Sri Krishna Kathamrita Tav k QaaMa*Ta& TaáJaqvNaMa( tava kathāmta tapta-jīvanam BBBiiinnndududu Issue No. 122 Fortnightly email mini-magazine from Gopal Jiu Publications 24 February 2006 Śrī Vijayā Ekādaśī, 11 Govinda, 519 Gaurābda Circulation 1,676 • METHODS DIFFER BUT THE GOAL IS THE SAME By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada • THE NOURISHMENT OF THE DESIRE TREE OF LOVE Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada’s • THE HOLY NAME IS THE RELIGION OF THIS AGE Srila Thakur Bhaktivinode Śrī Hari-nāma-cintāmai chapter one • NITAI MEETS ISVARA PURI Prema-vilāsa 7.37-49 PAGE ONE TOP COLLUMN TWO • INITIATION FROM ISHWARA PURI Highlights Highlights Srila Narahari Chakravarti’s • THE TREASURE HOUSE OF TRANSCENDENTAL VIRTUES Sri Prema Das METHODS DIFFER BUT THE materialists. Every ācārya has a specific means of propagating his spiritual move- OAL IS THE AME G S ment with the aim of bringing men to Translation and purport to Krishna consciousness. Therefore, the Śri Chaitanya-caritāmta 7.37 method of one ācārya may be different By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta from that of another, but the ultimate goal Swami Prabhupada is never neglected. Srila Rupa Goswami aparādha kamāila, ubila prema-jale recommends: kebā eāibe prabhura prema-mahājāle tasmāt kenāpy upāyena mana k e niveśayet Lord Chaitanya excused sarve vidhi-niedhā syur etayor eva ki karā them all, and they merged One must somehow think of Krishna, whether in a into the ocean of devotional friendly way or inimically. All of the injunctions of śāstra are servants of this principle. [The first line is service, for no one can escape from Bhāg. 7.1.32. The second is from Padma Purā a.] the unique loving network of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. An ācārya should devise a means by which people may somehow or other come to PURPORT Krishna consciousness. First they should be- Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was an ideal come Krishna conscious, and all the pre- ācārya. An ācārya is an ideal teacher who scribed rules and regulations may later gradu- knows the purport of the revealed scrip- ally be introduced. In our Krishna conscious- tures, behaves exactly according to their ness movement we follow this policy of Lord injunctions, and teaches his students to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. For example, adopt these principles also. As an ideal since boys and girls in the Western countries ācārya, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu devised freely intermingle, special concessions regard- ways to capture all kinds of atheists and ing their customs and habits are necessary to next column ! ! Issue One hundred twenty two, Page — 2 é[q k* Z<ak QaaMa*Ta ibNdu top left 2 Top right 2 bring them to Krishna consciousness. The visits the place of Sri Iswara Puri carries ācārya must devise a means to bring them to some dirt back with him. Sri Madhavendra devotional service. Therefore, although I am Puri was the first fructified seed of the de- a sannyāsī I sometimes take part in getting sire tree of devotional service, and Sri boys and girls married, although in the his- Iswara Puri is the nourishment of that fruc- tory of sannyāsa no sannyāsī has personally tified seed (Cc. ādi 9.11). taken part in marrying his disciples. — Vrindavan Das Thakur. Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata with commentary of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur. En- THE NOURISHMENT OF glish translation by Bhumipati Das. Edited and pub- lished by Pundarik Vidyanidhi Das. Vrajaraj Press. THE DESIRE TREE OF LOVE Vrindavan. 2001. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada THE HOLY NAME IS Purport to THE RELIGION OF THIS AGE Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata ādi 9.170 Srila Thakur Bhaktivinode Śrī Hari-nāma-cintāmai chapter one īśvara-purī-brahmānanda-purī-ādi yata sarva śiya hailena nityānande rata Nāmālocanāra Mukhya-patha Iswara Puri, Brahmananda Puri, (The holy name is the direct path.) and the other disciples of prabhu tumi jīvera ma gala cintā kari’ Madhavendra Puri all felt great kali-yuge nāma-sa ge svaya avatari’ attachment for Lord Nityānanda. [Haridas Thakur told Sri Sri Iswara Puri was born in Chaitanya Mahaprabhu:] “O a brāhma a family of Kumarahatta (near the Supreme Lord, thinking how to Halisahara Station on the E.B. Railway Line) benefit the conditioned souls, in and was a beloved disciple of Sri Kali-yuga you descended to this world with Madhavendra Puri. The Caitanya-caritāmta the holy name. (77) (antya 8.28-30) describes how Sriman yuga-dharma pracārile nāma-sa kīrtana Madhavendra, being pleased by his service, mukhya-pathe jīva pāya k a-prema-dhana benedicted him with the following words: “You taught that nāma-sa kīrtana (chanting “May you obtain the wealth of love for of the holy name) is the yuga-dharma (religion Krishna.” Prior to enacting the