20200918 Ācāryaratna's Breaking News of Nimāi Sannyāsa to the Devotees in Navadvīpa (Part 2)

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation By His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on 18th September 2020 in Śrīdhāma Māyāpur, India

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim / yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam / paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram / hariḥ oṁ tat sat /

Caitanya Maṅgala, Madhya-khaṇḍa, 14.1

aki āre re āre haya /

Caitanya Maṅgala, Madhya-khaṇḍa, 14.1 aki āre re āre haya / navadvīpe praveśite ācārya-śekhara / nayane galaye jaladhārā nirantara /

Jayapatākā Swami: Candraśekhara Ācārya entered Navadvīpa,

flooding rivers of tears flowed from his eyes, continuously.

Caitanya Maṅgala, Madhya-khaṇḍa, 14.2 navadvīpavāsī yata tāhāre dekhiyā / antare poḍaye prāṇa dhakdhak hiyā /

Jayapatākā Swami: Residents of Navadvīpa, whoever saw him,

felt their life airs in their hearts, burning.

Their hearts trembled, dhak-dhak.

Caitanya Maṅgala, Madhya-khaṇḍa, 14.3 sakala vaiṣṇava āsi’ miśilā sekhāne / sambarite nāre aśru–kātara bayāne /

Jayapatākā Swami: All the Vaiṣṇavas came and gathered around him.

They could not control their crying.

Their faces were withered with grief.

Caitanya Maṅgala, Madhya-khaṇḍa, 14.4 puchite nā pāre kichu–mukhe nāhi rāye / śuni’ śacīdevī āudaḍa-cule dhāye /

Jayapatākā Swami: They couldn’t ask anything;

nothing came to their mouth.

When Śacī devī had heard that Candraśekhara had come,

even though her hair was disheveled, she ran there.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.127: “Everyone (eagerly approaching):

Ācārya, tell us. Tell us. Where is the Lord?”

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.128: Ācāryaratna: “Ah! What can this wretch say?”

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.129: Advaita: Tell us. What happened?”

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.130: Ācāryaratna (In His ear) In such a manner.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.131: Advaita: How can this news be covered by the hand?

Speak it clearly. Let everyone hear it.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.132: Ācāryaratna: (with tears, calling out loudly)

Alas! Your indescribable jubilant singing and dancing in kīrtana has come to an end.

Your sweet, affectionate smiles and words are in our hearts.

Alas! Alas! Your love and mercy remain in our memories.

O Lord, Your acceptance of sannyāsa is complete ruin of us.

Jayapatākā Swami: Ācāryaratna was expressing the mood of the devotees in Navadvīpa.

Since the Lord had left Navadvīpa,

He was engaging in the jubilant saṅkīrtana

along with all of His associates,

so when He left,

they were all put into great separation.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.133: (Hearing this everyone becomes overwhelmed).

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.134: Gaṅgādāsa (entering hastily): Ācāryaratna!

The Lord's mother asks: "Please tell me the good news of my auspicious Lord.”

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.135: (Ācāryaratna stands still, with throat choked with tears).

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.136: Advaita: In My name, please tell her this:

The three mothers (Kauśalya, Yaśoda and Śacī) must tolerate these three:

Rāmacandra’s residence in the forest, Kṛṣṇa’s departure to Mathurā, and His (Caitanya’s) accepting sannyāsa-daṇḍa.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the mothers of Rāma, Kṛṣṇa and Caitanya

had to accept separation from their son,

in the ways stated.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.137: Gaṅgādāsa: Ah!

Even she had also previously guessed this (about Caitanya’s Sannyāsa).

She also said, “Why do you hide the truth. He (Caitanya) indeed has followed the path

of His elder brother (accepting sannyāsa-daṇḍa?)

Great transcendental personalities are equal in both harshness and mercifulness.

Jayapatākā Swami: Mother Śacī is lamenting.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.138: Advaita: The mother is calm and patient like this.

Otherwise how can she have a son like Him (Caitanya)?

(He reflects for a moment).

