Encyclopedia of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
The Last Days of Caitanya Mahฤprabhu as per Krishnadas Kaviraja
ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu – (18 February 1486 โ 14 June 1533)
According to one traditional chronology, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu entered Samadhi on 14 June 1533 CE at Puri. Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami, however, completed his celebrated Chaitanya Charitamrita much later in Vrindavana, in ลaka 1537 (CE 1615), during the month of Jyaistha (MayโJune), on Sunday, the fifth day of the waning moon (Kแนแนฃแนa Pakแนฃa Paรฑcamฤซ). As the work was completed approximately eighty-two years after the Mahฤprabhu’s passing, Krishnadas Kaviraj had no firsthand knowledge of the final moments of ลrฤซ Caitanya. He was not present at Puri during the Mahฤprabhu’s last days and, according to available historical evidence, did not personally visit Puri after the Mahฤprabhu’s disappearance. Consequently, he does not provide a direct account of the Mahฤprabhu’s final moments or describe the location or circumstances of His Samadhi. His narrative instead concentrates on the life, teachings, devotional philosophy, and transcendental pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya, relying upon earlier oral traditions and the testimonies of senior Vaiแนฃแนava associates for events that preceded his own lifetime. Nityananda Prabhu died in 1542 or 1545 in Khardaha (under Khardaha Municipality).
The original Text is in Bengali
18.1: On a radiant autumn night, bathed in brilliant moonlight, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, overwhelmed by the intense anguish of separation from ลrฤซ Krishna, perceived the vast ocean as the sacred Yamunฤ River. Lost in the ecstasy of divine love, He rushed toward the waves and plunged into the sea, where He remained immersed and unconscious throughout the entire night. At dawn, after an anxious search, His intimate associates discovered Him and lovingly brought Him back. May ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, the beloved son of Mother ลachฤซ, forever protect us through His sublime and transcendental pastimes.
18.2: All glories to ลrฤซ Caitanya MahฤprIn the brilliant autumn moonlight, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu mistook the sea for the river Yamunฤ. Greatly afflicted by separation from Krishna, He ran and dove into the sea and remained unconscious in the water the entire night. In the morning, He was found by His personal devotees. May that ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, the son of mother ลacฤซ, protect us by His transcendental pastimes. All glories to Nityฤnanda! All glories to Advaita ฤcฤrya! And all glories to all the devotees of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu!
18.3: While thus living at Jagannฤtha Purฤซ, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu floated all day and night in an ocean of separation from Krishna.
18.4: During a night of the autumn season when a full moon brightened everything, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu wandered all night long with His devotees.
18.5: He walked from garden to garden, seeing the pastimes of Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa and hearing and reciting songs and verses concerning the rฤsa-lฤซlฤ.
18.6: He sang and danced in ecstatic love and sometimes imitated the rฤsa dance in emotional ecstasy.
18.7: He sometimes ran here and there in the divinity of ecstasy and sometimes fell and rolled on the ground. Sometimes He became completely unconscious.
18.8: When He heard Svarลซpa Dฤmodara recite a verse concerning the rฤsa-lฤซlฤ or He Himself recited one, He would personally explain it, as He had previously done.
18.9: In this way, He explained the meaning of all the verses concerning the rฤsa-lฤซlฤ. Sometimes He would be very sad and sometimes very happy.
18.10: To explain fully all those verses and all the transformations that took place in the Lord’s body would require a very large volume.
18.11: So as not to increase the size of this book, I have not written about all the Lord’s pastimes, for He performed them every moment of every day for twelve years.
18.12: As I have previously indicated, I am describing the ecstatic speeches and bodily transformations of the Lord only in brief.
18.13: If Ananta, with His one thousand hoods, tried to describe even one day’s pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, He would find them impossible to describe fully.
18.14: If Ganฬฃeลa, Lord ลiva’s son and the expert scribe of the demigods, tried for millions of millenniums to fully describe one day of the Lord’s pastimes, he would be unable to find their limit.
18.15: Even Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa is struck with wonder at seeing the transformations of ecstasy in His devotees. If Krishna Himself cannot estimate the limits of such emotions, how could others?
18.16-17: Krishna Himself cannot fully understand the conditions, the mode of progress, the happiness and unhappiness, and the moods of ecstatic love of His devotees. He therefore accepts the role of a devotee to taste these emotions fully.
18.18: Ecstatic love of Krishna makes Krishna and His devotees dance, and it also dances personally. In this way, all three dance together in one place.
18.19: One who wants to describe the transformations of ecstatic love of Krishna is like a dwarf trying to catch the moon in the sky.
18.20: As the wind can carry away but a drop of the water in the ocean, a living entity can touch only a particle of the ocean of love of Krishna.
18.21: Endless waves arise moment after moment in that ocean of love. How could an insignificant living entity estimate their limits?
18.22: Only a person on the level of Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ can fully know what Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu tastes in His love for Krishna.
18.23: When an ordinary living entity describes the pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, he purifies himself by touching one drop of that great ocean.
18.24: Thus, all the verses about the rฤsa-lฤซlฤ dance were recited. Then finally the verse concerning the pastimes in the water was recited.
18.25: “As an independent leader among elephants enters the water with its female elephants, Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, who is transcendental to the Vedic principles of morality, entered the water of the Yamunฤ with the gopฤซs. His chest had brushed against their breasts, crushing His flower garland and coloring it with red kuลkuma powder. Attracted by the fragrance of that garland, humming bumblebees followed Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa like celestial beings of Gandharvaloka. In this way, Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa mitigated the fatigue of the rฤsa dance.”
18.26: While thus wandering near the temple of ฤitฬฃotฬฃฤ, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu suddenly saw the sea.
18.27: Brightened by the shining light of the moon, the high waves of the sea glittered like the waters of the river Yamunฤ.
18.28: Mistaking the sea for the Yamunฤ, the Lord ran swiftly and jumped into the water, unseen by the others.
18.29: Falling into the sea, He lost consciousness and could not understand where He was. Sometimes He sank beneath the waves, and sometimes He floated above them.
18.30: The waves carried Him here and there like a piece of dry wood. Who can understand this dramatic performance by ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu?
18.31: Keeping the Lord sometimes submerged and sometimes afloat, the waves carried Him toward the Konฬฃฤrka temple.
18.32: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu fully merged in the pastimes Lord Krishna performed with the gopฤซs in the waters of the Yamunฤ.
18.33: Meanwhile, all the devotees, headed by Svarลซpa Dฤmodara, lost sight of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu. Astonished, they began searching for Him, asking, “Where has the Lord gone?”
18.34: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu had run off at the speed of the mind. No one could see Him. Thus everyone was puzzled as to His whereabouts.
18.35: “Has the Lord gone to the temple of Jagannฤtha, or has He fallen down in ecstatic condition in some garden?
18.36: “Perhaps He went to the Gunฬฃdฬฃicฤ temple, or to Lake Narendra, or to the Catฬฃaka-parvata. Maybe He went to the temple at Konฬฃฤrka.”
18.37: Talking like this, the devotees wandered here and there looking for the Lord. Finally they came to the shore, accompanied by many others.
18.38: While they were searching for the Lord, the night ended, and thus they all decided, “Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu has now disappeared.”
18.39: In separation from the Lord, everyone felt as though he had lost his very life. The devotees concluded that there must have been some mishap. They could not think of anything else.
18.40: “A relative or intimate friend is always fearful of some injury to his beloved.”
18.41: When they arrived at the seashore, they conferred among themselves. Then some of them sought out ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu at Catฬฃaka-parvata.
18.42: Svarลซpa Dฤmodara proceeded east with others, looking for the Lord on the beach or in the water.
18.43: Everyone was overwhelmed with moroseness and almost unconscious, but out of ecstatic love they continued to wander here and there, searching for the Lord.
18.44: Passing along the beach, they saw a fisherman approaching with his net over his shoulder. Laughing, crying, dancing and singing, he kept repeating the holy name “Hari, Hari.”
18.45: Seeing the activities of the fisherman, everyone was astonished. Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ, therefore, asked him for information.
18.46: “My dear fisherman,” he said, “why are you behaving like this? Have you seen someone hereabouts? What is the cause of your behavior? Please tell us.”
18.47: The fisherman replied, “I have not seen a single person here, but while casting my net in the water, I captured a dead body.
18.48: “I lifted it with great care, thinking it a big fish, but as soon as I saw that it was a corpse, great fear arose in my mind.
18.49: “As I tried to release the net, I touched the body, and as soon as I touched it, a ghost entered my heart.
