Gauranga-lila-smarana-mangala -Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
I meditate on Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu, whose form is manifested by His own spiritual potency, and who took birth as the son of Jagannätha Miçra, in the ocean of Çrématé Çacé-devé's womb, during an eclipse of the full moon, in the month of Phälguna (February), in the year 1407 Çäkäbda, (A.D. 1486), in the town of Mäyäpura in Bengal.
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I eternally meditate on Lord Gaura, who purified
the age of Kali, and who became known by the names Viçvambhara,
Prabhu, Hari, Dvija, Gauracandra, Némaé, and Iça in
the kingdom of Bengal, which is the crown of all pious lands.
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I bow down before Lord Hari. Accepting the luster
of Rädhä's delightful love, He assumed a charming, golden-complexioned
form. Playing in His childhood, He delighted the ladies of the neighborhood
as He crawled in Jagannätha Miçra's courtyard.
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With Lord Ananta, who had assumed the form of
an ordinary snake, He sat down in the courtyard, but again left when His
relatives began to cry. I repeatedly offer my respectful obeisances to
Lord Viçvambhara.
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When in His childhood He heard the words "Haré
Bol!", He would immediately stop crying. Because of this the ladies of
the village would always sing the Holy Names. When He had eaten clay, He
spoke pure spiritual truth to His mother. I offer my respectful obeisances
to Lord Gaurasundara, who became the shelter of the chanting of the Holy
Names, and who removed the impurities of the age of Kali.
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In His boyhood He did many pranks in the brähmaëas
homes. On His first day in school, He and His friends splashed water on
the great brähmaëas bathing in the Ganges and made them run.
I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, the supreme prankster and the
monarch of playful boys.
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He ate rice cooked by the jewel of pilgrimage-brähmaëas, and later mercifully showed him the truth. Climbed on their shoulders, with many tricks He bewildered two thieves. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Caitanya, who delights the pious and punishes the wicked.
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Climbing on the back of a mendicant çiva-bhakta,
He felt great bliss as he glorified Lord Çiva's virtues. I offer
my respectful obeisances to Lord Gaura, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
who is a devotee of His devotees.
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Accepting the sweets lovingly offered by Lakñmé,
He offered her a beautiful benediction that pleased her heart. Later, He
satisfied His relatives by showing them the ink-marks on His body. I meditate
on Lord Gauräìga, the supremely playful thief of the heart.
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Sitting on rejected cooking pots, He spoke to
His mother the highest philosophy. I eternally bow down before Lord Gauracandra,
the supreme object of worship for they who travel on the path of monism.
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Seeing His mother suffering with a grave disease,
with a son's love the boy quickly brought her two white coconuts (for medicine).
I repeatedly offer my respctful obeisances to Lord Gauräìga,
who is His mother's devotee.
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When His elder brother Viçvarüpa
left home to take sannyäsa, with sweet words Lord Gauräìga
consoled His grief-stricken father, and when His father died, He consoled
His grieving mother. I meditate on pleasing Lord Gauräìga,
who is His mother's devotee.
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Following the sacred rites of marriage, He accepted
Çrématé Lakñmé-devé, the daughter
of Vallabhäcärya, and devotedly fulfilled His duties as a householder.
A professional scholar, He traveled to East Bengal, and earned great wealth
by lecturing. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, the best of husbands
and the form of religious duty.
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He ordered pious Tapana Miçra to go and
live in Benares. Returning home to find His mother mourning Lakñmé-devé's
death, He consoled her with pleasing words describing the spiritual truth.
I meditate on tranquil Lord Gauräìga, who gives the happiness
of renunciation.
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At His mother's request, He married Çrématé
Viñëupriyä-devé. On the bank of the Ganges with
His many disciples, He cut down the pride of Keçava Kaçméré,
who had conquered all directions. The jewel of learned scholars and the
moon of Navadvipa, He enjoyed many pastimes. I offer my respectful obeisances
to Him, the lion among the scholars.
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With playful logic defeating all brähmaëa
smärtas, nayäyikas, and täntrikas in Navadvépa, He
shone with great splendor. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Gaura,
the form of transcendental knowledge.
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He became cured of a disease by drinking the
water used to wash a brahmanas feet. I meditate on Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu,
the protector of varëäçrama.
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Surrounded by brähmaëas and offered
respects by all the demigods, He obtained the Maha Mantra mantra from the
mouth of His guru at Gayä. When He returned to Bengal, on the pretext
of suffering from a grave disease He explained the actual truth. I meditate
on Lord Gauräìga, the form of a devotee expert at tasting the
nine nectars of devotion.
