneka vaisnava nataka sunila

SYNONYMS

prathame -- at first; nataka -- the drama; tenho -- he; tanre -- him;

sunaila -- made to hear; tanra sange -- with him; aneka -- many;

vaisnava -- devotees; nataka sunila -- listened to the drama.

TRANSLATION

First the brahmana induced Bhagavan Acarya to hear the drama, and then

many other devotees joined Bhagavan Acarya in listening to it.

Antya 5.94

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TEXT

sabei prasamse nataka 'parama uttama'

mahaprabhure sunaite sabara haila mana

SYNONYMS

sabei -- all; prasamse -- praised; nataka -- the drama; parama uttama --

"very good, very good"; mahaprabhure -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; sunaite

-- to cause to hear; sabara -- of everyone; haila -- there was; mana --

mind.

TRANSLATION

All the Vaisnavas praised the drama, saying, "Very good, very good."

They also desired for Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear the drama.

Antya 5.95

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TEXT

gita, sloka, grantha, kavitva -- yei kari' ane

prathame sunaya sei svarupera sthane

SYNONYMS

gita -- song; sloka -- verse; grantha -- literature; kavitva -- poetry;

yei -- anyone who; kari' -- making; ane -- brings; prathame -- first;

sunaya -- recites; sei -- that person; svarupera sthane -- before

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami.

TRANSLATION

Customarily, anyone who composed a song, verse, literary composition or

poem about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu first had to bring it to Svarupa

Damodara Gosvami to be heard.

Antya 5.96

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TEXT

svarupa-thani uttare yadi, lana, tanra mana

tabe mahaprabhu-thani karaya sravana

SYNONYMS

svarupa-thani -- before Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; uttare -- passes; yadi

-- if one; lana -- taking; tanra mana -- his mind; tabe -- thereafter;

mahaprabhu-thani -- before Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; karaya sravana --

causes to be heard.

TRANSLATION

If passed by Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, it could be presented for Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear.

Antya 5.97

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TEXT

'rasabhasa' haya yadi 'siddhanta-virodha'

sahite na pare prabhu, mane haya krodha

SYNONYMS

rasa-abhasa -- overlapping of transcendental mellows; haya -- there is;

yadi -- if; siddhanta-virodha -- against the principles of the bhakti

cult; sahite na pare -- cannot tolerate; prabhu -- Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu; mane -- within the mind; haya -- is; krodha -- anger.

TRANSLATION

If there were a hint that transcendental mellows overlapped in a manner

contrary to the principles of the bhakti cult, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

would not tolerate it and would become very angry.

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura quotes the following definition

of rasabhasa from the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (Uttara-vibhaga, Ninth Wave,

1-3,20,22,24):

purvam evanusistena

vikala rasa-laksana

rasa eva rasabhasa

rasajnair anukirtitah

syus tridhoparasas canu-

rasas caparasas ca te

uttama madhyamah proktah

kanisthas cety ami kramat

praptaih sthayi-vibhavanu-

bhavadyais tu virupatam

santadayo rasa eva

dvadasoparasa matah

bhaktadibhir vibhavadyaih

krsna-sambandha-varjitaih

rasa hasyadayah sapta

santas canurasa matah

krsna-tat-pratipaksas ced

visayasrayatam gatah

hasadinam tada te 'tra

prajnair aparasa matah

bhavah sarve tadabhasa

rasabhasas ca kecana

ami prokta rasabhijnaih

sarve 'pi rasanad rasah

A mellow temporarily appearing transcendental but contradicting mellows

previously stated and lacking some of a mellow's necessities is called

rasabhasa, an overlapping mellow, by advanced devotees who know how to

taste transcendental mellows. Such mellows are called uparasa (

submellows), anurasa (imitation transcendental mellows) and aparasa (

opposing transcendental mellows). Thus the overlapping of transcendental

mellows is described as being first grade, second grade or third grade.

When the twelve mellows -- such as neutrality, servitorship and

friendship -- are characterized by adverse sthayi-bhava, vibhava and

anubhava ecstasies, they are known as uparasa, submellows. When the

seven indirect transcendental mellows and the dried up mellow of

neutrality are produced by devotees and moods not directly related to

Krsna and devotional service in ecstatic love, they are described as

anurasa, imitation mellows. If Krsna and the enemies who harbor feelings

of opposition toward Him are respectively the object and abodes of the

mellow of laughter, the resulting feelings are called aparasa, opposing

mellows. Experts in distinguishing one mellow from another sometimes

accept some overlapping transcendental mellows (rasabhasa) as rasas due

to their being pleasurable and tasteful. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti

Thakura says, paraspara-vairayor yadi yogas tada rasabhasah: "When two

opposing transcendental mellows overlap, they produce rasabhasa, or an

overlapping of transcendental mellows."

Antya 5.98

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TEXT

ataeva prabhu kichu age nahi sune

ei maryada prabhu kariyache niyame

SYNONYMS

ataeva -- therefore; prabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kichu --

anything; age -- ahead; nahi sune -- does not hear; ei maryada -- this

etiquette; prabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kariyache niyame -- has

made a regulative principle.

TRANSLATION

Therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu would not hear anything before Svarupa

Damodara heard it first. The Lord made this etiquette a regulative

principle.

Antya 5.99

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TEXT

svarupera thani acarya kaila nivedana

eka vipra prabhura nataka kariyache uttama

SYNONYMS

svarupera thani -- before Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; acarya -- Bhagavan

Acarya; kaila -- did; nivedana -- submission; eka vipra -- one brahmana;

prabhura -- of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; nataka -- drama; kariyache --

has composed; uttama -- very nice.

TRANSLATION

Bhagavan Acarya submitted to Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, "A good brahmana

has prepared a drama about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu that appears

exceptionally well composed.

Antya 5.100

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TEXT

adau tumi suna, yadi tomara mana mane

pache mahaprabhure tabe karaimu sravane

SYNONYMS

adau -- in the beginning; tumi -- you; suna -- hear; yadi -- if; tomara

mana mane -- you accept; pache -- thereafter; mahaprabhure -- Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu; tabe -- then; karaimu sravane -- I shall request to

hear.

TRANSLATION

"First you hear it, and if it is acceptable to your mind, I shall

request Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear it."

Antya 5.101

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TEXT

svarupa kahe, -- "tumi 'gopa' parama-udara

ye-se sastra sunite iccha upaje tomara

SYNONYMS

svarupa kahe -- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami said; tumi -- you; gopa --

cowherd boy; parama-udara -- very liberal; ye-se sastra -- anything

written as scripture; sunite -- to hear; iccha -- desire; upaje --

awakens; tomara -- of you.

TRANSLATION

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami replied, "Dear Bhagavan Acarya, you are a very

liberal cowherd boy. Sometimes the desire awakens within you to hear any

kind of poetry.

Antya 5.102

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TEXT

'yadva-tadva' kavira vakye haya 'rasabhasa'

siddhanta-viruddha sunite na haya ullasa

SYNONYMS

yadva-tadva kavira -- of any so-called poet; vakye -- in the words; haya

-- there is; rasa-abhasa -- overlapping of transcendental mellows;

siddhanta-viruddha -- against the conclusive understanding; sunite -- to

hear; na -- not; haya -- there is; ullasa -- joy.

TRANSLATION

"In the writings of so-called poets there is generally a possibility of

overlapping transcendental mellows. When the mellows thus go against the

conclusive understanding, no one likes to hear such poetry.

PURPORT

Yadva-tadva kavi refers to anyone who writes poetry without knowledge of

how to do so. Writing poetry, especially poetry concerning the Vaisnava

conclusion, is very difficult. If one writes poetry without proper

knowledge, there is every possibility that the mellows will overlap.

When this occurs, no learned or advanced Vaisnava will like to hear it.

Antya 5.103

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TEXT

'rasa', 'rasabhasa' yara nahika vicara

bhakti-siddhanta-sindhu nahi paya para

SYNONYMS

rasa -- transcendental mellows; rasa-abhasa -- overlapping of

transcendental mellows; yara -- of whom; nahika vicara -- there is no

consideration; bhakti-siddhanta-sindhu -- the ocean of the conclusions

of devotional service; nahi -- not; paya -- attains; para -- the limit.

TRANSLATION

"A so-called poet who has no knowledge of transcendental mellows and the

overlapping of transcendental mellows cannot cross the ocean of the

conclusions of devotional service.

Antya 5.104-105

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TEXT

'vyakarana' nahi jane, na jane 'alankara'

'natakalankara'-jnana nahika yahara

krsna-lila varnite na jane sei chara!

visese durgama ei caitanya-vihara

SYNONYMS

vyakarana -- grammar; nahi jane -- does not know; na jane -- does not

know; alankara -- metaphorical ornaments; nataka-alankara -- of the

metaphorical ornaments of drama; jnana -- knowledge; nahika -- there is

not; yahara -- of whom; krsna-lila -- the pastimes of Lord Krsna;

varnite -- to describe; na jane -- does not know; sei -- he; chara --

condemned; visese -- especially; durgama -- very, very difficult; ei --

these; caitanya-vihara -- the pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

TRANSLATION

"A poet who does not know the grammatical regulative principles, who is

unfamiliar with metaphorical ornaments, especially those employed in

drama, and who does not know how to present the pastimes of Lord Krsna

is condemned. Moreover, the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are

especially difficult to understand.

Antya 5.106

TEXT 106

TEXT

krsna-lila, gaura-lila se kare varnana

gaura-pada-padma yanra haya prana-dhana

SYNONYMS

krsna-lila -- the pastimes of Lord Krsna; gaura-lila -- the pastimes of

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; se -- he; kare varnana -- describes; gaura-

pada-padma -- the lotus feet of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; yanra --

whose; haya -- is; prana-dhana -- the life and soul.

TRANSLATION

"One who has accepted the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as his

life and soul can describe the pastimes of Lord Krsna or the pastimes of

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.107

TEXT 107

TEXT

gramya-kavira kavitva sunite haya 'duhkha'

vidagdha-atmiya-vakya sunite haya 'sukha'

SYNONYMS

gramya-kavira -- of a poet who writes poetry concerning man and woman;

kavitva -- poetry; sunite -- to hear; haya -- there is; duhkha --

unhappiness; vidagdha-atmiya -- of a devotee fully absorbed in ecstatic

love; vakya -- the words; sunite -- to hear; haya -- there is; sukha --

happiness.

TRANSLATION

"Hearing the poetry of a person who has no transcendental knowledge and

who writes about the relationships between man and woman simply causes

unhappiness, whereas hearing the words of a devotee fully absorbed in

ecstatic love causes great happiness.

PURPORT

Gramya-kavi refers to a poet or writer such as the authors of novels and

other fiction who write only about the relationships between man and

woman. Vidagdha-atmiya-vakya, however, refers to words written by a

devotee who fully understands pure devotional service. Such devotees,

who follow the parampara system, are sometimes described as sajatiyasaya-

snigdha, or "pleasing to the same class of people." Only the poetry and

other writings of such devotees are accepted with great happiness by

devotees.

Antya 5.108

TEXT 108

TEXT

rupa yaiche dui nataka kariyache arambhe

sunite ananda bade yara mukha-bandhe"

SYNONYMS

rupa -- Rupa Gosvami; yaiche -- as; dui -- two; nataka -- dramas;

kariyache arambhe -- has compiled; sunite -- to hear; ananda bade --

transcendental happiness increases; yara -- of which; mukha-bandhe --

even the introductory portion.

TRANSLATION

"The standard for writing dramas has been set by Rupa Gosvami. If a

devotee hears the introductory portions of his two dramas, they enhance

his transcendental pleasure."

Antya 5.109

TEXT 109

TEXT

bhagavan-acarya kahe, -- 'suna eka-bara

tumi sunile bhala-manda janibe vicara'

SYNONYMS

bhagavan-acarya -- Bhagavan Acarya; kahe -- says; suna -- please hear;

eka-bara -- once; tumi sunile -- if you hear; bhala-manda -- good or bad;

janibe vicara -- will be able to understand.

TRANSLATION

Despite the explanation of Svarupa Damodara, Bhagavan Acarya requested, "

Please hear the drama once. If you hear it, you can consider whether it

is good or bad."

Antya 5.110

TEXT 110

TEXT

dui tina dina acarya agraha karila

tanra agrahe svarupera sunite iccha ha-ila

SYNONYMS

dui tina dina -- for two or three days; acarya -- Bhagavan Acarya;

agraha karila -- expressed his ardent desire; tanra agrahe -- by his

eagerness; svarupera -- of Svarupa Damodara; sunite -- to hear; iccha --

desire; ha-ila -- there was.

TRANSLATION

For two or three days Bhagavan Acarya continually asked Svarupa Damodara

Gosvami to hear the poetry. Because of his repeated requests, Svarupa

Damodara Gosvami wanted to hear the poetry written by the brahmana from

Bengal.

Antya 5.111

TEXT 111

TEXT

saba lana svarupa gosani sunite vasila

tabe sei kavi nandi-sloka padila

SYNONYMS

saba lana -- in the company of other devotees; svarupa gosani -- Svarupa

Damodara Gosvami; sunite vasila -- sat down to hear; tabe -- thereafter;

sei kavi -- that poet; nandi-sloka -- the introductory verse; padila --

read.

TRANSLATION

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami sat down with other devotees to hear the poetry,

and then the poet began to read the introductory verse.

Antya 5.112

TEXT 112

TEXT

vikaca-kamala-netre sri-jagannatha-samjne

kanaka-rucir ihatmany atmatam yah prapannah

prakrti-jadam asesam cetayann avirasit

sa disatu tava bhavyam krsna-caitanya-devah

SYNONYMS

vikaca -- expanded; kamala-netre -- whose lotus eyes; sri-jagannatha-

samjne -- named Sri Jagannatha; kanaka-rucih -- possessing a golden hue;

iha -- here in Jagannatha Puri; atmani -- in the body; atmatam -- the

state of being the self; yah -- who; prapannah -- has obtained; prakrti -

- matter; jadam -- inert; asesam -- unlimitedly; cetayan -- enlivening;

avirasit -- has appeared; sah -- He; disatu -- may bestow; tava -- unto

you; bhavyam -- auspiciousness; krsna-caitanya-devah -- Lord Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu, known as Krsna Caitanya.

TRANSLATION

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead has assumed a golden complexion and

has become the soul of the body named Lord Jagannatha, whose blooming

lotus eyes are widely expanded. Thus He has appeared in Jagannatha Puri

and brought dull matter to life. May that Lord, Sri Krsna Caitanyadeva,

bestow upon you all good fortune."

Antya 5.113

TEXT 113

TEXT

sloka suni' sarva-loka tahare vakhane

svarupa kahe, -- 'ei sloka karaha vyakhyane'

SYNONYMS

sloka suni' -- hearing the verse; sarva-loka -- everyone; tahare -- him;

vakhane -- praised; svarupa kahe -- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami said; ei

sloka -- this verse; karaha vyakhyane -- kindly explain.

TRANSLATION

When everyone present heard the verse, they all commended the poet, but

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami requested him, "Kindly explain this verse."

Antya 5.114

TEXT 114

TEXT

kavi kahe, -- 'jagannatha -- sundara-sarira

caitanya-gosani -- sariri maha-dhira

SYNONYMS

kavi kahe -- the poet said; jagannatha -- Lord Jagannatha; sundara-

sarira -- very beautiful body; caitanya-gosani -- Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu; sariri -- possessor of the body; maha-dhira -- very grave.

TRANSLATION

The poet said, "Lord Jagannatha is a most beautiful body, and Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is exceptionally grave, is the owner of that

body.

PURPORT

Sariri refers to a person who owns the sarira, or body. As stated in

Bhagavad-gita:

dehino 'smin yatha dehe

kaumaram yauvanam jara

tatha dehantara-praptir

dhiras tatra na muhyati

"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to

youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death.

The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." (Bg. 2.13)

For the ordinary living being in material existence there is a division

or distinction between the body and the owner of the body. In spiritual

existence, however, there is no such distinction, for the body is the

owner himself and the owner is the body itself. In spiritual existence,

everything must be spiritual. Therefore there is no distinction between

the body and its owner.

Antya 5.115

TEXT 115

TEXT

sahaje jada-jagatera cetana karaite

nilacale mahaprabhu haila avirbhute

SYNONYMS

sahaje -- naturally; jada-jagatera -- the dull material world; cetana

karaite -- to inspire to spiritual consciousness; nilacale -- at

Jagannatha Puri; mahaprabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; haila avirbhute -

- has appeared.

TRANSLATION

"Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has appeared here in Nilacala [Jagannatha Puri]

to spiritualize the entire dull material world."

Antya 5.116

TEXT 116

TEXT

suniya sabara haila anandita-mana

duhkha pana svarupa kahe sakrodha vacana

SYNONYMS

suniya -- hearing; sabara -- of all of them; haila -- there was;

anandita-mana -- great happiness in the mind; duhkha pana -- becoming

unhappy; svarupa kahe -- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami began to speak; sa-

krodha vacana -- angry words.

TRANSLATION

Hearing this, everyone present was greatly happy. But Svarupa Damodara,

who alone was very unhappy, began to speak in great anger.

Antya 5.117

TEXT 117

TEXT

"are murkha, apanara kaili sarva-nasa!

dui ta' isvare tora nahika visvasa

SYNONYMS

are murkha -- O fool; apanara -- of yourself; kaili -- you have done;

sarva-nasa -- loss of all auspiciousness; dui ta' isvare -- in the two

controllers; tora -- your; nahika visvasa -- there is no faith.

TRANSLATION

"You are a fool," he said. "You have brought ill fortune upon yourself,

for you have no knowledge of the existence of the two Lords,

Jagannathadeva and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, nor have you faith in Them.

Antya 5.118

TEXT 118

TEXT

purnananda-cit-svarupa jagannatha-raya

tanre kaili jada-nasvara-prakrta-kaya!!

SYNONYMS

purna-ananda -- complete transcendental bliss; cit-svarupa -- the

spiritual identity; jagannatha-raya -- Lord Jagannatha; tanre -- Him;

kaili -- you have made; jada -- inert; nasvara -- perishable; prakrta --

material; kaya -- possessing a body.

TRANSLATION

"Lord Jagannatha is completely spiritual and full of transcendental

bliss, but you have compared Him to a dull, destructible body composed

of the inert, external energy of the Lord.

PURPORT

If one thinks that the form of Lord Jagannatha is an idol made of wood,

he immediately brings ill fortune into his life. According to the

direction of the Padma Purana: arcye visnau sila-dhih. ..yasya va

naraki sah

. Thus one who thinks that the body

of Lord Jagannatha is made of matter and who distinguishes between Lord

Jagannatha's body and soul is condemned, for he is an offender. A

pure devotee who knows the science of Krsna consciousness makes no

distinction between Lord Jagannatha and His body. He knows that they are

identical, just as Lord Krsna and His soul are one and the same. When

one's eyes are purified by devotional service performed on the spiritual

platform, one can actually envision Lord Jagannatha and His body as

being completely spiritual. The advanced devotee, therefore, does not

see the worshipable Deity to have a soul within a body like an

ordinary human being. There is no distinction between the body and

soul of Lord Jagannatha, for Lord Jagannatha is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha

, just as the body of Krsna is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha. There is

actually no difference between Lord Jagannatha and Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu, but the ignorant poet from Bengal applied a material

distinction to the body of Lord Sri Jagannatha.

Antya 5.119

TEXT 119

TEXT

purna-sad-aisvarya caitanya -- svayam bhagavan

tanre kaili ksudra jiva sphulinga-samana!!

SYNONYMS

purna -- complete; sat-aisvarya -- possessing six opulences; caitanya --

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; svayam -- Himself; bhagavan -- the Supreme

Personality of Godhead; tanre -- Him; kaili -- you have made; ksudra

jiva -- an ordinary living entity; sphulinga-samana -- exactly equal to

the spark.

TRANSLATION

"You have calculated Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, full in six opulences, to be on the level of an

ordinary living being. Instead of knowing Him as the supreme fire, you

have accepted Him as a spark."

PURPORT

In the Upanisads it is said, yathagner visphulinga vyuccaranti: the

living entities are like sparks of fire, and His Lordship the Supreme

Personality of Godhead is considered the original great fire. When we

hear this sruti-vakya, or message from the Vedas, we should understand

the distinction between the Supreme Lord Krsna and the living entities.

A person under the control of the external energy, however, cannot

understand that distinction. Such a person cannot understand that the

Supreme Person is the original great fire, whereas the living entities

are simply small fragmental parts of that Supreme Personality of Godhead.

As Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (15.7):

mamaivamso jiva-loke

jiva-bhutah sanatanah

manah sasthanindriyani

prakrti-sthani karsati

"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal,

fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard

with the six senses, which include the mind."

There is a distinction between the body and soul of the materially

existing living being, but because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord

Jagannatha do not possess material bodies, there is no distinction

between Their bodies and souls. On the spiritual platform, body and soul

are identical; there is no distinction between them. As stated in Srimad-

Bhagavatam:

etad isanam isasya

prakrti-stho 'pi tad-gunaih

na yujyate sadatma-sthair

yatha buddhis tad-asraya

"This is the divinity of the Personality of Godhead. He is not affected

by the qualities of material nature, even though He is in contact with

them. Similarly, the devotees who have taken shelter of the Lord cannot

be influenced by the material qualities." (Bhag. 1.11.38) His Lordship

the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is unaffected by the

influence of the three modes of material nature. Indeed, His devotees

are also unpolluted by the influence of the external energy because they

engage in the service of His Lordship. Even the very body of a devotee

becomes spiritualized, just as an iron rod put into fire becomes as

qualified as fire because it becomes red hot and will immediately burn

anything it touches. Therefore the poet from Bengal committed a great

offense by treating Lord Jagannatha's body and Lord Jagannatha, the

Supreme Personality of Godhead, as two different entities, material and

spiritual, as if the Lord were an ordinary living being. The Lord is

always the master of the material energy; therefore He is not doomed to

be covered by the material energy like an ordinary living entity.

Antya 5.120

TEXT 120

TEXT

dui-thani aparadhe paibi durgati!

atattva-jna 'tattva' varne, tara ei riti!

SYNONYMS

dui-thani -- unto both; aparadhe -- by offense; paibi -- you will get;

durgati -- hellish destination; a-tattva-jna -- one who has no knowledge

of the Absolute Truth; tattva varne -- describes the Absolute Truth;

tara -- his; ei -- this; riti -- course.

TRANSLATION

Svarupa Damodara continued, "Because you have committed an offense to

Lord Jagannatha and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, you will attain a hellish

destination. You do not know how to describe the Absolute Truth, but

nevertheless you have tried to do so. Therefore you must be condemned.

PURPORT

The brahmana poet from Bengal was an offender in the estimation of

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, for although the poet had no knowledge of the

Absolute Truth, he had nevertheless tried to describe it. The Bengali

poet was an offender to both Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Jagannatha.

Because he had made a distinction between Lord Jagannatha's body and

soul and because he had indicated that Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

was different from Lord Jagannatha, he had committed offenses to Them

both. A-tattva-jna refers to one who has no knowledge of the Absolute

Truth or who worships his own body as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

If an ahangrahopasaka-mayavadi, a person engaged in fruitive activities

or a person interested only in sense gratification, describes the

Absolute Truth, he immediately becomes an offender.