18.50: “I shivered in fear and shed tears. My voice faltered, and all the hairs on my body stood up.
18.51: “I do not know whether the corpse I found was the ghost of a dead brฤhmanฬฃa or an ordinary man, but as soon as one looks upon it, the ghost enters his body.
18.52: “The body of this ghost is very long, five to seven cubits. Each of its arms and legs is as much as three cubits long.
18.53: “Its joints are all separated beneath the skin, which is completely slack. No one could see it and remain alive in his body.
18.54: “That ghost has taken the form of a corpse, but He keeps his eyes open. Sometimes He utters the sounds ‘goล-goล,’ and sometimes He remains unconscious.
18.55: “I have seen that ghost directly, and He is haunting me. But if I die, who will take care of my wife and children?
18.56: “The ghost is certainly very difficult to talk about, but I am going to find an exorcist and ask him if he can release me from it.
18.57: “I wander alone at night killing fish in solitary places, but because I remember the hymn to Lord Nrฬฃsimฬha(เคจเฅเคธเคฟเคเคน), ghosts do not touch me.
18.58: “This ghost, however, overcomes me with redoubled strength when I chant the Nrฬฃsimฬha mantra. When I even see the form of this ghost, great fear arises in my mind.
18.59: “Do not go near there. I forbid you. If you go, that ghost will catch you all.”
18.60: Hearing this, Svarลซpa Dฤmodara could understand the full truth of the matter. He spoke sweetly to the fisherman.
18.61: “I am a famous exorcist,” he said, “and I know how to rid you of this ghost.” He then chanted some mantras and placed his hand on top of the fisherman’s head.
18.62: He slapped the fisherman three times and said, “Now the ghost has gone away. Do not be afraid.” By saying this, he pacified the fisherman.
18.63: The fisherman was affected by ecstatic love, but he was also fearful. He had thus become doubly agitated. Now that his fear had subsided, however, he had become somewhat normal.
18.64: Svarลซpa Dฤmodara said to the fisherman, “My dear sir, the person you are thinking is a ghost is not actually a ghost but is the Supreme Personality of Ishvara, ลrฤซ Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
18.65: “Because of ecstatic love, the Lord fell into the sea, and you have caught Him in your net and rescued Him.
18.66: “Simply touching Him has awakened your dormant love of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, but because you thought Him a ghost, you were very much afraid of Him.
18.67: “Now that your fear has gone and your mind is peaceful, please show me where He is.”
18.68: The fisherman replied, “I have seen the Lord many times, but this is not He. This body is very much deformed.”
18.69: Svarลซpa Dฤmodara said, “The Lord’s body becomes transformed in His love for God. Sometimes the joints of His bones separate, and His body becomes very much elongated.”
18.70: Hearing this, the fisherman became very happy. He brought all the devotees with him and showed them ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
18.71: The Lord was lying on the ground, His body elongated and bleached white by the water. He was covered from head to foot with sand.
18.72: The Lord’s body was stretched, and His skin was slack and hanging loose. To lift Him and take Him the long distance home would have been impossible.
18.73: The devotees removed His wet undergarment and replaced it with a dry one. Then, laying the Lord on an outer cloth, they cleaned the sand from His body.
18.74: They all performed saลkฤซrtana, loudly chanting the holy name of Krishna into the Lord’s ear.
18.75: After some time the sound of the holy name entered the ear of the Lord, who immediately got up, making a great noise.
18.76: As soon as He got up, His bones assumed their proper places. With half-external consciousness, the Lord looked here and there.
18.77: The Lord remained in one of three different states of consciousness at all times: internal, external and half-external.
18.78: When the Lord was deeply absorbed in internal consciousness but He nevertheless exhibited some external consciousness, devotees called His condition ardha-bฤhya, or half-earthly consciousness.
18.79: In this half-earthly consciousness, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu talked like a madman. The devotees could distinctly hear Him speaking to the sky.
18.80: “Seeing the river Yamunฤ,” He said, “I went to Vrฬฃndฤvana. There I saw the son of Nanda Mahฤrฤja performing His sporting pastimes in the water.
18.81: “Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa was in the water of the Yamunฤ in the company of the gopฤซs, headed by ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ. They were performing pastimes in a great sporting manner.
18.82: “I saw this pastime as I stood on the bank of the Yamunฤ in the company of the gopฤซs. One gopฤซ was showing some other gopฤซs the pastimes of Rฤdhฤ and Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa in the water.
18.83: “All the gopฤซs entrusted their silken garments and ornaments to the care of their friends and then put on fine white cloth. Lord Krishna, taking His beloved gopฤซs with Him, bathed and performed very nice pastimes in the water of the Yamunฤ.
18.84: “My dear friends, just see Lord Krishna’s sporting pastimes in the water! Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s restless palms resemble lotus flowers. He is just like the chief of mad elephants, and the gopฤซs who accompany Him are like she-elephants.
18.85: “The sporting pastimes in the water began, and everyone started splashing water back and forth. In the tumultuous showers of water, no one could be certain which party was winning and which was losing. This sporting water fight increased unlimitedly.
18.86: “The gopฤซs were like steady streaks of lightning, and Krishna resembled a blackish cloud. The lightning began sprinkling water upon the cloud, and the cloud upon the lightning. Like thirsty cฤtaka birds, the eyes of the gopฤซs joyously drank the nectarean water from the cloud.
18.87: “As the fight began, they splashed water on one another. Then they fought hand to hand, then face to face, then chest to chest, teeth to teeth and finally nail to nail.
18.88: “Thousands of hands splashed water, and the gopฤซs saw Krishna with thousands of eyes. With thousands of legs they came near Him, and they kissed Him with thousands of faces. Thousands of bodies embraced Him. The gopฤซs heard His joking words with thousands of ears.
18.89: “Krishna forcibly swept Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ away and took Her into water up to Her neck. Then He released Her where the water was very deep. She grasped Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s neck, however, and floated on the water like a lotus flower plucked by the trunk of an elephant.
18.90: “Krishna expanded Himself into as many forms as there were gopฤซs and then took away all the garments that covered them. The water of the river Yamunฤ was crystal clear, and Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa saw the glittering bodies of the gopฤซs in great happiness.
18.91: “The lotus stems were friends of the gopฤซs and therefore helped them by offering them lotus leaves. The lotuses pushed their large, round leaves over the surface of the water with their hands, the waves of the Yamunฤ, to cover the gopฤซs’ bodies. Some gopฤซs undid their hair and kept it in front of them as dresses to cover the lower portions of their bodies and used their hands as bodices to cover their breasts.
18.92: “Then Krishna quarreled with Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ, and all the gopฤซs hid themselves in a cluster of white lotus flowers. They submerged their bodies up to their necks in the water. Only their faces floated above the surface, and the faces were indistinguishable from the lotuses.
18.93: “In the absence of the other gopฤซs, Lord Krishna behaved with ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ as freely as He desired. When the gopฤซs began searching for Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ, being of very fine intelligence and thus knowing the situation of Her friends, immediately mingled in their midst.
18.94: “Many white lotus flowers were floating in the water, and as many bluish lotus flowers came nearby. As they came close together, the white and blue lotuses collided and began fighting with one another. The gopฤซs on the bank of the Yamunฤ watched with great amusement.
18.95: “When the raised breasts of the gopฤซs, which resembled the globelike bodies of cakravฤka birds, emerged from the water in separate couples, the bluish lotuses of Krishna’s hands rose to cover them.
18.96: “The hands of the gopฤซs, which resembled red lotus flowers, arose from the water in pairs to obstruct the bluish flowers. The blue lotuses tried to plunder the white cakravฤka birds, and the red lotuses tried to protect them. Thus there was a fight between the two.
18.97: “Blue and red lotus flowers are unconscious objects, whereas cakravฤkas are conscious and alive. Nevertheless, in ecstatic love, the blue lotuses began to taste the cakravฤkas. This is a reversal of their natural behavior, but in Lord Krishna’s kingdom such reversals are a principle of His pastimes.
18.98: “The blue lotuses are friends of the sun-god, and though they all live together, the blue lotuses plunder the cakravฤkas. The red lotuses, however, blossom at night and are therefore strangers or enemies to the cakravฤkas. Yet in Krishna’s pastimes the red lotuses, which are the hands of the gopฤซs, protect their cakravฤka breasts. This is a metaphor of contradiction.”
18.99: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu continued, “In His pastimes, Krishna displayed the two ornaments of hyperbole and reverse analogy. Tasting them brought gladness to My mind and fully satisfied My ears and eyes.