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.139: In His later pastimes He accepts the sannyāsa order,

and He is equipoised and peaceful.

He is the highest abode of peace and devotion, for He silences the impersonalist nondevotees.”

[Note: This is a verse from the Mahābhārata (Dāna-dharma, Viṣṇu-sahasra-nāma-stotra)

as translated by Prabhupāda in Cc Ādi 3.49]

The Lord has now fulfilled these words of the Viṣṇu-sahasra-nāma prayers.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.140: Only in Lord Viśvambhara,

the mahā-vākya has become suitable in the primary meaning.

In him there are no secondary symptoms of ‘jahat’ and ajahat’.

Note: jahat-svārthā=losing its original meaning and ajahat-svārthā is a rhetorical figure

(using a word which involves the meaning of another word previously).

Ācāryaratna, please tell us the story from the beginning.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.141: Ācāryaratna: Alas! I am alive only for this purpose.

When the night ended and the dancing was over, He took my hand.

We walked a few steps.

He saw Lord Nityānanda infront and said to Him:

“You also come.” Together we crossed the Gaṅgā and then continued walking.

I said: “Lord, please tell me where are we going alone?”

He ignored me and remained silent.

He walked, we followed His steps,

and He eventually entered the village name Kāṭwā,

where He approached Keśava Bhāratī, the leader of the sannyāsīs.

At that moment both Nityānanda and I thought within our heart.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.142: The Lord desires to take sannyāsa.”

Despite thinking like this, the Lord's potency then overwhelmed us,

and we were not able to say anything to Him.

On the next day He said:

“Ācāryaratna, now you make the preparation for this karma (sannyāsa).”

I said: “What is that karma?”

Then the Lord told me, “I have to do this karma (take sannyāsa).

Following that, I did not know what to do

and like a dumb,

could not answer, but began to cry.

After that all the activities were automatically made in the right way.

Words are unable describe what happened then.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Candraśekhara Ācārya is explaining what happened from his point of view.

It is very interesting to see how a devotee

is compelled by the Lord’s potency to act in a particular way.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.143: Everyone: (They listen, and become full of grief)

O Lord, how has this commenced?

Or else, this is the ripened fruit of the tree of suffering that has manifested.

How can we blame the Lord? Alas! Alas!

When this enters our memory, it cuts (causes grief) our hearts.

O Ācāryaratna, how did you see all this?

(They become dejected).

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.144: Advaita: What name did the Lord accept in the sannyāsa āśrama?

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.145: Ācāryaratna: Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.146: Advaita: (filled with wonder)

This (name) indeed is well suited.

Lord Kṛṣṇa’s form is the form of Lord Caitanya,

and therefore He is called “Kṛṣṇa Caitanya”.

Thus, this name is the ripened fruit of the mahā-vākya's true meaning.

Jayapatākā Swami: Advaita Ācārya is sharing His realization that the name Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is most appropriate

for Lord Gaurāṅga.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.147: ‘Keśava Bhāratī’ is ‘śruti’,

because of being Bhāratī of Keśava

(Keśava is Kṛṣṇa, and ‘bhāratī’ is ‘word’, and thus the words of Kṛṣṇa is ‘śruti’).

For instance (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.14.3, Lord Kṛṣṇa to Uddhava):

“When the subsequent creation took place, I spoke the Vedic knowledge to Brahmā

because I Myself am the religious principles enunciated in the Vedas.”

Therefore, the explanation of Keśava Bhāratī is to be explained or propounded by the śruti.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the hidden meaning of Keśava Bhāratī’s name

is given by Advaita Ācārya.

Translation: Ācāryaratna, tell us if the Lord is there or in some other place?

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.148: Ācāryaratna:

At that very moment after accepting Sannyāsa dress, the Lord set out.

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.149: Advaita: Did He not say anything to us?

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.150: Ācāryaratna: He was blinded with love of Kṛṣṇa

and thus repeatedly stumbled as He walked.

His chest was bathed in tears.

He was not aware even of His own self

and so what could He say to me?

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.151: Advaita: How is that you did not follow Him?

