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Mission of Lord Chaitanya Çré Amalaki Ekadäsé Issue no:131 6th March 2020 MISSION OF LORD CHAITANYA SANATANA GOSWAMIS REQUEST WHY IS NO ONE EQUAL TO OR GREATER Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura THAN KRISHNA? Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura UNDErsTANDING THE ATMARAMA VErsE His Divine Grace KRISHNA IS THE GREATEST FORM OF GOD A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Çré Sanatana Goswami MIssION OF LORD CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU Srila Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakura Circulaton 29, 631 Issue no 130, Page — 2 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä SANATANA GOSWAMIS REQUEST UNDErsTANDING THE ATMARAMA VErsE Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada In loving compliance to Sri Sanatana Goswa- mis request, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ex- ätmärämäç ca munayo plained the well-known Çrémad-Bhägavatam nirgranthäapyurukrame verse beginning ätmärämäç ca munayaù. He kurvantyahaitukéàbhaktim explained this verse in sixty-one different ways. ittham-bhüta-guëohariù He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations. Adding the Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu explained words ca and api, He described all the different this çloka very vividly before His chief devotee meanings of the verse. He then concluded that Çréla Sanatana Goswami. He pointed out eleven different classes of transcendentalists (jïänés, factors in the çloka, namely (1) ätmäräma, (2) karmés, yogés) utilize this verse according to munayaù, (3) nirgrantha, (4) api, (5) ca, (6) their own interpretation, but that if they would urukrama, (7) kurvanti, (8) ahaitukém, (9) give up this process and surrender to Krishna, bhaktim, (10) ittham-bhüta-guëaù and (11) as indicated by the verse itself, they would be hariù. According to the Viçva-prakäça Sanskrit able to comprehend the real meaning of the dictionary, there are seven synonyms for the verse. In this regard, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu word ätmä, which are as follows: (1) Brahman narrated a story about how the great sage Narada (the Absolute Truth), (2) body, (3) mind, (4) converted a hunter into a great Vaisnava, and endeavor, (5) endurance, (6) intelligence and how this was appreciated by Narada’s friend (7) personal habits. Parvata Muni. Sanatana Goswami then offered The word munayaù refers to (1) those who are a prayer to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and Sri thoughtful, (2) those who are grave and silent, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu explained the glory of (3) ascetics, (4) the persistent, (5) mendicants, Çrémad-Bhägavatam. After this, the Lord gave (6) sages and (7) saints. Sanatana Goswami a synopsis of Hari-bhak- The word nirgrantha conveys these ideas: (1) ti-viläsa, which Sanatana Goswami later devel- one who is liberated from nescience, (2) one oped into the guiding principle of all Vaisnavas. who has no connection with scriptural injunc- —Çréla Bhaktivinoda Öhäkura’s Amåta-praväha-bhäñya summary of tion, i.e., who is freed from the obligation of the Sri Caitanya caritamrta, Madhya Khanda, chapter 24. rules and regulations mentioned in the revealed Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.ibmedu.org nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 130, Page—3 scriptures like ethics, Vedas, philosophy, psychol- in the Bhägavatam. The forms of liberation are ogy and metaphysics (in other words the fools, five in number. illiterate, urchins, etc., who have no connection Therefore, unalloyed devotion means service to with regulative principles), (3) a capitalist, and the Lord without desire for the above-mentioned also (4) one who is penniless. personal benefits. And the powerful Personality According to the Çabda-koça dictionary, the of Godhead Sri Krishna can be fully satisfied by affix ni is used in the sense of (1) certainty, (2) such unalloyed devotees free from all sorts of counting, (3) building, and (4) forbiddance, and desires for personal benefit. the word grantha is used in the sense of wealth, Unalloyed devotional service of the Lord pro- thesis, vocabulary, etc. gresses in different stages. Practice of devotional The word urukrama means "the one whose service in the material field is of eighty-one dif- activities are glorious." Krama means "step." This ferent qualities, and above such activities is the word specifically indicates the Lord's incarnation transcendental stage of devotional service, which as Vamana, who covered the whole universe by is one and is called sädhana-bhakti. When un- immeasurable steps. Lord Visnu is powerful, and alloyed practice of sädhana-bhakti matures into His activities are so glorious that He has created transcendental love for the Lord, the transcen- the spiritual world by His internal potency and the dental loving service of the Lord begins gradually material world by His external potency. By His developing into nine progressive stages of loving all-pervading features He is everywhere present service under the headings of attachment, love, as the Supreme Truth, and in His personal fea- affection, feelings, affinity, adherence, following, ture He is always