18.100: “After performing such wonderful pastimes, Lord ลrฤซ Krishna went up on the shore of the Yamunฤ River, taking with Him all His beloved gopฤซs. Then the gopฤซs on the riverbank rendered service by massaging Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa and the other gopฤซs with scented oil and smearing paste of ฤmalakฤซ fruit on their bodies.
18.101: “Then they all bathed again, and after putting on dry clothing, they went to a small jeweled house, where the gopฤซ Vrฬฃndฤ arranged to dress them in forest clothing by decorating them with fragrant flowers, green leaves and all kinds of other ornaments.
18.102: “In Vrฬฃndฤvana, the trees and creepers are wonderful because throughout the entire year they produce all kinds of fruits and flowers. The gopฤซs and maidservants in the bowers of Vrฬฃndฤvana picked these fruits and flowers and brought them before Rฤdhฤ and Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa.
18.103: “The gopฤซs peeled all the fruits and placed them together on large plates on a platform in the jeweled cottage. They arranged the fruit in orderly rows for eating, and in front of it they made a place to sit.
18.104: “Among the fruits were many varieties of coconuts and mangoes, bananas, berries, jackfruits, dates, tangerines, oranges, blackberries, santarฤs, grapes, almonds and all kinds of dried fruit.
18.105: “There were cantaloupes, ksฬฃฤซrikฤs, palm fruits, keลuras, water fruits, lotus fruits, bel, pฤซlus, pomegranates and many others. Some of them are variously known in different places, but in Vrฬฃndฤvana all of them are always available in so many thousands of varieties that no one can fully describe them.
18.106: “At home ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ had made various types of sweetmeats from milk and sugar, such as gaลgฤjala, amrฬฃtakeli, pฤซyลซsฬฃagranthi, karpลซrakeli, sarapลซrฤซ, amrฬฃti, padmacini and khanฬฃdฬฃa-ksฬฃฤซrisฤra-vrฬฃksฬฃa. She had then brought them all for Krishna.
18.107: “When Krishna saw the very nice arrangement of food, He happily sat down and had a forest picnic. Then, after ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ and Her gopฤซ friends partook of the remnants, Rฤdhฤ and Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa lay down together in the jeweled house.
18.108: “Some of the gopฤซs fanned Rฤdhฤ and Krishna, others massaged Their feet, and some fed Them betel leaves to chew. When Rฤdhฤ and Krishna fell asleep, all the gopฤซs also lay down. When I saw this, My mind was very happy.
18.109: “Suddenly, all of you created a great tumult and picked Me up and brought Me back here. Where now is the river Yamunฤ? Where is Vrฬฃndฤvana? Where are Krishna and the gopฤซs? You have broken My happy dream!”
18.110: Speaking in this way, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu fully returned to external consciousness. Seeing Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ, the Lord questioned him.
18.111: “Why have you brought Me here?” He asked. Then Svarลซpa Dฤmodara answered Him.
18.112: “You mistook the sea for the Yamunฤ River,” he said, “and You jumped into it. You have been carried this far by the waves of the sea.
18.113: “This fisherman caught You in his net and rescued You from the water. Because of Your touch, he is now mad with ecstatic love for Krishna.
18.114: “Throughout the night, we all walked about in search of You. After hearing from this fisherman, we came here and found You.
18.115: “While apparently unconscious, You witnessed the pastimes in Vrฬฃndฤvana, but when we saw You unconscious, we suffered great agony in our minds.
18.116: “When we chanted the holy name of Krishna, however, You came to semiconsciousness, and we have all been hearing You speak like a madman.”
18.117: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu said, “In My dream I went to Vrฬฃndฤvana, where I saw Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa perform the rฤsa dance with all the gopฤซs.
18.118: “After sporting in the water, Krishna enjoyed a picnic. I can understand that after seeing this I must certainly have talked like a madman.”
18.119: Thereafter, Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ had Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu bathe in the sea, and then he very happily brought Him back home.
18.120: Thus I have described the incident of Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu’s falling into the ocean. Anyone who listens to this pastime will certainly attain shelter at the lotus feet of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
18.121: Praying at the lotus feet of ลrฤซ Rลซpa and ลrฤซ Raghunฤtha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃadฤsa, narrate ลrฤซ Caitanya-caritฤmrฬฃta, following in their footsteps.
19.1: Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, the most exalted of all devotees of mothers, spoke like a Divine-introxicated and rubbed His face against the walls. Overwhelmed by emotions of ecstatic love, He would sometimes enter the Jagannฤtha-vallabha garden to perform His pastimes. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him.
19.2: All glories to ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityฤnanda! All glories to Advaita ฤcฤrya! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahฤprabhu!
19.3: In the ecstasy of love of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu thus behaved like a Divine-introxicated, talking insanely all day and night.
19.4: Jagadฤnanda Panฬฃdฬฃita was a very dear devotee of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu. The Lord derived great pleasure from his activities.
19.5: Knowing His mother to be greatly afflicted by separation from Him, the Lord would send Jagadฤnanda Panฬฃdฬฃita to Navadvฤซpa every year to console her.
19.6: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu told Jagadฤnanda Panฬฃdฬฃita, “Go to Nadia and offer My obeisances to My mother. Touch her lotus feet in My name.
19.7: “Tell her for Me, ‘Please remember that I come here every day and offer My respects to your lotus feet.
19.8: “‘Any day you desire to feed Me, I certainly come and accept what you offer.
19.9: “‘I have given up service to you and have accepted the vow of sannyฤsa. I have thus become mad and have destroyed the principles of Dharma.
19.10: “‘Mother, please do not take this as an offense, for I, your son, am completely dependent upon you.
19.11: “‘I am staying here at Nฤซlฤcala, Jagannฤtha Purฤซ, according to your order. As long as I live, I shall not leave this place.'”
19.12: Following the order of Paramฤnanda Purฤซ, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu sent His mother the prasฤda clothing left by Lord Jagannฤtha after His pastimes as a cowherd boy.
19.13: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu very carefully brought first-class prasฤdam from Lord Jagannฤtha and sent it in separate packages to His mother and the devotees at Nadia.
19.14: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu is the topmost gem of all devotees of mothers. He rendered service to His mother even after He had accepted the vow of sannyฤsa.
19.15: Jagadฤnanda Panฬฃdฬฃita thus went to Nadia, and when he met ลacฤซmฤtฤ, he conveyed to her all the Lord’s salutations.
19.16: He then met all the other devotees, headed by Advaita ฤcฤrya, and gave them the prasฤdam of Jagannฤtha. After staying for one month, he took permission from mother ลacฤซ to leave.
19.17: When he went to Advaita ฤcฤrya and also asked His permission to return, Advaita Prabhu gave him a message to deliver to ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
19.18: Advaita ฤcฤrya had written a sonnet in equivocal language with an import that ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu could understand but others could not.
19.19: In His sonnet, Advaita Prabhu first offered His obeisances hundreds and thousands of times unto the lotus feet of Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu. He then submitted the following statement at His lotus feet.
19.20: “Please inform ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, who is acting like a Divine-introxicated, that everyone here has become mad like Him. Inform Him also that in the marketplace rice is no longer in demand.
19.21: “Further tell Him that those now mad in ecstatic love are no longer interested in the material world. Also tell ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu that one who has also become a Divine-introxicated in ecstatic love [Advaita Prabhu] has spoken these words.”
19.22: When he heard Advaita ฤcฤrya’s statement, Jagadฤnanda Panฬฃdฬฃita began to laugh, and when he returned to Jagannฤtha Purฤซ, Nฤซlฤcala, he informed Caitanya Mahฤprabhu of everything.
19.23: After hearing the equivocal sonnet by Advaita ฤcฤrya, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu quietly smiled. “That is His order,” He said. Then He fell silent.
19.24: Although he knew the secret, Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ inquired from the Lord, “What is the meaning of this sonnet? I could not understand it.”
19.25: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu replied, “Advaita ฤcฤrya is a great worshiper of the Lord and is very expert in the regulative principles enjoined in the Vedic literatures.
19.26: “Advaita ฤcฤrya invites the Lord to come and be worshiped, and to perform the worship He keeps the Deity for some time.
19.27: “After the worship is completed, He sends the Deity somewhere else. I do not know the meaning of this sonnet, nor do I know what is in Advaita Prabhu’s mind.
19.28: “Advaita ฤcฤrya is a great mystic. No one can understand Him. He is expert in writing sonnets that even I Myself cannot understand.”