Antya 5.121

TEXT 121

TEXT

ara eka kariyacha parama 'pramada'!

deha-dehi-bheda isvare kaile 'aparadha'!

SYNONYMS

ara eka -- another one; kariyacha -- you have done; parama -- the

supreme; pramada -- illusion; deha-dehi-bheda -- the distinction between

the body and soul; isvare -- in His Lordship; kaile -- you have done;

aparadha -- an offense.

TRANSLATION

"You are in complete illusion, for you have distinguished between the

body and soul of His Lordship [Lord Jagannatha or Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu]. That is a great offense.

PURPORT

When one differentiates between the body and soul of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, he immediately becomes an offender. Because the

living entities in the material world are generally covered by material

bodies, the body and soul of an ordinary human being cannot be

identical. The Supreme Lord bestows the fruits of one's activities, for

He is the Lord of the results of fruitive action. He is also the cause

of all causes, and He is the master of the material energy. Therefore He

is supreme. An ordinary living being, however, in his material condition,

enjoys the results of his own fruitive activities and therefore

falls under their influence. Even in the liberated stage of brahma-bhuta

identification, he engages in rendering service to His

Lordship. Thus there are distinctions between an ordinary human being

and the Supreme Lord. Karmis and jnanis who ignore these distinctions

are offenders against the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead.

An ordinary human being is prone to be subjugated by the material energy,

whereas His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead -- Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu, Lord Krsna or Lord Jagannatha -- is always the master of the

material energy and is therefore never subject to its influence. His

Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead has an unlimited spiritual

identity, never to be broken, whereas the consciousness of the living

entity is limited and fragmented. The living entities are fragmental

portions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead eternally (mamaivamso

jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah). It is not that they are

covered by the material energy in conditioned life but become one with

the Supreme Personality of Godhead when freed from the influence of

material energy. Such an idea is offensive.

According to the considerations of Mayavadi fools, the Supreme

Personality of Godhead accepts a material body when He appears in the

material world. A Vaisnava, however, knows perfectly well that for Krsna,

Lord Jagannatha or Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu -- unlike ordinary human

beings -- there is no distinction between the body and the soul. Even in

the material world His Lordship retains His spiritual identity;

therefore Lord Krsna exhibited all opulences even in His childhood body.

There is no distinction between the body and soul of Krsna; whether

He is in His childhood body or His youthful body, He is always identical

with His body. Even though Krsna appears like an ordinary human being,

He is never subjected to the rules and regulations of the material world.

He is svarat, or fully independent. He can appear in the material world,

but contrary to the offensive conclusion of the Mayavada school, He has

no material body. In this connection one may again refer to the above-

mentioned verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.11.38):

etad isanam isasya

prakrti-stho 'pi tad-gunaih

na yujyate sadatma-sthair

yatha buddhis tad-asraya

The Supreme Person has an eternal spiritual body. If one tries to

distinguish between the body and soul of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead, he commits a great offense.

Antya 5.122

TEXT 122

TEXT

isvarera nahi kabhu deha-dehi-bheda

svarupa, deha, -- cid-ananda, nahika vibheda

SYNONYMS

isvarera -- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nahi -- there is not;

kabhu -- at any time; deha-dehi-bheda -- distinction between the body

and soul; svarupa -- personal identity; deha -- body; cit-ananda --

all made of blissful spiritual energy; nahika vibheda -- there is no

distinction.

TRANSLATION

"At no time is there a distinction between the body and soul of the

Supreme Personality of Godhead. His personal identity and His body are

made of blissful spiritual energy. There is no distinction between them.

PURPORT

Lord Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is advaya-jnana; in other words,

there is no distinction between His body and soul, for His existence

is completely spiritual. According to the verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam

beginning with the words vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam (1.2.11), the

Absolute Truth is always to be understood from three angles of vision as

Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan. Unlike the objects of the material

world, however, the Absolute Truth is always one and always the same.

Thus there is no distinction between His body and soul. His form,

name, attributes and pastimes, therefore, are completely distinct from

those of the material world. One should know perfectly well that there

is no difference between the body and soul of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. When one conceives of a distinction between His

body and soul, one is immediately conditioned by material nature.

Because a person in the material world makes such distinctions, he is

called baddha-jiva, a conditioned soul.

Antya 5.123

TEXT 123

TEXT

"deha-dehi-vibhago 'yam

nesvare vidyate kvacit"

SYNONYMS

deha -- of the body; dehi -- of the embodied; vibhagah -- distinction;

ayam -- this; na -- not; isvare -- in the Supreme Personality of Godhead;

vidyate -- exists; kvacit -- at any time.

TRANSLATION

" 'There is no distinction between the body and soul of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead at any time.'

PURPORT

This quotation, which is included in the Laghu-bhagavatamrta (1.5.342),

is from the Kurma Purana.

Antya 5.124-125

TEXTS 124-125

TEXT

natah param parama yad bhavatah svarupam

ananda-matram avikalpam aviddha-varcah

pasyami visva-srjam ekam avisvam atman

bhutendriyatmaka-madas ta upasrito 'smi

tad va idam bhuvana-mangala mangalaya

dhyane sma no darasitam ta upasakanam

tasmai namo bhagavate 'nuvidhema tubhyam

yo 'nadrto naraka-bhagbhir asat-prasangaih

SYNONYMS

na -- do not; atah param -- here after; parama -- O Supreme; yat -- that

which; bhavatah -- of Your Lordship; svarupam -- eternal form; ananda-

matram -- impersonal Brahman effulgence; avikalpam -- without changes;

aviddha-varcah -- without deterioration of potency; pasyami -- do I see;

visva-srjam -- creator of the cosmic manifestation; ekam -- one without

a second; avisvam -- and yet not of matter; atman -- O supreme cause;

bhuta -- body; indriya -- senses; atmaka -- on such identification;

madah -- pride; te -- unto You; upasritah -- surrendered; asmi -- I am;

tat -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; va -- or; idam -- this

present form; bhuvana-mangala -- they are all-auspicious for all the

universes; mangalaya -- for the sake of all prosperity; dhyane -- in

meditation; sma -- as it were; nah -- unto us; darasitam -- manifested;

te -- Your; upasakanam -- of the devotees; tasmai -- unto Him; namah --

my respectful obeisances; bhagavate -- unto the Personality of Godhead;

anuvidhema -- I perform; tubhyam -- unto You; yah -- which; anadrtah --

is neglected; naraka-bhagbhih -- by persons destined for hell; asat-

prasangaih -- by material topics.

TRANSLATION

" 'O my Lord, I do not see a form superior to Your present form of

eternal bliss and knowledge. In Your impersonal Brahman effulgence in

the spiritual sky, there is no occasional change and no deterioration of

internal potency. I surrender unto You because, whereas I am proud of my

material body and senses, Your Lordship is the cause of the cosmic

manifestation. Yet You are untouched by matter.

" 'This present form, or any transcendental form expanded by the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, is equally auspicious for all the

universes. Since You have manifested this eternal personal form upon

whom Your devotees meditate, I therefore offer my respectful obeisances

unto You. Those who are destined to be dispatched to the path of hell

neglect Your personal form because of speculating on material topics.'

PURPORT

These verses from Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.9.3, 4) were spoken by Lord

Brahma.

Antya 5.126

TEXT 126

TEXT

kahan 'purnanandaisvarya' krsna 'mayesvara'!

kahan'ksudra' jiva 'duhkhi', 'mayara kinkara'!

SYNONYMS

kahan -- whereas; purna -- full; ananda -- bliss; aisvarya -- opulences;

krsna -- Lord Krsna; maya-isvara -- the master of the material energy;

kahan -- whereas; ksudra jiva -- the little conditioned soul; duhkhi --

unhappy; mayara kinkara -- the servant of the material energy.

TRANSLATION

"Whereas Krsna, the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

is full of transcendental bliss, possesses all six spiritual opulences

in full, and is the master of the material energy, the small conditioned

soul, who is always unhappy, is the servant of the material energy.

PURPORT

The living entity is an ever-conditioned servant of the material energy,

whereas Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is master of the

material energy. How, then, could they be on an equal level? There can

be no comparison between them. His Lordship is always in a happy

condition of transcendental bliss, whereas the conditioned soul is

always unhappy because of his contact with the material energy. The

Supreme Lord controls the material energy, and the material energy

controls the conditioned souls. There is therefore no comparison between

the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the ordinary living entities.

Antya 5.127

TEXT 127

TEXT

"hladinya samvidaslistah

sac-cid-ananda-isvarah

svavidya samvrto jivah

sanklesa-nikarakara"

SYNONYMS

hladinya -- by the hladini potency; samvida -- by the samvit potency;

aslistah -- surrounded; sat-cit-ananda -- always transcendentally

blissful; isvarah -- the Supreme Controller; sva -- own; avidya -- by

ignorance; samvrtah -- surrounded; jivah -- the living entity; sanklesa -

- of the three fold miseries; nikara -- of the multitude; akara --

the mine.

TRANSLATION

" 'The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Controller, is always

full of transcendental bliss and is accompanied by the potencies known

as hladini and samvit. The conditioned soul, however, is always covered

by ignorance and embarassed by the threefold miseries of life. Thus he

is a treasure house of all kinds of tribulations.' "

PURPORT

This verse is found in Sridhara Svami's Bhavartha-dipika (1.7.6),

wherein he quotes Sri Visnusvami.

Antya 5.128

TEXT 128

TEXT

suni' sabha-sadera citte haila camatkara

'satya kahe gosani, dunhara kariyache tiraskara'

SYNONYMS

suni' -- hearing; sabha-sadera -- of all the members of the assembly;

citte -- in the minds; haila -- there was; camatkara -- wonder; satya --

the truth; kahe -- said; gosani -- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; dunhara --

of both; kariyache -- has done; tiraskara -- offense.

TRANSLATION

Hearing this explanation, all the members of the assembly were struck

with wonder. "Svarupa Damodara Gosvami has spoken the real truth," they

admitted. "The brahmana from Bengal has committed an offense by wrongly

describing Lord Jagannatha and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu."

Antya 5.129

TEXT 129

TEXT

suniya kavira haila lajja, bhaya, vismaya

hamsa-madhye baka yaiche kichu nahi kaya

SYNONYMS

suniya -- hearing; kavira -- of the poet; haila -- there was; lajja --

shame; bhaya -- fear; vismaya -- astonishment; hamsa-madhye -- in a

society of white swans; baka -- a duck; yaiche -- just as; kichu --

anything; nahi -- not; kaya -- utters.

TRANSLATION

When the Bengali poet heard this chastisement from Svarupa Damodara

Gosvami, he was ashamed, fearful and astonished. Indeed, being like a

duck in a society of white swans, he could not say anything.

Antya 5.130

TEXT 130

TEXT

tara duhkha dekhi, svarupa sadaya-hrdaya

upadesa kaila tare yaiche 'hita' haya

SYNONYMS

tara -- his; duhkha dekhi -- observing the unhappiness; svarupa --

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; sadaya-hrdaya -- very kindhearted; upadesa

kaila -- gave instruction; tare -- unto him; yaiche -- so that; hita --

benefit; haya -- there can be.

TRANSLATION

Seeing the poet's unhappiness, Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, who was

naturally very kindhearted, advised him so that he could derive some

benefit.

Antya 5.131

TEXT 131

TEXT

"yaha, bhagavata pada vaisnavera sthane

ekanta asraya kara caitanya-carane

SYNONYMS

yaha -- just go; bhagavata pada -- read Srimad-Bhagavatam; vaisnavera

sthane -- from a self-realized Vaisnava; ekanta asraya kara -- fully

surrender; caitanya-carane -- at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu.

TRANSLATION

"If you want to understand Srimad-Bhagavatam," he said, "you must

approach a self-realized Vaisnava and hear from him. You can do this

when you have completely taken shelter of the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu."

PURPORT

Herein Svarupa Damodara Gosvami instructs the poet from Bengal to hear

Srimad-Bhagavatam from a pure Vaisnava and learn from him. In India

especially, there is now a class of professional Bhagavatam readers

whose means of livelihood is to go from village to village, town to town,

reading Bhagavatam and collecting daksina, or rewards, in the form of

money or goods, like umbrellas, cloth and fruit. Thus there is now a

system of Bhagavata business, with recitations called Bhagavata-saptaha

that continue for one week, although this is not mentioned in Srimad-

Bhagavatam. Nowhere does Srimad-Bhagavatam say that the Bhagavatam

should be heard for one week from professionals. Rather, Srimad-

Bhagavatam (1.2.17) says: srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-

kirtanah. One should regularly hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from a self-

realized Vaisnava. By such hearing, one becomes pious. Hrdy

antahstho hy abhadrani vidhunoti suhrt-satam. As one thus hears the

Bhagavatam regularly and sincerely, his heart is purified of all

material contamination.

nasta-prayesv abhadresu

nityam bhagavata-sevaya

bhagavaty uttama-sloke

bhaktir bhavati naisthiki

"As one regularly hears the Bhagavatam or renders service

unto the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is

practically destroyed, and loving service unto the

glorious Lord, who is praised with transcendental songs, is

established as an irrevocable fact." (Bhag. 1.2.18)

This is the proper process, but people are accustomed to being misled by

professional Bhagavatam reciters. Therefore Svarupa Damodara Gosvami

herein advises that one should not hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from

professional reciters. Instead, one must hear and learn the Bhagavatam

from a self-realized Vaisnava. Sometimes it is seen that when a Mayavadi

sannyasi reads the Bhagavatam, flocks of men go to hear jugglery of

words that cannot awaken their dormant love for Krsna. Sometimes people

go to see professional dramas and offer food and money to the players,

who are expert at collecting these offerings very nicely. The result is

that the members of the audience remain in the same position of grham

andha-kupam, family affection, and do not awaken their love for Krsna.

In the Bhagavatam (7.5.30), it is said, matir na krsne paratah svato va

mitho 'bhipadyeta grha-vratanam: the grhavratas, those who are

determined to continue following the materialistic way of life, will

never awaken their dormant love of Krsna, for they hear the Bhagavatam

only to solidify their position in household life and to be happy in

family affairs and sex. Condemning this process of hearing the

Bhagavatam from professionals, Svarupa Damodara Gosvami says, yaha,

bhagavata pada vaisnavera sthane: "To understand the Srimad-Bhagavatam,

you must approach a self-realized Vaisnava." One should rigidly avoid

hearing the Bhagavatam from a Mayavadi or other nondevotee who simply

performs a grammatical jugglery of words to twist some meaning from the

text, collect money from the innocent public, and thus keep people in

darkness.

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami strictly prohibits the behavior of the

materialistic so-called hearers of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Instead of

awakening real love for Krsna, such hearers of the Bhagavatam become

more and more attached to household affairs and sex life (yan maithunadi-

grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham). One should hear Srimad-

Bhagavatam from a person who has no connection with material activities,

or, in other words, from a paramahamsa Vaisnava, one who has achieved

the highest stage of sannyasa. This, of course, is not possible unless

one takes shelter of the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The

Srimad-Bhagavatam is understandable only for one who can follow in the

footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.132

TEXT 132

TEXT

caitanyera bhakta-ganera nitya kara 'sanga'

tabeta janiba siddhanta-samudra-taranga

SYNONYMS

caitanyera -- of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakta-ganera -- of the

devotees; nitya -- regularly; kara -- do; sanga -- association; tabeta --

then only; janiba -- you will understand; siddhanta-samudra-taranga --

the waves of the ocean of devotional service.

TRANSLATION

Svarupa Damodara continued, "Associate regularly with the devotees of

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for then only will you understand the waves of

the ocean of devotional service.

PURPORT

It is clearly to be understood in this connection that the followers of

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's way of devotional service are eternally

associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and perfect knowers of

the Absolute Truth. If one immediately follows the principles of Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu by associating with His devotees, lusty desires for

material enjoyment will vanish from one's heart. Then one will be able

to understand the meaning of Srimad-Bhagavatam and the purpose of

listening to it. Otherwise such understanding is impossible.

Antya 5.133

TEXT 133

TEXT

tabeta panditya tomara ha-ibe saphala

krsnera svarupa-lila varniba nirmala

SYNONYMS

tabeta -- then only; panditya -- learning; tomara -- your; ha-ibe --

will become; sa-phala -- successful; krsnera -- of Lord Krsna; svarupa-

lila -- the transcendental pastimes; varniba -- you will describe;

nirmala -- without material contamination.

TRANSLATION

"Only if you follow the principles of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His

devotees will your learning be successful. Then you will be able to

write about the transcendental pastimes of Krsna without material

contamination.

Antya 5.134

TEXT 134

TEXT

ei sloka kariyacha pana santosa

tomara hrdayera arthe dunhaya lage 'dosa'

SYNONYMS

ei sloka -- this verse; kariyacha -- you have composed; pana santosa --

getting satisfaction; tomara hrdayera -- of your heart; arthe -- by the

meaning; dunhaya -- to both; lage dosa -- there is an offense.

TRANSLATION

"You have composed this introductory verse to your great satisfaction,

but the meaning you have expressed is contaminated by offenses to both

Lord Jagannatha and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.135

TEXT 135

TEXT

tumi yaiche-taiche kaha, na janiya riti

sarasvati sei-sabde kariyache stuti

SYNONYMS

tumi -- you; yaiche-taiche -- somehow or other; kaha -- speak; na janiya

riti -- not knowing the regulative principles; sarasvati -- the goddess

of learning; sei-sabde -- in those words; kariyache stuti -- has made

prayers.

TRANSLATION

"You have written something irregular, not knowing the regulative

principles, but the goddess of learning, Sarasvati, has used your words

to offer her prayers to the Supreme Lord.

PURPORT

Svarupa Damodara Gosvami informed the Bengali poet, "Because of your

ignorance and your leaning toward Mayavada philosophy, you cannot

distinguish the difference between the Mayavada and Vaisnava

philosophies. Therefore the process you have adopted to praise Lord Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Jagannatha does not follow the proper

system; indeed, it is irregular and offensive. Fortunately, however,

through your words, the goddess of learning, mother Sarasvati, has

tactfully offered her prayers to her master, Lord Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu."

Antya 5.136

TEXT 136

TEXT

yaiche indra, daityadi kare krsnera bhartsana

sei-sabde sarasvati karena stavana

SYNONYMS

yaiche -- just like; indra -- Lord Indra, the King of heaven; daitya --

demons; adi -- and others; kare -- do; krsnera bhartsana -- chastisement

to Krsna; sei-sabde -- by those words; sarasvati -- the goddess of

learning; karena stavana -- offers prayers.

TRANSLATION

"Sometimes demons, and even Lord Indra, the King of heaven, chastised

Krsna, but mother Sarasvati, taking advantage of their words, offered

prayers to the Lord.

Antya 5.137

TEXT 137

TEXT

vacalam balisam stabdham

ajnam pandita-maninam

krsnam martyam upasritya

gopa me cakrur apriyam

SYNONYMS

vacalam -- talkative; balisam -- childish; stabdham -- impudent; ajnam --

foolish; pandita-maninam -- thinking Himself a very learned scholar;

krsnam -- Krsna; martyam -- an ordinary mortal human being; upasritya --

taking shelter of; gopah -- the cowherd men; me -- unto me; cakruh --

committed; apriyam -- that which is not very much appreciated.

TRANSLATION

"[Lord Indra said:] 'This Krsna, who is an ordinary human being, is

talkative, childish, impudent and ignorant, although He thinks Himself

very learned. The cowherd men in Vrndavana have offended me by accepting

Him. This has not been greatly appreciated by me.'

PURPORT

This verse is from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.25.5).

Antya 5.138

TEXT 138

TEXT

aisvarya-made matta indra, -- yena matoyala

buddhi-nasa haila, kevala nahika sambhala

SYNONYMS

aisvarya-made -- being proud of his opulence; matta -- maddened; indra --

the King of heaven; yena -- as if; matoyala -- a mad person; buddhi-

nasa -- bereft of intelligence; haila -- became; kevala -- only; nahika -

- there is not; sambhala -- caution.

TRANSLATION

"Indra, the King of heaven, being too proud of his heavenly opulences,

became like a madman. Thus bereft of his intelligence, he could not

restrain himself from speaking nonsensically about Krsna.

Antya 5.139

TEXT 139

TEXT

indra bale, -- "muni krsnera kariyachi nindana"

tara-i mukhe sarasvati karena stavana

SYNONYMS

indra bale -- Indra says; muni -- I; krsnera -- of Lord Krsna; kariyachi

-- have done; nindana -- chastisement and defamation; tara-i mukhe --

from his mouth; sarasvati -- mother Sarasvati, the goddess of learning;

karena stavana -- offers prayers.

TRANSLATION

"Thus Indra thought, 'I have properly chastised Krsna and defamed Him.'

But Sarasvati, the goddess of learning, took this opportunity to offer

prayers to Krsna.

Antya 5.140

TEXT 140

TEXT

'vacala kahiye -- 'veda-pravartaka' dhanya

'balisa' -- tathapi 'sisu-praya' garva-sunya

SYNONYMS

vacala -- talkative; kahiye -- I say; veda-pravartaka -- one who can

speak with the authority of the Vedas; dhanya -- glorious; balisa --

childish; tathapi -- still; sisu-praya -- like a child; garva-sunya --

without pride.

TRANSLATION

"The word 'vacala' is used to refer to a person who can speak according

to Vedic authority, and the word 'balisa' means 'innocent.' Krsna spoke

the Vedic knowledge, yet He always presents Himself as a prideless,

innocent boy.

Antya 5.141

TEXT 141

TEXT

vandyabhave 'anamra' -- 'stabdha'-sabde kaya

yaha haite anya 'vijna' nahi -- se 'ajna' haya

SYNONYMS

vandya-abhave -- because there is no one else to be offered obeisances;

anamra -- the one who does not offer obeisances; stabdha-sadbe -- by the

word stabdha ("impudent"); kaya -- says; yaha haite -- than whom; anya --

other; vijna -- learned scholar; nahi -- is not; se -- He; ajna -- one

by whom nothing is unknown; haya -- is.

TRANSLATION

"When there is no one else to receive obeisances, one may be called '

anamra,' or one who offers obeisances to no one. This is the meaning of

the word 'stabdha.' And because no one is found to be more learned than

Krsna, He may be called 'ajna,' indicating that nothing is unknown to

Him.

Antya 5.142

TEXT 142

TEXT

'panditera manya-patra -- haya 'pandita-mani'

tathapi bhakta-vatsalye 'manusya' abhimani

SYNONYMS

panditera -- of learned scholars; manya-patra -- worshipable object;

haya -- is; pandita-mani -- a person honored by the learned scholars;

tathapi -- still; bhakta-vatsalye -- because of being very affectionate

to the devotees; manusya abhimani -- presents Himself as an ordinary

human being.

TRANSLATION

"The word 'pandita-mani' can be used to indicate that Krsna is honored

even by learned scholars. Nevertheless, because of affection for His

devotees, Krsna appears like an ordinary human being and may therefore

be called 'martya.'

Antya 5.143

TEXT 143

TEXT

jarasandha kahe, -- "krsna -- purusa-adhama

tora sange na yujhimu, "yahi bandhu-han"

SYNONYMS

jarasandha kahe -- Jarasandha says; krsna -- Krsna; purusa-adhama -- the

lowest of human beings; tora sange -- with You; na yujhimu -- I shall

not fight; yahi -- because; bandhu-han -- killer of Your own relatives.