present in His transcendental ecstasy, and intense feelings of separation. abode of Goloka Vrindavan, where He displays The attachment of an inactive devotee develops His transcendental pastimes in all variegatedness. up to the stage of transcendental love of God. At- His activities cannot be compared to anyone tachment of an active servitor develops up to the else's, and therefore the word urukrama is just stage of adherence, and that of a friendly devotee applicable to only Him. develops up to the stage of following, and the According to Sanskrit verbal arrangement, same is also the case for the parental devotees. kurvanti refers to doing things for someone Devotees in conjugal love develop ecstasy up to else. Therefore, it means that the ätmärämas the stage of intense feelings of separation. These render devotional service unto the Lord not for are some of the features of unalloyed devotional personal interest but for the pleasure of the Lord, service of the Lord. Urukrama. According to the Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya, the The word hetu means "causal." There are import of the word ittham-bhüta is "complete many causes for one's sense satisfaction, and bliss." Transcendental bliss in the realization of they can be chiefly classified as material enjoy- impersonal Brahman becomes comparable to ment, mystic powers and liberation, which are the scanty water contained in the pit made by generally desired by progressive persons. As far a cow's hoof. It is nothing compared with the as material enjoyments are concerned, they are ocean of bliss of the vision of the Personality of innumerable, and the materialists are eager to Godhead. The personal form of Lord Sri Krishna increase them more and more because they are is so attractive that it comprehends all attraction, under the illusory energy. There is no end to the all bliss and all tastes (rasas). These attractions list of material enjoyments, nor can anyone in the are so strong that no one wants to exchange material universe have all of them. As far as the them for material enjoyment, mystic powers and mystic powers are concerned, they are eight in liberation. There is no need of logical arguments all (such as to become the minutest in form, to in support of this statement, because from one's become weightless, to have anything one desires, own nature a person becomes attracted by the to lord it over the material nature, to control other qualities of Lord Sri Krishna. We must know for living beings, to throw earthly globes in outer certain that the qualities of the Lord have nothing space, etc.). These mystic powers are mentioned to do with mundane qualities. All of them are full of bliss, knowledge and eternity. There are innu- www.ibmedu.org Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya Issue no 130, Page — 4 Top left 4 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä merable qualities of the Lord, and one devotee of nine devotional activities, such as hearing and is attracted by a particular quality while another chanting, becomes manifested. may be attracted by a different transcendental By His personal features and transcendental quality of the Lord. attributes, the Lord attracts all psychological Great sages, such as the four bachelor-devotees activities of a pure devotee. Such is the attrac- Sanaka, Sanatana, Sananda and Sanat-kumara, tive power of Lord Krishna. The attraction is so were attracted by the fragrance of flowers and powerful that a pure devotee never hankers for tulasi leaves anointed with the pulp of sandal- any one of the four principles of religion. These wood offered at the lotus feet of the Lord. Sim- are the attractive features of the transcendental ilarly, Sukadeva Goswami was attracted by the attributes of the Lord. And adding to this the transcendental pastimes of the Lord. Sukadeva words api and ca, one can increase the imports Goswami was already situated in the liberated unlimitedly. According to Sanskrit grammar stage, yet he was attracted by the pastimes of the there are seven synonyms for the word api. Lord. This proves that the quality of His pastimes So by interpreting each and every word of has nothing to do with material affairs. Similarly, this çloka, one can see the unlimited number the young cowherd damsels were attracted by of transcendental qualities of Lord Krishna that the bodily features of the Lord, and Rukmini was attract the minds of His pure devotees. attracted by hearing about the glories of the Lord. —Çrémad-Bhägavatam (Bhägavata Puräëa) » Canto 7: The Science of Lord Krishna attracts even the mind of the god- God » Chapter Seven » Verse: 10, Purport by His Divine Grace A.C.Bhak- dess of fortune. In specific cases,He attracts the tivedanta Swami Prabhupada. minds of multitude of young girls. He attracts the TRANscENDENTAL QUALITIES OF LORD KRISHNA minds of the elderly ladies by maternal affection. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura He attracts the mind of the male in the humors of servitude and friendship. By adopting the chanting of the name of The word hari conveys various meanings, but Krishna, one loses the inclination to speak on the chief import of the word is that Lord Sri Krish- topics that are not related to Krishna.
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