19.29: Hearing this, all the devotees were astonished, especially Svarลซpa Dฤmodara, who became somewhat morose.
19.30: From that day on, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu’s emotional state changed markedly; His feelings of separation from Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa doubled in intensity.
19.31: As His feelings of separation in the ecstasy of ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ increased at every moment, the Lord’s activities, both day and night, were now wild, insane performances.
19.32: Suddenly there awoke within ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu the scene of Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s departure to Mathurฤ, and He began exhibiting the symptom of ecstatic divinity known as udghลซrnฬฃฤ.
19.33: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu spoke like a Divine-introxicated, holding Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya by the neck, and He questioned Svarลซpa Dฤmodara, thinking him to be His gopฤซ friend.
19.34: Just as ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ inquired from Her personal friend Viลฤkhฤ, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, reciting that very verse, began speaking like a Divine-introxicated.
19.35: “‘My dear friend, where is Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, who is like the moon rising from the ocean of Mahฤrฤja Nanda’s dynasty? Where is Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, His head decorated with a peacock feather? Where is He? Where is Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, whose flute produces such a deep sound? Oh, where is Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, whose bodily luster is like the luster of the blue indranฤซla jewel? Where is Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, who is so expert in rฤsa dancing? Oh, where is He, who can save My life? Kindly tell Me where to find Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, the treasure of My life and best of My friends. Feeling separation from Him, I hereby condemn Providence, the shaper of My destiny.’
19.36: “The family of Mahฤrฤja Nanda is just like an ocean of milk, wherein Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa has arisen like the full moon to illuminate the entire universe. The eyes of the residents of Vraja are like cakora birds that continuously drink the nectar of His bodily luster and thus live peacefully.
19.37: “My dear friend, where is Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa? Kindly let Me see Him. My heart breaks at not seeing His face even for a moment. Kindly show Him to Me immediately; otherwise I cannot live.
19.38: “The women of Vrฬฃndฤvana are just like lilies growing hot in the sun of lusty desires. But moonlike Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa makes them all jubilant by bestowing upon them the nectar of His hands. O My dear friend, where is My moon now? Save My life by showing Him to Me!
19.39: “My dear friend, where is that beautiful helmet with a peacock feather upon it like a rainbow upon a new cloud? Where are those yellow garments, shining like lightning? And where is that necklace of pearls that resemble flocks of ducks flying in the sky? The blackish body of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa triumphs over the new blackish rain cloud.
19.40: “If a person’s eyes even once capture that beautiful body of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, it remains always prominent within his heart. Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s body resembles the sap of the mango tree, for when it enters the minds of women, it will not come out, despite great endeavor. Thus Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s extraordinary body is like a thorn of the seyฤ berry tree.
19.41: “Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s bodily luster shines like the indranฤซla gem and surpasses the luster of the tamฤla tree. The luster of His body drives the entire world mad because Providence has made it transparent by refining the essence of the mellow of conjugal love and mixing it with moonshine.
19.42: “The deep vibration of Krishna’s flute surpasses the thundering of new clouds and attracts the aural reception of the entire world. Thus the inhabitants of Vrฬฃndฤvana rise and pursue that sound, drinking the showering nectar of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s bodily luster like thirsty cฤtaka birds.
19.43: “Krishna is the reservoir of art and culture, and He is the panacea that saves My life. O My dear friend, since I live without Him, who is the best among My friends, I condemn the duration of My life. I think that Providence has cheated Me in many ways.
19.44: “Why does Providence continue the life of one who does not wish to live?” This thought aroused anger and lamentation in ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, who then recited a verse from ลrฤซmad-Bhฤgavatam that chastises Providence and makes an accusation against Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa.
19.45: “‘O Providence, you have no mercy! You bring embodied souls together through friendship and affection, but before their desires are fulfilled, you separate them. Your activities are like the foolish pranks of children.’
19.46: “Providence, you do not know the purport of loving affairs, and therefore you baffle all Our endeavors. This is very childish of you. If We could catch you, We would give you such a lesson that you would never again make such arrangements.
19.47: “Oh, cruel Providence! You are very unkind, for you bring together in love people who are rarely in touch with each other. Then, after you have made Them meet but before They are fulfilled, you again spread Them far apart.
19.48: “O Providence, you are so unkind! You reveal the beautiful face of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa and make the mind and eyes greedy, but after they have drunk that nectar for only a moment, you whisk Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa away to another place. This is a great sin because you thus take away what you have given as charity.
19.49: “O misbehaved Providence! If you reply to Us, ‘Akrลซra is actually at fault; why are You angry with me?’ then I say to you, ‘Providence, you have taken the form of Akrลซra and have stolen Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa away. No one else would behave like this.’
19.50: “But this is the fault of My own destiny. Why should I needlessly accuse you? There is no intimate relationship between you and Me. Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, however, is My life and soul. It is We who live together, and it is He who has become so cruel.
19.51: “He for whom I have left everything is personally killing Me with His own hands. Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa has no fear of killing women. Indeed, I am dying for Him, but He doesn’t even turn back to look at Me. Within a moment, He has broken off Our loving affairs.
19.52: “Yet why should I be angry with Krishna? It is the fault of My own misfortune. The fruit of My sinful activities has ripened, and therefore Krishna, who has always been dependent on My love, is now indifferent. This means that My misfortune is very strong.”
19.53: In this way, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu lamented in the mood of separation, “Alas, alas! O Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, where have You gone?” Feeling in His heart the ecstatic emotions of the gopฤซs, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu agonized in their words, saying, “O Govinda! O Dฤmodara! O Mฤdhava!”
19.54: Svarลซpa Dฤmodara and Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya then devised various means to pacify the Lord. They sang songs of meeting that transformed His heart and made His mind peaceful.
19.55: As ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu lamented in this way, half the night passed. Then Svarลซpa Dฤmodara made the Lord lie down in the room known as the Gambhฤซrฤ.
19.56: After the Lord was made to lie down, Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya returned home, and Svarลซpa Dฤmodara and Govinda lay down at the door of the Gambhฤซrฤ.
19.57: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu stayed awake all night, chanting the Hare Krishna mahฤ-mantra, His mind overwhelmed by spiritual ecstasy.
19.58: Feeling separation from Krishna, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu was so distraught that in great anxiety He stood up and began rubbing His face against the walls of the Gambhฤซrฤ.
19.59: Blood oozed from the many injuries on His mouth, nose and cheeks, but due to His ecstatic emotions, the Lord did not know it.
19.60: In ecstasy, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu rubbed His face against the walls all night long, making a peculiar sound, “goล-goล,” which Svarลซpa Dฤmodara could hear through the door.
19.61: Lighting a lamp, Svarลซpa Dฤmodara and Govinda entered the room. When they saw the Lord’s face, they were filled with sorrow.
19.62: They brought the Lord to His bed, calmed Him and then asked, “Why have You done this to Yourself?”
19.63: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu replied, “I was in such anxiety that I could not stay in the room. I wanted to go out, and therefore I wandered about the room, looking for the door.
19.64: “Unable to find the door, I kept hitting the four walls with My face. My face was injured, and it bled, but I still could not get out.”
19.65: In this state of ecstatic divinity, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu’s mind was unsteady. Whatever He said or did was all symptomatic of madness.
19.66: Svarลซpa Dฤmodara was very anxious, but then he had an idea. The following day, he and the other devotees considered it together.
19.67: After consulting with one another, they entreated ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu to allow ลaลkara Panฬฃdฬฃita to lie down in the same room with Him.
19.68: Thus ลaลkara Panฬฃdฬฃita lay at the feet of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, and the Lord placed His legs upon ลaลkara’s body.
19.69: ลaลkara became celebrated by the name Prabhu-pฤdopฤdhฤna (“the pillow of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu”). He was like Vidura, as ลukadeva Gosvฤmฤซ previously described him.
19.70: “When submissive Vidura, the resting place of the legs of Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, had thus spoken to Maitreya, Maitreya began speaking, his hair standing on end due to the transcendental pleasure of discussing topics concerning Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa.”
19.71: ลaลkara massaged the legs of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, but while massaging he would fall asleep and thus lie down.
19.72: He would lie asleep without a covering on his body, and ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu would get up and wrap him with His own quilt.
19.73: ลaลkara Panฬฃdฬฃita would always fall asleep, but he would quickly awaken, sit up and again begin massaging the legs of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu. In this way he would stay awake the entire night.
19.74: Out of fear of ลaลkara, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu could neither leave His room nor rub His lotuslike face against the walls.