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Ceaselessly discussing the truth of devotional
service, the great devotees headed by Advaita Acärya took shelter
of Him by chanting Lord Muräri's holy names. When Nityänanda
came, Gaura displayed the Supreme Personality of Godhead's pastimes. I
offer my respectful obeisances to all-powerful Lord Gaura who, revealing
His siø-armed form, delights the eyes.
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Suddenly displaying Lord Varäha's handsome
form, He was very merciful to Muräré Gupta. During the worship
of Vyäsa He became Balaräma and began to call for mädhvéka
liquor. I meditate on Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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Confident that Lord Caitanya is in reality Lord
Kåñëa, Lord Advaitacandra and His associates worshiped
Him at Çréväsa's house. I remember Lord Caitanya, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, the shelter of Çrédhara and
the other devotees.
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Revealing His transcendental qualities, He purified
Çréväsa's Muslim servant and transformed him into a
pure devotee. I meditate on the golden moon of Lord Gaura, who is free
of all material desire and maddened with pure love.
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Happy to hear physician Muräré Gupta's
prayers glorifying Lord Räma, He assumed the form of Lord Räma.
He also mercifully freed the devotee Mukunda from bad association. I meditate
on Him, the philanthropist that gives the sweet nectar of pure devotional
service.
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The Lord ordered His two avadhüta devotees
(Lord Nityänanda and Haridäsa Thäkura) to give the holy
names of Lord Kåñëa, the master of Gokula, to all living
entities, high and low, in all towns and villages, everywhere. I meditate
on Lord Caitanya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who mercifully descended
to this world.
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Going with His elder brother to Advaita Acärya's
home, He spoke the pure truth to a wine-drinking hypocrite-sannyäsé
in Lalita-puré. I meditate on Lord Caitanya, the auspicious abode
of pure devotional service.
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When Advaita Acärya began to preach the
fraud known as impersonal monism, Lord Caitanya suddenly started to beat
Him on the back, lovingly forcing Him again to the path of devotional service.
I eternally meditate on Lord Caitanya, who removes the illusions of mäyä.
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At Candraçekhara's house He manifested
the form of Lakñmé-devé and fed with His milk the
devotees present, who were all plunged in the ocean of pure devotional
service. He showed His transcendental opulences to Vijaya däsa and
delivered him. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, the abode of all
transcendental potencies and opulences.
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Accompanied by His devotees, He traveled to
Godruma and many other villages, where He enjoyed many pastimes, bathed,
ate, and continually chanted the holy names, hardly sleeping. Throughout
the entire day I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, who grants the
happiness of pure devotional service.
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Accompanied by His saìkértana
party headed by Çréniväsa Acärya, He filled with
pure love of God the hearts of Jagadänanda Vipra and many other fallen
and sinful brähmaëas there. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga,
who is an ocean of pure love of God and the shelter of the fallen.
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By being filled with ecstatic love He taught
devotion to all the devotees. Merciful at heart, He washed away their faults.
The giver of liberation, He explained devotional service in the company
of devotees. I mediate on Lord Gauräìga, the form of forgiveness
of the devotees faults.
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After liberating Cända Käzé,
the great enemy of the bliss of saìkértana, again and again
the Lord danced and chanted Kåñëa's holy name in all
the towns and villages. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, who cured
Kali's disease, whose arms are very long, and who ecstatically dances in
Navadvépa-dhäma.
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Gaìga‘ däsa, the physician Muräré
Gupta, Kholaveca‘ Çrédhara, and Çuklämbara Brahmacäré
were full of love and devotion for Him. Çréla Näräyaëé-devé
was delighted to eat the remnants of His meal. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga,
the supreme person, whose form is splendid and transcendental.
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Overwhelmed with love, He made Çréväsa Thäkura hear the supremely auspicious truth from the mouth of his dead son. I bow down before Lord Gaura, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is free of all duplicity, who delivers the living entities, and who gives to His servants an auspicious cenception of life.
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When He was overwhelmed by the gopés
love, some fools criticized Him. When with stick in hand the Lord struck
them, they became enemies and planned their revenge. I meditate on Lord
Gauräìga, who became a splendid lion to punish those averse
to Him.
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With a mind to remove their offenses, when He
was 24 years old He accepted sannyäsa from Keçava Bhäraté
at Katwa in the month of Mägha. I meditate on Lord Caitanya, who is
worshiped by the learned, His head shaved and a daëòa in His
hand.