TRANSLATION

"The demon Jarasandha chastised Krsna, saying, 'You are the lowest of

human beings. I shall not fight with You, for You killed Your own

relatives.'

PURPORT

In this verse also, mother Sarasvati offers prayers to Krsna. The word

purusa-adhama refers to the Personality of Godhead, under whom all other

persons remain, or, in other words, purusa-uttama, the best of all

living beings. Similarly, the word bandhu-han means "the killer of maya."

In the conditioned state of life, one is closely related with maya as a

friend, but when one comes in contact with Krsna one is freed from that

relationship.

Antya 5.144

TEXT 144

TEXT

yaha haite anya purusa-sakala -- 'adhama'

sei haya 'purusadhama' -- sarasvatira mana

SYNONYMS

yaha haite -- from whom; anya -- other; purusa -- persons; sakala -- all;

adhama -- subordinate; sei -- he; haya -- is; purusa-adhama -- the

person under whom all others remain; sarasvatira mana -- the explanation

of mother Sarasvati.

TRANSLATION

"Mother Sarasvati takes 'purusadhama' to mean 'purusottama,' He to whom

all men are subordinate.

Antya 5.145

TEXT 145

TEXT

'bandhe sabare' -- tate avidya 'bandhu' haya

'avidya-nasaka' -- 'bandhu-han'-sabde kaya

SYNONYMS

bandhe -- binds; sabare -- everyone; tate -- therefore; avidya --

nescience, or maya; bandhu -- binder or relative; haya -- is; avidya-

nasaka -- vanquisher of maya; bandhu-han-sabde -- by the word "bandhu-

han"; kaya -- mother Sarasvati says.

TRANSLATION

"Nescience, or maya, may be called 'bandhu' because she entangles

everyone in the material world. Therefore by using the word 'bandhu-han,'

mother Sarasvati says that Lord Krsna is the vanquisher of maya.

PURPORT

Everyone is entangled in the illusory energy, but as stated in

Bhagavad-gita, mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te:

as soon as one surrenders to Krsna, he is freed from maya.

Therefore Krsna may be called bandhu-han, the killer of maya.

Antya 5.146

TEXT 146

TEXT

ei-mata sisupala karila nindana

sei-vakye sarasvati karena stavana

SYNONYMS

ei-mata -- in this way; sisu-pala -- of the name Sisupala; karila

nindana -- blasphemed; sei-vakye -- by those words; sarasvati -- the

goddess of learning; karena stavana -- offers prayers.

TRANSLATION

"Sisupala also blasphemed Krsna in this way, but the goddess of learning,

Sarasvati, offered her prayers to Krsna even by his words.

Antya 5.147

TEXT 147

TEXT

taiche ei sloke tomara arthe 'ninda' aise

sarasvatira artha suna, yate 'stuti' bhase

SYNONYMS

taiche -- in that way; ei sloke -- in this verse; tomara -- your; arthe -

- by the meaning; ninda -- blasphemy; aise -- comes; sarasvatira artha --

the meaning of mother Sarasvati; suna -- hear; yate -- by which; stuti -

- prayers; bhase -- appear.

TRANSLATION

"In that way, although your verse is blasphemous according to your

meaning, mother Sarasvati has taken advantage of it to offer prayers to

the Lord.

Antya 5.148

TEXT 148

TEXT

jagannatha hana krsnera 'atma-svarupa'

kintu ihan daru-brahma -- sthavara-svarupa

SYNONYMS

jagannatha -- Lord Jagannatha; hana -- is; krsnera atma-svarupa --

identical with Krsna; kintu -- but; ihan -- here, at Jagannatha Puri;

daru-brahma -- the Absolute appearing as wood; sthavara-svarupa --

nonmoving identity.

TRANSLATION

"There is no difference between Lord Jagannatha and Krsna, but here Lord

Jagannatha is fixed as the Absolute Person appearing in wood. Therefore

He does not move.

Antya 5.149

TEXT 149

TEXT

tanha-saha atmata eka-rupa hana

krsna eka-tattva-rupa -- dui rupa hana

SYNONYMS

tanha-saha -- with Him; atmata -- the quality of being the self; eka-

rupa hana -- being one form; krsna -- Lord Krsna; eka-tattva-rupa -- one

principle; dui -- two; rupa -- forms; hana -- becoming.

TRANSLATION

"Thus Lord Jagannatha and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, although appearing as

two, are one because They are both Krsna, who is one alone.

Antya 5.150

TEXT 150

TEXT

samsara-tarana-hetu yei iccha-sakti

tahara milana kari' ekata yaiche prapti

SYNONYMS

samsara-tarana-hetu -- for delivering the entire world; yei -- that;

iccha-sakti -- the potency of will; tahara -- of that will; milana kari'

-- by the meeting; ekata -- oneness; yaiche -- so that; prapti --

obtainment.

TRANSLATION

"The supreme desire to deliver the entire world meets in both of

Them, and for that reason also They are one and the same.

Antya 5.151

TEXT 151

TEXT

sakala samsari lokera karite uddhara

gaura-jangama-rupe kaila avatara

SYNONYMS

sakala -- all; samsari -- materially contaminated; lokera -- persons;

karite uddhara -- to deliver; gaura -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; jangama -

- moving; rupe -- in the form; kaila avatara -- has descended.

TRANSLATION

"To deliver all the materially contaminated people of the world, that

same Krsna has descended, moving as Lord Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.152

TEXT 152

TEXT

jagannathera darsane khandaya samsara

saba-desera saba-loka nare asibara

SYNONYMS

jagannathera -- of Lord Jagannatha; darsane -- by visiting; khandaya

samsara -- one is freed from material existence; saba-desera -- of all

countries; saba-loka -- all men; nare asibara -- cannot come.

TRANSLATION

"By visiting Lord Jagannatha one is freed from material existence, but

not all men of all countries can come or be admitted here in Jagannatha

Puri.

Antya 5.153

TEXT 153

TEXT

sri-krsna-caitanya-prabhu dese dese yana

saba-loke nistarila jangama-brahma hana

SYNONYMS

sri-krsna-caitanya-prabhu -- Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; dese dese

yana -- moving from one country to another; saba-loke nistarila --

delivered all conditioned souls; jangama-brahma -- moving Brahman; hana -

- being.

TRANSLATION

"Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, however, moves from one country to another,

personally or by His representative. Thus He, as the moving Brahman,

delivers all the people of the world.

Antya 5.154

TEXT 154

TEXT

sarasvatira artha ei kahilun vivarana

eho bhagya tomara aiche karile varnana

SYNONYMS

sarasvatira -- of Sarasvati; artha -- meaning; ei -- this; kahilun

vivarana -- I have explained; eho -- this; bhagya -- great fortune;

tomara aiche -- in such a way; karile varnana -- you have described.

TRANSLATION

"Thus I have explained the meaning intended by mother Sarasvati, the

goddess of learning. It is your great fortune that you have described

Lord Jagannatha and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in that way.

Antya 5.155

TEXT 155

TEXT

krsne gali dite kare nama uccarana

sei nama haya tara 'muktira' karana"

SYNONYMS

krsne -- Lord Krsna; gali dite -- to blaspheme or chastise; kare nama

uccarana -- chants the name of Krsna; sei nama -- that holy name; haya --

becomes; tara -- his; muktira karana -- the cause of liberation.

TRANSLATION

"Sometimes it so happens that one who wants to chastise Krsna utters the

holy name, and thus the holy name becomes the cause of his liberation."

Antya 5.156

TEXT 156

TEXT

tabe sei kavi sabara carane padiya

sabara sarana laila dante trna lana

SYNONYMS

tabe -- thereupon; sei -- that; kavi -- poet; sabara -- of all; carane --

at the feet; padiya -- falling down; sabara -- of all the devotees;

sarana laila -- took shelter; dante -- in the mouth; trna lana -- taking

a straw.

TRANSLATION

Upon hearing this proper explanation by Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, the

Bengali poet fell down at the feet of all the devotees and took shelter

of them with a straw in his mouth.

Antya 5.157

TEXT 157

TEXT

tabe saba bhakta tare angikara kaila

tara guna kahi' mahaprabhure milaila

SYNONYMS

tabe -- thereupon; saba bhakta -- all the devotees; tare -- him;

angikara kaila -- accepted as one of the associates; tara guna kahi' --

explaining his humble behavior; mahaprabhure milaila -- introduced him

to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

TRANSLATION

Thereupon all the devotees accepted his association. Explaining his

humble behavior, they introduced him to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.158

TEXT 158

TEXT

sei kavi sarva tyaji' rahila nilacale

gaura-bhakta-ganera krpa ke kahite pare?

SYNONYMS

sei kavi -- that poet; sarva tyaji' -- giving up all nonsensical

activities; rahila -- remained; nilacale -- at Jagannatha Puri; gaura-

bhakta-ganera -- of the devotees of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; krpa --

the mercy; ke -- who; kahite pare -- can explain.

TRANSLATION

By the mercy of the devotees of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that poet

from Bengal gave up all other activities and stayed with them at

Jagannatha Puri. Who can explain the mercy of the devotees of Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu?

Antya 5.159

TEXT 159

TEXT

ei ta' kahilun pradyumna-misra-vivarana

prabhura ajnaya kaila krsna-kathara sravana

SYNONYMS

ei ta' kahilun -- thus I have described; pradyumna-misra-vivarana -- the

descriptive narration of Pradyumna Misra; prabhura ajnaya -- on the

order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kaila -- did; krsna-kathara sravana --

listening to discourses on topics concerning Krsna.

TRANSLATION

I have thus described the narration concerning Pradyumna Misra and how,

following the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he listened to

discourses about Krsna spoken by Ramananda Raya.

Antya 5.160

TEXT 160

TEXT

tara madhye kahilun ramanandera mahima

apane sri-mukhe prabhu varne yanra sima

SYNONYMS

tara madhye -- within these statements; kahilun -- I have explained;

ramanandera mahima -- the glories of Ramananda Raya; apane -- personally;

sri-mukhe -- from his mouth; prabhu -- the Lord; varne -- explains;

yanra -- of whom; sima -- the limit of ecstatic love.

TRANSLATION

Within the narration I have explained the glorious characteristics of

Sri Ramananda Raya, through whom Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally

described the limits of ecstatic love for Krsna.

Antya 5.161

TEXT 161

TEXT

prastave kahilun kavira nataka-vivarana

ajna hana sraddhaya paila prabhura carana

SYNONYMS

prastave -- by the way; kahilun -- I have explained; kavira -- of the

poet; nataka-vivarana -- description of the drama; ajna hana -- although

being ignorant; sraddhaya -- with faith and love; paila -- got; prabhura

carana -- the shelter of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

TRANSLATION

In the course of the narration, I have also told about the drama by the

poet from Bengal. Although he was ignorant, because of his faith and

humility he nevertheless obtained the shelter of Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.162

TEXT 162

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sri-krsna-caitanya-lila -- amrtera sara

eka-lila-pravahe vahe sata-sata dhara

SYNONYMS

sri-krsna-caitanya-lila -- the pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu;

amrtera sara -- the essence of nectar; eka-lila -- of one pastime;

pravahe -- by the stream; vahe -- flow; sata-sata dhara -- hundreds and

hundreds of branches.

TRANSLATION

The pastimes of Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu are the essence of

nectar. From the stream of one of His pastimes flow hundreds and

thousands of branches.

Antya 5.163

TEXT 163

TEXT

sraddha kari' ei lila yei pade, sune

gaura-lila, bhakti-bhakta-rasa-tattva jane

SYNONYMS

sraddha kari' -- with faith and love; ei lila -- these pastimes; yei --

anyone who; pade, sune -- reads and hears; gaura-lila -- the pastimes of

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakti-bhakta-rasa-tattva -- the truth

about devotional service, devotees and their transcendental mellows;

jane -- understands.

TRANSLATION

Anyone who reads and hears these pastimes with faith and love can

understand the truth about devotional service, devotees and the

transcendental mellows of the pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Antya 5.164

TEXT 164

TEXT

sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa

caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa

SYNONYMS

sri-rupa -- Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha -- Srila Raghunatha dasa

Gosvami; pade -- at the lotus feet; yara -- whose; asa -- expectation;

caitanya-caritamrta -- the book named Caitanya-caritamrta; kahe --

describes; krsnadasa -- Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.

TRANSLATION

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.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to the Sri Caitanya-caritamrta,

Antya-lila, Fifth Chapter, describing how Pradyumna Misra received

instructions from Ramananda Raya.

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Antya 5: How Pradyumna Misra Received Instructions from Ramananda 
Raya
 
Chapter 5: 
 
How Pradyumna Misra Received Instructions from Ramananda Raya
 
The following summary of the Fifth Chapter is given by Srila 
Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya. Pradyumna Misra, a 
resident of Srihatta, came to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear from 
Him about Lord Krsna and His pastimes. The Lord, however, sent him to 
Srila Ramananda Raya. Srila Ramananda Raya was training the deva-dasi 
dancing girls in the temple, and when Pradyumna Misra heard about this, 
he returned to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The Lord, however, elaborately 
described the character of Srila Ramananda Raya. Then Pradyumna Misra 
went to see Ramananda Raya again to hear about the transcendental truth 
from him.
 
A brahmana from Bengal composed a drama about the activities of Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu and went to Jagannatha Puri to show it to the 
associates of the Lord. When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's secretary, 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, heard the drama, he discerned a tinge of 
Mayavada philosophy and pointed it out to the author. Although Svarupa 
Damodara condemned the entire drama, by reference to secondary meanings 
of the introductory verse he nevertheless satisfied the brahmana. That 
brahmana poet thus became greatly obliged to Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, 
renounced his family connections and stayed at Jagannatha Puri with the 
associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.1
 
TEXT 1
 
TEXT
 
vaigunya-kita-kalitah
 paisunya-vrana-piditah
dainyarnave nimagno ‘ham
 caitanya-vaidyam asraye
SYNONYMS
 
vaigunya -- of material activities; kita -- by the germs; kalitah -- 
bitten; paisunya -- of envy; vrana -- from boils; piditah -- suffering; 
dainya-arnave -- in the ocean of humility; nimagnah -- merged; aham -- I;
 caitanya-vaidyam -- to the physician known as Lord Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu; asraye -- I surrender.
 
TRANSLATION
 
I am infected by the germs of material activity and am suffering from 
the boils of envy. Therefore, falling in an ocean of humility, I take 
shelter of the great physician Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.2
 
TEXT 2
 
TEXT
 
jaya jaya saci-suta sri-krsna-caitanya
jaya jaya krpa-maya nityananda dhanya
SYNONYMS
 
jaya jaya -- all glories; saci-suta -- to the son of mother Saci; sri-
krsna-caitanya -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; jaya jaya -- all glories; 
krpa-maya -- to the most merciful; nityananda dhanya -- the glorious 
Srila Nityananda Prabhu.
 
TRANSLATION
 
All glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the son of mother Saci! All 
glories to Sri Nityananda Prabhu! Indeed, He is the most glorious and 
merciful.
 
Antya 5.3
 
TEXT 3
 
TEXT
 
jayadvaita krpa-sindhu jaya bhakta-gana
jaya svarupa, gadadhara, rupa, sanatana
SYNONYMS
 
jaya advaita -- all glories to Advaita Prabhu; krpa-sindhu -- the ocean 
of mercy; jaya bhakta-gana -- all glories to the devotees; jaya svarupa -
- all glories to Svarupa Damodara; gadadhara -- Gadadhara Pandita; rupa -
- Rupa Gosvami; sanatana -- Sanatana Gosvami.
 
TRANSLATION
 
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Advaita Prabhu, the ocean of mercy,
 and to all the devotees, such as Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, Gadadhara 
Pandita, Sri Rupa Gosvami and Sri Sanatana Gosvami.
 
Antya 5.4
 
TEXT 4
 
TEXT
 
eka-dina pradyumna-misra prabhura carane
dandavat kari' kichu kare nivedane
SYNONYMS
 
eka-dina -- one day; pradyumna-misra -- the devotee named Pradyumna 
Misra; prabhura carane -- at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; 
dandavat kari' -- offering his respects; kichu -- something; kare 
nivedane -- submits as a petition.
 
TRANSLATION
 
One day Pradyumna Misra came to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, offering 
his respects and inquiring from Him with great submission.
 
Antya 5.5
 
TEXT 5
 
TEXT
 
"suna, prabhu, muni dina grhastha adhama!
kona bhagye panachon tomara durlabha carana
SYNONYMS
 
suna -- please hear; prabhu -- my Lord; muni -- I; dina -- very fallen; 
grhastha -- householder; adhama -- the lowest of men; kona bhagye -- by 
some good fortune; panachon -- I have gotten; tomara -- Your; durlabha --
 rarely achieved; carana -- lotus feet.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"My Lord," he said, "kindly hear me. I am a cripple-minded householder, 
the most fallen of men, but somehow, by my good fortune, I have received 
the shelter of Your lotus feet, which are rarely to be seen.
 
Antya 5.6
 
TEXT 6
 
TEXT
 
krsna-katha sunibare mora iccha haya
krsna-katha kaha more hana sadaya"
SYNONYMS
 
krsna-katha -- discussions on the subject of Lord Krsna; sunibare -- to 
hear; mora -- my; iccha -- desire; haya -- is; krsna-katha -- talks 
about Lord Sri Krsna; kaha -- kindly speak; more -- unto me; hana -- 
being; sa-daya -- kind.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"I wish to hear topics concerning Lord Krsna constantly. Be merciful 
unto me and kindly tell me something about Krsna."
 
Antya 5.7
 
TEXT 7
 
TEXT
 
prabhu kahena, -- "krsna-katha ami nahi jani
sabe ramananda jane, tanra mukhe suni
SYNONYMS
 
prabhu kahena -- the Lord replied; krsna-katha -- talks about Lord Krsna;
 ami -- I; nahi jani -- do not know; sabe -- only; ramananda jane -- 
Ramananda Raya knows; tanra mukhe -- from his mouth; suni -- I hear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, "I do not know about topics concerning 
Lord Krsna. I think that only Ramananda Raya knows, for I hear these 
topics from him.
 
Antya 5.8
 
TEXT 8
 
TEXT
 
bhagye tomara krsna-katha sunite haya mana
ramananda-pasa yai' karaha sravana
SYNONYMS
 
bhagye -- by fortune; tomara -- your; krsna-katha -- topics about Lord 
Krsna; sunite -- to hear; haya mana -- there is an inclination; 
ramananda-pasa -- to Ramananda Raya; yai' -- going; karaha sravana -- 
hear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"It is your good fortune that you are inclined to hear topics regarding 
Krsna. The best course for you would be to go to Ramananda Raya and hear 
these topics from him.
 
Antya 5.9
 
TEXT 9
 
TEXT
 
krsna-kathaya ruci tomara -- bada bhagyavan
yara krsna-kathaya ruci, sei bhagyavan
SYNONYMS
 
krsna-kathaya -- in talking of Krsna; ruci -- taste; tomara -- your; 
bada bhagyavan -- very fortunate; yara -- of whom; krsna-kathaya -- in 
hearing about Krsna; ruci -- taste; sei bhagyavan -- he is very 
fortunate.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"I see that you have acquired a taste for hearing talks regarding Krsna. 
Therefore you are extremely fortunate. Not only you but anyone who has 
awakened such a taste is considered most fortunate.
 
Antya 5.10
 
TEXT 10
 
TEXT
 
dharmah sv-anusthitah pumsam
 visvaksena-kathasu yah
notpadayed yadi ratim
 srama eva hi kevalam
SYNONYMS
 
dharmah -- execution of the system of varna and asrama; su-anusthitah -- 
properly executed; pumsam -- of men; visvaksena-kathasu -- in talks 
about Visvaksena, or Krsna; yah -- which; na -- not; utpadayet -- 
awakens; yadi -- if; ratim -- taste; sramah -- labor; eva -- without 
doubt; hi -- certainly; kevalam -- only.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"‘A person who properly performs his regulative duties according to 
varna and asrama but does not develop his dormant attachment for Krsna 
or awaken his taste for hearing and chanting about Krsna is certainly 
laboring fruitlessly.'"
 
PURPORT
 
This is a quotation from Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.2.8).
 
Antya 5.11
 
TEXT 11
 
TEXT
 
tabe pradyumna-misra gela ramanandera sthane
rayera sevaka tanre vasaila asane
SYNONYMS
 
tabe -- thereafter; pradyumna-misra -- Pradyumna Misra; gela 
-- went; ramanandera sthane -- to the place of Ramananda Raya; rayera 
sevaka -- the servant of Ramananda Raya; tanre -- unto him; vasaila 
asane -- gave a sitting place.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Pradyumna Misra, being thus advised by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, went to 
the home of Ramananda Raya. There the servant of Ramananda Raya gave him 
a proper place to sit down.
 
Antya 5.12
 
TEXT 12
 
TEXT
 
darsana na pana misra sevake puchila
rayera vrttanta sevaka kahite lagila
SYNONYMS
 
darsana -- audience; na -- not; pana -- getting; misra -- Pradyumna 
Misra; sevake -- unto the servant; puchila -- inquired; rayera -- of 
Ramananda Raya; vrttanta -- activity; sevaka -- the servant; kahite 
lagila -- began to describe.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Unable to see Ramananda Raya immediately, Pradyumna Misra inquired from 
the servant, who then described what Sri Ramananda Raya 
was doing.
 
Antya 5.13
 
TEXT 13
 
TEXT
 
"dui deva-kanya haya parama-sundari
nrtya-gite sunipuna, vayase kisori
SYNONYMS
 
dui -- two; deva-kanya -- dancing girls; haya -- are; parama-sundari -- 
very, very beautiful; nrtya-gite -- in singing and dancing; su-nipuna -- 
very expert; vayase -- in age; kisori -- very young.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"There are two dancing girls who are extremely beautiful. They are very 
youthful, and they are expert in dancing and singing.
 
Antya 5.14
 
TEXT 14
 
TEXT
 
sei dunhe lana raya nibhrta udyane
nija-nataka-gitera sikhaya nartane
SYNONYMS
 
sei dunhe -- those two; lana -- taking; raya -- Ramananda Raya; nibhrta 
udyane -- in a solitary place in the garden; nija-nataka -- of the drama 
composed by him; gitera -- of the songs; sikhaya -- gives direction; 
nartane -- in dancing.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Srila Ramananda Raya has taken these two girls to a solitary place in 
his garden, where he is teaching and directing them to dance according 
to the songs he has composed for his drama.
 
PURPORT
 
The drama being rehearsed by Ramananda Raya and the two young girls was 
the well-known Jagannatha-vallabha-nataka. The songs and dances were 
meant for the pleasure of Lord Jagannatha; therefore Ramananda Raya was 
personally giving instructions on how to sing and dance for the drama.
 
Antya 5.15
 
TEXT 15
 
TEXT
 
tumi ihan vasi' raha, ksaneke asibena
tabe yei ajna deha, sei karibena"
SYNONYMS
 
tumi -- you; ihan -- here; vasi' -- sitting; raha -- just wait; ksaneke 
asibena -- he will come within a moment; tabe -- then; yei -- whatever; 
ajna -- order; deha -- you give; sei -- he; karibena -- will do.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Please sit here and wait for a few moments. As soon as he comes, he 
will execute whatever order you give him."
 