19.75: This pastime of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu’s has been described very nicely by Raghunฤtha Dฤsa Gosvฤmฤซ in his book known as Gaurฤลga-stava-kalpavrฬฃksฬฃa.
19.76: “Because of separation from His many friends in Vrฬฃndฤvana, who were like His own life, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu spoke like a introxicated-divinity. His intelligence was transformed. Day and night He rubbed His moonlike face against the walls, and blood flowed from the injuries. May that ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu rise in my heart and make me mad with love.”
19.77: In this way ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu stayed immersed day and night in an ocean of ecstatic love for Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa. Sometimes He was submerged, and sometimes He floated.
19.78: One full-moon night in the month of Vaiลฤkha [April-May], ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu went to a garden.
19.79: The Lord, along with His devotees, entered one of the nicest gardens, called Jagannฤtha-vallabha.
19.80: In the garden were fully blossomed trees and creepers exactly like those in Vrฬฃndฤvana. Bumblebees and birds like the ลuka, ลฤrฤซ and pika talked with one another.
19.81: A mild breeze was blowing, carrying the fragrance of aromatic flowers. The breeze had become a guru and was teaching all the trees and creepers how to dance.
19.82: Brightly illuminated by the full moon, the trees and creepers glittered in the light.
19.83: The six seasons, especially spring, seemed present there. Seeing the garden, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Ishvara, was very happy.
19.84: In this atmosphere, the Lord had His associates sing the verse from the Gฤซta-govinda beginning with the words “lalita-lavaลga-latฤ” as He danced and wandered about with them.
19.85: As He thus wandered around every tree and creeper, He came beneath an aลoka tree and suddenly saw Lord Krishan.
19.86: When He saw Krishna, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu began running very swiftly, but Krishna smiled and disappeared.
19.87: Having gotten Krishna and then lost Him, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu fell to the ground unconscious.
19.88: The entire garden was filled with the scent of Lord ลrฤซ Krishna’s transcendental body. When ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu smelled it, He fell unconscious at once.
19.89: But the scent of Krishna’s body incessantly entered His nostrils, and the Lord became mad to relish it.
19.90: ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ once spoke a verse to Her gopฤซ friends describing how She hankers for the transcendental scent of Krishna’s body. ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu recited that same verse and made its meaning clear.
19.91: “‘The scent of Krishna’s transcendental body surpasses the aroma of musk and attracts the minds of all women. The eight lotuslike parts of His body distribute the fragrance of lotuses mixed with that of camphor. His body is anointed with aromatic substances like musk, camphor, sandalwood and aguru. O My dear friend, that Personality of Ishvara, also known as the enchanter of Cupid, always increases the desire of My nostrils.’
19.92: “The scent of Krishna’s body surpasses the fragrances of musk and the bluish lotus flower. Spreading throughout the fourteen worlds, it attracts everyone and makes the eyes of all women blind.
19.93: “My dear friend, the scent of Krishna’s body enchants the entire world. It especially enters the nostrils of women and remains seated there. Thus it captures them and forcibly brings them to Krishna.
19.94: “Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s eyes, navel and face, hands and feet are like eight lotus flowers on His body. From those eight lotuses emanates a fragrance like a mixture of camphor and lotus. That is the scent associated with His body.
19.95: “When sandalwood pulp is mixed with aguru, kuลkuma, musk and camphor and spread on Krishna’s body, it combines with Krishna’s own original bodily perfume and seems to cover it.
19.96: “The scent of Krishna’s transcendental body is so attractive that it enchants the bodies and minds of all women. It bewilders their nostrils, loosens their belts and hair, and makes them madwomen. All the women of the world come under its influence, and therefore the scent of Krishna’s body is like a plunderer.
19.97: “Falling completely under its influence, the nostrils yearn for it continuously, although sometimes they obtain it and sometimes not. When they do they drink their fill, though they still want more and more, but if they don’t, out of thirst they die.
19.98: “The Divine Actor Madana-mohana has opened a shop of scents that attract the women of the world to be His customers. He delivers the scents freely, but they make the women all so blind they cannot find the path returning home.”
19.99: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, His mind thus stolen by the scent of Krishna’s body, ran here and there like a bumblebee. He ran to the trees and plants, hoping that Lord Krishna would appear, but instead He found only that scent.
19.100: Both Svarลซpa Dฤmodara and Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya sang to the Lord, who danced and enjoyed happiness until the morning arrived. Then the Lord’s two associates devised a plan to bring Him to earthly consciousness.
19.101: Thus, I, Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃadฤsa, the servant of ลrฤซla Rลซpa Gosvฤmฤซ, have sung of four divisions of the Lord’s pastimes in this chapter: the Lord’s devotion to His mother, His words of madness, His rubbing His face against the walls at night, and His dancing at the appearance of Lord Krishna’s fragrance.
19.102: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu thus returned to external consciousness. He then bathed and went to see Lord Jagannฤtha.
19.103: The pastimes of Lord Krishna are uncommonly full of transcendental potency. It is a characteristic of such pastimes that they do not fall within the jurisdiction of experimental logic and arguments.
19.104: When transcendental love of Krisha awakens in someone’s heart, even a learned scholar cannot comprehend his activities.
19.105: “The activities and symptoms of that exalted personality in whose heart love of Ishvara has awakened cannot be understood even by the most learned scholar.”
19.106: The activities of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu are undoubtedly uncommon, especially His talking like a divine-introxicated. Therefore, one who hears of these pastimes should not put forward mundane arguments. He should simply hear the pastimes with full faith.
19.107: The evidence of the truth of these talks is found in ลrฤซmad-Bhฤgavatam. There, in the section of the Tenth Canto known as the Bhramara-gฤซta, “The Song to the Bumblebee,” ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ speaks insanely in ecstatic love for Krishna.
19.108: The songs of the queens at Dvฤrakฤ, which are mentioned at the end of the Tenth Canto of ลrฤซmad-Bhฤgavatam, have a very special meaning. They are not understood even by the most learned scholars.
19.109: If one becomes a servant of the servants of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu and Lord Nityฤnanda Prabhu and is favored by Them, he can believe in all these discourses.
19.110: Just try to hear these topics with faith, for there is great pleasure even in hearing them. That hearing will destroy all miseries pertaining to the body, mind and other living entities, and the unhappiness of false arguments as well.
19.111: ลrฤซ Caitanya-caritฤmrฬฃta is ever-increasingly fresh. For one who hears it again and again, the heart and ear become pacified.
19.112: Praying at the lotus feet of ลrฤซ Rลซpa and ลrฤซ Raghunฤtha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃadฤsa, narrate ลrฤซ Caitanya-caritฤmrฬฃta, following in their footsteps.
Chaitanya-Charitamrita โ เฆถเงเฆฐเง เฆถเงเฆฐเง เฆเงเฆคเฆจเงเฆฏ เฆเฆฐเฆฟเฆคเฆพเฆฎเงเฆค: Krishna das Kaviraj 1496
20.1: Only the most fortunate will relish the mad words of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, which were mixed with jubilation, envy, agitation, submissiveness and grief, all produced by ecstatic loving emotions.
20.2: All glories to Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityฤnanda! All glories to Advaitacandra! And all glories to all the devotees of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu!
20.3: While ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu thus resided at Jagannฤtha Purฤซ [Nฤซlฤcala], He was continuously overwhelmed, night and day, by separation from Krishna.
20.4: Day and night He tasted transcendental blissful songs and verses with two associates, namely Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ and Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya.
20.5: He relished the symptoms of various transcendental emotions, such as ecstatic-joy, lamentation, anger, humility, anxiety, grief, eagerness and satisfaction.
20.6: He would recite His own verses, expressing their meanings and emotions, and thus enjoy tasting them with these two friends.
20.7: Sometimes the Lord would be absorbed in a particular emotion and would stay awake all night reciting related verses and relishing their taste.
20.8: In great jubilation, Mahฤprabhu would say, “My dear Svarลซpa Dฤmodara and Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya, know from Me that chanting the holy names is the most feasible means of salvation(Moksha) in this Age of Kali.
20.9: “In this Age of Kali, the process of worshiping Krishna is to perform sacrifice by chanting the holy name of the Lord. One who does so is certainly very intelligent, and he attains shelter at the lotus feet of Krishna.
20.10: “‘In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Ishvara who constantly sings the name of Krishna. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Krishna Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions.’