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.152: Ācāryaratna: Lord Nityānanda said:

“I will follow the Lord. By skilfully making him wander from pathway to pathway,

by some means I will lead Him to Advaita's home.

You go and bring this news to the distressed devotees headed by Advaita. Make them happy.”

Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka 4.153: Advaita: You are fortunate!

O Lord Nityānandadeva, You are fortunate!

I have been conquered by Your sincere well wishes.

So, let us go and give this news to Goddess Śacī devī

and by comforting her, then we will also do what ought to be done.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Nityānanda had sent His confidential message,

that He would somehow, or another bring Lord Caitanya to Advaita’s house in Śāntipura.

So this had given all the devotees great hope.

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.11:

Then Gaura Hari was pacified by the avadhūta (Nityānanda),

who spoke to Him news of Vṛndāraṇya.

Oh! what marvelous news that was.

And while proceeding on the path,

filled with the great and munificent desires of pure devotion,

He gave me some instructions:

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.12: The Lord of Lakṣmī told me (Ācāryaratna),

“You depart for Navadvīpa,”

and then, when afflicted by grief and lamentation,

I readied myself to leave...

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.13: …the Lord further said, "You must deliver this message of Mine

assembly of the devotees, ‘namo nārāyaṇāya’

which will bring Me joy.”

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.14-15: Having heard all of the word of Hari,

I stood there having given up my life for Gaurāṅga’s sake.

Though it is a transcendental subject matter, still I understood

the very astonishing activities of Śrī Gauracandra to be confidential,

in that His external state was merely a reflection of His inner trance.

With a faltering voice the Lord uttered the auspicious name of Kṛṣṇa.

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya was in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa, in trance,

and He was chanting the holy names of Kṛṣṇa.

So Ācāryaratna was sent back to Navadvīpa

and Lord Nityānanda said somehow or another he will bring Lord Caitanya to Śāntipura.

So, Lord Gauracandra’s activities are very confidential

and in His ecstatic mood, He is not aware of the external world.

Lord Nityānanda knowing this,

He is thinking that somehow or another He will be able to bring Lord Caitanya to Śāntipura.

Haribol!

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.16: At times He would laugh, at times His voice became choked,

and sometimes He would tremble or sing.

At times He would weep or wander here and there,

and at times He would fall down and sleep upon the earth.

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya was in His ecstatic mood

of pure love for Kṛṣṇa.

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.17: At times He would taste the moods of a gopī,

at other times the moods of a servant of the Lord,

and sometimes the moods of the Supreme Lord Himself.

Through these moods, the self-sufficient and self-satisfied Lord taught His people lessons.

ayapatākā Swami: The Lord’s purpose is to teach by His own example,

the bhakti-yoga process.

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.18: Until the third day,

Gaurahari continuously lost remembrance of His body.

At that, I became very anxious and disturbed, and I worried,

“What should I do now?”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, for three days, Lord Caitanya hadn’t eaten,

Candraśekhara Ācārya, he was very concerned what to do?

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.19: On the following day, Madhusūdana (Lord Caitanya)

remembered His body (regained consciousness of His external body).

Then I took permission from that guru of all renunciants and returned to my home.

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.20: Ācāryaratna continued,

“On the day after tomorrow, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya will come to the house of the Advaita Ācārya.

At that time, your good selves shall have His darśana. This is certain.”

Murāri Gupta Kaḍaca 3.3.21: Thus, did I see and hear the auspicious chanting

and other pastimes performed by Śrī Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

I have described in full these most auspicious qualities of Hari,

which awards all happiness to mankind.

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Gaurahari has descended from the spiritual world

to deliver all the fallen souls.

And He was absorbed in the mood of love for Kṛṣṇa.

And in that mood, He is travelling on the earth.

One of the things recommended in the Puruṣottama month,

is to hear the pastimes of the Lord.

So, we are hearing the pastimes of Lord Gaurahari,

and that can purify our consciousness,

by having His association,

by hearing His incomparable, transcendental, pastimes.

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