20221127 Jagadānanda Paṇḍita is chastised for Advising Sanātana Gosvāmī

The following is a Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on November 27th,2022 in Śrī Dhāma 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! Hare Kṛṣṇa! Gurumahārāja! Today we will continue with the compilation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book. Today's chapter is entitled as:

Jagadānanda Paṇḍita is chastised for Advising Sanātana Gosvāmī
Under the section: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.158

“kālikāra baṭuyā jagā aiche garvī haila
tomā-sabāreha upadeśa karite lāgila

Translation: “Jagā [Jagadānanda Paṇḍita] is only a new boy, but he has become so proud that he thinks himself competent to advise a person like you.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Caitanya is chastising Jagadānanda Paṇḍita for having instructed Sanātana Gosvāmī.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.159

sanātanaprati prabhura pracura kṛpā-gauraboktiḥ—

vyavahāre-paramārthe tumi—tāra guru-tulya
tomāre upadeśe, nā jāne āpana-mūlya

Translation: “In affairs of spiritual advancement and even in ordinary dealings, you are on the level of his spiritual master. Yet not knowing his own value, he dares to advise you.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Caitanya compares Sanātana Gosvāmī with the guru of Jagadānanda Paṇḍita. So we have to learn from this not to overestimate our own importance.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.160

āmāra upadeṣṭā tumi—prāmāṇika ārya
tomāreha upadeśe—bālakā kare aiche kārya

Translation: “My dear Sanātana, you are on the level of My advisor, for you are an authorized person. But Jagā wants to advise you. This is but the impudence of a naughty boy.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Jagadānanda Paṇḍita is a avatāra of the queen of Dvārakā and Sanātana Gosvāmī is avatāra of a Gopī in Vṛndāvana

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.161

śuni’ sanātana pāye dhari’ prabhure kahili
‘jagadānandera saubhāgya āji se jānila

Translation: When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was thus chastising Jagadānanda Paṇḍita, Sanātana Gosvāmī fell at the Lord’s feet and said, “I can now understand the fortunate position of Jagadānanda.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Sanātana Gosvāmī he is realizing being chastised by Lord Caitanya is somehow a great good fortune for Jagadānanda Paṇḍita.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.162

āpanāra ‘asaubhāgya’ āji haila jñāna
jagate nāhi jagadānanda-sama bhāgyavān

Translation: “I can also understand my misfortune. No one in this world is as fortunate as Jagadānanda.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.163

nijera o paṇḍitera prati prabhusneha-tulanāḥ—

jagadānande piyāo ātmīyatā-sudhā-rasa
more piyāo gaurava-stuti-nimba-niśindā-rasa

Translation: “Sir, You are making Jagadānanda drink the nectar of affectionate relationships, whereas by offering me honorable prayers, You are making me drink the bitter juice of nimba and niśindā.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, by criticizing Jagadānanda Paṇḍita, Sanātana Gosvāmī felt that he was having a very intimate relationship showing great affection, whereas praising him Sanātana Gosvāmī was keeping him in a distance.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.164

sevakake sevyera nijajana-jñānai premera kāraṇarūpa sambandhānubhūti; sanātanera gabhīra hṛdayavyathā-sūcaka vākyaḥ—

ājiha nahila more ātmīyatā-jñāna!
mora abhāgya, tumi—svatantra bhagavān!”

Translation: “It is my misfortune that You have not accepted me as one of Your intimate relations. But You are the completely independent Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Sanātana Gosvāmī is understanding this exchange in a very esoteric way.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.165

prabhura lajjā o sanātanaprati sāntvanā-vākyaḥ—

śuni’ mahāprabhu kichu lajjita hailā mane
tāṅre santoṣite kichu balena vacane

Translation: Hearing this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was somewhat ashamed. Just to satisfy Sanātana Gosvāmī, He spoke the following words.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.166

jagadānanda o sanātanera prati prabhura sneha-prīti-vaiśiṣṭya-varṇana; jagadānandera prati tiraskārera kāraṇaḥ—