20.11: “Simply by chanting the holy name of Lord Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa, one can be freed from all undesirable habits. This is the means of awakening all good fortune and initiating the flow of waves of love for Krishna.
20.12: “‘Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna, which can cleanse the mirror of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon that spreads the white lotus of good fortune for all living entities. It is the life and soul of all education. The chanting of the holy name of Krishna expands the blissful ocean of divine life. It gives a cooling effect to everyone and enables one to taste full nectar at every step.’
20.13: “By performing congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna (เคนเคฐเฅ เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ) mantra, one can destroy the sinful condition of material existence, purify the unclean heart and awaken all varieties of devotional service.
20.14: “The result of chanting is that one awakens his love for Krishna and tastes transcendental divine bliss. Ultimately, one attains the association of Krishna and engages in His devotional service, as if immersing himself in a great ocean of love.”
20.15: Lamentation and humility awoke within ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, and He began reciting another of His own verses. By hearing the meaning of that verse, one can forget all unhappiness and lamentation.
20.16: “‘My Lord, O Supreme Personality of Ishvara, in Your holy name there is all good fortune for the living entity, and therefore You have many names, such as “Krishna” and “Govinda,” by which You expand Yourself. You have invested all Your potencies in those names, and there are no hard and fast rules for remembering them. My dear Lord, although You bestow such mercy upon the fallen, conditioned souls by liberally teaching Your holy names, I am so unfortunate that I commit offenses while chanting the holy name, and therefore I do not achieve attachment for chanting.’
20.17: “Because people vary in their desires, You have distributed various holy names by Your mercy.
20.18: “Regardless of time or place, one who chants the holy name, even while eating or sleeping, attains all perfection.
20.19: “You have invested Your full potencies in each individual holy name, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attachment for chanting Your holy names.”
20.20: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu continued, “O Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ and Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya, hear from Me the symptoms of how one should chant the Hare Krishna (เคนเคฐเฅ เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ) mahฤ-mantra to awaken one’s dormant love for Krishna.
20.21: “‘One who thinks himself lower than the grass, who is more tolerant than a tree, and who does not expect personal honor but is always prepared to give all respect to others can very easily always chant the holy name of the Lord.’
20.22: “These are the symptoms of one who chants the Hare Krishna mahฤ-mantra. Although he is very exalted, he thinks himself lower than the grass on the ground, and like a tree, he tolerates everything in two ways.
20.23: “When a tree is cut down, it does not protest, and even when drying up, it does not ask anyone for water.
20.24: “The tree delivers its fruits, flowers and whatever else it possesses to anyone and everyone. It tolerates scorching heat and torrents of rain, yet it still gives shelter to others.
20.25: “Although a Vaisฬฃnฬฃava is the most exalted person, he is prideless and gives all respect to everyone, knowing everyone to be the resting place of Krishna.
20.26: “If one chants the holy name of Lord Krishna in this manner, he will certainly awaken his dormant love for Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s lotus feet.”
20.27: As Lord Caitanya spoke in this way, His humility increased, and He began praying to Krishna that He could discharge pure devotional service.
20.28: Wherever there is a relationship of love of Ishvara its natural symptom is that the devotee does not think himself a devotee. Instead, he always thinks that he has not even a drop of love for Krishna.
20.29: “‘O Lord of the universe, I do not desire material wealth, materialistic followers, a beautiful wife or fruitive activities described in flowery language. All I want, life after life, is unmotivated devotional service to You.’
20.30: “My beloved Lord Krishna, I do not want material wealth from You, nor do I want followers, a beautiful wife or the results of fruitive activities. I only pray that by Your causeless mercy You give Me pure devotional service to You, life after life.”
20.31: In great humility, considering Himself a conditioned soul of the material world, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu again expressed His desire to be endowed with service to the Lord.
20.32: “‘O My Lord, O Krishna, son of Mahฤrฤja Nanda, I am Your eternal servant, but because of My own fruitive acts I have fallen into this horrible ocean of nescience. Now please be causelessly merciful to Me. Consider Me a particle of dust at Your lotus feet.’
20.33: “I am Your eternal servant, but I forgot Your Lordship. Now I have fallen into the ocean of nescience and have been conditioned by the external energy.
20.34: “Be causelessly merciful to Me by giving Me a place with the particles of dust at Your lotus feet so that I may engage in the service of Your Lordship as Your eternal servant.”
20.35: Natural humility and eagerness then awoke in Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu. He prayed to Krishna to be able to chant the mahฤ-mantra in ecstatic love.
20.36: “‘My dear Lord, when will My eyes be beautified by filling with tears that constantly glide down as I chant Your holy name? When will My voice falter and all the hairs on My body stand erect in transcendental happiness as I chant Your holy name?’
20.37: “Without love(เคชเฅเคฐเฅเคฎ) of Ishvara(เคเคถเฅเคตเคฐ), My life is useless. Therefore, I pray that You accept Me as Your servant and give Me the salary of ecstatic love of God(เคชเฅเคฐเฅเคฎ เคงเคจ).”
20.38: Separation from Krishna awoke various mellows of distress, lamentation and humility. Thus ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu spoke like a crazy man.
20.39: “‘My Lord Govinda, because of separation from You, I consider even a moment a great millennium. Tears flow from My eyes like torrents of rain, and I see the entire world as void.’
20.40: “In My agitation, a day never ends, for every moment seems like a millennium. Pouring incessant tears, My eyes are like clouds in the rainy season.
20.41: “The three worlds have become void because of separation from Govinda. I feel as if I were burning alive in a slow fire.
20.42: “Lord Krishna has become indifferent to Me just to test My love, and My friends say, ‘Better to disregard Him.'”
20.43: While ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ was thinking in this way, the characteristics of natural love became manifest because of Her pure heart.
20.44: The ecstatic divine manifestation of envy, great eagerness, humility, zeal and supplication all appear at once.
20.45: In that mood, the mind of ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ was agitated, and therefore She spoke a verse of advanced devotion to Her gopฤซ friends.
20.46: In the same spirit of ecstasy, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu recited that verse, and as soon as He did so, He felt like ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ.
20.47: “Let Krishna tightly embrace this maidservant who has fallen at His lotus feet, or let Him trample Me or break My heart by never being visible to Me. He is a debauchee, after all, and can do whatever He likes, but He is still no one other than the worshipable Lord of My heart.
20.48: “I am a maidservant at the lotus feet of Krishna. He is the embodiment of transcendental happiness and mellows. If He likes He can tightly embrace Me and make Me feel oneness with Him, or by not giving Me His audience, He may corrode My mind and body. Nevertheless, it is He who is the Lord of My life.
20.49: “My dear friend, just hear the decision of My mind. Krishna is the Lord of My life in all conditions, whether He shows Me affection or kills Me by giving Me unhappiness.
20.50: “Sometimes Krishna gives up the company of other gopฤซs and becomes controlled, mind and body, by Me. Thus He manifests My good fortune and gives others distress by performing His loving affairs with Me.
20.51: “Or, since after all He is a very cunning, obstinate debauchee with a propensity to cheat, He takes to the company of other women. He then indulges in loving affairs with them in front of Me to give distress to My mind. Nevertheless, He is still the Lord of My life.
20.52: “I do not mind My personal distress. I only wish for the happiness of Krishna, for His happiness is the goal of My life. However, if He feels great happiness in giving Me distress, that distress is the best of My happiness.
20.53: “If Krishna, attracted by the beauty of some other woman, wants to enjoy with her but is unhappy because He cannot get her, I fall down at her feet, catch her hand and bring her to Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa to engage her for His happiness.
20.54: “When a beloved gopฤซ shows symptoms of anger toward Krishna, Krishna is very satisfied. Indeed, He is extremely pleased when chastised by such a gopฤซ. She shows her pride suitably, and Krishna enjoys that attitude. Then she gives up her pride with a little endeavor.
20.55: “Why does a woman continue to live who knows that Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s heart is unhappy but who still shows her deep anger toward Him? She is interested in her own happiness. I condemn such a woman to be struck on the head with a thunderbolt, for We simply want the happiness of Krishna.
20.56: “If a gopฤซ envious of Me satisfies Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa and Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa desires her, I shall not hesitate to go to her house and become her maidservant, for then My happiness will be awakened.
20.57: “The wife of a brฤhmanฬฃa suffering from leprosy manifested herself as the topmost of all chaste women by serving a prostitute to satisfy her husband. She thus stopped the movement of the sun, brought her dead husband back to life and satisfied the three principal demigods [Brahmฤ, Visฬฃnฬฃu and Maheลvara].
