20210822 Love of Kṛṣna Floods Everyone Except the Māyāvādīs of Kāśī Part 3

The following is a Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation By His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on 22nd August 2021 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!

Hare Kṛṣṇa! Dear Devotees! Today we will continue with the compilation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book. Todays chapter entitled is:

Love of Kṛṣṇa floods everyone except the Māyāvādīs of Kāśī Part 3 
Under the Section: The Lord Travels to Vṛndāvana

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7. 20-21

pañca-tattva miliyā kṛṣṇaprema-rasera nitya āsvādana o vitaraṇa:-
sei pañca-tattva mili’ pṛthivī āsiyā
pūrva-premabhāṇḍārera mudrā ughāḍiyā

pāṅce mili’ luṭe prema, kare āsvādana
yata yata piye, tṛṣṇā bāḍhe anukṣaṇa

Translation: The characteristics of Kṛṣṇa are understood to be a storehouse of transcendental love. Although that storehouse of love certainly came with Kṛṣṇa when He was present, it was sealed. But when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came with His associates of the Pañca-tattva, they broke the seal and plundered the storehouse to taste transcendental love of Kṛṣṇa. The more they tasted it, the more their thirst for it grew.

Purport: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is called mahā-vadānyāvatāra because although He is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, He is even more favorably disposed to the poor fallen souls than Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself was personally present, He demanded that everyone surrender unto Him and promised that He would then give one all protection, but when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to this earth with His associates, He simply distributed transcendental love of God without discrimination. Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, therefore, could understand that Lord Caitanya was none other than Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, for no one but the Supreme Personality of Godhead can distribute confidential love of the Supreme Person.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Kṛṣṇa would give His love if someone fully surrendered, but Lord Caitanya was so merciful that in His Lord Caitanya avatāra, He distributed love of Godhead so freely, without considering who was qualified and who was unqualified. So that’s why the special mercy of Lord Caitanya is so great. Śrīla Prabhupāda said that chanting the names of Pañca-tattva is a thousand times more powerful than the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Then someone may ask why don’t we just chant the Pañca tattva? The thing is that you are cashing in on the mercy when you chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7.22

punaḥ punaḥ piyāiyā haya mahāmatta
nāce, kānde, hāse, gāya, yaiche mada-matta

Translation: Śrī Pañca-tattva themselves danced again and again and thus made it easier to drink nectarean love of Godhead. They danced, cried, laughed and chanted like madmen, and in this way they distributed love of Godhead.

Purport: People generally cannot understand the actual meaning of chanting and dancing. Describing the Gosvāmīs, Śrī Śrīnivāsa Ācārya stated, kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau: not only did Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His associates demonstrate this chanting and dancing, but the six Gosvāmīs also followed in the next generation. The present Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement follows the same principle, and therefore simply by chanting and dancing we have received good responses all over the world. It is to be understood, however, that this chanting and dancing do not belong to this material world. They are actually transcendental activities, for the more one engages in chanting and dancing, the more he can taste the nectar of transcendental love of Godhead.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, this chanting and dancing of Kṛṣṇa’s holy name gives one sukritī which is a spiritual benefit, it is totally in a different platform than the good karma. By chanting or dancing the holy names of Kṛṣṇa one is directly connecting with Kṛṣṇa and the happiness one receives is in another level, is in the spiritual level of the soul. Normally in the material world, we are trying to achieve sense pleasure, but the senses also give us pleasure, they also give us pain. But this chanting and dancing of the holy name of the Lord is on the transcendental platform of pure goodness, there is no suffering, just spiritual happiness. Locana dāsa Ṭhākura describes, that this path that Lord Caitanya taught is kevala ānanda-kanda, simply blissful path of joy.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7.23

kṛṣṇaprema-vitaraṇe pātrāpātra-vicārābhāva:-
pātrāpātra-vicāra nāhi, nāhi sthānāsthāna
yei yāṅhā pāya, tāṅhā kare prema-dāna

Translation: In distributing love of Godhead, Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His associates did not consider who was a fit candidate and who was not, nor where such distribution should or should not take place. They made no conditions. Wherever they got the opportunity, the members of the Pañca-tattva distributed love of Godhead.

Purport: There are some rascals who dare to speak against the mission of Lord Caitanya by criticizing the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement for accepting Europeans and Americans as brāhmaṇas and offering them sannyāsa. But here is an authoritative statement that in distributing love of Godhead one should not consider whether the recipients are Europeans, Americans, Hindus, Muslims, etc. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should be spread wherever possible, and one should accept those who thus become Vaiṣṇavas as being greater than brāhmaṇas, Hindus or Indians. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu desired that His name be spread in each and every town and village on the surface of the globe. Therefore, when the cult of Caitanya Mahāprabhu is spread all over the world, should those who embrace it not be accepted as Vaiṣṇavas, brāhmaṇas and sannyāsīs? These foolish arguments are sometimes raised by envious rascals, but Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees do not care about them. We strictly follow the principles set down by the Pañca-tattva.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, here it is said that the Pañca tattva distributed the love of Godhead everywhere and anywhere. They would distribute to anyone who would accept it, without considering whether the person is fit or unfit and the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should continue this process and reach every town and village of the world. and the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should continue this process and reach every town and village of the world. So, this is the desire of Śrīla Prabhupāda and this is the desire of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7.24

premera vitaraṇa-phale hrāsera parivartte vṛddi
luṭiyā, khāiyā, diyā, bhāṇḍāra ujāḍe
āścarya bhāṇḍāra, prema śata-guṇa bāḍe

Translation: Although the members of the Pañca-tattva plundered the storehouse of love of Godhead and ate and distributed its contents, there was no scarcity, for this wonderful storehouse is so complete that as the love is distributed, the supply increases hundreds of times.