Antya 5.16
 
TEXT 16
 
TEXT
 
tabe pradyumna-misra tahan rahila vasiya
ramananda nibhrte sei dui-jana lana
SYNONYMS
 
tabe -- then; pradyumna-misra -- Pradyumna Misra; tahan -- 
there; rahila vasiya -- remained seated; ramananda -- Ramananda Raya; 
nibhrte -- in a solitary place; sei -- those; dui-jana -- two girls; 
lana -- taking.
 
TRANSLATION
 
While Pradyumna Misra remained seated there, Ramananda Raya took the two 
girls to a solitary place.
 
Antya 5.17
 
TEXT 17
 
TEXT
 
sva-haste karena tara abhyanga-mardana
sva-haste karana snana, gatra sammarjana
SYNONYMS
 
sva-haste -- with his own hand; karena -- does; tara -- of those two 
girls; abhyanga-mardana -- massaging the body with oil; sva-haste -- 
with his own hand; karana snana -- bathes them; gatra sammarjana -- 
cleansing the whole body.
 
TRANSLATION
 
With his own hand, Sri Ramananda Raya massaged their bodies with oil and 
bathed them with water. Indeed, Ramananda Raya cleansed their entire 
bodies with his own hand.
 
Antya 5.18
 
TEXT 18
 
TEXT
 
sva-haste parana vastra, sarvanga mandana
tabu nirvikara raya-ramanandera mana
SYNONYMS
 
sva-haste -- with his own hand; parana vastra -- dresses them; sarvanga 
mandana -- decorating the whole body; tabu -- still; nirvikara -- 
without transformation; raya-ramanandera -- of Ramananda Raya; mana -- 
the mind.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Although he dressed the two young girls and decorated their bodies with 
his own hand, he remained unchanged. Such is the mind of Srila Ramananda 
Raya.
 
Antya 5.19
 
TEXT 19
 
TEXT
 
kastha-pasana-sparse haya yaiche bhava
taruni-sparse ramanandera taiche ‘svabhava'
SYNONYMS
 
kastha -- wood; pasana -- stone; sparse -- by touching; haya -- there is;
 yaiche -- as; bhava -- mental position; taruni -- sparse -- by touching 
the young girls; ramanandera -- of Ramananda Raya; taiche -- like that; 
svabhava -- nature.
 
TRANSLATION
 
While touching the young girls, he was like a person touching wood or 
stone, for his body and mind were unaffected.
 
Antya 5.20
 
TEXT 20
 
TEXT
 
sevya-buddhi aropiya karena sevana
svabhavika dasi-bhava karena aropana
SYNONYMS
 
sevya-buddhi aropiya -- considering worshipable; karena sevana -- 
engages in service; svabhavika -- by his natural position; dasi-bhava -- 
as a maidservant; karena aropana -- considers.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Srila Ramananda Raya used to act in that way because he thought of 
himself in his original position as a maidservant of the gopis. Thus 
although externally he appeared to be a man, internally, in his original 
spiritual position, he considered himself a maidservant and considered 
the two girls gopis.
 
PURPORT
 
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura writes in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya: "Srila 
Ramananda Raya composed a drama named Jagannatha-vallabha-nataka, and he 
engaged two young girls who were professional dancers and singers to 
demonstrate the ideology of the drama. Such girls, who are called deva-
dasis, are still employed in the temple of Jagannatha, where they are 
called maharis. Sri Ramananda Raya engaged two such girls, and because 
they were meant to play the parts of gopis, he taught them how to awaken 
thoughts like those of the gopis. Because the gopis are worshipable 
personalities, Ramananda Raya, who considered the two girls gopis and 
himself their maidservant, engaged in their service by massaging their 
bodies with oil to cleanse them completely. Because Ramananda Raya 
always placed himself in the position of a maidservant of the gopis, his 
rehearsal with the girls was actually on the spiritual platform."
 
Because there was no question of personal sense gratification when Sri 
Ramananda Raya was serving the girls, his mind was steady and his body 
untransformed. This is not to be imitated, nor is such a mentality 
possible for anyone but Sri Ramananda Raya, as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 
will explain. The example of Sri Ramananda Raya is certainly unique. The 
author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta has given this description because in 
perfect devotional service one can attain such a position. Nevertheless, 
one must understand this subject very seriously and never attempt to 
imitate such activities.
 
Antya 5.21
 
TEXT 21
 
TEXT
 
mahaprabhura bhakta-ganera durgama mahima
tahe ramanandera bhava-bhakti-prema-sima
SYNONYMS
 
mahaprabhura -- of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakta-ganera -- of the 
devotees; durgama -- difficult to understand; mahima -- greatness; tahe -
- in that connection; ramanandera -- of Sri Ramananda Raya; bhava-bhakti 
-- of ecstatic devotion; prema-sima -- the limit of love of Krsna.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The greatness of the devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is exceedingly 
difficult to understand. Sri Ramananda Raya is unique among them all, 
for he showed how one can extend his ecstatic love to the extreme limit.
 
Antya 5.22
 
TEXT 22
 
TEXT
 
tabe sei dui-jane nrtya sikhaila
gitera gudha artha abhinaya karaila
SYNONYMS
 
tabe -- thereupon; sei -- those; dui-jane -- two young girls; nrtya 
sikhaila -- directed how to dance; gitera -- of the songs; gudha artha --
 the deep meaning; abhinaya karaila -- taught how to express by dramatic 
performances.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Ramananda Raya directed the two girls how to dance and express the deep 
meaning of his songs through dramatic performances.
 
Antya 5.23
 
TEXT 23
 
TEXT
 
sancari, sattvika, sthayi-bhavera laksana
mukhe netre abhinaya kare prakatana
SYNONYMS
 
sancari -- passing; sattvika -- natural; sthayi -- continuously existing;
 bhavera -- of ecstasies; laksana -- symptoms; mukhe -- in the facial 
expressions; netre -- in the movement of the eyes; abhinaya -- the 
dramatic performance; kare prakatana -- he demonstrates.
 
TRANSLATION
 
He taught them how to express the symptoms of continuous, natural and 
transitional ecstasies with the movements of their faces, their eyes and 
the other parts of their bodies.
 
Antya 5.24
 
TEXT 24
 
TEXT
 
bhava-prakatana-lasya raya ye sikhaya
jagannathera age dunhe prakata dekhaya
SYNONYMS
 
bhava -- ecstasy; prakatana -- manifesting; lasya -- feminine poses and 
dancing; raya -- Ramananda Raya; ye -- which; sikhaya -- was teaching; 
jagannathera age -- in front of Lord Jagannatha; dunhe -- both of them; 
prakata dekhaya -- demonstrated.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Through the feminine poses and dances they were taught by Ramananda Raya,
 the two girls precisely exhibited all these expressions of ecstasy 
before Lord Jagannatha.
 
Antya 5.25
 
TEXT 25
 
TEXT
 
tabe sei dui-jane prasada khaoyaila
nibhrte dunhare nija-ghare pathaila
SYNONYMS
 
tabe -- then; sei -- to those; dui-jane -- two girls; prasada khaoyaila -
- gave prasadam to eat; nibhrte -- without being exposed; dunhare -- 
both of them; nija-ghare -- their homes; pathaila -- sent.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Then Ramananda Raya fed the two girls sumptuous prasadam and sent them 
to their homes unexposed.
 
Antya 5.26
 
TEXT 26
 
TEXT
 
prati-dina raya aiche karaya sadhana
kon jane ksudra jiva kanha tanra mana?
SYNONYMS
 
prati-dina -- daily; raya -- Ramananda Raya; aiche -- in this way; 
karaya sadhana -- teaches regularly; kon jane -- who can know; ksudra 
jiva -- an insignificant living entity; kanha -- where; tanra -- his; 
mana -- mind.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Every day he trained the two deva-dasis how to dance. Who among the 
small living entities, their minds always absorbed in material sense 
gratification, could understand the mentality of Sri Ramananda Raya?
 
PURPORT
 
Ramananda Raya's service to the gopis for the satisfaction of Krsna is 
purely an affair of the spiritual world. Unless one is fully situated in 
the spiritual atmosphere, the activities of Ramananda Raya are most 
difficult to understand.
 
Antya 5.27
 
TEXT 27
 
TEXT
 
misrera agamana raye sevaka kahila
sighra ramananda tabe sabhate aila
SYNONYMS
 
misrera -- of Pradyumna Misra; agamana -- arrival; raye -- to Ramananda 
Raya; sevaka kahila -- the servant informed; sighra -- very soon; 
ramananda -- Ramananda Raya; tabe -- thereupon; sabhate aila -- came to 
the assembly room.
 
TRANSLATION
 
When the servant informed Ramananda Raya of Pradyumna Misra's arrival, 
Ramananda Raya immediately went to the assembly room.
 
Antya 5.28
 
TEXT 28
 
TEXT
 
misrere namaskara kare sammana kariya
nivedana kare kichu vinita hana
SYNONYMS
 
misrere -- unto Pradyumna Misra; namaskara kare -- offers respectful 
obeisances; sammana kariya -- with all respect; nivedana kare -- 
submitted; kichu -- something; vinita hana -- with great humility.
 
TRANSLATION
 
He offered his obeisances to Pradyumna Misra with all respect and then, 
with great humility, spoke as follows.
 
Antya 5.29
 
TEXT 29
 
TEXT
 
"bahu-ksana aila, more keha na kahila
tomara carane mora aparadha ha-ila
SYNONYMS
 
bahu-ksana -- long ago; aila -- you came; more -- me; keha na kahila -- 
no one informed; tomara carane -- unto your lotus feet; mora -- my; 
aparadha -- offense; ha-ila -- there was.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Sir, you came here long ago, but no one informed me. Therefore I have 
certainly become an offender at your lotus feet.
 
Antya 5.30
 
TEXT 30
 
TEXT
 
tomara agamane mora pavitra haila ghara
ajna kara, kya karon tomara kinkara"
SYNONYMS
 
tomara agamane -- because of your arrival; mora -- my; pavitra -- 
purified; haila -- became; ghara -- house; ajna kara -- kindly order; 
kya karon -- what can I do; tomara kinkara -- I am your servant.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"My entire home has been purified by your arrival. Kindly order me. What 
can I do for you? I am your servant."
 
Antya 5.31
 
TEXT 31
 
TEXT
 
misra kahe, -- "toma dekhite haila agamane
apana pavitra kailun tomara darasane"
SYNONYMS
 
misra kahe -- Pradyumna Misra replied; toma -- you; dekhite -- to see; 
haila agamane -- I came; apana -- myself; pavitra kailun -- I have 
purified; tomara darasane -- by seeing you.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Pradyumna Misra replied, "I came simply to see you. Now I have purified 
myself by seeing Your Honor."
 
Antya 5.32
 
TEXT 32
 
TEXT
 
atikala dekhi' misra kichu na kahila
vidaya ha-iya misra nija-ghara gela
SYNONYMS
 
atikala dekhi' -- seeing that it was too late; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; 
kichu -- anything; na kahila -- did not say; vidaya ha-iya -- taking 
leave; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; nija-ghara -- to his own place; gela -- 
returned.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Because Pradyumna Misra saw that it was late, he did not say anything 
else to Ramananda Raya. Instead, he took leave of him and returned to 
his own home.
 
Antya 5.33
 
TEXT 33
 
TEXT
 
ara dina misra aila prabhu-vidyamane
prabhu kahe, -- ‘krsna-katha sunila raya-sthane'?
SYNONYMS
 
ara dina -- the next day; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; aila -- came; prabhu-
vidyamane -- in the presence of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; prabhu kahe -- 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu inquired; krsna-katha -- talks about Krsna; 
sunila -- have you heard; raya-sthane -- from Sri Ramananda Raya.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The next day, when Pradyumna Misra arrived in the presence of Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Lord inquired, "Have you heard talks about 
Krsna from Sri Ramananda Raya?"
 
Antya 5.34
 
TEXT 34
 
TEXT
 
tabe misra ramanandera vrttanta kahila
suni' mahaprabhu tabe kahite lagila
SYNONYMS
 
tabe -- thereupon; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; ramanandera -- of Sri 
Ramananda Raya; vrttanta kahila -- described the activities; suni' -- 
hearing; mahaprabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; tabe -- then; kahite 
lagila -- began to speak.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Pradyumna Misra thereupon described the activities of Sri Ramananda Raya.
 After hearing about these activities, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu began to 
speak.
 
Antya 5.35–36
 
TEXTS 35–36
 
TEXT
 
"ami ta' sannyasi, apanare virakta kari' mani
darsana rahu dure, ‘prakrtira' nama yadi suni
tabahin vikara paya mora tanu-mana
prakrti-darsane sthira haya kon jana?"
SYNONYMS
 
ami -- I; ta' -- certainly; sannyasi -- in the renounced order of life; 
apanare -- Myself; virakta kari' -- having renounced everything; mani -- 
I consider; darsana rahu dure -- what to speak of seeing; prakrtira -- 
of a woman; nama -- name; yadi -- if; suni -- I hear; tabahin -- 
immediately; vikara -- transformation; paya -- gets; mora -- My; tanu-
mana -- mind and body; prakrti-darsane -- by seeing a woman; sthira -- 
steady; haya -- is; kon jana -- what person.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"I am a sannyasi," He said, "and I certainly consider Myself renounced. 
But what to speak of seeing a woman, if I even hear the name of a woman, 
I feel changes in My mind and body. Therefore who could remain unmoved 
by the sight of a woman? It is very difficult.
 
Antya 5.37
 
TEXT 37
 
TEXT
 
ramananda rayera katha suna, sarva-jana
kahibara katha nahe, yaha ascarya-kathana
SYNONYMS
 
ramananda rayera -- of Sri Ramananda Raya; katha -- topics; suna -- 
please hear; sarva-jana -- all people; kahibara -- to be spoken; katha --
 talks; nahe -- they are not; yaha -- which; ascarya-kathana -- 
wonderful and uncommon talks.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Everyone please hear these topics about Ramananda Raya, although they 
are so wonderful and uncommon that they should not be spoken.
 
Antya 5.38
 
TEXT 38
 
TEXT
 
eke deva-dasi, ara sundari taruni
tara saba anga-seva karena apani
SYNONYMS
 
eke -- on one side; deva-dasi -- the professional dancing girls; ara -- 
and; sundari taruni -- very beautiful and youthful; tara -- their; saba -
- all; anga -- of the body; seva -- service; karena apani -- performs 
personally.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"The two professional dancing girls are beautiful and youthful, yet Sri 
Ramananda Raya personally massages their entire bodies with oil.
 
Antya 5.39
 
TEXT 39
 
TEXT
 
snanadi karaya, paraya vasa-vibhusana
guhya angera haya taha darsana-sparsana
SYNONYMS
 
snana-adi karaya -- he performs their bathing and so on; paraya vasa-
vibhusana -- dresses and decorates the body with various types of 
ornaments; guhya angera -- of the private parts of the body; haya -- 
there is; taha -- that; darsana-sparsana -- seeing and touching.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"He personally bathes and dresses them and decorates them with ornaments.
 In this way, he naturally sees and touches the private parts of their 
bodies.
 
Antya 5.40
 
TEXT 40
 
TEXT
 
tabu nirvikara raya-ramanandera mana
nana-bhavodgara tare karaya siksana
SYNONYMS
 
tabu -- still; nirvikara -- unchanged; raya-ramanandera mana -- the mind 
of Sri Ramananda Raya; nana-bhava-udgara -- all the symptoms and 
transformations of ecstasy; tare -- unto them; karaya siksana -- he 
teaches.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Nevertheless, the mind of Sri Ramananda Raya never changes, although he 
teaches the girls how to physically express all the transformations of 
ecstasy.
 
Antya 5.41
 
TEXT 41
 
TEXT
 
nirvikara deha-mana -- kastha-pasana-sama!
ascarya, -- taruni-sparse nirvikara mana
SYNONYMS
 
nirvikara -- unchanged; deha-mana -- body and mind; kastha-pasana-sama --
 like wood or stone; ascarya -- wonderful; taruni-sparse -- in touching 
young girls; nirvikara -- unchanged; mana -- mind.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"His mind is as steady as wood or stone. Indeed, it is wonderful that 
even when he touches such young girls, his mind never changes.
 
Antya 5.42
 
TEXT 42
 
TEXT
 
eka ramanandera haya ei adhikara
tate jani aprakrta-deha tanhara
SYNONYMS
 
eka -- only one; ramanandera -- of Sri Ramananda Raya; haya -- there is; 
ei -- this; adhikara -- special authority; tate -- in that way; jani -- 
we can understand; aprakrta -- spiritual; deha -- body; tanhara -- his.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"The authority for such acts is the prerogative of Ramananda Raya alone, 
for I can understand that his body is not material but has been 
completely transformed into a spiritual entity.
 
Antya 5.43
 
TEXT 43
 
TEXT
 
tanhara manera bhava tenha jane matra
taha janibare ara dvitiya nahi patra
SYNONYMS
 
tanhara -- his; manera -- of the mind; bhava -- position; tenha -- he; 
jane -- knows; matra -- only; taha janibare -- to understand that; ara --
 other; dvitiya -- second; nahi -- there is not; patra -- eligible 
person.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"He alone, and no one else, can understand the position of his mind.
 
Antya 5.44
 
TEXT 44
 
TEXT
 
kintu sastra-drstye eka kari anumana
sri-bhagavata-sastra -- tahate pramana
SYNONYMS
 
kintu -- but; sastra-drstye -- according to the direction of the sastra; 
eka -- one; kari anumana -- I make a guess; sri-bhagavata-sastra -- 
the Vedic scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam; tahate -- in 
that connection; pramana -- evidence.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"But I can make a guess in terms of directions from the sastra. 
The Vedic scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam gives the 
direct evidence in this matter.
 
Antya 5.45–46
 
TEXTS 45–46
 
TEXT
 
vraja-vadhu-sange krsnera rasadi-vilasa
yei jana kahe, sune kariya visvasa
hrd-roga-kama tanra tat-kale haya ksaya
tina-guna-ksobha nahe, ‘maha-dhira' haya
SYNONYMS
 
vraja-vadhu-sange -- in the association of the damsels of Vrajabhumi; 
krsnera -- of Lord Krsna; rasa-adi-vilasa -- pastimes like the rasa 
dance; yei -- which; jana -- person; kahe -- describes; sune -- hears; 
kariya visvasa -- with great faith; hrt-roga -- the disease of the heart;
 kama -- lust; tanra -- of him; tat-kale -- at that time; haya ksaya -- 
becomes nullified; tina-guna -- of the three modes of material nature; 
ksobha -- agitation; nahe -- is not; maha-dhira -- very sober; haya -- 
becomes.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"When one hears or describes with great faith the pastimes of Lord Krsna,
 such as His rasa dance with the gopis, the disease of lusty desires in 
his heart and the agitation caused by the three modes of material nature 
are immediately nullified, and he becomes sober and silent.
 
PURPORT
 
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments in this connection, "
Any person seriously inclined to hear about the pastimes of Krsna's rasa 
dance, as mentioned in Srimad-Bhagavatam, with great faith and a 
transcendental, spiritually inspired mind, is immediately freed from the 
natural lusty desires found within the heart of a materialistic man."
 
When a pure Vaisnava speaks on Srimad-Bhagavatam and another pure 
Vaisnava hears Srimad-Bhagavatam from such a realized soul, both of them 
live in the transcendental world, where the contamination of the modes 
of material nature cannot touch them. Freed from the contamination of 
the modes of nature, the speaker and hearer are fixed in a 
transcendental mentality, knowing that their position on the 
transcendental platform is to serve the Supreme Lord. The class of men 
known as prakrta-sahajiyas, who consider the transcendental pastimes of 
Lord Krsna something like the behavior between a man and a woman in the 
material field, artificially think that hearing the rasa-lila will help 
them by diminishing the lusty desires of their diseased hearts. But 
because they do not follow the regulative principles but instead violate 
even ordinary morals, their contemplation of rasa-lila is a futile 
attempt, which sometimes results in their imitating the dealings of the 
gopis and Lord Krsna. To forbid such habits of the prakrta-sahajiyas, 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has excluded their material intelligence by 
using the word visvasa ("faith"). In Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.33.30), Srila 
Sukadeva Gosvami says:
 
naitat samacarej jatu manasapi hy anisvarah
vinasyaty acaran maudhyad yatha rudro ‘bdhijam visam
 
 
 
"Certainly one who is not the Supreme Personality of Godhead should 
never, even within his mind, imitate the activities of the 
transcendental rasa-lila of Krsna. If out of ignorance one does so, he 
will be destroyed, just as if he were to imitate Lord Siva, who drank 
poison produced from the ocean."
 
Antya 5.47
 
TEXT 47
 
TEXT
 
ujjvala madhura prema-bhakti sei paya
anande krsna-madhurye vihare sadaya
SYNONYMS
 
ujjvala -- illuminated; madhura -- sweet; prema-bhakti -- ecstatic love 
of Krsna; sei -- he; paya -- gets; anande -- in transcendental bliss; 
krsna-madhurye -- the sweetness of Krsna's pastimes; vihare -- enjoys; 
sadaya -- always.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Tasting transcendental, effulgent, sweetly ecstatic love of Krsna, 
such a person can enjoy life twenty-four hours a day in the 
transcendental bliss of the sweetness of Krsna's pastimes.
 
Antya 5.48
 
TEXT 48
 
TEXT
 
vikriditam vraja-vadhubhir idam ca visnoh
 sraddhanvito ‘nusrnuyad atha varnayed yah
bhaktim param bhagavati pratilabhya kamam
 hrd-rogam asv apahinoty acirena dhirah
SYNONYMS
 
vikriditam -- the activity of the rasa dance; vraja-vadhubhih -- the 
damsels of Vraja, the gopis; idam -- this; ca -- and; visnoh -- of Lord 
Krsna; sraddha-anvitah -- with transcendental faith; anusrnuyat -- 
continually hears in the parampara system; atha -- also; varnayet -- 
describes; yah -- one who; bhaktim -- devotional service; param -- 
transcendental; bhagavati -- unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead; 
pratilabhya -- attaining; kamam -- lusty material desires; hrt-rogam -- 
the disease of the heart; asu -- very soon; apahinoti -- gives up; 
acirena -- without delay; dhirah -- one who is sober because of advanced 
devotional service.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"‘A transcendentally sober person who, with faith and love, 
continually hears from a realized soul about the activities of Lord 
Krsna in His rasa dance with the gopis, or one who describes such 
activities, can attain full transcendental devotional service at the 
lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus lusty material 
desires, which are the heart disease of all materialistic persons, are 
for him quickly and completely vanquished.'
 
PURPORT
 
All the activities of Lord Krsna are transcendental, and the gopis are 
also transcendentally situated. Therefore the activities of the gopis 
and Lord Krsna, if seriously understood, will certainly free one from 
material attachment. Then there is no possibility that lusty material 
desires will awaken.
 
