20240722 Śrī Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta 1.3. Kṛṣṇa — Energy of Kṛṣṇa and Mellow

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

Śrī Caitanya-Śikṣāmṛta

The Nectar of the teachings of Śrī Caitanya

Today’s chapter is: First shower—Third stream

Transformation of various energies --

As stated in the instruction to Sanātana Gosvāmī, —(Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.257)

yadyapi asṛjya nitya cic-chakti-vilāsa
tathāpi saṅkarṣaṇa-icchāya tāhāra prakāśa

Although there is no question of creation as far as the spiritual world is concerned, the spiritual world is nonetheless manifested by the supreme will of Saṅkarṣaṇa. The spiritual world is the abode of the pastimes of the eternal spiritual energy.

Another name of the shadow potency is material nature, about which is stated:—

māyā-dvāre sṛje teṅho brahmāṇḍera gaṇa
jaḍa-rūpā prakṛti nahe brahmāṇḍa-kāraṇa

jaḍa haite sṛṣṭi nahe īśvara-śakti vine
tāhātei saṅkarṣaṇa kare śaktira ādhāne

īśvarera śaktye sṛṣṭi karaye prakṛti
lauha yena agni-śaktye pāya dāha-śakti

By the agency of the material energy, this same Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa creates all the universes. The dull material energy — known in modern language as nature — is not the cause of the material universe. Without the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s energy, dull matter cannot create the cosmic manifestation. Its power does not arise from the material energy itself but is endowed by Saṅkarṣaṇa. Dull matter alone cannot create anything. The material energy produces the creation by the power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Iron itself has no power to burn, but when iron is placed in fire, it is empowered to burn. (Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.259-261)

The name of Kṛṣṇa’s kriyā-śakti (creative energy) is saṅkarṣaṇa-śakti. The temporary transformation of māyā-śakti is the material world. Something will be clear about the taṭastha or the jīva-śakti (the living entity potency) in the fourth stream.

Jayapatākā Swami: So the spiritual energy is manifest but never destroyed. So Balarāma, He manifests the Hari-dhāma and Goloka-dhāma. But in the material world there is a creation, maintenance and destruction. So Lord Kṛṣṇa does this through His different energies. In this way, the material world’s fantastic creation is manifested for some time and destroyed at some time. So we were discussing in the TOVP meeting how the cells are so complicated, that it is not possible for these complicated cells to come about accidentally! And also, that this matter will somehow produce consciousness and life. That is also not possible. So, we were discussing these things today.

Rasa-tattva —

Kṛṣṇa Himself is rasa-tattva. Thaṭa is said in the Vedas. In the seventh shower, first stream, the rasa-tattva which will be discussed, what is the tattva of rasa will be experienced. The word is material; so whatever the word says, even if it is very carefully said, will rise as material or as if material. If the reader is truly faithful, then the transcendental rasa will arise in his pure consciousness. It happens as the result of good association and fortune. It does not arise if arguments are presented.

Due to bad association, the material rasa will make the inquisitive to fall down in the form of sahajiyāism. Special care should be taken to feel the rasa-tattva. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself is the unlimited rasa with sixty-four transcendental qualities.

Note: Bhaktirasāmṭa-sindhu, 1st wave of southern division:

ayaṁ netā su-ramyāṅgaḥ
sarva-sal-lakṣaṇānvitaḥ
ruciras tejasā yukto
balīyān vayasānvitaḥ

vividhādbhuta-bhāṣā-vit
satya-vākyaḥ priyaṁ-vadaḥ
vāvadūkaḥ su-pāṇḍityo
buddhimān pratibhānvitaḥ

vidagdhaś caturo dakṣaḥ
kṛta-jñaḥ su-dṛḍha-vrataḥ
deśa-kāla-supātra-jñaḥ
śāstra-cakṣuḥ śucir vaśī

sthiro dāntaḥ kṣamā-śīlo
gambhīro dhṛtimān samaḥ
vadānyo dhārmikaḥ śūraḥ
karuṇo mānya-māna-kṛt

dakṣiṇo vinayī hrīmān
śaraṇāgata-pālakaḥ
sukhī bhakta-suhṛt prema-
vaśyaḥ sarva-śubhaṅ-karaḥ