‘jagadānanda priya āmāra nahe tomā haite
maryādā-laṅghana āmi nā pāroṅ sahite

Translation: “My dear Sanātana, please do not think that Jagadānanda is more dear to Me than you. However, I cannot tolerate transgressions of the standard etiquette.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Vaiṣṇava etiquette is something very serious and Lord Caitanya was giving lessons on Vaiṣṇava etiquette.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.167

ubhayera guṇa-vaiśiṣṭya varṇanaḥ—

kāhāṅ tumi—prāmāṇika, śāstre pravīṇa!
kāhāṅ jagā—kālikāra baṭuyā navīna!

Translation: “You are an experienced authority in the śāstras, whereas Jagā is just a young boy.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.168

prabhukarttṛka sanātanera guṇa-gaurava-stutiḥ—

āmākeha bujhāite tumi dhara śakti
kata ṭhāñi bujhāñācha vyavahāra-bhakti

Translation: “You have the power to convince even Me. In many places you have already convinced Me about ordinary behavior and devotional service.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Caitanya is glorifying Sanātana Gosvāmī, on his proper understanding Vaiṣṇava etiquette and bhakti.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.169

tomāre upadeśa kare, nā yāya sahana
ataeva tāre āmi kariye bhartsana

Translation: “Jagā’s advising you is intolerable for Me. Therefore I am chastising him.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the reason he is chastising Jagadānanda Paṇḍita is not a sign of more affection because he has transgressed Vaiṣṇava etiquette.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.170

bhaktaguṇākṛṣṭa-bhagavānera bhaktaguṇa-varṇanaḥ—

bahiraṅga-jñāne tomāre nā kari stavana
tomāra guṇe stuti karāya yaiche tomāra guṇa

Translation: “I offer you praise not because I think of you as being outside an intimate relationship with Me but because you are actually so qualified that one is forced to praise your qualities.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, here Lord Caitanya is explaining why He consider Sanātana Gosvāmī as very qualified.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.171

mamatāspada bahu ‘āśraya’ thākileo pātraviśeṣe ‘viṣaye’ra prīti-vaiśiṣṭyaḥ—

yadyapi kāhāra ‘mamatā’ bahu-jane haya
prīti-svabhāve kāhāte kona bhāvodaya

Translation: “Although one has affection for many persons, different types of ecstatic love awaken according to the nature of one’s personal relationships.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.172

amānibhakta dainyakrame āpanāke prākṛtajīvābhimāne sunīca jñāna karileo vastutaḥ tini—ciddarśane bhagavadāśliṣṭa aprākṛta brahmavastuḥ—

tomāra deha tumi kara bībhatsa-jñāna
tomāra deha āmāre lāge amṛta-samāna

Translation: “You consider your body dangerous and awful, but I think that your body is like nectar.

Jayapatākā Swami: Because Sanātana Gosvāmī had sores on his body he thinks that he is awful and dangerous for Lord Caitanya, but Lord Caitanya considers his body as transcendental and wonderful.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.173

aprākṛta-deha tomāra ‘prākṛta’ kabhu naya
tathāpi tomāra tāte prākṛta-buddhi haya

Translation: “Actually your body is transcendental, never material. You are thinking of it, however, in terms of a material conception.

Purport: Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura gives his opinion about how a person completely engaged in the service of the Lord transforms his body from material to transcendental. He says, “A pure devotee engaged in the service of Lord Kṛṣṇa has no desire for his personal sense gratification, and thus he never accepts anything for that purpose. He desires only the happiness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, and because of his ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa, he acts in various ways. Karmīs think that the material body is an instrument for material enjoyment, and that is why they work extremely hard. A devotee, however, has no such desires. A devotee always engages wholeheartedly in the service of the Lord, forgetting about bodily conceptions and bodily activities. The body of a karmī is called material because the karmī, being too absorbed in material activities, is always eager to enjoy material facilities, but the body of a devotee who tries his best to work very hard for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa by fully engaging in the Lord’s service must be accepted as transcendental. Whereas karmīs are interested only in the personal satisfaction of their senses, devotees work for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord. Therefore, one who cannot distinguish between devotion and ordinary karma may mistakenly consider the body of a pure devotee material. One who knows does not commit such a mistake. Non-devotees who consider devotional activities and ordinary material activities to be on the same level are offenders to the chanting of the transcendental holy name of the Lord. A pure devotee knows that a devotee’s body, being always transcendental, is just suitable for rendering service to the Lord.