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Renouncing His home and relatives in Navadvépa,
and conquered by Nityänanda's love, Kåñëa Caitanyacandra
wandered to the town of Çäntipura. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga,
who wished to go to Vraja.
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The Lord's mother was brought there. Simultaneously
joyful and grieving, she fed and protected her son for some days. Devotedly
obeying His mother's orders, the Lord went to Jagannätha Puré.
I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, whose journey made the entire
country auspicious, and who is the king of sannyäsés.
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He journeyed with With Nityänanda, intelligent
Jagadänanda, Dämodara, and Mukunda Datta, who was expert in singing
about Kåñëa's pastimes, all devoted bumblebees drinking
the honey of the Lord's feet. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga,
whose form is most dear to the devotees.
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Leaving the Ganges shore and the water form
of Lord Maheça, in the beautiful gardens of Orissa He saw Kçéra-cora
Gopénätha, and in the village of Katwa He saw His own form
of Lord Säkñé-Gopäla. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga,
who become absorbed in His own devotional service.
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In the forest of Ekämra He offered obeisances
to a çiva-liìga. When He went to the auspicious town of Käpotaka
and set down His daëòa, Nityänanda broke it. I meditate
on Lord Gauräìga, who is disguised as a human being and who
is a devotee of His devotees.
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Pretending to be angry when His daëòa
was broken, the Lord left His associates and quickly went alone to Jagannätha
Puré. Seeing Lord Kåñëa's form, He became filled
with ecstatic love. I meditate on golden Lord Gauräìga, who
gave up His daëòa.
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Särvabhauma's service when the Lord was
tasting the ecstasy of love destroyed all unwanted material impurities
in his heart, and by the Lord's powerful mercy he became a Vaiñëava.
I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, the form of preaching the Vedic
truth.
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After staying there for some days, He went to
the South. At Kürmakñetra He cured the leper Väsudeva,
and at Vijaya-nagara He gave Rämänanda Räya the ocean of
pure love of God. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, who gives great
pleasure to the people, and who is the personified form of all holy places.
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By preaching pure devotional service and by
His own transcendental potency, He converted all the Buddhists, Jains,
atheists, Tattvavädés, and persons fallen into the lake of
mäyäväda philosophy, into auspicious pure devotees of the
Lord. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Gauracandra, the purifier
of the mental speculators.
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After giving to the people of the South the
bliss that removes the impurities of Kali, accompanied by Kåçna
däsa, and bringing two devotional books (Brahma-saàhitä
and Kåñëa-karëämåta), He went to Jagannätha
Puré on the road to Alälanätha. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga,
the jubilant protector of the devotees.
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As splendid as pure gold, He stayed the brähmaëa
Käçé Miçra's house. Accompanied by Svarüpa
Dämodara and other associates, He always gave to everyone the spiritual
bliss of the holy name. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, whose
jubilant form is surrounded by His associates.
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Dancing and singing Lord Hari's glories with
the devotees as Jagannätha rode on His chariot before them, He flooded
with love King Pratäprarudra and the other pure devotees of Orissa.
I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, who is an ocean of transcendental
bliss and the personification of ecstatic love of God.
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Leaving His Orissan associates at the border,
He went to Bengal. I meditate Çacé-devé's divine son.
I meditate on Lord Gaura, who saw Çréväsa
Thäkura, Väsudeva däa, and Räghava Paëòita
at their homes, and then went on to Çäntipura.
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I worship Lord Gaura, who visited the home of Vidyäväcaspaté däsa in Vidyänagara and then went to Kuliya‘-gräma and Navadvépa.
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Because he humbly worshiped the devotees, Devänanda
in Kuliya-nagara attained Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu's mercy, which
cannot be purchased by any amount of wealth, followers, beauty or learning.
I bow down before Lord Gaura, who is only attained by the pure devotional
service of the pure and the wise.
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On the pretext of going to see Våndävana, He affectionately saw His mother in the land of Bengal, delivered Rüpa Gosvämé and his elder brother (Sanätana Gosvämé) from the mouth of the moslems, and then returned to Orissa. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, the independent Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose heart becomes joyful to deliver the devotees.
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Leaving the association of many devotees, taking
only Balabhadra Bhaööäcärya with Him, and by His transcendental
potency making the bears, tigers, and other wild animals mad with bliss,
the independent Lord journeyed, His heart fixed on Våndävana.
I meditate on Lord Gauracandra, who enchanted the minds of the animals
with His own spiritual bliss.