20.58: “Krishna is My life and soul. Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa is the treasure of My life. Indeed, Krishna is the very life of My life. I therefore keep Him always in My heart and try to please Him by rendering service. That is My constant meditation.
20.59: “My happiness is in the service of Krishna, and Krishna’s happiness is in union with Me. For this reason, I give My body in charity to the lotus feet of Krishna, who accepts Me as His loved one and calls Me His most beloved. It is then that I consider Myself His maidservant.
20.60: “Service to My lover is the home of happiness and is more sweet than direct union with Him. The goddess of fortune is evidence of this, for although she constantly lives on the heart of Nฤrฤyanฬฃa, she wants to render service to His lotus feet. She therefore considers herself a maidservant and serves Him constantly.”
20.61: These statements by ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ show the symptoms of pure love for Krishna tasted by ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu. In that ecstatic love, His mind was unsteady. Transformations of transcendental love spread throughout His entire body, and He could not sustain His body and mind.
20.62: The pure devotional service in Vrฬฃndฤvana is like the golden particles in the river Jฤmbลซ. In Vrฬฃndฤvana there is not a trace of personal sense gratification. It is to advertise such pure love in this material world that ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu has written the previous verse and explained its meaning.
20.63: Thus overwhelmed by ecstatic love, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu spoke like a madman and recited suitable verses.
20.64: The Lord had formerly composed these eight verses to teach people in general. Now He personally tasted the meaning of the verses, which are called the ลiksฬฃฤsฬฃtฬฃaka.
20.65: If anyone recites or hears these eight verses of instruction by ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, his ecstatic love and devotion for Krishna increase day by day.
20.66: Although ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu is as deep and grave as millions of oceans, when the moon of His various emotions rises, He becomes restless.
20.67-68: When ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu read the verses of Jayadeva’s Gฤซta-Govinda, of ลrฤซmad-Bhฤgavatam, of Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya’s drama Jagannฤtha-vallabha-nฤtฬฃaka, and of Bilvamaลgala Tฬฃhฤkura’s Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa-karnฬฃฤmrฬฃta, He was overwhelmed by the various ecstatic emotions of those verses. Thus He tasted their purports.
20.69: For twelve years, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu remained in that state day and night. With His two friends, he tasted the meaning of those verses, which consists of nothing but the transcendental bliss and ambrosia of the Krishna Consciousness (เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ เคฐเคธ).
20.70: Even Anantadeva, who has thousands of faces, could not reach the end of describing the transcendental bliss of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu’s pastimes.
20.71: How, then, could an ordinary living being with very little intelligence describe such pastimes? Nevertheless, I am trying to touch but a particle of them just to rectify myself.
ลrฤซla Vrฬฃndฤvana Dฤsa is the resource person
20.72: There is no limit to ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu’s activities and His words of divine ecstacy. Therefore describing them all would greatly increase the size of this book.
20.73: Whatever Lila(divine drama) ลrฤซla Vrฬฃndฤvana dฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura has first described I have merely summarized.
20.74: I have only very briefly described the pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu not described by Vrฬฃndฤvana dฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura. Nevertheless, because those transcendental pastimes are so numerous, the size of this book has increased.
20.75: It is impossible to describe all the pastimes elaborately. I shall therefore end this description and offer them my respectful obeisances.
20.76: What I have described gives merely an indication, but by following this indication one may obtain a taste of all the pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
20.77: I cannot understand the very deep, meaningful pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu. My intelligence cannot penetrate them, and therefore I could not properly describe them.
20.78: After offering my respectful obeisances to the lotus feet of all my Vaisฬฃnฬฃava readers, I shall therefore end this description of the characteristics of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
20.79: The sky is unlimited, but many birds fly higher and higher according to their own abilities.
20.80: The pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu are like the unlimited sky. How, then, can an ordinary living being describe them all?
20.81: I have tried to describe them as far as my intelligence allows, as if trying to touch a drop in the midst of a great ocean.
20.82: Vrฬฃndฤvana dฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura is Lord Nityฤnanda’s favorite devotee, and therefore he is the original Vyฤsadeva in describing the Lila of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
20.83: Although Vrฬฃndฤvana dฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura has within his jurisdiction the full store of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu’s pastimes, he has left aside most of them and described but a small portion.
20.84: What I have described was left aside by Vrฬฃndฤvana dฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura, but although he could not describe these pastimes(เคฒเฅเคฒเคพ), he gave us a synopsis.
20.85: In his book named Caitanya-maลgala (เฆเงเฆคเฆจเงเฆฏเฆฎเฆเงเฆเฆฒ) [Caitanya-bhฤgavata], he has described these pastimes in many places. I request my readers to hear that book, for that is the best evidence.
20.86: I have described the pastimes very briefly, for it is impossible for me to describe them in full. In the future, however, Vedavyฤsa will describe them elaborately.
20.87: In the Caitanya-maลgala, ลrฤซla Vrฬฃndฤvana dฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura has stated in many places the factual truth that in the future Vyฤsadeva will describe the Lord’s pastimes elaborately.
20.88: The ocean of nectarean pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu is like the ocean of milk. According to his thirst, Vrฬฃndฤvana dฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura filled his pitcher and drank from that ocean.
20.89: Whatever remnants of milk Vrฬฃndฤvana dฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura has given me are sufficient to fill my belly. Now my thirst is completely satiated.
20.90-91: I am a very insignificant living being, like a small red-beaked bird. Just as such a bird drinks the water of the sea to quench its thirst, so I have touched only a drop of the ocean of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu’s pastimes. From this example, you may all understand how expansive are the pastimes of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
20.92: I infer that “I have written” is a false understanding, for my body is like a wooden doll.
20.93: I am old and troubled by invalidity. I am almost blind and deaf, my hands tremble, and my mind and intelligence are unsteady.
20.94: I am infected with so many diseases that I can neither properly walk nor properly sit. Indeed, I am always exhausted by five kinds of diseases. I may die at any time of the day or night.
20.95: I have previously given an account of my inabilities. Please hear the reason why I nevertheless still write.
20.96-98: I am writing this book by the mercy of the lotus feet of ลrฤซ Govindadeva, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, Lord Nityฤnanda, Advaita ฤcฤrya, other devotees and the readers of this book, as well as Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ, ลrฤซ Rลซpa Gosvฤmฤซ, ลrฤซ Sanฤtana Gosvฤmฤซ, ลrฤซ Raghunฤtha dฤsa Gosvฤmฤซ, who is my spiritual master, and ลrฤซ Jฤซva Gosvฤmฤซ. I have also been specifically favored by another Supreme Personality.
Ordination by Madan Mohan Deva
20.99: ลrฤซ Madana-Mohana Deity of Vrฬฃndฤvana has given the order that is making me write. Although this should not be disclosed, I disclose it because I am unable to remain silent.
20.100: If I did not disclose this fact, I would be guilty of ingratitude to the Lord. Therefore, my dear readers, please do not consider me too proud and be angry at me.
20.101: It is because I have offered my prayers unto the lotus feet of all of you that whatever I have written about ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu has been possible.
Synopsis of Chaitanya Charitamrita
20.102: Now let me repeat all the pastimes of the Antya-lฤซlฤ, for if I do so I shall taste the pastimes again.
20.103: The First Chapter describes how Rลซpa Gosvฤmฤซ met ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu for the second time and how the Lord heard his two dramas [Vidagdha-mฤdhava and Lalita-mฤdhava].
20.104: That chapter also describes the incident of ลivฤnanda Sena’s dog, who was induced by ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu to chant the holy name of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa and was thus liberated.
20.105: The Second Chapter tells how the Lord instructively punished Junior Haridฤsa. Also in that chapter is a description of the wonderful vision of ลivฤnanda Sena.
20.106: In the Third Chapter is a description of the forceful glories of Haridฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura. That chapter also mentions how Dฤmodara Panฬฃdฬฃita spoke words of criticism to ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
20.107: The Third Chapter also tells how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu delivered everyone by bestowing upon the universe the holy name of the Lord, and it describes how Haridฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura established the glories of the holy name by his practical example.
20.108: The Fourth Chapter describes Sanฤtana Gosvฤmฤซ’s second visit with ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu and how the Lord saved him from committing suicide.
20.109: The Fourth Chapter also tells how Sanฤtana Gosvฤmฤซ was tested in the sunshine of Jyaisฬฃtฬฃha [May-June] and was then empowered and sent back to Vrฬฃndฤvana.