“A devotee on the topmost platform of devotional service always humbly thinks that he is not rendering any devotional service. He thinks that he is poor in devotional service and that his body is material. On the other hand, those known as the sahajiyās foolishly think that their material bodies are transcendental. Because of this, they are always bereft of the association of pure devotees, and thus they cannot behave like Vaiṣṇavas.

Observing the defects of the sahajiyās, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung as follows in his book Kalyāṇa-kalpataru:

āmi ta’ vaiṣṇava, e-buddhi ha-ile,
amānī nā haba āmi
pratiṣṭhāśā āsi’, hṛdaya dūṣibe,
ha-iba niraya-gāmī

nije śreṣṭha jāni’, ucchiṣṭādi-dāne,
habe abhimāna bhāra
tāi śiṣya tava, thākiyā sarvadā,
nā la-iba pūjā kāra

‘If I think I am a Vaiṣṇava, I shall look forward to receiving respect from others. And if the desire for fame and reputation pollutes my heart, certainly I shall go to hell. By giving others the remnants of my food, I shall consider myself superior and shall be burdened with the weight of false pride. Therefore, always remaining your surrendered disciple, I shall not accept worship from anyone else.’

Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has written (Antya-līlā 20.28):

premera svabhāva — yāhāṅ premera sambandha
sei māne, — ‘kṛṣṇe mora nāhi prema-gandha’

“Wherever there is a relationship of love of Godhead, the natural symptoms are that the devotee does not think himself a devotee, but always thinks that he has not even a drop of love for Kṛṣṇa.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Lord Caitanya is describing the qualities of a devotee. Sanātana Gosvāmī, he considers himself very fallen and Lord Caitanya considers him and his body transcendental.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.174

nirguṇa aprākṛta-rājye gauṇa aciddarśanottha manodharmasulabha jaḍīya vidhiniṣedha-vicārābhāvaḥ—

‘prākṛta’ haile ha tomāra vapu nāri upekṣite
bhadrābhadra-vastu-jñāna nāhika ‘prākṛte’

Translation: “Even if your body were material, I still could not neglect it, for the material body should be considered neither good nor bad.

Purport: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu told Sanātana Gosvāmī, “Since you are a Vaiṣṇava, your body is spiritual, not material. Therefore you should not consider this body to be subjected to superior or inferior qualities. Moreover, I am a sannyāsī. Therefore even if your body were material, a sannyāsī should see no distinction between a good body and a bad body.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Caitanya is describing why he could not think of Sanātana Gosvāmī’s body as good or bad.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.175

gauṇa aciddarśānottha jaḍīya bheda-jñānamūlaka manodharme śuci-aśuci vā vidhiniṣedha samastai tulyamūlya o avāstavaḥ—

śrīmad-bhāgavate (11/28/4)—

kiṁ bhadraṁ kim abhadraṁ vā dvaitasyāvastunaḥ kiyat
vācoditaṁ tad anṛtaṁ manasā dhyātam eva ca

Translation: ‘Anything not conceived in relationship to Kṛṣṇa should be understood to be illusion [māyā]. None of the illusions uttered by words or conceived in the mind are factual. Because illusion is not factual, there is no distinction between what we think is good and what we think is bad. When we speak of the Absolute Truth, such speculations do not apply.’

Purport:This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.28.4).

Jayapatākā Swami: So, just as in Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Lord Caitanya said, ‘ei bhāla, ei manda’,—ei saba manera ‘bhrama’, this are all material illusions.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.176

ślokera sarala nigalitārthaḥ—

‘dvaite’ bhadrābhadra-jñāna, saba—’manodharma’
‘ei bhāla, ei manda’,—ei saba ‘bhrama’

Translation: “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations. Therefore, saying ‘This is good’ and ‘This is bad’ is all a mistake.