Antya 5.49–50
 
TEXTS 49–50
 
TEXT
 
ye sune, ye pade, tanra phala etadrsi
sei bhavavista yei seve ahar-nisi
tanra phala ki kahimu, kahane na yaya
nitya-siddha sei, praya-siddha tanra kaya
SYNONYMS
 
ye sune -- anyone who hears; ye pade -- anyone who recites; tanra -- of 
him; phala -- the result; etadrsi -- this; sei -- he; bhava-avista -- 
always absorbed in thoughts of Krsna; yei seve -- who serves; ahah-nisi -
- day and night; tanra -- his; phala -- result; ki kahimu -- what shall 
I say; kahane na yaya -- it is impossible to express; nitya-siddha -- 
eternally liberated; sei -- such a person; praya-siddha -- 
transcendental; tanra -- his; kaya -- body.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"If a transcendentally situated person, following in the footsteps of 
Srila Rupa Gosvami, hears and speaks about the rasa-lila dance of Krsna 
and is always absorbed in thoughts of Krsna while serving the Lord day 
and night within his mind, what shall I say about the result? It is so 
spiritually exalted that it cannot be expressed in words. Such a person 
is an eternally liberated associate of the Lord, and his body is 
completely spiritualized. Although he is visible to material eyes, he is 
spiritually situated, and all his activities are spiritual. By the will 
of Krsna, such a devotee is understood to possess a spiritual body.
 
Antya 5.51
 
TEXT 51
 
TEXT
 
raganuga-marge jani rayera bhajana
siddha-deha-tulya, tate ‘prakrta' nahe mana
SYNONYMS
 
raganuga-marge -- on the path of spontaneous love of Krsna; jani -- we 
can understand; rayera bhajana -- the devotional service of Ramananda 
Raya; siddha-deha -- spiritual body; tulya -- equal to; tate -- 
therefore; prakrta -- material; nahe -- is not; mana -- mind.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Srila Ramananda Raya is situated on the path of spontaneous love of 
Godhead. Therefore he is in his spiritual body, and his mind is not 
materially affected.
 
Antya 5.52
 
TEXT 52
 
TEXT
 
amiha rayera sthane suni krsna-katha
sunite iccha haya yadi, punah yaha tatha
SYNONYMS
 
amiha -- I also; rayera sthane -- from Ramananda Raya; suni -- hear; 
krsna-katha -- talks of Krsna; sunite -- to hear; iccha -- desire; haya -
- there is; yadi -- if; punah -- again; yaha -- go; tatha -- there.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"I also hear topics about Krsna from Ramananda Raya. If you want to hear 
such topics, go to him again.
 
Antya 5.53
 
TEXT 53
 
TEXT
 
mora nama la-iha, -- ‘teho pathaila more
tomara sthane krsna-katha sunibara tare'
SYNONYMS
 
mora -- My; nama -- name; la-iha -- take; teho -- He; pathaila -- sent; 
more -- me; tomara sthane -- from you; krsna-katha -- topics of Krsna; 
sunibara tare -- to hear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"You can mention My name before him, saying, ‘He has sent me to hear 
about Lord Krsna from you.'
 
Antya 5.54
 
TEXT 54
 
TEXT
 
sighra yaha, yavat tenho achena sabhate"
eta suni' pradyumna-misra calila turite
SYNONYMS
 
sighra yaha -- go hastily; yavat -- while; tenho -- he; achena -- is; 
sabhate -- in the assembly room; eta suni' -- hearing this; pradyumna-
misra -- Pradyumna Misra; calila -- went; turite -- very hastily.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Go hastily, while he is in the assembly room." Hearing this, Pradyumna 
Misra immediately departed.
 
Antya 5.55
 
TEXT 55
 
TEXT
 
raya-pasa gela, raya pranati karila
'ajna kara, ye lagi' agamana haila'
SYNONYMS
 
raya-pasa -- to Ramananda Raya; gela -- he went; raya -- Ramananda Raya; 
pranati karila -- offered his respects; ajna kara -- please order me; ye 
lagi' -- for what purpose; agamana haila -- have you come.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Pradyumna Misra went to Ramananda Raya, who offered him respectful 
obeisances and said, "Please order me. For what purpose have you come?"
 
Antya 5.56
 
TEXT 56
 
TEXT
 
misra kahe, -- ‘mahaprabhu pathaila more
tomara sthane krsna-katha sunibara tare'
SYNONYMS
 
misra kahe -- Pradyumna Misra said; mahaprabhu -- Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu; pathaila more -- has sent me; tomara sthane -- from you; 
krsna-katha -- topics of Lord Krsna; sunibara tare -- to hear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Pradyumna Misra answered, "Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has sent me to hear 
topics about Lord Krsna from you."
 
Antya 5.57
 
TEXT 57
 
TEXT
 
suni' ramananda raya haila premavese
kahite lagila kichu manera harise
SYNONYMS
 
suni' -- hearing; ramananda raya -- Ramananda Raya; haila -- became; 
prema-avese -- absorbed in ecstatic love; kahite lagila -- began to 
speak; kichu -- something; manera harise -- in transcendental pleasure.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Hearing this, Ramananda Raya became absorbed in ecstatic love and began 
to speak with great transcendental pleasure.
 
Antya 5.58
 
TEXT 58
 
TEXT
 
"prabhura ajnaya krsna-katha sunite aila etha
iha va-i maha-bhagya ami paba kotha?"
SYNONYMS
 
prabhura ajnaya -- under the instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; 
krsna-katha -- topics of Lord Krsna; sunite -- to hear; aila etha -- you 
have come here; iha va-i -- without this; maha-bhagya -- great fortune; 
ami -- I; paba -- will get; kotha -- where.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Following the instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, you have come to 
hear about Krsna. This is my great fortune. How else would I get such an 
opportunity?"
 
Antya 5.59
 
TEXT 59
 
TEXT
 
eta kahi tare lana nibhrte vasila
'ki katha sunite caha?' misrere puchila
SYNONYMS
 
eta kahi -- saying this; tare -- him; lana -- taking; nibhrte vasila -- 
sat in a secluded place; ki katha -- what kind of topics; sunite caha -- 
do you want to hear; misrere puchila -- he inquired from Pradyumna Misra.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Saying this, Sri Ramananda Raya took Pradyumna Misra to a secluded place 
and inquired from him, "What kind of krsna-katha do you want to hear 
from me?"
 
Antya 5.60
 
TEXT 60
 
TEXT
 
tenho kahe, -- "ye kahila vidyanagare
sei katha krame tumi kahiba amare
SYNONYMS
 
tenho kahe -- he replied; ye -- what; kahila -- you spoke; 
vidyanagare -- at Vidyanagara; sei katha -- those topics; krame --
 according to the order; tumi -- you; kahiba -- please speak; amare -- 
to me.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Pradyumna Misra replied, "Kindly tell me about the same topics you spoke 
about at Vidyanagara.
 
Antya 5.61
 
TEXT 61
 
TEXT
 
anera ki katha, tumi -- prabhura upadesta!
ami ta' bhiksuka vipra, tumi -- mora posta
SYNONYMS
 
anera ki katha -- what to speak of others; tumi -- you; prabhura 
upadesta -- an instructor of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; ami -- I; ta' -- 
certainly; bhiksuka -- beggar; vipra -- brahmana; tumi -- you; mora -- 
my; posta -- maintainer.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"You are an instructor even for Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, what to speak 
of others. I am but a beggar brahmana, and you are my maintainer.
 
Antya 5.62
 
TEXT 62
 
TEXT
 
bhala, manda -- kichu ami puchite na jani
'dina' dekhi' krpa kari' kahiba apani"
SYNONYMS
 
bhala -- good; manda -- bad; kichu -- something; ami -- I; puchite -- to 
inquire; na jani -- do not know; dina -- very poor in knowledge; dekhi' -
- seeing (me); krpa kari' -- very mercifully; kahiba -- please; apani -- 
by your own good will.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"I do not know how to inquire, for I do not know what is good and what 
is bad. Seeing me to be poor in knowledge, kindly speak whatever is good 
for me by your own good will."
 
Antya 5.63
 
TEXT 63
 
TEXT
 
tabe ramananda krame kahite lagila
krsna-katha-rasamrta-sindhu uthalila
SYNONYMS
 
tabe -- thereupon; ramananda -- Ramananda Raya; krame -- gradually; 
kahite lagila -- began to speak; krsna-katha -- of the topics of Krsna; 
rasamrta-sindhu -- the ocean of transcendental mellows; uthalila -- 
became agitated.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Thereupon Ramananda Raya gradually began speaking on topics of Krsna. 
Thus the ocean of the transcendental mellows of those topics became 
agitated.
 
Antya 5.64
 
TEXT 64
 
TEXT
 
apane prasna kari' pache karena siddhanta
trtiya prahara haila, nahe katha-anta
SYNONYMS
 
apane -- personally; prasna kari' -- asking the question; pache -- after 
that; karena siddhanta -- gives the conclusion; trtiya prahara haila -- 
it became afternoon; nahe katha-anta -- there was no end to such topics.
 
TRANSLATION
 
He began personally posing questions and then answering them with 
conclusive statements. When afternoon came, the topics still did not end.
 
Antya 5.65
 
TEXT 65
 
TEXT
 
vakta srota kahe sune dunhe premavese
atma-smrti nahi, kahan janiba dina-sese
SYNONYMS
 
vakta -- the speaker; srota -- the listener; kahe -- speaks; sune -- 
hears; dunhe -- both of them; prema-avese -- in ecstatic love; atma-
smrti nahi -- there was no bodily consciousness; kahan -- where; janiba -
- can understand; dina-sese -- the end of day.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The speaker and listener spoke and heard in ecstatic love. Thus they 
forgot their bodily consciousness. How, then, could they perceive the 
end of the day?
 
Antya 5.66
 
TEXT 66
 
TEXT
 
sevaka kahila, -- ‘dina haila avasana'
tabe raya krsna-kathara karila visrama
SYNONYMS
 
sevaka kahila -- the servant informed; dina -- the day; haila avasana -- 
has ended; tabe -- at that time; raya -- Ramananda Raya; krsna-kathara --
 the talks of Krsna; karila visrama -- ended.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The servant informed them, "The day has already ended." Then Ramananda 
Raya ended his discourses about Krsna.
 
Antya 5.67
 
TEXT 67
 
TEXT
 
bahu-sammana kari' misre vidaya dila
'krtartha ha-ilana' bali' misra nacite lagila
SYNONYMS
 
bahu-sammana -- much respectful behavior; kari' -- doing; misre -- unto 
Pradyumna Misra; vidaya dila -- bade farewell; krtartha ha-ilana -- I 
have become very satisfied; bali' -- saying; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; 
nacite lagila -- began to dance.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Ramananda Raya paid great respect to Pradyumna Misra and bade him 
farewell. Pradyumna Misra said, "I have become very satisfied." He then 
began to dance.
 
Antya 5.68
 
TEXT 68
 
TEXT
 
ghare giya misra kaila snana, bhojana
sandhya-kale dekhite aila prabhura carana
SYNONYMS
 
ghare giya -- returning home; misra -- Pradyumna Misra; kaila -- 
performed; snana -- bathing; bhojana -- eating; sandhya-kale -- in the 
evening; dekhite -- to see; aila -- came; prabhura carana -- the lotus 
feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
TRANSLATION
 
After returning home, Pradyumna Misra bathed and ate his meal. In the 
evening he came to see the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.69
 
TEXT 69
 
TEXT
 
prabhura carana vande ullasita-mane
prabhu kahe, -- ‘krsna-katha ha-ila sravane'?
SYNONYMS
 
prabhura -- of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; carana -- the lotus feet; vande -
- he worships; ullasita-mane -- in great happiness; prabhu kahe -- Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu says; krsna-katha -- talks of Krsna; ha-ila sravane -
- did you hear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
In great happiness he worshiped the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu. The Lord inquired, "Have you heard topics about Krsna?"
 
Antya 5.70
 
TEXT 70
 
TEXT
 
misra kahe, -- "prabhu, more krtartha karila
krsna-kathamrtarnave more dubaila
SYNONYMS
 
misra kahe -- Pradyumna Misra said; prabhu -- my dear Lord; more -- me; 
krtartha -- satisfied; karila -- You have made; krsna-katha -- of talks 
about Krsna; amrta-arnave -- in the ocean of the nectar; more -- me; 
dubaila -- You have drowned.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Pradyumna Misra said, "My dear Lord, You have made me extremely obliged 
to You because You have drowned me in a nectarean ocean of talks about 
Krsna.
 
Antya 5.71
 
TEXT 71
 
TEXT
 
ramananda raya-katha kahile na haya
'manusya' nahe raya, krsna-bhakti-rasa-maya
SYNONYMS
 
ramananda raya-katha -- the speeches of Ramananda Raya; kahile -- 
describing; na haya -- is not possible; manusya -- an ordinary human 
being; nahe -- is not; raya -- Ramananda Raya; krsna-bhakti-rasa-maya -- 
absorbed in the devotional service of Lord Krsna.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"I cannot properly describe the discourses of Ramananda Raya, for he is 
not an ordinary human being. He is fully absorbed in the devotional 
service of the Lord.
 
PURPORT
 
One is forbidden to accept the guru, or spiritual master, as an ordinary 
human being (gurusu nara-matih). When Ramananda Raya spoke to Pradyumna 
Misra, Pradyumna Misra could understand that Ramananda Raya was not an 
ordinary human being. A spiritually advanced person who is authorized 
to act as the spiritual master speaks as the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead dictates from within. Thus it is not he that is 
personally speaking. In other words, when a pure devotee or spiritual 
master speaks, what he says should be accepted as having been directly 
spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the parampara system.
 
Antya 5.72
 
TEXT 72
 
TEXT
 
ara eka katha raya kahila amare
'krsna-katha-vakta kari' na janiha more
SYNONYMS
 
ara -- another; eka -- one; katha -- topic; raya -- Ramananda Raya; 
kahila amare -- said to me; krsna-katha-vakta -- the speaker on the 
talks of Krsna; kari' -- as; na janiha more -- do not consider me.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"There is one other thing Ramananda Raya said to me: ‘Do not consider me 
the speaker in these talks about Krsna.
 
Antya 5.73
 
TEXT 73
 
TEXT
 
mora mukhe katha kahena apane gauracandra
yaiche kahaya, taiche kahi, -- yena vina-yantra
SYNONYMS
 
mora mukhe -- in my mouth; katha -- topics; kahena -- speaks; apane -- 
personally; gaura-candra -- Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; yaiche kahaya -
- as He causes to speak; taiche kahi -- so I speak; yena -- like; vina-
yantra -- the stringed instrument called the vina.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"‘Whatever I speak is personally spoken by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 Like a stringed instrument, I vibrate whatever He causes me to speak.
 
Antya 5.74
 
TEXT 74
 
TEXT
 
mora mukhe kahaya katha, kare paracara
prthivite ke janibe e-lila tanhara?'
SYNONYMS
 
mora mukhe -- in my mouth; kahaya -- causes to speak; katha -- words; 
kare paracara -- preaches; prthivite -- in this world; ke janibe -- who 
will understand; e-lila -- this pastime; tanhara -- His.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"‘In this way the Lord speaks through my mouth to preach the cult of 
Krsna consciousness. Within the world, who will understand this pastime 
of the Lord's?'
 
Antya 5.75
 
TEXT 75
 
TEXT
 
ye-saba sunilun, krsna-rasera sagara
brahmadi-devera e saba na haya gocara
SYNONYMS
 
ye-saba -- all that; sunilun -- I heard; krsna-rasera -- of the nectar 
of Lord Krsna; sagara -- the ocean; brahma-adi-devera -- of the demigods,
 beginning with Lord Brahma; e saba -- all this; na haya gocara -- is 
not possible to be understood.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"What I have heard from Ramananda Raya is like a nectarean ocean of 
discourses about Krsna. Even the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahma, 
cannot understand all these topics.
 
Antya 5.76
 
TEXT 76
 
TEXT
 
hena ‘rasa' pana more karaila tumi
janme janme tomara paya vikailana ami
SYNONYMS
 
hena rasa -- such transcendental mellows; pana -- to drink; more -- me; 
karaila tumi -- You have caused; janme janme -- life after life; tomara 
paya -- at Your feet; vikailana ami -- I have become sold.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"My dear Lord, You have made me drink this transcendental nectar of 
krsna-katha. Therefore I am sold to Your lotus feet, life after life."
 
Antya 5.77
 
TEXT 77
 
TEXT
 
prabhu kahe, -- "ramananda vinayera khani
apanara katha para-munde dena ani'
SYNONYMS
 
prabhu kahe -- the Lord replied; ramananda -- Ramananda Raya; vinayera 
khani -- a mine of humility; apanara katha -- his own words; para-
munde -- on another's head; dena -- confers; ani' -- bringing.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Ramananda Raya is a mine of great 
humility. Therefore he has attributed his own words to another's 
intelligence.
 
Antya 5.78
 
TEXT 78
 
TEXT
 
mahanubhavera ei sahaja ‘svabhava' haya
apanara guna nahi apane kahaya"
SYNONYMS
 
mahanubhavera -- of those who are advanced in realization; ei -- this; 
sahaja -- natural; svabhava -- characteristic; haya -- is; apanara guna -
- their own personal qualities; nahi -- do not; apane -- personally; 
kahaya -- speak.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"This is a natural characteristic of those advanced in devotional 
service. They do not personally speak of their own good qualities."
 
Antya 5.79
 
TEXT 79
 
TEXT
 
ramananda-rayera ei kahilu guna-lesa
pradyumna misrere yaiche kaila upadesa
SYNONYMS
 
ramananda-rayera -- of Sri Ramananda Raya; ei -- this; kahilu -- I have 
spoken; guna-lesa -- a fraction of the transcendental attributes; 
pradyumna misrere -- unto Pradyumna Misra; yaiche -- in which way; kaila 
upadesa -- he gave instruction.
 
TRANSLATION
 
I have described but a fraction of the transcendental attributes of 
Ramananda Raya, as revealed when he instructed Pradyumna Misra.
 
Antya 5.80
 
TEXT 80
 
TEXT
 
'grhastha' hana nahe raya sad-vargera vase
'visayi' hana sannyasire upadese
SYNONYMS
 
grhastha hana -- being a householder; nahe -- is not; raya -- Ramananda 
Raya; sat-vargera vase -- under the control of the six kinds of bodily 
changes; visayi hana -- being a pounds-and-shillings man; sannyasire 
upadese -- advises persons in the renounced order of life.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Although Ramananda Raya was a householder, he was not under the control 
of the six kinds of bodily changes. Although apparently a pounds-and-
shillings man, he advised even persons in the renounced order.
 
PURPORT
 
Sri Ramananda Raya externally appeared to be a grhastha who was under 
the influence of the external, material energy, not a self-controlled 
brahmacari, vanaprastha or sannyasi. Grhasthas (householders) who are 
under the influence of the external energy accept householder life for 
the purpose of sense enjoyment, but a transcendentally situated Vaisnava 
is not subjected to the influence of the senses by the Lord's material 
rule of the six kinds of bodily changes (kama, krodha, lobha, moha, 
mada and matsarya), even when he plays the part of a grhastha. Thus 
although Srila Ramananda Raya acted as a grhastha and was accepted as an 
ordinary pounds-and-shillings man, he was always absorbed in the 
transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna. Therefore his mind was 
spiritually situated, and he was interested only in the subject of Krsna.
 Ramananda Raya was not among the Mayavadi impersonalists or 
materialistic logicians who are opposed to the principles of Lord Krsna'
s transcendental pastimes. He was already spiritually situated in the 
order of renounced life; therefore he was able to turn sand into gold by 
spiritual potency, or, in other words, to elevate a person from a 
material to a spiritual position.
 
Antya 5.81
 
TEXT 81
 
TEXT
 
ei-saba guna tanra prakasa karite
misrere pathaila tahan sravana karite
SYNONYMS
 
ei-saba -- all these; guna -- attributes; tanra -- of Ramananda Raya; 
prakasa karite -- to demonstrate; misrere -- Pradyumna Misra; pathaila --
 He sent; tahan -- there; sravana karite -- to hear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
To demonstrate the transcendental attributes of Ramananda Raya, Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu sent Pradyumna Misra to hear discourses about Krsna 
from him.
 
Antya 5.82
 
TEXT 82
 
TEXT
 
bhakta-guna prakasite prabhu bhala jane
nana-bhangite guna prakasi' nija-labha mane
SYNONYMS
 
bhakta-guna -- the attributes of a devotee; prakasite -- to manifest; 
prabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhala jane -- knows very well how; 
nana-bhangite -- by various ways; guna -- attributes; prakasi' -- 
manifesting; nija-labha -- His profit; mane -- He considers.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, knows very 
well how to demonstrate the qualities of His devotees. Therefore, acting 
like an artistic painter, He does so in various ways and considers this 
His personal profit.
 
Antya 5.83
 
TEXT 83
 
TEXT
 
ara eka ‘svabhava' gaurera suna, bhakta-gana
aisvarya-svabhava gudha kare prakatana
SYNONYMS
 
ara -- another; eka -- one; svabhava -- characteristic; gaurera -- of 
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; suna -- hear; bhakta-gana -- O devotees; 
aisvarya-svabhava -- opulences and characteristics; gudha -- very deep; 
kare -- does; prakatana -- manifestation.
 
TRANSLATION
 
There is yet another characteristic of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. O 
devotees, listen carefully to how He manifests His opulence and 
characteristics, although they are exceptionally deep.
 
Antya 5.84
 
TEXT 84
 
TEXT
 
sannyasi pandita-ganera karite garva nasa
nica-sudra-dvara karena dharmera prakasa
SYNONYMS
 
sannyasi -- persons in the renounced order; pandita-ganera -- of the 
learned scholars; karite -- to do; garva -- pride; nasa -- vanquishing; 
nica -- lowborn; sudra -- a fourth-class man; dvara -- through; karena --
 does; dharmera prakasa -- spreading of real religious principles.
 
TRANSLATION
 
To vanquish the false pride of so-called renunciants and learned 
scholars, He spreads real religious principles, even through a sudra, or 
lowborn, fourth-class man.
 
PURPORT
 
When a man is greatly learned in the Vedanta-sutras, he is known as a 
pandita, or learned scholar. Generally this qualification is 
attributed to brahmanas and sannyasis. Sannyasa, the renounced order of 
life, is the topmost position for a brahmana, a member of the highest of 
the four varnas (brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra). According to 
public opinion, a person born in a brahmana family, duly reformed by the 
purificatory processes and properly initiated by a spiritual master, is 
an authority on Vedic literature. When such a person is offered the 
sannyasa order, he comes to occupy the topmost position. The brahmana is 
supposed to be the spiritual master of the other three varnas, namely 
ksatriya, vaisya and sudra, and the sannyasi is supposed to be the 
spiritual master even of the exalted brahmanas.
 
Generally brahmanas and sannyasis are very proud of their spiritual 
positions. Therefore, to cut down their false pride, Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu preached Krsna consciousness through Ramananda Raya, who was 
neither a member of the renounced order nor a born brahmana. Indeed, Sri 
Ramananda Raya was a grhastha belonging to the sudra class, yet Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu arranged for him to be the master who taught 
Pradyumna Misra, a highly qualified brahmana born in a brahmana family. 
Even Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself, although belonging to the 
renounced order, took instruction from Sri Ramananda Raya. In this way 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited His opulence through Sri Ramananda 
Raya. That is the special significance of this incident.
 