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Seeing the hills, rivers, and villages in Våndävana,
He fainted, overcome with ecstatic love by remembering His pastimes there
before. For this reason Balabhadra made Him leave the forests of Vraja.
I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, who was submissive to His devotee
and overcome with ecstasy.
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Seeing Him overcome with ecstasy, some fortunate mlecchas, because of their pure hearts, obtained His mercy. By His mercy they became pure devotees, overcome with love. I meditate on supremely pure Lord Gauräìga, who removes the impurity of low birth.
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At the sacred junction of the Gaìga‘
and Yamunä, He taught to Çréla Rüpa Gosvämé
the nectar of transcendental mellows, and to wise Vallabhäcärya
pure love for the master of Gokula. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga,
the personified Vedic scriptures, and the jewel among teachers of transcendental
mellows.
Text 58
At Väräëasé, by His devotees
mercy He flooded with love the nectarless monists and gave Rüpa Gosvämé's
elder brother the power to write books about viñëu-bhakti.
I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Gauräìga, the spiritual
master of those expert at devotional service.
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"Pathetic are they who, scorched by dry logic,
do not bow down before Lord Gauräìga!" Saying this again and
again, the exalted Çaìkara sannyäsés worshiped
Him. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, who was agitated with transcendental
bliss.
Text 60
When He returned to Jagannätha Puré,
He gave pleasure to the devotees. With words of love He rained the nectar
of Lord Haré on Rämänanda Räya, Särvabhauama
Bhaööäcärya, and the others. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga,
who tastes the nectar of talking about Lord Hari.
Text 61
Year after year at the time of Rathayäträ,
the great devotees would travel from Bengal to see His lotus feet, which
are worshiped by Brahma‘ and Çiva. Attaining great satisfaction
at heart, they then left Orissa. I meditate on Him, the king of sannyäsés,
and the supreme friend of the Bengalé devotees.
Text 62
To protect His sannyäsé followers
from the vices that follow from talking with women, He was very happy as
He rejected Choöa Haridäsa for a small offense. I meditate on
Lord Gauräìga, whose activities are faultless, and who is the
personification of a sincere devotee.
Text 63
He very mercifully taught Pradyumna Miçra
the secret that a person who because of past karma takes birth in a low
family may become a spiritual master by intelligently understanding the
truth of spiritual life. I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, who is
free of folly, and who is a bumblebee, relishing the virtues of others.
Text 64
Conquered by his devotional service, with a
father's love He directly taught Raghunätha däsa Gosvämé
the truth of devotional service. At the last part of His pastimes by the
shore of the sea, He made Raghunätha däsa His servant. I meditate
on Lord Gauräìga, the friend of they who take shelter of His
feet.
Text 65
He always tolerated the offenses of Rämacandra
Puré, who was fond of blaspheming his superiors, and who had become
bewildered and fallen into the muddy well of quarrelsomeness. The Lord
accepted Amogha because he attained a little fragment of a devotee's mercy.
May Çacé-devé's son eternally travel on the path of
my memory.
Text 66
By touching him, the Lord mercifully cured Sanätana
Gosvämé, who was afflicted with a disease of itching sores.
The Lord also purified Sanätana of the desire to commit suicide. I
meditate on Lord Gaura, the hero of Navadvépa.
Text 67
The independent Lord protected Rämänanda
Räya's younger brother Gopénätha Paööanäyaka
from Mahäräja Pratäprarudra's wrath. The Lord taught Gopénätha
about piety, saying that one should not collect money by sinful means.
I meditate on Lord Gauräìga, who is the personification of
auspiciousness, and who grants auspiciousness to His devotees.
Text 68
I always remember the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Lord Gaura, who again and again accepted the gifts His devotee
Räghava Paëòita brought from His own country (Bengal)
Text 69
I meditate upon Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu.
Strictly following the rules of sannyäsa, He refused to accept the
oil offered by Jagadänanda Paëòita.
Text 70
In Lord Jagannätha's temple, by the Garuòa-stambha
an old woman overwhelmed with devotion saw the Deity by climbing on Lord
Caitanya's shoulders. May Çacé's son, the supremely pure
Lord Hari, whose heart was pleased by that woman, eternally travel on the
path of my memory.
Text 71
May Çacé's son, who worshiped
Içvara Puré as His guru, who was affectionately merciful
to His pure servant Govinda, and who taught Svarüa Dämodara about
devotional love in madhura-rasa, eternally travel on the path of my memory.