Purport: A pseudo incarnation of Kṛṣṇa once told his disciple that he had emptied himself by giving him all knowledge and was thus spiritually bankrupt. Such bluffers speak in this way to cheat the public, but actual spiritual consciousness is so perfect that the more it is distributed, the more it increases. Bankruptcy is a term that applies in the material world, but the storehouse of love of Godhead in the spiritual world can never be depleted. Kṛṣṇa is providing for millions and trillions of living entities by supplying all their necessities, and even if all the innumerable living entities wanted to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, there would be no scarcity of love of Godhead, nor would there be insufficiency in providing for their maintenance. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement was started single-handedly, and no one provided for our livelihood, but at present we are spending hundreds and thousands of dollars all over the world, and the movement is increasing more and more. Thus, there is no question of scarcity. Although jealous persons may be envious, if we stick to our principles and follow in the footsteps of the Pañca-tattva, this movement will go on unchecked by imitation svāmīs, sannyāsīs, religionists, philosophers or scientists, for it is transcendental to all material considerations. Therefore, those who propagate the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should not be afraid of such rascals and fools.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, we see that the more we distribute love of Godhead, the storehouse increases. In the material world, the storehouse, if we plunder it, there would be nothing left, but in the spiritual storehouse the supply increases more and more and thus there is abundant supply to give it to all the living entities.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7.25

premavanyāya jagat magna:-
uchalila prema-vanyā caudike veḍāya
strī, vṛddha, bālaka, yuvā, sabāre ḍubāya

Translation: The flood of love of Godhead swelled in all directions, and thus young men, old men, women and children were all immersed in that inundation.

Purport: When the contents of the storehouse of love of Godhead is thus distributed, there is a powerful inundation that covers the entire land. In Śrīdhāma Māyāpur there is sometimes a great flood after the rainy season. This is an indication that from the birthplace of Lord Caitanya the inundation of love of Godhead should be spread all over the world, for this will help everyone, including old men, young men, women and children. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is so powerful that it can inundate the entire world and interest all classes of men in the subject of love of Godhead.

Jayapatākā Swami: Some people like to say that certain classes of human are not eligible, they say, mainly the women or children how can they be filled with love of Godhead. But here we see that the inundation of love of Godhead swept away everyone, not only the men, but the old men, the women, the children but everyone got swept away in the flood of love of Godhead.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7.26

saj-jana, durjana, paṅgu, jaḍa, andha-gaṇa
prema-vanyāya ḍubāila jagatera jana

Translation: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will inundate the entire world and drown everyone, whether one be a gentleman, a rogue or even lame, invalid or blind.

Purport: Here again it may be emphasized that although jealous rascals protest that Europeans and Americans cannot be given the sacred thread or sannyāsa, there is no need even to consider whether one is a gentleman or a rogue because this is a spiritual movement which is not concerned with the external body of skin and bones. Because it is being properly conducted under the guidance of the Pañca-tattva, strictly following the regulative principles, it has nothing to do with external impediments.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Caitanya’s mercy is for everyone, no material impediments are considered. People of every race or every gender wherever they are situated they can become Kṛṣṇa conscious, by the mercy of Lord Caitanya and the Pañca-tattva.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7.27

kṛṣṇa prītirase majjanahetu jīvera karmabīja-vināsa:-
jagat ḍubila, jīvera haila bīja nāśa
tāhā dekhi’ pāṅca janera parama ullāsa

Translation: When the five members of the Pañca-tattva saw the entire world drowned in love of Godhead and the seed of material enjoyment in the living entities completely destroyed, they all became exceedingly happy.

Purport: In this connection, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya that since the living entities all belong to the marginal potency of the Lord, each and every living entity has a natural tendency to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, although at the same time the seed of material enjoyment is undoubtedly within him. The seed of material enjoyment, watered by the course of material nature, fructifies to become a tree of material entanglement that endows the living entity with all kinds of material enjoyment. To enjoy such material facilities is to be afflicted with the three material miseries. However, when by nature’s law there is a flood, the seeds within the earth become inactive. Similarly, as the inundation of love of Godhead spreads all over the world, the seeds of material enjoyment become impotent. Thus the more the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement spreads, the more the desire for material enjoyment decreases. The seed of material enjoyment automatically becomes impotent with the increase of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.

Instead of being envious that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is spreading all over the world by the grace of Lord Caitanya, those who are jealous should be happy, as indicated here by the words parama ullāsa. But because they are kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs or prākṛta-bhaktas (materialistic devotees who are not advanced in spiritual knowledge), they are envious instead of happy, and they try to find faults in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Yet Śrīmat Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī writes in his Caitanya-candrāmṛta that when influenced by Lord Caitanya’s Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, materialists become averse to talking about their wives and children, supposedly learned scholars give up their tedious studies of Vedic literature, yogīs give up their impractical practices of mystic yoga, ascetics give up their austere activities of penance and austerity, and sannyāsīs give up their study of Sāṅkhya philosophy. Thus they are all attracted by the bhakti-yoga practices of Lord Caitanya and cannot relish a mellow superior to that of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, we don’t have to worry, we see that the people are so much absorbed in material enjoyment, this automatically decreases when we spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness, just like a inundation makes the seeds impotent, if the world is inundated with the love of Kṛṣṇa inundated with Kṛṣṇa consciousness naturally the desire for material enjoyment decreases.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7.28

premera varṣaṇaphale premarase-vṛddi:-
yata yata prema-vṛṣṭi kare pañca-jane
tata tata bāḍhe jala, vyāpe tri-bhuvane

Translation: The more the five members of the Pañca-tattva cause the rains of love of Godhead to fall, the more the inundation increases and spreads all over the world.

Purport: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not stereotyped or stagnant. It will spread all over the world in spite of all objections by fools and rascals that European and American mlecchas cannot be accepted as brāhmaṇas or sannyāsīs. Here it is indicated that this process will spread and inundate the entire world with Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, just as Lord Caitanya made a prediction that in every town and village of the world, His holy name will be sung, here Śrīla Prabhupāda had made a similar prediction that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will inundate the entire world. So, all the members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should work for this end and the Pañca tatva will certainly be very happy, the more the world is flooded.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 7.29-30

kṛṣṇapremarase vāñcita:-
māyāvādī, karma-niṣṭha kutārkika-gaṇa
nindaka, pāsaṇḍī yata paḍuyā adhama

sei saba mahādakṣa dhāñā palāila
sei vanyā tā-sabāre chuṅite nārila

Translation: The impersonalists, fruitive workers, false logicians, blasphemers, nondevotees and lowest among the student community are very expert in avoiding the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and therefore the inundation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot touch them.

Purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda: Like Māyāvādī philosophers in the past such as Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī of Benares, modern impersonalists are not interested in Lord Caitanya’s Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. They do not know the value of this material world; they consider it false and cannot understand how the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement can utilize it. They are so absorbed in impersonal thought that they take it for granted that all spiritual variety is material. Because they do not know anything beyond their misconception of the brahmajyoti, they cannot understand that Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is spiritual and therefore beyond the conception of material illusion. Whenever Kṛṣṇa incarnates personally or as a devotee, these Māyāvādī philosophers accept Him as an ordinary human being. This is condemned in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.11):

avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā
mānuṣīṁ tanum āśrītam
paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto
mama bhūta-maheśvaram

“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be.”

There are also other unscrupulous persons who exploit the Lord’s appearance by posing as incarnations to cheat the innocent public. An incarnation of God should pass the tests of the statements of the śāstras and also perform uncommon activities. One should not accept a rascal as an incarnation of God but should test his ability to act as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For example, Kṛṣṇa taught Arjuna in the Bhagavad-gītā, and Arjuna also accepted Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but for our understanding Arjuna requested the Lord to manifest His universal form, thus testing whether He was actually the Supreme Lord. Similarly, one must test a so-called incarnation of Godhead according to the standard criteria. To avoid being misled by an exhibition of mystic powers, it is best to examine a so-called incarnation of God in the light of the statements of the śāstras. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is described in the śāstras as an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa; therefore if one wants to imitate Lord Caitanya and claim to be an incarnation, he must show evidence from the śāstras about his appearance to substantiate his claim.

Jayapatākā Swami: In South India, there was someone who said that he is incarnation of Kalki, but in Śrīmad-bhāgavatam it is predicted that the Kalki avatāra would come at the end of Kali-yuga and Kali-yuga is 4,32,000 years and we have only gone 5,000 years into the Kali-yuga. But someone asked him that if you are saying that you are the incarnation of Kalki, haven’t you appeared a bit early, then he said, well, I may not be Kalki avatāra, but I am an avatāra. So, like this innocent people are cheated by imposters, but Lord Caitanya was predicted in the scriptures and in the eleventh canto of Śrīmad-bhāgavatam and other places. Also, when He took the form of Varāhadeva He manifested four hoofs of the boar incarnation. So, like that if someone claims he is an avatāra they should manifest the hoofs, or universal form or something. Lord Caitanya, He did not claim to be an avatāra but we could recognize that He was an avatāra, where the Lord came as His devotee.

Thus ends the chapter entitled, Love of Kṛṣna Floods Everyone Except the Māyāvādīs of Kāśī Part 3 
missing Under the Section: The Lord Travels to Vṛndāvana