According to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's philosophy, yei krsna-tattva-
vetta, sei ‘guru' haya: [Cc. Madhya 8.128] anyone who knows the science 
of Krsna can become a spiritual master, without reference to whether or 
not he is a brahmana or sannyasi. Ordinary people cannot understand the 
essence of sastra, nor can they understand the pure character, behavior 
and abilities of strict followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's 
principles. The Krsna consciousness movement is creating pure, exalted 
Vaisnavas even from those born in families considered lower than those 
of sudras. This is proof that a Vaisnava may appear in any family, as 
confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.4.18):
 
kirata-hunandhra-pulinda-pulkasa
 abhira-sumbha yavanah khasadayah
ye ‘nye ca papa yad-apasrayasrayah
 sudhyanti tasmai prabhavisnave namah
 
"Kiratas, Hunas, Andhras, Pulindas, Pulkasas, Abhiras, Sumbhas, Yavanas 
and members of the Khasa races, and even others addicted to sinful acts, 
can be purified by taking shelter of the devotees of the Lord, due to 
His being the supreme power. I beg to offer my respectful obeisances 
unto Him." (SB 2.4.18) By the grace of the Supreme Lord Visnu, anyone 
can be completely purified, become a preacher of Krsna consciousness, 
and become the spiritual master of the entire world. This principle is 
accepted in all Vedic literature. Evidence can be quoted from 
authoritative sastras showing how a lowborn person can become the 
spiritual master of the entire world. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is to be 
considered the most munificent personality, for He distributes the real 
essence of the Vedic sastras to anyone who becomes qualified by becoming 
His sincere servant.
 
Antya 5.85
 
TEXT 85
 
TEXT
 
'bhakti', ‘prema', ‘tattva' kahe raye kari' ‘vakta'
apani pradyumna-misra-saha haya ‘srota'
SYNONYMS
 
bhakti -- devotional service; prema -- ecstatic love; tattva -- truth; 
kahe -- He says; raye -- Ramananda Raya; kari' -- by making; vakta -- 
the speaker; apani -- Himself; pradyumna -- misra -- Pradyumna Misra; 
saha -- with; haya srota -- becomes the listener.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu preached about devotional service, ecstatic love 
and the Absolute Truth by making Ramananda Raya, a grhastha born in a 
low family, the speaker. Then Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself, the 
exalted brahmana-sannyasi, and Pradyumna Misra, the purified brahmana, 
both became the hearers of Ramananda Raya.
 
PURPORT
 
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura says in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya that 
sannyasis in the line of Sankaracarya always think that they have 
performed all the duties of brahmanas and that, furthermore, having 
understood the essence of the Vedanta-sutra and become sannyasis, they 
are the natural spiritual masters of all society. Similarly, persons 
born in brahmana families think that because they execute the 
ritualistic ceremonies recommended in the Vedas and follow the 
principles of smrti, they alone can become spiritual masters of society. 
These highly exalted brahmanas think that unless one is born in a 
brahmana family, one cannot become a spiritual master and teach the 
Absolute Truth. To cut down the pride of these birthright brahmanas and 
Mayavadi sannyasis, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu proved that a person like 
Ramananda Raya, although born in a sudra family and situated in the 
grhastha-asrama, can become the spiritual master of such exalted 
personalities as Himself and Pradyumna Misra. This is the principle of 
the Vaisnava cult, as evinced in the teachings of Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu. A person who knows what is spiritual and what is material 
and who is firmly fixed in the spiritual position can be jagad-guru, the 
spiritual master of the entire world. One cannot become jagad-guru 
simply by advertising oneself as jagad-guru without knowing the 
essential principles for becoming jagad-guru. Even people who never see 
what a jagad-guru is and never talk with other people become puffed-up 
sannyasis and declare themselves jagad-gurus. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 
did not like this. Any person who knows the science of Krsna and who is 
fully qualified in spiritual life can become jagad-guru. Thus Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally took lessons from Sri Ramananda Raya and 
also sent Pradyumna Misra, an exalted brahmana, to take lessons from him.
 
Antya 5.86
 
TEXT 86
 
TEXT
 
haridasa-dvara nama-mahatmya-prakasa
sanatana-dvara bhakti-siddhanta-vilasa
SYNONYMS
 
haridasa-dvara -- through Haridasa Thakura; nama-mahatmya -- of the 
glories of chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra; prakasa -- manifestation;
 sanatana-dvara -- through Sanatana Gosvami; bhakti-siddhanta-vilasa -- 
spreading the essence of devotional life.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited the glories of the holy name of the 
Lord through Haridasa Thakura, who was born in a Muslim family. 
Similarly, He exhibited the essence of devotional service through 
Sanatana Gosvami, who had almost been converted into a Muslim.
 
Antya 5.87
 
TEXT 87
 
TEXT
 
sri-rupa-dvara vrajera prema-rasa-lila
ke bujhite pare gambhira caitanyera khela?
SYNONYMS
 
sri-rupa-dvara -- through Sri Rupa Gosvami; vrajera -- of Vrndavana; 
prema-rasa-lila -- description of ecstatic love and pastimes; ke -- who; 
bujhite pare -- can understand; gambhira -- deep; caitanyera khela -- 
the activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Also, the Lord fully exhibited the ecstatic love and transcendental 
pastimes of Vrndavana through Srila Rupa Gosvami. Considering all this, 
who can understand the deep plans of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
 
Antya 5.88
 
TEXT 88
 
TEXT
 
sri-caitanya-lila ei -- amrtera sindhu
trijagat bhasaite pare yara eka bindu
SYNONYMS
 
sri-caitanya-lila -- transcendental activities of Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu; ei -- these; amrtera sindhu -- the ocean of nectar; tri-
jagat -- the three worlds; bhasaite -- to inundate; pare -- is able; 
yara -- of which; eka bindu -- one drop.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are just like an ocean of 
nectar. Even a drop of this ocean can inundate all the three worlds.
 
PURPORT
 
To inundate the three worlds with nectar is the purpose of the pastimes 
of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. How this could be possible was exhibited by 
Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and later by Thakura Narottama dasa and 
Syamananda Gosvami, who all represented the mercy of Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu. Now that same mercy is overflooding the entire world through 
the Krsna consciousness movement. The present Krsna consciousness 
movement is nondifferent from the pastimes performed by Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu when He was personally present, for the same principles are 
being followed and the same actions performed without fail.
 
Antya 5.89
 
TEXT 89
 
TEXT
 
Caitanya-caritamrta nitya kara pana
yaha haite ‘premananda', ‘bhakti-tattva-jnana'
SYNONYMS
 
Caitanya-caritamrta -- this transcendental literature known as Caitanya-
caritamrta; nitya -- daily; kara pana -- do relish; yaha haite -- by 
which; prema-ananda -- transcendental bliss; bhakti-tattva-jnana -- 
transcendental knowledge in devotional service.
 
TRANSLATION
 
O devotees, relish daily the nectar of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and the 
pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for by doing so one can merge in 
transcendental bliss and attain full knowledge of devotional service.
 
Antya 5.90
 
TEXT 90
 
TEXT
 
ei-mata mahaprabhu bhakta-gana lana
nilacale viharaye bhakti pracariya
SYNONYMS
 
ei-mata -- in this way; mahaprabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakta-
gana lana -- accompanied by His pure devotees; nilacale -- at Jagannatha 
Puri; viharaye -- enjoys transcendental bliss; bhakti pracariya -- 
preaching the cult of devotional service.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Thus Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, accompanied by His associates, His 
pure devotees, enjoyed transcendental bliss in Jagannatha Puri [Nilacala]
 by preaching the bhakti cult in many ways.
 
Antya 5.91
 
TEXT 91
 
TEXT
 
banga-desi eka vipra prabhura carite
nataka kari' lana aila prabhuke sunaite
SYNONYMS
 
banga-desi -- from Bengal; eka vipra -- one brahmana; prabhura carite -- 
about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's characteristics; nataka kari' -- writing 
a drama; lana -- taking; aila -- came; prabhuke sunaite -- to induce 
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
A brahmana from Bengal wrote a drama about the characteristics of Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu and came with his manuscript to induce the Lord to 
hear it.
 
Antya 5.92
 
TEXT 92
 
TEXT
 
bhagavan-acarya-sane tara paricaya
tanre mili' tanra ghare karila alaya
SYNONYMS
 
bhagavan-acarya -- the devotee of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu named 
Bhagavan Acarya; sane -- with; tara paricaya -- his acquaintance; tanre 
mili' -- meeting him; tanra ghare -- at his place; karila alaya -- made 
residence.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The brahmana was acquainted with Bhagavan Acarya, one of the devotees of 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Therefore after meeting him at Jagannatha Puri, 
the brahmana made his residence at Bhagavan Acarya's home.
 
Antya 5.93
 
TEXT 93
 
TEXT
 
prathame nataka tenho tanre sunaila
tanra sange aneka vaisnava nataka sunila
SYNONYMS
 
prathame -- at first; nataka -- the drama; tenho -- he; tanre -- him; 
sunaila -- made to hear; tanra sange -- with him; aneka -- many; 
vaisnava -- devotees; nataka sunila -- listened to the drama.
 
TRANSLATION
 
First the brahmana induced Bhagavan Acarya to hear the drama, and then 
many other devotees joined Bhagavan Acarya in listening to it.
 
Antya 5.94
 
TEXT 94
 
TEXT
 
sabei prasamse nataka ‘parama uttama'
mahaprabhure sunaite sabara haila mana
SYNONYMS
 
sabei -- all; prasamse -- praised; nataka -- the drama; parama uttama -- 
"very good, very good"; mahaprabhure -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; sunaite 
-- to cause to hear; sabara -- of everyone; haila -- there was; mana -- 
mind.
 
TRANSLATION
 
All the Vaisnavas praised the drama, saying, "Very good, very good." 
They also desired that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu hear the drama.
 
Antya 5.95
 
TEXT 95
 
TEXT
 
gita, sloka, grantha, kavitva -- yei kari' ane
prathame sunaya sei svarupera sthane
SYNONYMS
 
gita -- song; sloka -- verse; grantha -- a literature; kavitva -- poetry;
 yei -- anyone who; kari' -- making; ane -- brings; prathame -- first; 
sunaya -- recites; sei -- that person; svarupera sthane -- before 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Customarily, anyone who composed a song, verse, literary composition or 
poem about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu first had to bring it to Svarupa 
Damodara Gosvami to be heard.
 
Antya 5.96
 
TEXT 96
 
TEXT
 
svarupa-thani uttare yadi, lana, tanra mana
tabe mahaprabhu-thani karaya sravana
SYNONYMS
 
svarupa-thani -- before Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; uttare -- passes; yadi 
-- if one; lana -- taking; tanra mana -- his mind; tabe -- thereafter; 
mahaprabhu-thani -- before Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; karaya sravana -- 
causes to be heard.
 
TRANSLATION
 
If passed by Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, it could be presented for Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear.
 
Antya 5.97
 
TEXT 97
 
TEXT
 
'rasabhasa' haya yadi ‘siddhanta-virodha'
sahite na pare prabhu, mane haya krodha
SYNONYMS
 
rasa-abhasa -- overlapping of transcendental mellows; haya -- there is; 
yadi -- if; siddhanta-virodha -- against the principles of the bhakti 
cult; sahite na pare -- cannot tolerate; prabhu -- Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu; mane -- within the mind; haya -- is; krodha -- anger.
 
TRANSLATION
 
If there were a hint that transcendental mellows overlapped in a manner 
contrary to the principles of the bhakti cult, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 
would not tolerate it and would become very angry.
 
PURPORT
 
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura quotes the following definition 
of rasabhasa from the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (Uttara-vibhaga, Ninth Wave,
 1–3, 33, 38 and 41):
 
purvam evanusistena vikala rasa-laksana
 
 
rasa eva rasabhasa rasajnair anukirtitah
 
syus tridhoparasas canurasas caparasas ca te
uttama madhyamah proktah kanisthas cety ami kramat
 
praptaih sthayi-vibhavanubhavadyais tu virupatam
santadayo rasa eva dvadasoparasa matah
 
bhaktadibhir vibhavadyaih krsna-sambandha-varjitaih
rasa hasyadayah sapta santas canurasa matah
 
krsna-tat-pratipaksas ced visayasrayatam gatah
hasadinam tada te ‘tra prajnair aparasa matah
 
bhavah sarve tadabhasa rasabhasas ca kecana
ami prokta-rasabhijnaih sarve ‘pi rasanad rasah
 
 
 
 
 
"A mellow temporarily appearing transcendental but contradicting mellows 
previously stated and lacking some of a mellow's necessities is called 
rasabhasa, an overlapping mellow, by advanced devotees who know how to 
taste transcendental mellows. Such mellows are called uparasa (
submellows), anurasa (imitation transcendental mellows) and aparasa (
opposing transcendental mellows). Thus the overlapping of transcendental 
mellows is described as being first grade, second grade or third grade. 
When the twelve mellows -- such as neutrality, servitorship and 
friendship -- are characterized by adverse sthayi-bhava, vibhava and 
anubhava ecstasies, they are known as uparasa, submellows. When the 
seven indirect transcendental mellows and the dried-up mellow of 
neutrality are produced by devotees and moods not directly related to 
Krsna and devotional service in ecstatic love, they are described as 
anurasa, imitation mellows. If Krsna and the enemies who harbor feelings 
of opposition toward Him are respectively the object and abodes of the 
mellow of laughter, the resulting feelings are called aparasa, opposing 
mellows. Experts in distinguishing one mellow from another sometimes 
accept some overlapping transcendental mellows (rasabhasa) as rasas due 
to their being pleasurable and tasteful." Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti 
Thakura says, paraspara-vairayor yadi yogas tada rasabhasah: "When two 
opposing transcendental mellows overlap, they produce rasabhasa, or an 
overlapping of transcendental mellows."
 
Antya 5.98
 
TEXT 98
 
TEXT
 
ataeva prabhu kichu age nahi sune
ei maryada prabhu kariyache niyame
SYNONYMS
 
ataeva -- therefore; prabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kichu -- 
anything; age -- ahead; nahi sune -- does not hear; ei maryada -- this 
etiquette; prabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kariyache niyame -- has 
made a regulative principle.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu would not hear anything before Svarupa 
Damodara heard it first. The Lord made this etiquette a regulative 
principle.
 
Antya 5.99
 
TEXT 99
 
TEXT
 
svarupera thani acarya kaila nivedana
eka vipra prabhura nataka kariyache uttama
SYNONYMS
 
svarupera thani -- before Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; acarya -- Bhagavan 
Acarya; kaila -- did; nivedana -- submission; eka vipra -- one brahmana; 
prabhura -- of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; nataka -- drama; kariyache -- 
has composed; uttama -- very nice.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Bhagavan Acarya submitted to Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, "A good brahmana 
has prepared a drama about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu that appears 
exceptionally well composed.
 
Antya 5.100
 
TEXT 100
 
TEXT
 
adau tumi suna, yadi tomara mana mane
pache mahaprabhure tabe karaimu sravane
SYNONYMS
 
adau -- in the beginning; tumi -- you; suna -- hear; yadi -- if; tomara 
mana mane -- you accept; pache -- thereafter; mahaprabhure -- Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu; tabe -- then; karaimu sravane -- I shall request to 
hear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"First you hear it, and if it is acceptable to your mind, I shall 
request Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear it."
 
Antya 5.101
 
TEXT 101
 
TEXT
 
svarupa kahe, -- "tumi ‘gopa' parama-udara
ye-se sastra sunite iccha upaje tomara
SYNONYMS
 
svarupa kahe -- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami said; tumi -- you; gopa -- 
cowherd boy; parama-udara -- very liberal; ye-se sastra -- anything 
written as scripture; sunite -- to hear; iccha -- desire; upaje -- 
awakens; tomara -- of you.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami replied, "Dear Bhagavan Acarya, you are a very 
liberal cowherd boy. Sometimes the desire awakens within you to hear any 
kind of poetry.
 
Antya 5.102
 
TEXT 102
 
TEXT
 
'yadva-tadva' kavira vakye haya ‘rasabhasa'
siddhanta-viruddha sunite na haya ullasa
SYNONYMS
 
yadva-tadva kavira -- of any so-called poet; vakye -- in the words; haya 
-- there is; rasa-abhasa -- overlapping of transcendental mellows; 
siddhanta-viruddha -- against the conclusive understanding; sunite -- to 
hear; na -- not; haya -- there is; ullasa -- joy.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"In the writings of so-called poets there is generally a possibility of 
overlapping transcendental mellows. When the mellows thus go against the 
conclusive understanding, no one likes to hear such poetry.
 
PURPORT
 
Yadva-tadva kavi refers to anyone who writes poetry without knowledge of 
how to do so. Writing poetry, especially poetry concerning the Vaisnava 
conclusion, is very difficult. If one writes poetry without proper 
knowledge, there is every possibility that the mellows will overlap. 
When this occurs, no learned or advanced Vaisnava will like to hear it.
 
Antya 5.103
 
TEXT 103
 
TEXT
 
'rasa', ‘rasabhasa' yara nahika vicara
bhakti-siddhanta-sindhu nahi paya para
SYNONYMS
 
rasa -- transcendental mellows; rasa-abhasa -- overlapping of 
transcendental mellows; yara -- of whom; nahika vicara -- there is no 
consideration; bhakti-siddhanta-sindhu -- the ocean of the conclusions 
of devotional service; nahi -- not; paya -- attains; para -- the limit.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"A so-called poet who has no knowledge of transcendental mellows and the 
overlapping of transcendental mellows cannot cross the ocean of the 
conclusions of devotional service.
 
Antya 5.104–105
 
TEXTS 104–105
 
TEXT
 
'vyakarana' nahi jane, na jane ‘alankara'
'natakalankara'-jnana nahika yahara
krsna-lila varnite na jane sei chara!
visese durgama ei caitanya-vihara
SYNONYMS
 
vyakarana -- grammar; nahi jane -- does not know; na jane -- does not 
know; alankara -- metaphorical ornaments; nataka-alankara -- of the 
metaphorical ornaments of drama; jnana -- knowledge; nahika -- there is 
not; yahara -- of whom; krsna-lila -- the pastimes of Lord Krsna; 
varnite -- to describe; na jane -- does not know; sei -- he; chara -- 
condemned; visese -- especially; durgama -- very, very difficult; ei -- 
these; caitanya-vihara -- the pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"A poet who does not know the grammatical regulative principles, who is 
unfamiliar with metaphorical ornaments, especially those employed in 
drama, and who does not know how to present the pastimes of Lord Krsna 
is condemned. Moreover, the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are 
especially difficult to understand.
 
Antya 5.106
 
TEXT 106
 
TEXT
 
krsna-lila, gaura-lila se kare varnana
gaura-pada-padma yanra haya prana-dhana
SYNONYMS
 
krsna-lila -- the pastimes of Lord Krsna; gaura-lila -- the pastimes of 
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; se -- he; kare varnana -- describes; gaura-
pada-padma -- the lotus feet of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; yanra -- 
whose; haya -- is; prana-dhana -- the life and soul.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"One who has accepted the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as his 
life and soul can describe the pastimes of Lord Krsna or the pastimes of 
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.107
 
TEXT 107
 
TEXT
 
gramya-kavira kavitva sunite haya ‘duhkha'
vidagdha-atmiya-vakya sunite haya ‘sukha'
SYNONYMS
 
gramya-kavira -- of a poet who writes poetry concerning man and woman; 
kavitva -- poetry; sunite -- to hear; haya -- there is; duhkha -- 
unhappiness; vidagdha-atmiya -- of a devotee fully absorbed in ecstatic 
love; vakya -- the words; sunite -- to hear; haya -- there is; sukha -- 
happiness.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Hearing the poetry of a person who has no transcendental knowledge and 
who writes about the relationships between man and woman simply causes 
unhappiness, whereas hearing the words of a devotee fully absorbed in 
ecstatic love causes great happiness.
 
PURPORT
 
Gramya-kavi refers to a poet or writer such as the authors of novels and 
other fiction who write only about the relationships between man and 
woman. Vidagdha-atmiya-vakya, however, refers to words written by a 
devotee who fully understands pure devotional service. Such devotees, 
who follow the parampara system, are sometimes described as sajatiyasaya-
snigdha, or "pleasing to the same class of people." Only the poetry and 
other writings of such devotees are accepted with great happiness by 
devotees.
 
Antya 5.108
 
TEXT 108
 
TEXT
 
rupa yaiche dui nataka kariyache arambhe
sunite ananda bade yara mukha-bandhe"
SYNONYMS
 
rupa -- Rupa Gosvami; yaiche -- as; dui -- two; nataka -- dramas; 
kariyache arambhe -- has compiled; sunite -- to hear; ananda bade -- 
transcendental happiness increases; yara -- of which; mukha-bandhe -- 
even the introductory portion.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"The standard for writing dramas has been set by Rupa Gosvami. If a 
devotee hears the introductory portions of his two dramas, they enhance 
his transcendental pleasure."
 
Antya 5.109
 
TEXT 109
 
TEXT
 
bhagavan-acarya kahe, -- ‘suna eka-bara
tumi sunile bhala-manda janibe vicara'
SYNONYMS
 
bhagavan-acarya -- Bhagavan Acarya; kahe -- says; suna -- please hear; 
eka-bara -- once; tumi sunile -- if you hear; bhala-manda -- good or bad;
 janibe vicara -- will be able to understand.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Despite the explanation of Svarupa Damodara, Bhagavan Acarya requested, "
Please hear the drama once. If you hear it, you can consider whether it 
is good or bad."
 
Antya 5.110
 
TEXT 110
 
TEXT
 
dui tina dina acarya agraha karila
tanra agrahe svarupera sunite iccha ha-ila
SYNONYMS
 
dui tina dina -- for two or three days; acarya -- Bhagavan Acarya; 
agraha karila -- expressed his ardent desire; tanra agrahe -- by his 
eagerness; svarupera -- of Svarupa Damodara; sunite -- to hear; iccha -- 
desire; ha-ila -- there was.
 
TRANSLATION
 
For two or three days Bhagavan Acarya continually asked Svarupa Damodara 
Gosvami to hear the poetry. Because of his repeated requests, Svarupa 
Damodara Gosvami wanted to hear the poetry written by the brahmana from 
Bengal.
 
Antya 5.111
 
TEXT 111
 
TEXT
 
saba lana svarupa gosani sunite vasila
tabe sei kavi nandi-sloka padila
SYNONYMS
 
saba lana -- in the company of other devotees; svarupa gosani -- Svarupa 
Damodara Gosvami; sunite vasila -- sat down to hear; tabe -- thereafter; 
sei kavi -- that poet; nandi-sloka -- the introductory verse; padila -- 
read.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami sat down with other devotees to hear the poetry,
 and then the poet began to read the introductory verse.
 
Antya 5.112
 
TEXT 112
 
TEXT
 
vikaca-kamala-netre sri-jagannatha-samjne
 kanaka-rucir ihatmany atmatam yah prapannah
prakrti-jadam asesam cetayann avirasit
 sa disatu tava bhavyam krsna-caitanya-devah
SYNONYMS
 
vikaca -- expanded; kamala-netre -- whose lotus eyes; sri-jagannatha-
samjne -- named Sri Jagannatha; kanaka-rucih -- possessing a golden hue; 
iha -- here in Jagannatha Puri; atmani -- in the body; atmatam -- the 
state of being the self; yah -- who; prapannah -- has obtained; prakrti -
- matter; jadam -- inert; asesam -- unlimitedly; cetayan -- enlivening; 
avirasit -- has appeared; sah -- He; disatu -- may bestow; tava -- unto 
you; bhavyam -- auspiciousness; krsna-caitanya-devah -- Lord Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu, known as Krsna Caitanya.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead has assumed a golden complexion and 
has become the soul of the body named Lord Jagannatha, whose blooming 
lotus eyes are widely expanded. Thus He has appeared in Jagannatha Puri 
and brought dull matter to life. May that Lord, Sri Krsna Caitanyadeva, 
bestow all good fortune upon you."
 