pastime of of the age). By following this direct path of initiating Mahaprabhu with the ten-syllable chanting the holy name, the conditioned souls mantra at Gaya, Sri Iswara Puri came to attain a great treasure of love for Lord Nabadwip and resided at the house of Krishna. (78) Gopinath Acharya for one month. At that time he had discussions with Adwaita nāmera smara a āra nāma-sa kīrtana Prabhu and Mahaprabhu in which he re- ei mātra dharma jīva karibe pālana cited to them his book, Śrī K a-līlāmta “Simply by chanting or remembering the (Caitanya-caritāmta, ādi-līlā, chapter 11). holy name the conditioned souls will become When Sriman Mahaprabhu visited delivered. (79) Kumarahatta to see the birthplace of Sripad Bibliography Iswara Puri, He took some dirt from that place and bound it in His outer garment in — Bhaktivinode Thakur. Śrī Hari-nāma-cintāma i. Sri Chaitanya Gaudiya Math. Mayapur. Bengali. Gaurabdha 497. order to teach the living entities how to re- — Bhaktivinode Thakur. Śrī Hari-nāma-cintāma i. English spect one’s spiritual master (Cc. ādi 17.101). translation by Sri Kusakratha Das. Krishna Library. Culver Even today, every Gaudiya Vaishnava who City, California. 1994 ! ! TopSri leftKr 3ishna-kathamrita Bindu top rightIssue 3 One hundred twenty two, Page — 3 NITAI MEETS ISVARA PURI always floated in his own tears. And Iswara Prema-vilāsa 7.37-49 Puri became mad with ecstasy after accept- ing the deliverer of the universe, Lord One day a sannyāsī came to the house of Vishwambhar, as his disciple. Hadai Pandit to beg alms. The pious Hadai You may say that Lord Chaitanya is the Pandit happily agreed, requesting what the guru of the entire universe, yet He accepted sannyāsī would like. “Give me your son.” the a guru. This is certainly puzzling. Therefore I sannyāsī said, “He will assist me as I travel on say that to instruct the people in general the pilgrimage.” Hadai was heart-broken with Lord established the principles of religion by separation, but he kept his promise and turned His own example. over his son to the care of the sannyāsī. Al- — Mathurā-ma ala Parikramā. Translated from chapter five though he was a disciple of that sannyāsī, of Srila Narahari Chakravarti Thakur’s, Śrī Bhakti-ratnākara. Nityananda Prabhu did not accept a sannyāsa- Published by Pundarika Das. Vrindavan. No date. da a. He dressed as an avadhūta and wan- HE REASURE OUSE OF dered about on pilgrimage for many years, T T H absorbed in remembrance of Sri Nandanandan TRANSCENDENTAL VIRTUES Krishna. Once he met Iswara Puri, who said Sri Prema Das to him smilingly, “You have finished your pil- The poet Prema Das (c. 1712 A.D.), or grimage. Now you must begin your mission. Premananda Das as he sometimes identified him- Krishna has manifested Himself in Nabadwip. self in his poems, was the author of the famous Go and search for him.” Nityananda Prabhu Vaśī-śikā, a book that describes the life of and Vishwarup (Shankararanya) were the Mahaprabhu’s associate Sri Vamsi-vadana. Prema same personality; both were manifestations of Das was born in the village Kuliya, near Sankarshan, Balaram. Nabadwip. When he was 16 years old he left home Bibliography and went to Vraja where he became a cook for Govindaji, the deity of Srila Rupa Goswami. Al- — Nityananda Das. Prema-vilāsa. Mahesh Library. Calcutta. 1999. Bengali. though Prema Das was an exalted vaiava and a talented poet, his poems are not so well known. — Unknown translator. The Acarya’s Songs and Poems Glo- rifying Lord Gauranga and Lord Govinda. Found in the The following song was composed as a caturdaśa- Vai ava Folio Archives. Compiled by Sri Narasingha svarāvalī — based on a sequence of 14 vowel sounds Caitanya Matha. No date. beginning each successive line. This is somewhat INITIATION FROM ISHWARA PURI akin to the style of constrained English writing Srila Narahari Chakravarti’s known as “alphabet acrostic” wherein each line begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. Śrī Bhakti-ratnākara 5.2100 to 2107 (Kāmoda-rāga) A few days after the disappearance of his father, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu went to aśea gu era nidhi gaurā ga-sundara Gaya to perform śrāddha. At that time the ānande vibhora sadā nadīyā-nāgara most fortunate Iswara Puri regained his life Lord Gaurangasundara is an ocean of tran- by seeing Gaurachandra. Gaurasundara is scendental qualities. He roams in the town of the life of the devotees; thus he offered the Nadiya, always overcome with spiritual bliss. greatest affection to Iswara Puri. Lord Chaitanya spoke his initiation mantra in indu jini vadanera śobhā manohara Iswara Puri’s ear and then, receiving the īśvara brahmādi yāre bhāve nirantara mantra back from Iswara Puri, he fell on the His glorious handsome face defeats the ground offering his obeisances. After accept- moon. Shiva, Brahma, and all the demigods ing Iswara Puri as his guru, Lord Chaitanya always worship him with ecstatic love.