pratāpī kīrtimān rakta-
lokaḥ sādhu-samāśrayaḥ
nārī-gaṇa-manohārī
sarvārādhyaḥ samṛddhimān

varīyān īśvaraś ceti
guṇās tasyānukīrtitāḥ
samudrā iva pañcāśad
durvigāhā harer amī

jīveṣv ete vasanto ’pi
bindu-bindutayā kvacit
paripūrṇatayā bhānti
tatraiva puruṣottame

atha pañca-guṇā ye syur
aṁśena giriśādiṣu
sadā svarūpa-samprāptaḥ
sarva-jño nitya-nūtanaḥ

sac-cid-ānanda-sāndrāṅgaḥ
cidānanda-ghanākṛtiḥ
svavaśya-akhila-siddhiḥ syāt
(The above two lines are seen here which

are not seen in the present editions of Bhaktirasāmṛta-sindhu)

sarva-siddhi-niṣevitaḥ
athocyante guṇāḥ pañca
ye lakṣmīśādi-vartinaḥ
avicintya-mahā-śaktiḥ

koṭi-brahmāṇḍa-vigrahaḥ
avatārāvalī-bījaṁ
hatāri-gati-dāyakaḥ
ātmārāma-gaṇākarṣīty

amī kṛṣṇe kilādbhutāḥ
sarvādbhuta-camatkāra-
līlā-kallola-vāridhiḥ
atulya-madhura-prema-

maṇḍita-priya-maṇḍalaḥ
tri-jagan-mānasākarṣi-
muralī-kala-kūjitaḥ
asamānordhva-rūpa-śrī-

vismāpita-carācaraḥ
līlā premṇā priyādhikyaṁ
mādhuryaṁ veṇu-rūpayoḥ
ity asādhāraṇaṁ proktaṁ

govindasya catuṣṭayam
evaṁ guṇāś catur-bhedāś
catuḥ-ṣaṣṭir udāhṛtāḥ

Kṛṣṇa, the supreme hero, has the most beautiful transcendental body. This body possesses all good features. It is radiant and very pleasing to the eyes. His body is powerful, strong and youthful. Kṛṣṇa is the linguist of all wonderful languages. He is a truthful and very pleasing speaker. He is expert in speaking, and He is a very wise, learned scholar and a genius. Kṛṣṇa is very expert in artistic enjoyment. He is highly cunning, expert, grateful and firmly determined in His vows. He knows how to deal according to time, person and country, and He sees through the scriptures and authoritative books. He is very clean and self-controlled. Lord Kṛṣṇa is steady, His senses are controlled, and He is forgiving, grave and calm. He is also equal to all. Moreover, He is magnanimous, religious, chivalrous and kind. He is always respectful to respectable people. Kṛṣṇa is very simple and liberal, He is humble and bashful, and He is the protector of the surrendered souls. He is very happy, and He is always the well-wisher of His devotees. He is all-auspicious, and He is submissive to love. Kṛṣṇa is very influential and famous, and He is the object of attachment for everyone. He is the shelter of the good and the virtuous. He is attractive to the minds of women, and He is worshiped by everyone. He is very, very rich. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme, and He is always glorified as the Supreme Lord and controller. Thus, all the previously mentioned transcendental qualities are in Him. The fifty qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead mentioned above are as deep as an ocean. In other words, they are difficult to fully comprehend. These qualities are sometimes very minutely exhibited in living beings, but they are fully manifested in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Apart from these fifty qualities, there are five other qualities found in the Supreme Personality of Godhead that are partially present in demigods like Śiva. These qualities are (1) the Lord is always situated in His original position, (2) He is omniscient, (3) He is always fresh and youthful, (4) He is the concentrated form of eternity, knowledge and bliss, and (5) He is the possessor of all mystic perfection. There are another five qualities, which exist in the Vaikuṇṭha planets in Nārāyaṇa, the Lord of Lakṣmī. These qualities are also present in Kṛṣṇa, but they are not present in demigods like Lord Śiva or in other living entities. These are (1) the Lord possesses inconceivable supreme power, (2) He generates innumerable universes from His body, (3) He is the original source of all incarnations, (4) He bestows salvation upon enemies He kills, and (5) He has the ability to attract exalted persons who are satisfied in themselves. Although these qualities are present in Nārāyaṇa, the dominating Deity of the Vaikuṇṭha planets, they are even more wonderfully present in Kṛṣṇa. Apart from these sixty transcendental qualities, Kṛṣṇa has an additional four transcendental qualities, which are not manifested even in the personality of Nārāyaṇa. These are: (1) Kṛṣṇa is like an ocean filled with waves of pastimes that evoke wonder within everyone in the three worlds. (2) In His activities of conjugal love, He is always surrounded by His dear devotees who possess unequaled love for Him. (3) He attracts the minds of all three worlds with the melodious vibration of His flute. (4) His personal beauty and opulence are beyond compare. No one is equal to Him, and no one is greater than Him. Thus the Personality of Godhead astonishes all living entities, both moving and nonmoving, within the three worlds. He is so beautiful that He is called Kṛṣṇa. Above Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa has four specific transcendental qualities — His wonderful pastimes, an abundance of wonderful associates who are very dear to Him [like the gopīs], His wonderful beauty and the wonderful vibration of His flute. Lord Kṛṣṇa is more exalted than ordinary living beings and demigods like Lord Śiva.