Antya 5.113
 
TEXT 113
 
TEXT
 
sloka suni' sarva-loka tahare vakhane
svarupa kahe, -- ‘ei sloka karaha vyakhyane'
SYNONYMS
 
sloka suni' -- hearing the verse; sarva-loka -- everyone; tahare -- him; 
vakhane -- praised; svarupa kahe -- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami said; ei 
sloka -- this verse; karaha vyakhyane -- kindly explain.
 
TRANSLATION
 
When everyone present heard the verse, they all commended the poet, but 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami requested him, "Kindly explain this verse."
 
Antya 5.114
 
TEXT 114
 
TEXT
 
kavi kahe, -- ‘jagannatha -- sundara-sarira
caitanya-gosani -- sariri maha-dhira
SYNONYMS
 
kavi kahe -- the poet said; jagannatha -- Lord Jagannatha; sundara-
sarira -- very beautiful body; caitanya-gosani -- Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu; sariri -- possessor of the body; maha-dhira -- very grave.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The poet said, "Lord Jagannatha is a most beautiful body, and Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is exceptionally grave, is the owner of that 
body.
 
PURPORT
 
Sariri refers to a person who owns the sarira, or body. As stated in the 
Bhagavad-gita (2.13):
 
dehino ‘smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara
tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati
 
 
"As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to 
youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. 
A sober person is not bewildered by such a change."
 For the ordinary living being in material existence there is a 
division or distinction between the body and the owner of the body. In 
spiritual existence, however, there is no such distinction, for the body 
is the owner himself and the owner is the body itself. In spiritual 
existence, everything must be spiritual. Therefore there is no 
distinction between the body and its owner.
 
Antya 5.115
 
TEXT 115
 
TEXT
 
sahaje jada-jagatera cetana karaite
nilacale mahaprabhu haila avirbhute
SYNONYMS
 
sahaje -- naturally; jada-jagatera -- the dull material world; cetana 
karaite -- to inspire to spiritual consciousness; nilacale -- at 
Jagannatha Puri; mahaprabhu -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; haila avirbhute -
- has appeared.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has appeared here in Nilacala [Jagannatha Puri] 
to spiritualize the entire dull material world."
 
Antya 5.116
 
TEXT 116
 
TEXT
 
suniya sabara haila anandita-mana
duhkha pana svarupa kahe sakrodha vacana
SYNONYMS
 
suniya -- hearing; sabara -- of all of them; haila -- there was; 
anandita-mana -- great happiness in the mind; duhkha pana -- becoming 
unhappy; svarupa kahe -- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami began to speak; sa-
krodha vacana -- angry words.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Hearing this, everyone present was greatly happy. But Svarupa Damodara, 
who alone was very unhappy, began to speak in great anger.
 
Antya 5.117
 
TEXT 117
 
TEXT
 
"are murkha, apanara kaili sarva-nasa!
dui ta' isvare tora nahika visvasa
SYNONYMS
 
are murkha -- O fool; apanara -- of yourself; kaili -- you have done; 
sarva-nasa -- loss of all auspiciousness; dui ta' isvare -- in the two 
controllers; tora -- your; nahika visvasa -- there is no faith.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"You are a fool," he said. "You have brought ill fortune upon yourself, 
for you have no knowledge of the existence of the two Lords, 
Jagannathadeva and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, nor have you faith in Them.
 
Antya 5.118
 
TEXT 118
 
TEXT
 
purnananda-cit-svarupa jagannatha-raya
tanre kaili jada-nasvara-prakrta-kaya!!
SYNONYMS
 
purna-ananda -- complete transcendental bliss; cit-svarupa -- the 
spiritual identity; jagannatha-raya -- Lord Jagannatha; tanre -- Him; 
kaili -- you have made; jada -- inert; nasvara -- perishable; prakrta -- 
material; kaya -- possessing a body.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Lord Jagannatha is completely spiritual and full of transcendental 
bliss, but you have compared Him to a dull, destructible body composed 
of the inert, external energy of the Lord.
 
PURPORT
 
If one thinks that the form of Lord Jagannatha is an idol made of wood, 
he immediately brings ill fortune into his life. According to the 
direction of the Padma Purana, arcye visnau sila-dhih . . . yasya va 
naraki sah: "Anyone who considers the Deity in the temple to be made of 
stone or wood is a resident of hell." Thus one who thinks that the body 
of Lord Jagannatha is made of matter and who distinguishes between Lord 
Jagannatha's body and His soul is condemned, for he is an offender. A 
pure devotee who knows the science of Krsna consciousness makes no 
distinction between Lord Jagannatha and His body. He knows that they are 
identical, just as Lord Krsna and His soul are one and the same. When 
one's eyes are purified by devotional service performed on the spiritual 
platform, one can actually envision Lord Jagannatha and His body as 
being completely spiritual. The advanced devotee, therefore, does not 
see the worshipable Deity as having a soul within a body like an 
ordinary human being. There is no distinction between the body and the 
soul of Lord Jagannatha, for Lord Jagannatha is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha [
Bs. 5.1], just as the body of Krsna is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha. There is 
actually no difference between Lord Jagannatha and Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu, but the ignorant poet from Bengal applied a material 
distinction to the body of Lord Sri Jagannatha.
 
Antya 5.119
 
TEXT 119
 
TEXT
 
purna-sad-aisvarya caitanya -- svayam bhagavan
tanre kaili ksudra jiva sphulinga-samana!!
SYNONYMS
 
purna -- complete; sat-aisvarya -- possessing six opulences; caitanya -- 
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; svayam -- Himself; bhagavan -- the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead; tanre -- Him; kaili -- you have made; ksudra 
jiva -- an ordinary living entity; sphulinga-samana -- exactly equal to 
the spark.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"You have calculated Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead, full in six opulences, to be on the level of an 
ordinary living being. Instead of knowing Him as the supreme fire, you 
have accepted Him as a spark."
 
PURPORT
 
In the Upanisads it is said, yathagner visphulinga vyuccaranti: the 
living entities are like sparks of fire, and His Lordship the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead is considered the original great fire. When we 
hear this sruti-vakya, or message from the Vedas, we should understand 
the distinction between the Supreme Lord Krsna and the living entities. 
A person under the control of the external energy, however, cannot 
understand that distinction. Such a person cannot understand that the 
Supreme Person is the original great fire, whereas the living entities 
are simply small fragmental parts of that Supreme Personality of Godhead.
 As Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita (15.7):
 
mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah
manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati
 
 
"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal 
fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard 
with the six senses, which include the mind."
 
There is a distinction between the body and the soul of the materially 
existing living being, but because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord 
Jagannatha do not possess material bodies, there is no distinction 
between Their bodies and souls. On the spiritual platform, body and soul 
are identical; there is no distinction between them. As stated in Srimad-
Bhagavatam (1.11.38):
 
etad isanam isasya prakrti-stho ‘pi tad-gunaih
na yujyate sadatma-sthair yatha buddhis tad-asraya
 
 
 
"This is the divinity of the Personality of Godhead. He is not affected 
by the qualities of material nature, even though He is in contact with 
them. Similarly, the devotees who have taken shelter of the Lord cannot 
be influenced by the material qualities." His Lordship 
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is unaffected by the 
influence of the three modes of material nature. Indeed, His devotees 
are also unpolluted by the influence of the external energy because they 
engage in the service of His Lordship. Even the very body of a devotee 
becomes spiritualized, just as an iron rod put into fire becomes as 
qualified as fire because it becomes red hot and will immediately burn 
anything it touches. Therefore the poet from Bengal committed a great 
offense by treating Lord Jagannatha's body and Lord Jagannatha, the 
Supreme Personality of Godhead, as two different entities, material and 
spiritual, as if the Lord were an ordinary living being. The Lord is 
always the master of the material energy; therefore He is not doomed to 
be covered by the material energy like an ordinary living entity.
 
Antya 5.120
 
TEXT 120
 
TEXT
 
dui-thani aparadhe paibi durgati!
atattva-jna ‘tattva' varne, tara ei riti!
SYNONYMS
 
dui-thani -- unto both; aparadhe -- by offense; paibi -- you will get; 
durgati -- hellish destination; a-tattva-jna -- one who has no knowledge 
of the Absolute Truth; tattva varne -- describes the Absolute Truth; 
tara -- his; ei -- this; riti -- course.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Svarupa Damodara continued, "Because you have committed an offense to 
Lord Jagannatha and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, you will attain a hellish 
destination. You do not know how to describe the Absolute Truth, but 
nevertheless you have tried to do so. Therefore you must be condemned.
 
PURPORT
 
The brahmana poet from Bengal was an offender in the estimation of 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, for although the poet had no knowledge of the 
Absolute Truth, he had nevertheless tried to describe it. The Bengali 
poet was an offender to both Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Jagannatha.
 Because he had made a distinction between Lord Jagannatha's body and 
His soul and because he had indicated that Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 
was different from Lord Jagannatha, he had committed offenses to Them 
both. A-tattva-jna refers to one who has no knowledge of the Absolute 
Truth or who worships his own body as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
 If an ahangrahopasaka-mayavadi, a person engaged in fruitive activities 
or a person interested only in sense gratification describes the 
Absolute Truth, he immediately becomes an offender.
 
Antya 5.121
 
TEXT 121
 
TEXT
 
ara eka kariyacha parama ‘pramada'!
deha-dehi-bheda isvare kaile ‘aparadha'!
SYNONYMS
 
ara eka -- another one; kariyacha -- you have done; parama -- the 
supreme; pramada -- illusion; deha-dehi-bheda -- the distinction between 
the body and the soul; isvare -- in His Lordship; kaile -- you have done;
 aparadha -- an offense.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"You are in complete illusion, for you have distinguished between the 
body and the soul of His Lordship [Lord Jagannatha or Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu]. That is a great offense.
 
PURPORT
 
When one differentiates between the body and the soul of the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead, he immediately becomes an offender. Because the 
living entities in the material world are generally covered by material 
bodies, the body and the soul of an ordinary human being cannot be 
identical. The Supreme Lord bestows the fruits of one's activities, for 
He is the Lord of the results of fruitive action. He is also the cause 
of all causes, and He is the master of the material energy. Therefore He 
is supreme. An ordinary living being, however, in his material condition,
 experiences the results of his own fruitive activities and therefore 
falls under their influence. Even in the liberated stage of brahma-bhuta 
[SB 4.30.20] identification, he engages in rendering service to His 
Lordship. Thus there are distinctions between an ordinary human being 
and the Supreme Lord. Karmis and jnanis who ignore these distinctions 
are offenders against the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of 
Godhead.
 
An ordinary human being is prone to be subjugated by the material energy,
 whereas His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead -- Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu, Lord Krsna or Lord Jagannatha -- is always the master of the 
material energy and is therefore never subject to its influence. His 
Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead has an unlimited spiritual 
identity, never to be broken, whereas the consciousness of the living 
entity is limited and fragmented. The living entities are fragmental 
portions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead eternally (mamaivamso 
jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah [Bg. 15.7]). It is not that they are 
covered by the material energy in conditioned life but become one with 
the Supreme Personality of Godhead when freed from the influence of 
material energy. Such an idea is offensive.
 
According to the considerations of Mayavadi fools, the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead accepts a material body when He appears in the 
material world. A Vaisnava, however, knows perfectly well that for Krsna,
 Lord Jagannatha or Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu -- unlike for ordinary human 
beings -- there is no distinction between the body and the soul. Even in 
the material world His Lordship retains His spiritual identity; 
therefore Lord Krsna exhibited all opulences even in His childhood body. 
There is no distinction between the body and the soul of Krsna; whether 
He is in His childhood body or His youthful body, He is always identical 
with His body. Even though Krsna appears like an ordinary human being, 
He is never subjected to the rules and regulations of the material world.
 He is svarat, or fully independent. He can appear in the material world,
 but contrary to the offensive conclusion of the Mayavada school, He has 
no material body. In this connection one may again refer to the above-
mentioned verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.11.38):
 
etad isanam isasya prakrti-stho ‘pi tad-gunaih
na yujyate sadatma-sthair yatha buddhis tad-asraya
 
 
 
The Supreme Person has an eternal spiritual body. If one tries to 
distinguish between the body and the soul of the Supreme Personality of 
Godhead, he commits a great offense.
 
Antya 5.122
 
TEXT 122
 
TEXT
 
isvarera nahi kabhu deha-dehi-bheda
svarupa, deha, -- cid-ananda, nahika vibheda
SYNONYMS
 
isvarera -- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nahi -- there is not; 
kabhu -- at any time; deha-dehi-bheda -- distinction between the body 
and the soul; svarupa -- personal identity; deha -- body; cit-ananda -- 
all made of blissful spiritual energy; nahika vibheda -- there is no 
distinction.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"At no time is there a distinction between the body and the soul of the 
Supreme Personality of Godhead. His personal identity and His body are 
made of blissful spiritual energy. There is no distinction between them.
 
PURPORT
 
Lord Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is advaya-jnana; in other words, 
there is no distinction between His body and His soul, for His existence 
is completely spiritual. According to the verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam 
beginning with the words vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam (1.2.11), the 
Absolute Truth is always to be understood from three angles of vision as 
Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan. Unlike the objects of the material 
world, however, the Absolute Truth is always one and always the same. 
Thus there is no distinction between His body and His soul. His form, 
name, attributes and pastimes, therefore, are completely distinct from 
those of the material world. One should know perfectly well that there 
is no difference between the body and the soul of the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead. When one conceives of a distinction between His 
body and His soul, one is immediately conditioned by material nature. 
Because a person in the material world makes such distinctions, he is 
called baddha-jiva, a conditioned soul.
 
Antya 5.123
 
TEXT 123
 
TEXT
 
"deha-dehi-vibhago ‘yam
 nesvare vidyate kvacit"
SYNONYMS
 
deha -- of the body; dehi -- of the embodied; vibhagah -- distinction; 
ayam -- this; na -- not; isvare -- in the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
 vidyate -- exists; kvacit -- at any time.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"‘There is no distinction between the body and the soul of the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead at any time.'
 
PURPORT
 
This quotation, which is included in the Laghu-bhagavatamrta (1.5.342), 
is from the Kurma Purana.
 
Antya 5.124–125
 
TEXTS 124–125
 
TEXT
 
natah param parama yad bhavatah svarupam
 ananda-matram avikalpam aviddha-varcah
pasyami visva-srjam ekam avisvam atman
 bhutendriyatmaka-madas ta upasrito ‘smi
tad va idam bhuvana-mangala mangalaya
 dhyane sma no darasitam ta upasakanam
tasmai namo bhagavate ‘nuvidhema tubhyam
 yo ‘nadrto naraka-bhagbhir asat-prasangaih
SYNONYMS
 
na -- do not; atah param -- here after; parama -- O Supreme; yat -- that 
which; bhavatah -- of Your Lordship; svarupam -- eternal form; ananda-
matram -- impersonal Brahman effulgence; avikalpam -- without changes; 
aviddha-varcah -- without deterioration of potency; pasyami -- do I see; 
visva-srjam -- creator of the cosmic manifestation; ekam -- one without 
a second; avisvam -- and yet not of matter; atman -- O supreme cause; 
bhuta -- body; indriya -- senses; atmaka -- on such identification; 
madah -- pride; te -- unto You; upasritah -- surrendered; asmi -- I am; 
tat -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; va -- or; idam -- this 
present form; bhuvana-mangala -- they are all-auspicious for all the 
universes; mangalaya -- for the sake of all prosperity; dhyane -- in 
meditation; sma -- as it were; nah -- unto us; darasitam -- manifested; 
te -- Your; upasakanam -- of the devotees; tasmai -- unto Him; namah -- 
my respectful obeisances; bhagavate -- unto the Personality of Godhead; 
anuvidhema -- I perform; tubhyam -- unto You; yah -- which; anadrtah -- 
is neglected; naraka-bhagbhih -- by persons destined for hell; asat-
prasangaih -- by material topics.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"‘O my Lord, I do not see a form superior to Your present form of 
eternal bliss and knowledge. In Your impersonal Brahman effulgence in 
the spiritual sky, there is no occasional change and no deterioration of 
internal potency. I surrender unto You because, whereas I am proud of my 
material body and senses, Your Lordship is the cause of the cosmic 
manifestation. Yet You are untouched by matter.
 
"‘This present form, or any transcendental form expanded by the Supreme 
Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, is equally auspicious for all the 
universes. Since You have manifested this eternal personal form, upon 
whom Your devotees meditate, I therefore offer my respectful obeisances 
unto You. Those who are destined to be dispatched to the path of hell 
neglect Your personal form because of speculating on material topics.'
 
PURPORT
 
These verses from Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.9.3–4) were spoken by Lord 
Brahma.
 
Antya 5.126
 
TEXT 126
 
TEXT
 
kahan ‘purnanandaisvarya' krsna ‘mayesvara'!
kahan ‘ksudra' jiva ‘duhkhi', ‘mayara kinkara'!
SYNONYMS
 
kahan -- whereas; purna -- full; ananda -- bliss; aisvarya -- opulences; 
krsna -- Lord Krsna; maya-isvara -- the master of the material energy; 
kahan -- whereas; ksudra jiva -- the little conditioned soul; duhkhi -- 
unhappy; mayara kinkara -- the servant of the material energy.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Whereas Krsna, the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, 
is full of transcendental bliss, possesses all six spiritual opulences 
in full, and is the master of the material energy, the small conditioned 
soul, who is always unhappy, is the servant of the material energy.
 
PURPORT
 
The living entity is an ever-conditioned servant of the material energy, 
whereas Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the master of the 
material energy. How, then, could they be on an equal level? There can 
be no comparison between them. His Lordship is always in a happy 
condition of transcendental bliss, whereas the conditioned soul is 
always unhappy because of his contact with the material energy. The 
Supreme Lord controls the material energy, and the material energy 
controls the conditioned souls. There is therefore no comparison between 
the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the ordinary living entities.
 
Antya 5.127
 
TEXT 127
 
TEXT
 
"hladinya samvidaslistah
 sac-cid-ananda-isvarah
svavidya samvrto jivah
 sanklesa-nikarakarah"
SYNONYMS
 
hladinya -- by the hladini potency; samvida -- by the samvit potency; 
aslistah -- surrounded; sat-cit-anandah -- always transcendentally 
blissful; isvarah -- the supreme controller; sva -- own; avidya -- by 
ignorance; samvrtah -- surrounded; jivah -- the living entity; sanklesa -
- of the threefold miseries; nikara -- of the multitude; akarah -- 
the mine.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, is always 
full of transcendental bliss and is accompanied by the potencies known 
as hladini and samvit. The conditioned soul, however, is always covered 
by ignorance and embarrassed by the threefold miseries of life. Thus he 
is a treasure house of all kinds of tribulations.'"
 
PURPORT
 
This verse is found in Sridhara Svami's Bhavartha-dipika (1.7.6), 
wherein he quotes Sri Visnu Svami.
 
Antya 5.128
 
TEXT 128
 
TEXT
 
suni' sabha-sadera citte haila camatkara
'satya kahe gosani, dunhara kariyache tiraskara'
SYNONYMS
 
suni' -- hearing; sabha-sadera -- of all the members of the assembly; 
citte -- in the minds; haila -- there was; camatkara -- wonder; satya -- 
the truth; kahe -- said; gosani -- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; dunhara -- 
of both; kariyache -- has done; tiraskara -- offense.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Hearing this explanation, all the members of the assembly were struck 
with wonder. "Svarupa Damodara Gosvami has spoken the real truth," they 
admitted. "The brahmana from Bengal has committed an offense by wrongly 
describing Lord Jagannatha and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu."
 
Antya 5.129
 
TEXT 129
 
TEXT
 
suniya kavira haila lajja, bhaya, vismaya
hamsa-madhye baka yaiche kichu nahi kaya
SYNONYMS
 
suniya -- hearing; kavira -- of the poet; haila -- there was; lajja -- 
shame; bhaya -- fear; vismaya -- astonishment; hamsa-madhye -- in a 
society of white swans; baka -- a duck; yaiche -- just as; kichu -- 
anything; nahi -- not; kaya -- utters.
 
TRANSLATION
 
When the Bengali poet heard this chastisement from Svarupa Damodara 
Gosvami, he was ashamed, fearful and astonished. Indeed, being like a 
duck in a society of white swans, he could not say anything.
 
Antya 5.130
 
TEXT 130
 
TEXT
 
tara duhkha dekhi, svarupa sadaya-hrdaya
upadesa kaila tare yaiche ‘hita' haya
SYNONYMS
 
tara -- his; duhkha dekhi -- observing the unhappiness; svarupa -- 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; sadaya-hrdaya -- very kindhearted; upadesa 
kaila -- gave instruction; tare -- unto him; yaiche -- so that; hita -- 
benefit; haya -- there can be.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Seeing the poet's unhappiness, Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, who was 
naturally very kindhearted, advised him so that he could derive some 
benefit.
 
Antya 5.131
 
TEXT 131
 
TEXT
 
"yaha, bhagavata pada vaisnavera sthane
ekanta asraya kara caitanya-carane
SYNONYMS
 
yaha -- just go; bhagavata pada -- read Srimad-Bhagavatam; vaisnavera 
sthane -- from a self-realized Vaisnava; ekanta asraya kara -- fully 
surrender; caitanya-carane -- at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"If you want to understand Srimad-Bhagavatam," he said, "you must 
approach a self-realized Vaisnava and hear from him. You can do this 
when you have completely taken shelter of the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu."
 
PURPORT
 
Herein Svarupa Damodara Gosvami instructs the poet from Bengal to hear 
Srimad-Bhagavatam from a pure Vaisnava and learn from him. In India 
especially, there is now a class of professional Bhagavatam readers 
whose means of livelihood is to go from village to village, town to town,
 reading Bhagavatam and collecting daksina, or rewards, in the form of 
money or goods, like umbrellas, cloth and fruit. Thus there is now a 
system of Bhagavata business, with recitations called bhagavata-saptaha 
that continue for one week, although this is not mentioned in Srimad-
Bhagavatam. Nowhere does Srimad-Bhagavatam say that the Bhagavatam 
should be heard for one week from professionals. Rather, Srimad-
Bhagavatam (1.2.17) says, srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-
kirtanah: one should regularly hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from a self-
realized Vaisnava. By such hearing, one becomes pious: hrdy antah-
stho hy abhadrani vidhunoti suhrt satam. As one thus hears the 
Bhagavatam regularly and sincerely, his heart is purified of all 
material contamination:
 
nasta-prayesv abhadresu nityam bhagavata-sevaya
bhagavaty uttama-sloke bhaktir bhavati naisthiki
 
 
"By regularly hearing the Bhagavatam and by rendering of service 
to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is 
almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the 
Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is 
established as an irrevocable fact." (SB 1.2.18)
 
This is the proper process, but people are accustomed to being misled by 
professional Bhagavatam reciters. Therefore Svarupa Damodara Gosvami 
herein advises that one should not hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from 
professional reciters. Instead, one must hear and learn the Bhagavatam 
from a self-realized Vaisnava. Sometimes it is seen that when a Mayavadi 
sannyasi reads the Bhagavatam, flocks of men go to hear jugglery of 
words that cannot awaken their dormant love for Krsna. Sometimes people 
go to see professional dramas and offer food and money to the players, 
who are expert at collecting these offerings very nicely. The result is 
that the members of the audience remain in the same position of grham 
andha-kupam, family affection, and do not awaken their love for Krsna.
 