Purport: Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the Absolute Truth, ever existing with different varieties of energies. When one is absorbed in the illusory energy of Kṛṣṇa and cannot understand Kṛṣṇa, one cannot ascertain what is good for him and what is bad. Conceptions of good and bad are all imaginations or mental speculations. When one forgets that he is an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, he wants to enjoy the material world through different plans. At that time he distinguishes between material plans that are good and those that are bad. Actually, however, they are all false.

Jayapatākā Swami: Since the material world is an illusion, the conception of good and bad in material consideration makes no sense and therefore one has to rise above these material conceptions and see the Absolute Truth.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.177

śrīmad-bhagavad-gītāya (5.18)—

vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini
śuni caiva śva-pāke ca paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ

Translation: “The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater.’

Purport: This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (5.18).

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.178

yukta-vairāgī śuddha-bhakta gosvāmīrai sarvatra kṛṣṇa-sambandha-hetu samadarśanaḥ—śrīmad-bhagavad-gītāya (6.8) —

jñāna-vijñāna-tṛptātmā kūṭa-stho vijitendriyaḥ
yukta ity ucyate yogī sama-loṣṭrāśma-kāñcanaḥ

Translation: ‘One who is fully satisfied in knowledge obtained and practically applied in life, who is always determined and fixed in his spiritual position, who completely controls his senses, and who sees pebbles, stones and gold on the same level is understood to be a perfect yogī.’

Purport: This is also a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (6.8).

Jayapatākā Swami: Since the devotee, he doesn’t want to enjoy in this material world, he sees the material energy as something to be used in Kṛṣṇa’s service. Therefore, he doesn’t see anything in terms of the material value, rather he sees how to engage them in Kṛṣṇa's service.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.179

jaḍa-vidhiniṣedhātīta naiṣkarmalabdha sannyāsī vā mahā-bhāgavaterai sarvatra viṣṇupratītihetu jaḍabheda-jñānaja vaiṣamyahīna sudarśanaḥ—

āmi ta’—sannyāsī, āmāra ‘sama-dṛṣṭi’ dharma
candana-paṅkete āmāra jñāna haya ‘sama’

Translation: “Since I am in the renounced order, My duty is to make no distinctions and be equipoised. My knowledge must be equally disposed toward sandalwood pulp and dirty mud.

Purport: It is the duty of a sannyāsī, a person in the renounced order, to be always equipoised, and that is also the duty of a learned man and a Vaiṣṇava. A Vaiṣṇava, a sannyāsī or a learned person has no conception of the material world; in other words, he has no conception of anything materially important. He has no desire to use sandalwood pulp for sense gratification, nor does sense gratification make him hate mud. Acceptance or rejection of material things is not the concern of a sannyāsī, a Vaiṣṇava or a learned person. An advanced devotee has no desire to enjoy or reject anything. His only duty is to accept whatever is favorable for the advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. A Vaiṣṇava should be indifferent to material enjoyment and renunciation and should always hanker for the spiritual life of rendering service to the Lord.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, here Lord Caitanya is giving explanation what consciousness should be held by a sannyāsī, a Vaiṣṇava or a learned person.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 4.180

svadharmacyutira āśaṅkāhetu aprākṛta-vaiṣṇave prākṛta-buddhira niṣiddhatāḥ—

ei lāgi’ tomā tyāga karite nā yuyāya
ghṛṇā-buddhi kari yadi, nija-dharma yāya”

Translation: “For this reason, I cannot reject you. If I hated you, I would deviate from My occupational duty.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, here we see a sannyāsī should be equipoised and how a sannyāsī and a Vaiṣṇava has to encourage everybody in devotional service.

Thus ends the chapter entitled, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita is chastised for Advising Sanātana Gosvāmī
Under the section: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī