20181119 Gaurāṅga’s Display of Prema-bhakti

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-gurun dina tāriṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

Jayapatākā Swami: I would like to welcome everybody who is online, and those who have come here to follow the Caitanya book compilation. Today is Ekādaśī and first day of Bhīṣma-pañcaka. Even those who are following haviṣyanna are eating fruits and roots. Of course, they can have yogurt or milk but those who eat fruits, and roots cannot. So since we don’t have an installed Deity here we have the pūjārīs in Māyāpur and Chennai have the auspicious flowers offered on the five days. Of course you could do also do at some picture of Kṛṣṇa. We also offered tarpaṇa to Bhīṣmadeva, argya and praṇāma. We had a bowl of water and put some 10 grams of gaṅgā-jalā. But one can also invoke Gaṅgā by mantras. Then we offered a lamp in the evening. So this is basically the program of Bhīṣma-pañcaka. Five days, on the full moon day you break the fast after moon rise or sunset. So We hope everyone enjoys the Bhīṣma-pañcaka. Detailed ceremonies are posted on my Facebook and various mantras which are to be chanted. Also we could do some more but basic requirements are given.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.62

gayā haite āilena sakala kuśale
śuni’ āmi sambhāṣite gelāṅa vikāle

Jayapatākā Swami: So Śrīmān Paṇḍita is telling the Vaiṣṇavas why he is so happy. He heard that Gaurasundara had returned from Gayā and that He was very happy. Hearing this he went to greet Him yesterday in the afternoon.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.62

parama-virakta-rūpa sakala sambhāṣa
tilārdheka auddhatyera nāhika prakāśa

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Gaurasundara displayed a supremely renounced form and He greeted everyone. He revealed His utmost aversion to the material world. He did not even show a bit of arrogance, for even a moment.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.63

nibhṛte kahite lāgilena kṛṣṇa-kathāye
ye sthāne dekhilena ye apūrva yathā

Jayapatākā Swami: So in a secluded place, He started to talk Kṛṣṇa’s topics, which places He has visited, and where He had seen some wonderful pastimes there.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.64

pāda-padma-tīrthera laite mātra nāma
nayanera jale saba pūrṇa haila sthāna

Jayapatākā Swami: As soon as He announced the name pāda-padma-tīrtha, the holy place of the Lord’s lotus footprints, His eyes filled with tears of love and the place around Him was filled with all those tears.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.65

sarva aṅga mahā-kampa pulake pūrṇita
‘hā kṛṣṇa!’ baliyā mātra paḍilā bhūmita

Jayapatākā Swami: All of His body, His hairs standing on end, quivering in His body, He called out, “Hā Kṛṣṇa!” And immediately fell to the ground.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.66

sarva aṅge dhātu nāhi, hailā mūrchita
kata-kṣaṇe bāhya-dṛṣṭi hailā camakita

Jayapatākā Swami: In His entire body, there was no sign of life as He fell unconscious on the ground. After some time, He regained His external consciousness. He was in a state of wonderment.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.67

śeṣe ye baliyā ‘kṛṣṇa’ kāndite lāgilāhena
bujhi,—gaṅgādevīāsiyā mililā

Jayapatākā Swami: In the end as He was calling out the names of Kṛṣṇa, He was crying profusely and it was like Gaṅgā devī herself was flowing from His eyes.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.68

prabhura premavikāra-darśane tāṅhāke alaukika o atimartya-jñāna

ye bhakti dekhilu āmi tāhāna nayane
tāhāne manuṣya-buddhi nāhi āra mane

Jayapatākā Swami: The devotion that I have seen with my own eyes, I do not consider Him as an ordinary human being. This thought has left my mind.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.69

sakalake prabhura anurodha-jñāpana

sabe ei kathā kahilena bāhya haile
“śuklāmbara-ghara kāli milibā sakale

Jayapatākā Swami: When He regained His external consciousness He said to everyone, these words, everybody let us meet together at the house of Śuklāmbara Brahmacārī tomorrow morning.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.70

tumi āra sadāśiva paṇḍita murāri
tomā sabā sthāne duḥkha kariba gohāri

Jayapatākā Swami: You and Sadāśiva and Paṇḍita Murāri, I will reveal My distress to you said Gaurahari. So the Lord, He wanted to submit His experience, why He was suffering so much. But He wanted to do this in private.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.71

parama maṅgala ei kahilāṅa kathāavaśya
kāraṇa ithe āchaye sarvathā”

Jayapatākā Swami: So they wanted to know why he was so happy, why he was smiling. So Śrīmān Paṇḍita said, this is supremely auspicious. My experience, I have explained to you; this is certainly a cause that I have given to you. You can believe me.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.72

prabhura apūrvabhāva-śravaṇe bhaktagaṇera saharṣe-hari-dhvani

śrīmānera vacana śuniyā bhakta-gaṇe
‘hari’ bali’ mahādhvani karilā takhane

Jayapatākā Swami: When the devotees heard Śrīmān Paṇḍita’s description they started to chant loudly, ‘HARI! HARI! HARIBOL!’ So the devotees immediately expressed their joy by chanting the name of Hari.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.73

prathamei balilena śrīvāsa udāra
“gotra bāḍāuna kṛṣṇa āmā sabākāra”

Jayapatākā Swami: The first to speak was Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura who was very magnanimous. He said, “May Kṛṣṇa increase our spiritual family.”

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.74

sajātīyāśaya-snigdha kṛṣṇa-bhajanaśīla goṣṭhīvṛddhi-vāñchā—tathāhi—

gotraṁ nu vardhatām iti

Jayapatākā Swami: So there are two kinds of Vaiṣṇavas, the bhajanānandīs and goṣṭhy-ānandīs. The bhajanānandīs, they want their own liberation and they absorb themselves in spiritual practices, but they don’t do much to expand the preaching. Ghosti anandis are those who want to see the devotees’ family increase. His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, he was declared a goṣṭhy-ānandī and he wanted to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world. So the devotees they were praying that their spiritual family may increase, that their goṣṭhi would increase.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.75

ānande karena sabe kṛṣṇa-saṁkathana
uṭhila maṅgala-dhvani parama-mohana

Jayapatākā Swami: Everyone discussed the topics of Lord Kṛṣṇa in a very happy mood and from this an auspicious sound rose which was supremely enchanting.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.76

‘tathāstu’ ‘tathāstu’ bale bhāgavata-gaṇa
‘sabei bhajuka kṛṣṇacandrera caraṇa’

Jayapatākā Swami: All the devotees they repeated ‘tathāstu’, ‘may it be so!’ Let everyone worship the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇacandra. This word tathāsthu is sometimes used by the ritualistic smārtas as a blessing, when they would give oblations to their forefathers, in the shraadha ceremony. Srivas his prayer was from Lord Brahma down to the end, that everyone serve the lotus feet of Krishna and increase their ghosti. Hearing this from the mouth of Srivas all the devotees immediately approved it by saying, so be it.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.77

puṣpacayanānte bhaktagaṇera nijagṛhe gamana—

hena-mate puṣpa tuli’ bhāgavata-gaṇa
pūjā karibāre sabe karilā gamana

Jayapatākā Swami: So after all the devotees had picked their flowers they went to their house to do their pūjā.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya 1.78

śuklāmbara-gṛhe śrīmān paṇḍitera o gadādharādira gamana—

śrīmān-paṇḍita calilena gaṅgā-tīre
śuklāmbara-brahmacārītāhāna mandire

Jayapatākā Swami: Śrīmān Paṇḍita with Gadādhara went to the house of Śuklāmbara Brahmacārī and find the path on the bank of the Ganges.

So we will stop here. I have to keep a track of time, I lose track!!

So let us meet Lord Caitanya at the house of Śuklāmbara Brahmacārī or actually his house is a temple and so his house is next to the temple.

Any questions?

Question: Someone is asking that, is there an śāstric evidence why we should not take onion and garlic?

Jayapatākā Swami: Yes, there is. Even in the Google, scientists have found that onion and garlic are very detrimental to health. But primarily eating on and garlic has the kind of karma like eating cow because some king ran over a cow with his chariot and killed it. All the cow’s dead body came on in onion and garlic. So this evidence is like this. And in no temple very Viṣṇu, Śiva, they don’t accept offering made with onion and garlic. Any other question related to the topic today?