Sri Kathamrita

Tav k-QaaMa*Ta& TaáJaqvNaMa( tava kathāmtaˆ tapta-jīvanam BinduBindu Fortnightly email mini-magazine from Gopal Jiu Publications Issue No. 18 11 December 2001 Śrī Utpannā Ekādaśī, 11 Keśava, 515 Gaurābda

• TRANSCENDENTAL LAUGHTER s s t t SRILA A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA h h

g • THE BAD DESIRE TO BE GURU g i i l l SRILA BHAKTISIDDHANTA SARASWATI THAKUR PRABHUPADA h h

g • REAL INTELLIGENCE g i i SRI SRIMAD GOUR GOVINDA SWAMI MAHARAJA H H · · · · · · · · • DISPLAYS OF ECSTASY

TRANSCENDENTAL Radharani. Indirectly Kutila was insulted by the following statement: “My dear Kutila, daughter LAUGHTER of Jatila, your breasts are as long as string beans HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. — simply dry and long. Your nose is so gorgeous BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA that it defies the beauty of the noses of frogs. And your eyes are more beautiful than the eyes of When a smiling person claps his dogs. Your lips defy the flaming cinders of fire, hands and leaps in the air, the smil- and your abdomen is as beautiful as a big drum. ing expression changes into atihasita, or over- Therefore, my dear beautiful Kutila, you are the whelming laughter. An example of atihasita was most beautiful of all the cowherd girls of manifested in the following incident. Krishna once , and because of your extraordinary addressed Jarati thus: “My dear good woman, beauty, I think you must be beyond the attrac- the skin of your face is now slackened, and so tion of the sweet blowing of Krishna’s flute!” your face exactly resembles a monkey’s. As such, — Nectar of Devotion, chapter 45 the king of the monkeys, Balimukha, has selected From Srila Prabhupada’s Life you as his worthy wife.” While Krishna was teas- ing Jarati in this way, she replied that she was When Prabhupada’s edition of Caitanya- certainly aware of the fact that the king of the caritāmta, madhya-lila volume 1, was first pub- monkeys was trying to marry her, but she had lished, devotees were surprised and pleased to already taken shelter of Krishna, the killer of many read about the humorous joking between Lord powerful demons, and therefore she had already Nityananda and Advaita Acharya during the decided to marry Krishna instead of the king of taking of prasādam at Advaita Acharya’s house. the monkeys. On hearing this sarcastic reply by One morning, during a car ride with Srila the talkative Jarati, all the cowherd girls present Prabhupada, one of the devotees expressed his there began to laugh very loudly and clap their appreciation for the new volume. hands. This laughter, accompanied by the clap- “There is such nice humor in the Caitanya- ping of hands, is called atihasita. caritāmta, Srila Prabhupada.” Sometimes there are indirect sarcastic remarks, “Yes,” said Srila Prabhupada, “spiritual life which also create atihasita circumstances. An is humor also.” Then he began to tell a story: example of one such remark is a statement that “Krishna said to one old lady, ‘You are so ugly, was made by one of the cowherd girls to Kutila, you should marry a monkey.’ the daughter of Jatila and the sister of “‘No,’ said the old lady, ‘I have given up all Abhimanyu, the so-called husband of material desires. I will marry you, Krishna!’ Issue Eighteen, Page — 2 é[q k*-Z