Text 72
May Çacé's son, whose form splendid
as Mount Sumeru was clothed in a saffron kaupéna, and whose eyes
flowed rivers of tears as He chanted the names of Rädha‘ and Kåñëa,
eternally travel on the path of my memory.
Text 73
May Çacé's son, happily and loudly
chanting Lord Hari's sweet holy names, dancing with His men in a procession
slowly moving through the city's streets, and plaintively begging "Please
chant the two syllables Ha-ri", eternally travel on the path of my memory.
Text 74
May the kind Lord, who is Çacé's
son, and who very mercifully described the ten phases of pure love that
are the çästras secret, hidden in the Çruté and
unkown to the previous sages, eternally travel on the path of my memory.
Text 75
I worship Lord Haré Gauracandra, who teaches us:
1. Hari, the Almighty, is one without a second.
2. He is always vested with infinite power.
3. He is the ocean of rasa (the transcendental bliss which forms the essence of any relationship).
4. The soul is His Vibhinnäàça, or separated part.
5. Certain souls are engrossed by prakåti, His illusory energy.
6. Certain souls are released from the grasp of prakåti.
7. All spiritual and material phenomena are bhedäbheda-prakäça of Hari, the Almighty (simultaneously one and different with the Lord.).
8. Bhakti, devotional service, is the only means of attaining the final object of spiritual existance.
9. Prema, pure love in Kåñëa,
is alone the final object of spiritual existance.*
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Perfect knowledge is received from Brahma‘ and
other devotees dear to Lord Hari. The preceding nine axioms are the summary
of all truth. Sense-perception is not a good source of knowledge. Reason
and logic have no power to enter the truth.
Text 77
Lord Haré is one without a second. Brahmä,
Çiva and Indra bow before Him. The non-material Brahman is His bodily
effulgence. The Supersoul is a portion of Him. The universe is subordinate
to Him. He is the father of the universe. He is Rädhä's lover.
He is splendid as a fresh monsoon cloud. He is perfectly spiritual.
Text 78
All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
who is not different from His spiritual potency, who is situated in His
own glory, whose every desire is at once fulfilled, who is the controller
of everything, who never changes, and whose potency has three parts: 1.
His personal, superior potency 2. the living entities, and 3. the inanimate
material nature.
Text 79
All glories to Lord Hari, who enjoys the love
transformations of the hlädiné potency and the ecstasies of
the samvit potency, and who, in splendid spiritual abodes created by His
sändhiné potency, enjoys nectar pastimes in Vraja, plunged
in the ocean of nectar.
Text 80
Just as sparks are to a great fire and particles
of sunlight are to the sun, the living entities are spiritual atoms manifested
from Lord Hari. Lord Haré is the supreme master of the the material
nature, and the illusory potency, mäyä, is under His control.
A living entity, even a liberated soul, may be placed under mäyä's
control.
Text 81
Seeing the living entities averse to Kåñëa,
intent on their own pleasure, ignorant of their spiritual nature, and deserving
punishment as they are bound by the chains of the modes of nature, Mäyä
covers them with gross and subtle coverings and, binding them with chains
of karma that bring many sufferings, leads these fallen souls up and down
through the heavenly and hellish material worlds.
Text 82
Wandering and wandering, sometimes seeing a
pure Vaiñëava from whom streams the nectar of Lord Hari, attracted
to follow him, turning to Kåñëa and gradually abandoning
materialism, one assumes his original spiritual form and enjoys the most
splendid and pure nectar.
Text 83
All spirit and matter is the transformation
of Lord Hari's energy. The theory that everything is a transformation of
the Supreme itself is an impurity spawned by the age of Kali, and contradicts
the actual Vedic idea. The Vedas establish the pure truth that everything
is simultaneously one and different from Lord Hari, and therefore perfect
spiritual love may be eternally manifest.
Text 84
The nine different forms of devotional service to Lord Haré are:
1. To hear of the spiritual name, form, attributes and lélä (pastimes) of Kåñëa.
2. To utter and sing all those.
3. To meditate and reiterate all those.
4. Service of His Holy Feet.
5. Worship
6. Bowing down.
7. Doing all that pleases Him.
8. Friendship
9. Resignation*
Faithfully worshiping Lord Haré every
day, one attains pure love for Him.
Text 85
In his original spiritual form the pure love
of madhura-rasa rises. Carrying in his heart pure love for Rädha‘-Kåñëa's
associates in Vraja, he attains blissful love, his happiness exceeding
anything in the material world, and he also attains supreme devotional
service in the Lord's pastimes.