Jayapatākā Swami: So here we have the glories of Lord Kṛṣṇa. We heard the father of Vyāsadeva, he had studied these qualities. So, fifty qualities with minute quantity are with Lord Brahmā. And five qualities more are with Lord Śiva. And five more with Lord Nārāyaṇa. That adds up to sixty. But Lord Kṛṣṇa has special four qualities were which were explained in this verse read by Gopati Kṛṣṇa dāsa in his secret hidden mike! So my mike is not secret or hidden, it is very big!

He is even more exalted than His personal expansion Nārāyaṇa. In all, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has sixty-four transcendental qualities in full.’ Out of those sixty-four qualities, fifty qualities exist in minute quantities as drops in the living entities. These fifty qualities are seen more in quantity and five more qualities in Śiva, Brahmā, Gaṇeśa, Sūrya and so on. Therefore, even though they are the separated expansions (vibhinnāṁśa), they are designated by the name ‘Īśvara’. These fifty-five qualities are seen in full form, and five more qualities are also seen in full form in Nārāyaṇa Viṣṇu and His incarnations.

The sixty qualities of viṣṇu-tattva and four more supremely transcendental extraordinary qualities are present in Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, Kṛṣṇa is the only supreme-controller, all-powerful and reservoir of all mellows (rasa). Whatever varieties of svarūpa-śakti (Kṛṣṇa’s personal energy) are present, all of them are instruments in the mellows of śānta, dāsya, vātsalya, sakhya and madhura. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, the essence of hlādinī (pleasure potency), is the chief of all. Even though this rasa resides eternally in Goloka-vraja, by the desire of Kṛṣṇa, yogamāyā cic-śakti (the internal spiritual potency of the Lord), manifests that rasa in complete form in bhauma-vraja (Vṛndāvana-dhāma on this planet).

Those whose intelligence has not gained the power to transcend the material nature will not be able to mīmāmsā comprehend or experience this immense rasa-tattva. Therefore, they will neglect the vraja-rasa as material. Therefore, Śrīmad-Bhāgavata has said that those who faithfully recite or listen to the mellow of Vraja, only they will soon attain loving devotional service and freedom from the heart disease rising from material nature. This is the ultimate teaching of Mahāprabhu.

Jayapatākā Swami: So in the class this morning I was mentioning how we have to take shelter of Śrī Mahāprabhu. Siddha Jagannātha Bābājī, he came from Vṛndāvana and he lived here in Māyāpur because he felt that Vṛndāvana was very ‘hot’ because you get a thousand times of the spiritual benefit but you also have to get a thousand times reaction for any offence. So that was very difficult for him to take. He came here and he achieved his siddha-svarūpa. Therefore, we call him as Siddha Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī. He was the one who located the birthplace of Lord Caitanya with Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. So here we are getting the essence from Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. So we are building the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium and this road from the temple goes to the residence of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. So today we heard from Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura about the beauty of Lord Kṛṣṇa.  About the beauty of Lord Kṛṣṇa so we can all keep His beauty in mind. So we can all keep His beauty in our mind. Haribol!

Kṛṣṇe matir astu!

You see like here we have Rādhā Mādhava and Aṣṭa-sakhi, and Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī is the 9^th sakhi. So that is why we say that we are rūpānugas.