In the Bhagavatam (7.5.30), it is said, matir na krsne paratah svato va 
mitho ‘bhipadyeta grha-vratanam: the grha-vratas, those who are 
determined to continue following the materialistic way of life, will 
never awaken their dormant love of Krsna, for they hear the Bhagavatam 
only to solidify their position in household life and to be happy in 
family affairs and sex. Condemning this process of hearing the 
Bhagavatam from professionals, Svarupa Damodara Gosvami says, yaha, 
bhagavata pada vaisnavera sthane: "To understand the Srimad-Bhagavatam, 
you must approach a self-realized Vaisnava." One should rigidly avoid 
hearing the Bhagavatam from a Mayavadi or other nondevotee who simply 
performs a grammatical jugglery of words to twist some meaning from the 
text, collect money from the innocent public, and thus keep people in 
darkness.
 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami strictly prohibits the behavior of the 
materialistic so-called hearers of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Instead of 
awakening real love for Krsna, such hearers of the Bhagavatam become 
more and more attached to household affairs and sex life (yan maithunadi-
grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham [SB 7.9.45]). One should hear Srimad-
Bhagavatam from a person who has no connection with material activities, 
or, in other words, from a paramahamsa Vaisnava, one who has achieved 
the highest stage of sannyasa. This, of course, is not possible unless 
one takes shelter of the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. 
Srimad-Bhagavatam is understandable only for one who can follow in the 
footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.132
 
TEXT 132
 
TEXT
 
caitanyera bhakta-ganera nitya kara ‘sanga'
tabeta janiba siddhanta-samudra-taranga
SYNONYMS
 
caitanyera -- of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakta-ganera -- of the 
devotees; nitya -- regularly; kara -- do; sanga -- association; tabeta --
 then only; janiba -- you will understand; siddhanta-samudra-taranga -- 
the waves of the ocean of devotional service.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Svarupa Damodara continued, "Associate regularly with the devotees of 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for then only will you understand the waves of 
the ocean of devotional service.
 
PURPORT
 
It is clearly to be understood in this connection that the followers of 
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's way of devotional service are eternal 
associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and perfect knowers of 
the Absolute Truth. If one immediately follows the principles of Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu by associating with His devotees, lusty desires for 
material enjoyment will vanish from one's heart. Then one will be able 
to understand the meaning of Srimad-Bhagavatam and the purpose of 
listening to it. Otherwise such understanding is impossible.
 
Antya 5.133
 
TEXT 133
 
TEXT
 
tabeta panditya tomara ha-ibe saphala
krsnera svarupa-lila varniba nirmala
SYNONYMS
 
tabeta -- then only; panditya -- learning; tomara -- your; ha-ibe -- 
will become; sa-phala -- successful; krsnera -- of Lord Krsna; svarupa-
lila -- the transcendental pastimes; varniba -- you will describe; 
nirmala -- without material contamination.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Only if you follow the principles of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His 
devotees will your learning be successful. Then you will be able to 
write about the transcendental pastimes of Krsna without material 
contamination.
 
Antya 5.134
 
TEXT 134
 
TEXT
 
ei sloka kariyacha pana santosa
tomara hrdayera arthe dunhaya lage ‘dosa'
SYNONYMS
 
ei sloka -- this verse; kariyacha -- you have composed; pana santosa -- 
getting satisfaction; tomara hrdayera -- of your heart; arthe -- by the 
meaning; dunhaya -- to both; lage dosa -- there is an offense.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"You have composed this introductory verse to your great satisfaction, 
but the meaning you have expressed is contaminated by offenses to both 
Lord Jagannatha and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.135
 
TEXT 135
 
TEXT
 
tumi yaiche-taiche kaha, na janiya riti
sarasvati sei-sabde kariyache stuti
SYNONYMS
 
tumi -- you; yaiche-taiche -- somehow or other; kaha -- speak; na janiya 
riti -- not knowing the regulative principles; sarasvati -- the goddess 
of learning; sei-sabde -- in those words; kariyache stuti -- has made 
prayers.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"You have written something irregular, not knowing the regulative 
principles, but the goddess of learning, Sarasvati, has used your words 
to offer her prayers to the Supreme Lord.
 
PURPORT
 
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami informed the Bengali poet, "Because of your 
ignorance and your leaning toward Mayavada philosophy, you cannot 
distinguish the difference between the Mayavada and Vaisnava 
philosophies. Therefore the process you have adopted to praise Lord Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Jagannatha does not follow the proper 
system; indeed, it is irregular and offensive. Fortunately, however, 
through your words, the goddess of learning, mother Sarasvati, has 
tactfully offered her prayers to her master, Lord Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu."
 
Antya 5.136
 
TEXT 136
 
TEXT
 
yaiche indra, daityadi kare krsnera bhartsana
sei-sabde sarasvati karena stavana
SYNONYMS
 
yaiche -- just like; indra -- Lord Indra, the King of heaven; daitya -- 
demons; adi -- and others; kare -- do; krsnera bhartsana -- chastisement 
to Krsna; sei-sabde -- by those words; sarasvati -- the goddess of 
learning; karena stavana -- offers prayers.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Sometimes demons, and even Lord Indra, the King of heaven, chastised 
Krsna, but mother Sarasvati, taking advantage of their words, offered 
prayers to the Lord.
 
Antya 5.137
 
TEXT 137
 
TEXT
 
vacalam balisam stabdham
 ajnam pandita-maninam
krsnam martyam upasritya
 gopa me cakrur apriyam
SYNONYMS
 
vacalam -- talkative; balisam -- childish; stabdham -- impudent; ajnam --
 foolish; pandita-maninam -- thinking Himself a very learned scholar; 
krsnam -- Krsna; martyam -- an ordinary mortal human being; upasritya -- 
taking shelter of; gopah -- the cowherd men; me -- unto me; cakruh -- 
committed; apriyam -- that which is not very much appreciated.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"[Lord Indra said:] ‘This Krsna, who is an ordinary human being, is 
talkative, childish, impudent and ignorant, although He thinks Himself 
very learned. The cowherd men in Vrndavana have offended me by accepting 
Him. This has not been greatly appreciated by me.'
 
PURPORT
 
This verse is from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.25.5).
 
Antya 5.138
 
TEXT 138
 
TEXT
 
aisvarya-made matta indra, -- yena matoyala
buddhi-nasa haila, kevala nahika sambhala
SYNONYMS
 
aisvarya-made -- being proud of his opulence; matta -- maddened; indra --
 the King of heaven; yena -- as if; matoyala -- a mad person; buddhi-
nasa -- bereft of intelligence; haila -- became; kevala -- only; nahika -
- there is not; sambhala -- caution.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Indra, the King of heaven, being too proud of his heavenly opulences, 
became like a madman. Thus bereft of his intelligence, he could not 
restrain himself from speaking nonsensically about Krsna.
 
Antya 5.139
 
TEXT 139
 
TEXT
 
indra bale, -- "muni krsnera kariyachi nindana"
tara-i mukhe sarasvati karena stavana
SYNONYMS
 
indra bale -- Indra says; muni -- I; krsnera -- of Lord Krsna; kariyachi 
-- have done; nindana -- chastisement and defamation; tara-i mukhe -- 
from his mouth; sarasvati -- mother Sarasvati, the goddess of learning; 
karena stavana -- offers prayers.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Thus Indra thought, ‘I have properly chastised Krsna and defamed Him.' 
But Sarasvati, the goddess of learning, took this opportunity to offer 
prayers to Krsna.
 
Antya 5.140
 
TEXT 140
 
TEXT
 
'vacala' kahiye -- ‘veda-pravartaka' dhanya
'balisa' -- tathapi ‘sisu-praya' garva-sunya
SYNONYMS
 
vacala -- talkative; kahiye -- I say; veda-pravartaka -- one who can 
speak with the authority of the Vedas; dhanya -- glorious; balisa -- 
childish; tathapi -- still; sisu-praya -- like a child; garva-sunya -- 
without pride.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"The word ‘vacala' is used to refer to a person who can speak according 
to Vedic authority, and the word ‘balisa' means ‘innocent.' Krsna spoke 
the Vedic knowledge, yet He always presents Himself as a prideless, 
innocent boy.
 
Antya 5.141
 
TEXT 141
 
TEXT
 
vandyabhave ‘anamra' -- ‘stabdha'-sabde kaya
yaha haite anya ‘vijna' nahi -- se ‘ajna' haya
SYNONYMS
 
vandya-abhave -- because there is no one else to be offered obeisances; 
anamra -- the one who does not offer obeisances; stabdha-sadbe -- by the 
word stabdha ("impudent"); kaya -- says; yaha haite -- than whom; anya --
 other; vijna -- learned scholar; nahi -- is not; se -- He; ajna -- one 
by whom nothing is unknown; haya -- is.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"When there is no one else to receive obeisances, one may be called ‘
anamra,' or one who offers obeisances to no one. This is the meaning of 
the word ‘stabdha.' And because no one is found to be more learned than 
Krsna, He may be called ‘ajna,' indicating that nothing is unknown to 
Him.
 
Antya 5.142
 
TEXT 142
 
TEXT
 
'panditera manya-patra -- haya ‘pandita-mani'
tathapi bhakta-vatsalye ‘manusya' abhimani
SYNONYMS
 
panditera -- of learned scholars; manya-patra -- worshipable object; 
haya -- is; pandita-mani -- a person honored by the learned scholars; 
tathapi -- still; bhakta-vatsalye -- because of being very affectionate 
to the devotees; manusya abhimani -- presents Himself as an ordinary 
human being.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"The word ‘pandita-mani' can be used to indicate that Krsna is honored 
even by learned scholars. Nevertheless, because of affection for His 
devotees, Krsna appears like an ordinary human being and may therefore 
be called ‘martya.'
 
Antya 5.143
 
TEXT 143
 
TEXT
 
jarasandha kahe, -- "krsna -- purusa-adhama
tora sange na yujhimu, "yahi bandhu-han"
SYNONYMS
 
jarasandha kahe -- Jarasandha says; krsna -- Krsna; purusa-adhama -- the 
lowest of human beings; tora sange -- with You; na yujhimu -- I shall 
not fight; yahi -- because; bandhu-han -- killer of Your own relatives.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"The demon Jarasandha chastised Krsna, saying, ‘You are the lowest of 
human beings. I shall not fight with You, for You killed Your own 
relatives.'
 
PURPORT
 
In this verse also, mother Sarasvati offers prayers to Krsna. The word 
purusa-adhama refers to the Personality of Godhead, under whom all other 
persons remain, or, in other words, purusa-uttama, the best of all 
living beings. Similarly, the word bandhu-han means "the killer of maya."
 In the conditioned state of life, one is closely related with maya as a 
friend, but when one comes in contact with Krsna one is freed from that 
relationship.
 
Antya 5.144
 
TEXT 144
 
TEXT
 
yaha haite anya purusa-sakala -- ‘adhama'
sei haya ‘purusadhama' -- sarasvatira mana
SYNONYMS
 
yaha haite -- from whom; anya -- other; purusa -- persons; sakala -- all;
 adhama -- subordinate; sei -- he; haya -- is; purusa-adhama -- the 
person under whom all others remain; sarasvatira mana -- the explanation 
of mother Sarasvati.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Mother Sarasvati takes ‘purusadhama' to mean ‘purusottama,' ‘He to whom 
all men are subordinate.'
 
Antya 5.145
 
TEXT 145
 
TEXT
 
'bandhe sabare' -- tate avidya ‘bandhu' haya
'avidya-nasaka' -- ‘bandhu-han'-sabde kaya
SYNONYMS
 
bandhe -- binds; sabare -- everyone; tate -- therefore; avidya -- 
nescience, or maya; bandhu -- binder or relative; haya -- is; avidya-
nasaka -- vanquisher of maya; bandhu-han-sabde -- by the word bandhu-
han; kaya -- mother Sarasvati says.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Nescience, or maya, may be called ‘bandhu' because she entangles 
everyone in the material world. Therefore by using the word ‘bandhu-han,'
 mother Sarasvati says that Lord Krsna is the vanquisher of maya.
 
PURPORT
 
Everyone is entangled in the illusory energy, but as stated in the 
Bhagavad-gita (7.14), mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te: [Bg. 
7.14] as soon as one surrenders to Krsna, he is freed from maya. 
Therefore Krsna may be called bandhu-han, the killer of maya.
 
Antya 5.146
 
TEXT 146
 
TEXT
 
ei-mata sisupala karila nindana
sei-vakye sarasvati karena stavana
SYNONYMS
 
ei-mata -- in this way; sisupala -- Sisupala; karila 
nindana -- blasphemed; sei-vakye -- by those words; sarasvati -- the 
goddess of learning; karena stavana -- offers prayers.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Sisupala also blasphemed Krsna in this way, but the goddess of learning,
 Sarasvati, offered her prayers to Krsna even by his words.
 
Antya 5.147
 
TEXT 147
 
TEXT
 
taiche ei sloke tomara arthe ‘ninda' aise
sarasvatira artha suna, yate ‘stuti' bhase
SYNONYMS
 
taiche -- in that way; ei sloke -- in this verse; tomara -- your; arthe -
- by the meaning; ninda -- blasphemy; aise -- comes; sarasvatira artha --
 the meaning of mother Sarasvati; suna -- hear; yate -- by which; stuti -
- prayers; bhase -- appear.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"In that way, although your verse is blasphemous according to your 
meaning, mother Sarasvati has taken advantage of it to offer prayers to 
the Lord.
 
Antya 5.148
 
TEXT 148
 
TEXT
 
jagannatha hana krsnera ‘atma-svarupa'
kintu ihan daru-brahma -- sthavara-svarupa
SYNONYMS
 
jagannatha -- Lord Jagannatha; hana -- is; krsnera atma-svarupa -- 
identical with Krsna; kintu -- but; ihan -- here, at Jagannatha Puri; 
daru-brahma -- the Absolute appearing as wood; sthavara-svarupa -- 
nonmoving identity.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"There is no difference between Lord Jagannatha and Krsna, but here Lord 
Jagannatha is fixed as the Absolute Person appearing in wood. Therefore 
He does not move.
 
Antya 5.149
 
TEXT 149
 
TEXT
 
tanha-saha atmata eka-rupa hana
krsna eka-tattva-rupa -- dui rupa hana
SYNONYMS
 
tanha-saha -- with Him; atmata -- the quality of being the self; eka-
rupa hana -- being one form; krsna -- Lord Krsna; eka-tattva-rupa -- one 
principle; dui -- two; rupa -- forms; hana -- becoming.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Thus Lord Jagannatha and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, although appearing as 
two, are one because They are both Krsna, who is one alone.
 
Antya 5.150
 
TEXT 150
 
TEXT
 
samsara-tarana-hetu yei iccha-sakti
tahara milana kari' ekata yaiche prapti
SYNONYMS
 
samsara-tarana-hetu -- for delivering the entire world; yei -- that; 
iccha-sakti -- the potency of will; tahara -- of that will; milana kari' 
-- by the meeting; ekata -- oneness; yaiche -- so that; prapti -- 
attainment.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"The supreme desire to deliver the entire world meets in the two of 
Them, and for that reason also They are one and the same.
 
Antya 5.151
 
TEXT 151
 
TEXT
 
sakala samsari lokera karite uddhara
gaura-jangama-rupe kaila avatara
SYNONYMS
 
sakala -- all; samsari -- materially contaminated; lokera -- persons; 
karite uddhara -- to deliver; gaura -- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; jangama -
- moving; rupe -- in the form; kaila avatara -- has descended.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"To deliver all the materially contaminated people of the world, that 
same Krsna has descended in the moving form of Lord Sri Caitanya 
Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.152
 
TEXT 152
 
TEXT
 
jagannathera darsane khandaya samsara
saba-desera saba-loka nare asibara
SYNONYMS
 
jagannathera -- of Lord Jagannatha; darsane -- by visiting; khandaya 
samsara -- one is freed from material existence; saba-desera -- of all 
countries; saba-loka -- all men; nare asibara -- cannot come.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"By visiting Lord Jagannatha one is freed from material existence, but 
not all men of all countries can come or be admitted here in Jagannatha 
Puri.
 
Antya 5.153
 
TEXT 153
 
TEXT
 
sri-krsna-caitanya-prabhu dese dese yana
saba-loke nistarila jangama-brahma hana
SYNONYMS
 
sri-krsna-caitanya-prabhu -- Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; dese dese 
yana -- moving from one country to another; saba-loke nistarila -- 
delivered all conditioned souls; jangama-brahma -- moving Brahman; hana -
- being.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, however, moves from one country to another, 
personally or by His representative. Thus He, as the moving Brahman, 
delivers all the people of the world.
 
Antya 5.154
 
TEXT 154
 
TEXT
 
sarasvatira artha ei kahilun vivarana
eho bhagya tomara aiche karile varnana
SYNONYMS
 
sarasvatira -- of Sarasvati; artha -- meaning; ei -- this; kahilun 
vivarana -- I have explained; eho -- this; bhagya -- great fortune; 
tomara aiche -- in such a way; karile varnana -- you have described.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Thus I have explained the meaning intended by mother Sarasvati, the 
goddess of learning. It is your great fortune that you have described 
Lord Jagannatha and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in that way.
 
Antya 5.155
 
TEXT 155
 
TEXT
 
krsne gali dite kare nama uccarana
sei nama haya tara ‘muktira' karana"
SYNONYMS
 
krsne -- Lord Krsna; gali dite -- to blaspheme or chastise; kare nama 
uccarana -- chants the name of Krsna; sei nama -- that holy name; haya --
 becomes; tara -- his; muktira karana -- the cause of liberation.
 
TRANSLATION
 
"Sometimes it so happens that one who wants to chastise Krsna utters the 
holy name, and thus the holy name becomes the cause of his liberation."
 
Antya 5.156
 
TEXT 156
 
TEXT
 
tabe sei kavi sabara carane padiya
sabara sarana laila dante trna lana
SYNONYMS
 
tabe -- thereupon; sei -- that; kavi -- poet; sabara -- of all; carane --
 at the feet; padiya -- falling down; sabara -- of all the devotees; 
sarana laila -- took shelter; dante -- in the mouth; trna lana -- taking 
a straw.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Upon hearing this proper explanation by Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, the 
Bengali poet fell down at the feet of all the devotees and took shelter 
of them with a straw in his mouth.
 
Antya 5.157
 
TEXT 157
 
TEXT
 
tabe saba bhakta tare angikara kaila
tara guna kahi' mahaprabhure milaila
SYNONYMS
 
tabe -- thereupon; saba bhakta -- all the devotees; tare -- him; 
angikara kaila -- accepted as one of the associates; tara guna kahi' -- 
explaining his humble behavior; mahaprabhure milaila -- introduced him 
to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Thereupon all the devotees accepted his association. Explaining his 
humble behavior, they introduced him to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.158
 
TEXT 158
 
TEXT
 
sei kavi sarva tyaji' rahila nilacale
gaura-bhakta-ganera krpa ke kahite pare?
SYNONYMS
 
sei kavi -- that poet; sarva tyaji' -- giving up all nonsensical 
activities; rahila -- remained; nilacale -- at Jagannatha Puri; gaura-
bhakta-ganera -- of the devotees of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; krpa --
 the mercy; ke -- who; kahite pare -- can explain.
 
TRANSLATION
 
By the mercy of the devotees of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that poet 
from Bengal gave up all other activities and stayed with them at 
Jagannatha Puri. Who can explain the mercy of the devotees of Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
 
Antya 5.159
 
TEXT 159
 
TEXT
 
ei ta' kahilun pradyumna-misra-vivarana
prabhura ajnaya kaila krsna-kathara sravana
SYNONYMS
 
ei ta' kahilun -- thus I have described; pradyumna-misra-vivarana -- the 
descriptive narration of Pradyumna Misra; prabhura ajnaya -- on the 
order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kaila -- did; krsna-kathara sravana -- 
listening to discourses on topics concerning Krsna.
 
TRANSLATION
 
I have thus described the narration concerning Pradyumna Misra and how, 
following the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he listened to 
discourses about Krsna spoken by Ramananda Raya.
 
Antya 5.160
 
TEXT 160
 
TEXT
 
tara madhye kahilun ramanandera mahima
apane sri-mukhe prabhu varne yanra sima
SYNONYMS
 
tara madhye -- within these statements; kahilun -- I have explained; 
ramanandera mahima -- the glories of Ramananda Raya; apane -- personally;
 sri-mukhe -- from his mouth; prabhu -- the Lord; varne -- explains; 
yanra -- of whom; sima -- the limit of ecstatic love.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Within the narration I have explained the glorious characteristics of 
Sri Ramananda Raya, through whom Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally 
described the limits of ecstatic love for Krsna.
 
Antya 5.161
 
TEXT 161
 
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prastave kahilun kavira nataka-vivarana
ajna hana sraddhaya paila prabhura carana
SYNONYMS
 
prastave -- by the way; kahilun -- I have explained; kavira -- of the 
poet; nataka-vivarana -- description of the drama; ajna hana -- although 
being ignorant; sraddhaya -- with faith and love; paila -- got; prabhura 
carana -- shelter at the lotus feet Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
TRANSLATION
 
In the course of the narration, I have also told about the drama by the 
poet from Bengal. Although he was ignorant, because of his faith and 
humility he nevertheless obtained shelter at the lotus feet of Sri 
Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.162
 
TEXT 162
 
TEXT
 
sri-krsna-caitanya-lila -- amrtera sara
eka-lila-pravahe vahe sata-sata dhara
SYNONYMS
 
sri-krsna-caitanya-lila -- the pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; 
amrtera sara -- the essence of nectar; eka-lila -- of one pastime; 
pravahe -- by the stream; vahe -- flow; sata-sata dhara -- hundreds and 
hundreds of branches.
 
TRANSLATION
 
The pastimes of Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu are the essence of 
nectar. From the stream of one of His pastimes flow hundreds and 
thousands of branches.
 
Antya 5.163
 
TEXT 163
 
TEXT
 
sraddha kari' ei lila yei pade, sune
gaura-lila, bhakti-bhakta-rasa-tattva jane
SYNONYMS
 
sraddha kari' -- with faith and love; ei lila -- these pastimes; yei -- 
anyone who; pade sune -- reads and hears; gaura-lila -- the pastimes of 
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakti-bhakta-rasa-tattva -- the truth 
about devotional service, devotees and their transcendental mellows; 
jane -- understands.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Anyone who reads and hears these pastimes with faith and love can 
understand the truth about devotional service, devotees and the 
transcendental mellows of the pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
 
Antya 5.164
 
TEXT 164
 
TEXT
 
sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
SYNONYMS
 
sri-rupa -- Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha -- Srila Raghunatha dasa 
Gosvami; pade -- at the lotus feet; yara -- whose; asa -- expectation; 
Caitanya-caritamrta -- the book named Caitanya-caritamrta; kahe -- 
describes; krsnadasa -- Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.
 
TRANSLATION
 
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.
 
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, 
Antya-lila, Fifth Chapter, describing how Pradyumna Misra received 
instructions from Ramananda Raya.
 