Text 86
Considering the questions "What is God? What
is the living entity? What is this inanimate material world?" a scholar
learned in the Vedas worships Lord Hari. Abandoning all offenses and the
desire for impersonal liberation, he becomes Lord Hari's servant and drinks
the nectar bliss of Lord Hari's holy names with the other devotees.
Text 87
Accepting these ten axioms, abandoning ignorance,
and remaining in the association of saintly devotees, one nourishes his
love for Lord Haré and becomes happy.
Text 88
May Çacé's son, the best of sannyäsés,
the unparalleled friend of the universe, His tall, blissful, effulgent
spiritual form bathed in tears flowing from His eyes as He teaches these
truths to the devotees like bumblebees at His feet, eternally travel on
the path of my memory.
Text 89
May Çacé's son, the shelter of
the Bengalé followers of varëäçrama, the Orissans
who are sincere, honest, and humble at heart, and the people in the western
countries who are compassionate and eager to learn the truth, eternally
travel on the path of my memory.
Text 90
May Çacé's son, staying at Käçé Miçra's house, His heart longing in separation from His Lord, very tall because His joints had become loosened, His hands and feet elongated, His body fallen on the ground, His voice choked, and His mind agitated, eternally travel on the path of my memory.
Text 91
May Çacé's son who, gone out from
the stone house with its doors still bolted, went among the Käliìga
cows and fell down, becoming like a turtle because His limbs had contracted,
eternally travel on the path of my memory.
Text 92
May Çacé's son who, remembering
the forest of Vraja, overwhelmed with feelings of separation, rubbing His
face, and making it bleed, said, "Where is My beloved Kåñëa?
Tell me! Tell! Tell!" eternally travel on the path of my memory.
Text 93
May Çacé's son Gaura who, to see
regal Mount Govardhana in Vraja, happily ran with His associates to the
great sand-dune cakaöa-parvata on the beach, eternally travel on the
path of my memory.
Text 94
With devotion I bow down before Lord Gauracandra, whose mercy delights the living entities, and who, rescuing Raghunätha däsa from the blind well of material existance, gave him a guïja‘ necklace and a govardhana-çilä.
Text 95
I bow down before Lord Gaura who, rejecting
all arguments opposing pure devotional service and avoiding the association
of non-devotees, shone with great splendor in the company of saintly devotees.
Text 96
With devotion I bow down before Lord Gauracandra
who, giving Lord Viñëu's holy names to the people of the world,
became the purifier of the age of Kali, and who also gave the nectar of
pure love to the intimate devotees.
Text 97
With devotion I bow before Lord Gauracandra,
who for they who take shelter of the name Caitanya destroys all offenses
to the holy names, and who gives transcendental devotional service to the
living entities.
Text 98
In this way Lord Kåñëa Caitanyacandra
enjoyed pastimes for 24 years as a householder, and another 24 years as
a sannyäsé. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Gaura,
the spiritual master of all äçramas and all worlds.
Text 99
May Lord Gauräìga, who mercifully
gave clothing and money to the poor, who satisfied hungry guests with food
and other gifts, and who in the same way gave great happiness by giving
the gift of transcendental knowledge, eternally travel on the path of my
memory.
Text 100
On the pretext of pilgrimage He spent the first
siø years of sannyäsa in preaching devotional service, and
the final eighteen years He remained in Jagannätha Puré. I
offer my respectful obeisances to His transcendental pastimes, manifest
in this world by the yogamäya‘ potency.
Text 101
Alas! Alas! The devotees in all the worlds were
overcome with grief when He, enchanting the devotee's eyes, suddenly disappeared
at sunset during saìkértana in the Gopénätha
temple. I offer my respectful obeisances to His eternal, spiritual pastimes,
which are no longer manifest in this world.
Text 102
Lord Kåñëa Caitanyacandra,
the dearest friend, and the jewel of the brähmaëas, grants pure
love for the divine couple (Çré Çré Rädha‘-Kåñëa)
to those devotees who always sing, especially at Çrédhäma
Mäyäpura, with a loud voice and a heart moistened with spiritual
love, this song about Lord Gaura.
Text 103
In the month of Kärttika, in the year 406
(Caitanya era), in Godruma-dvépa, Bhaktivinoda composed this song
glorifying the Lord's pastimes, which purify the entire world.
Text 104
Because He desired to taste the pastimes of the sweetness of Her love, Nanda's son enjoyed pastimes in Bengal. This wonderful song, filled with His pastimes, is offered to Her, King Våñabhänu's daughter.