20.110: The Fifth Chapter tells how the Lord showed His favor to Pradyumna Miลra and made him hear topics of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa from Rฤmฤnanda Rฤya.
20.111: That chapter also describes how Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ rejected the drama of a poet from Bengal and established the glories of the Deity.
20.112: The Sixth Chapter describes how Raghunฤtha dฤsa Gosvฤmฤซ met ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu and performed the chipped rice festival in accordance with Nityฤnanda Prabhu’s order.
20.113: That chapter also tells how the Lord entrusted Raghunฤtha dฤsa Gosvฤmฤซ to the care of Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ and gave Raghunฤtha dฤsa the gift of a stone from Govardhana Hill and a garland of small conchshells.
20.114: The Seventh Chapter tells how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu met Vallabha Bhatฬฃtฬฃa and dismantled his false pride in various ways.
20.115: The Eighth Chapter describes the arrival of Rฤmacandra Purฤซ and how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu minimized His eating due to fear of him.
20.116: In the Ninth Chapter is a description of how Gopฤซnฤtha Patฬฃtฬฃanฤyaka was delivered and how the people of the three worlds were able to see ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
20.117: In the Tenth Chapter I have described how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu tasted the food given by His devotees, and I have also described the assortment of prasฤdam in the bags of Rฤghava Panฬฃdฬฃita.
20.118: Also in that chapter is a description of how the Lord examined Govinda and how He danced in the temple.
20.119: The Eleventh Chapter describes the disappearance of Haridฤsa Tฬฃhฤkura and how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Ishvara, showed His affection for His devotees.
20.120: In the Twelfth Chapter are descriptions of how Jagadฤnanda Panฬฃdฬฃita broke a pot of oil and how Lord Nityฤnanda chastised ลivฤnanda Sena.
20.121: The Thirteenth Chapter tells how Jagadฤnanda Panฬฃdฬฃita went to Mathurฤ and returned and how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu by chance heard a song sung by a deva-dฤsฤซ dancing girl.
20.122: Also in the Thirteenth Chapter is an account of how Raghunฤtha Bhatฬฃtฬฃa met ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, who by His causeless mercy sent him to Vrฬฃndฤvana.
20.123: The Fourteenth Chapter describes the beginning of the Lord’s spiritual trance, in which His body was at Jagannฤtha Purฤซ but His mind was in Vrฬฃndฤvana.
20.124: Also in that chapter is a description of how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu fell down in front of the Simฬha-dvฤra gate of the Jagannฤtha temple, His bones separated at the joints, and how various transcendental symptoms awakened in Him.
20.125: Also in that chapter is a description of how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu ran toward Catฬฃaka-parvata and spoke like a madman.
20.126: In the Fifteenth Chapter is a description of how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu entered a garden on the seashore and mistook it for Vrฬฃndฤvana.
20.127: Also in that chapter is a description of the attraction of Lord Caitanya’s five senses to Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa and how He searched for Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa in the rฤsa dance.
20.128: The Sixteenth Chapter tells how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu showed His mercy to Kฤlidฤsa and thus demonstrated the result of eating the remnants of the food of Vaisฬฃnฬฃavas.
20.129: It also describes how ลivฤnanda’s son composed a verse and how the doorkeeper of the Simฬha-dvฤra showed Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa to ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu.
20.130: Also in that chapter, the glories of mahฤ-prasฤdam are explained, and a verse is tasted describing the effect of nectar from the lips of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa.
20.131: The Seventeenth Chapter recounts how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu fell among the cows and assumed the form of a tortoise as His ecstatic emotions awakened.
20.132: That chapter also tells how the attributes of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s sound attracted the mind of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, who then described in ecstasy the meaning of the “kฤ stry aลga te” verse.
20.133: The Seventeenth Chapter also tells how ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, due to the conjunction of various ecstatic emotions, again began speaking like a madman and described in detail the meaning of a verse from the Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa-karnฬฃฤmrฬฃta.
20.134: In the Eighteenth Chapter is an account of how the Lord fell into the ocean and in ecstasy saw in a dream the pastimes of a water fight between Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa and the gopฤซs.
20.135: In that dream, ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu saw Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s picnic in the forest. As Lord Caitanya floated in the sea, a fisherman caught Him, and then the Lord returned to His own residence. All this is recounted in the Eighteenth Chapter.
20.136: In the Nineteenth Chapter is a description of how Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu rubbed His face against the walls and spoke like a madman because of separation from Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa.
20.137: That chapter also describes Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s wandering in a garden on a spring night, and it fully describes the meaning of a verse about the scent of Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s body.
20.138: The Twentieth Chapter tells how Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu recited His own eight stanzas of instruction and tasted their meaning in ecstatic love.
20.139: ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu composed those eight stanzas to instruct the devotees, but He also personally tasted their meaning.
20.140: I have thus repeated the principal pastimes and their meaning, for by such repetition one can remember the descriptions in the book.
20.141: In every chapter there are various topics, but I have repeated only those that are principal, for not all of them could be described again.
20.142-143: The Vrฬฃndฤvana Deities of Madana-mohana with ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ, Govinda with ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ, and Gopฤซnฤtha with ลrฤซmatฤซ Rฤdhฤrฤnฬฃฤซ are the life and soul of the Gaudฬฃฤซya Vaisฬฃnฬฃavas.
20.144-146: So that my desires may be fulfilled, I place the lotus feet of these personalities on my head: Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, with Lord Nityฤnanda, Advaita ฤcฤrya and Their devotees, as well as ลrฤซ Svarลซpa Dฤmodara Gosvฤmฤซ, ลrฤซ Rลซpa Gosvฤmฤซ, ลrฤซ Sanฤtana Gosvฤmฤซ, ลrฤซ Raghunฤtha dฤsa Gosvฤmฤซ, who is my spiritual master, and ลrฤซla Jฤซva Gosvฤmฤซ.
20.147: The mercy of their lotus feet is my spiritual master, and my words are my disciples, whom I have made dance in various ways.
20.148: Seeing the fatigue of the disciples, the spiritual master has stopped making them dance, and because that mercy no longer makes them dance, my words now sit silently.
20.149: My inexperienced words do not know how to dance by themselves. The mercy of the guru made them dance as much as possible, and now, after dancing, they have taken rest.
20.150: I now worship the lotus feet of all my readers, for by the mercy of their lotus feet there is all good fortune.
20.151: If one hears the pastimes of Lord ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu as described in ลrฤซ Caitanya-caritฤmrฬฃta, I wash his lotus feet and drink the water.
20.152: I decorate my head with the dust of the lotus feet of my audience. Now you have all drunk this nectar, and therefore my labor is successful.
20.153: Praying at the lotus feet of ลrฤซ Rลซpa and ลrฤซ Raghunฤtha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃadฤsa, narrate ลrฤซ Caitanya-caritฤmrฬฃta, following in their footsteps.
20.154: ลrฤซ Caitanya-caritฤmrฬฃta is filled with the activities of ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu, who is the Supreme Personality of Ishvara Himself. It invokes all good fortune and destroys everything inauspicious. If one tastes the nectar of ลrฤซ Caitanya-caritฤmrฬฃta with faith and love, I become like a bumblebee tasting the honey of transcendental love from his lotus feet.
20.155: Since this book, Caitanya-caritฤmrฬฃta, is now complete, having been written for the satisfaction of the most opulent Deities Madana-mohanajฤซ and Govindajฤซ, let it be offered at the lotus feet of ลrฤซ Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa Caitanyadeva.
20.156: Realized devotees are like bumblebees maddened by their own mellows at Krฬฃsฬฃnฬฃa’s lotus feet. The scent of those lotus feet perfumes the entire world. Who is the realized soul that could give them up?
20.157: In Vrindavana in the year 1537 ลakฤbda Era [A.D 1615], in the month of Jyaistha [May-June], on Sunday, the fifth day of the waning moon, this Caitanya-Charitฤmrฬฃita has been completed.
SOURCE: ลrฤซ Caritฤmrฬฃta-Anta Lila Chapter 18/19/20
Bengali to English Translation: As per Divine Grace Abhay Charan Bhaktivedanta
Chaitanya-Charitamrita โ เฆถเงเฆฐเง เฆถเงเฆฐเง เฆเงเฆคเฆจเงเฆฏ เฆเฆฐเฆฟเฆคเฆพเฆฎเงเฆค: Krishna Das Kaviraj 1496
ลrฤซ Caitanya Mahฤprabhu-18 February 1486 โ 14 June 1533
