MS: Yesterday we left off the story – Mahaprabhu is glorifying the brahmana and telling him how happy He was to accept food in his house and the brahmana was feeling overwhelmed. Because he was a merely a vipra advanced in various Vedic knowledges and sciences but Madhavendra Puri had recognized Vaisnava acara within his life. Because he exhibited the qualities and behavior of Vaisnava, he was accepted by Madhavendra Puri and given diksa, Vaisnava diksa.
So he is no longer a Vedic vipra or a Vedic brahmana. He is still vaidic brahmana but not merely a vaidic brahmana or a vipra, learned in material sciences, Jyotirveda, Ayurveda, Dhanurveda, etc. but now he was a Vaisnava, a very high class Vaisnava with the mood of Vrndavana, Braja bhava received from Madhavendra Puri.
So he felt great humility that the Lord, first of all this high class Bengali brahmana, Misra, Jagannatha Misra’s son coming from a very illustrious family of Nilambara Cakravarti Thakura and Jagannatha Misra, He was willing to accept food from his hand, he was overwhelmed. He felt so humble and this is what he told to Lord Caitanya at that time in Mathura in his house 500 years ago
TEXT 182
tomare ‘bhiksa’ diba——bada bhagya se amara
tumi——isvara, nahi tomara vidhi-vyavahara
SP: “It is a great fortune for me to offer You food. You are the Supreme Lord, and being in the transcendental position, You are not restricted in any way.
MS: “It is a great fortune for me to offer You food. You are the Supreme Lord, and being in the transcendental position, You are not restricted in any way.” Isvara, vidhi-vyavahara…there is no vidhi, vidhi-vyavahara… the Lord is transcendental, the King is above the law, they have this phrase. The King makes the law but he is above the law, he can follow it, he can break it, he can do what he like, it’s his kingdom and his law. No one can say – “Hey wait a minute, the King is not following the law.” “Acha! Off you go! Bye bye…” No more protest movement. Like one protests and offers a protesting element, your head is cut off. The King can do no wrong, the King is above the law. So the supreme King of Kings is God.
So He is transcendental. There are so many laws and restrictions for a sannyasi – you can’t eat with this lower class brahmana but He is ignoring the social laws called the law of smartas, because this brahmana, this vipra, was a smarta. And smartas follow the smrti, smrti means so many yamas and niyamas, so many rules and regulations guiding their behavior, their actions, their puja, their goal.
And now Lord Caitanya comes along and says, to hell with smrti, I am not following any rules. I am following the rule of love, and as we said – In love there is no rules.
So the rule of love is, “I see love in your heart, special kind of love, there is Braja prema. That’s the prema I am searching for. That’s the prema I am relishing and that prema makes Me go above the law, makes Me go beyond the law, above the law, in My actions and dealings with you. Yes, certainly I will accept food from your house. Why? First of all you are initiated from Madhavendra Puri and second of all, he also,” as the brahmana told, we heard, “Madhavendra Puri also came to your house, and also took food from your hand. So if it is good enough for Madhavendra Puri who is My parama guru, Madhavendra Puri is a guru of Isvara Puri, Isvara Puri is the guru of Lord Caitanya, if your food from your hand is good enough for My parama guru, then it is good enough for Me.”
So He is judging the person not on the basis of social standard and social position, but he is judging that person from the content of his heart. The heart content, the matter of his heart. What is his heart made off? And what is the purity, the realization of faith, and the Krsna content of his heart, that’s what he was being judged by. Not by externals, not by social externals or the rules and regulations of smrti, love is beyond smrti. Mercy above justice, love above power.
The brahmana goes on..
TEXT 183
‘murkha’-loka karibeka tomara nindana
sahite na parimu sei ‘duste’ra vacana
SP: “Foolish people will blaspheme You, but I shall not tolerate the words of
such mischievous people.”
MS: “O Mahaprabhu, foolish people who blaspheme You,” In other words, the murkhas, the other smartas, they are supposed to be smart but they are murkha. The smartas who follow smrti are very proud vipras, polished brahmanas, cultured, educated, refined, proud brahmanas. He is saying these smartas are actually stupid, no so smart, these smartas are murkha – ‘mūrkha’-loka karibeka tomāra nindana
So he is saying these foolish people, these other vipras that I met You with when in the Kesavaji mandira in Mathura, when I first met You and danced with You and fell at Your feet and You raised up and embraced Me. These other vipras, they were with me, they observed the thing, of course they also danced, they were special. But there were foolish people, who blasphemed You, They made offenses to You. It says, ‘mūrkha’-loka karibeka tomāra nindana.
We say sadhu ninda, nindana, Vaisnava ninda, it means offense. “But I shall not tolerate the words of such mischievous people” sahite nā pārimu. I shall not be able to tolerate.
duste’ra vacana – the words, the vacana of dusta. Dustamana, even sounds like a bad thing. Dustamana – bad mind, dirty mind… Dustamana, dustajana, dusta vacana, sounds heavy, doesn’t it?
“But My Lord, You are the Supreme Lord, You are Mahaprabhu, You are God, I am recognizing it. And how can I, as Your surrendered devotee, how can I tolerate it. So please…” because it is all about eating, taking food from his hand. The Lord is willing; the Lord wants to, He is willing, He is there in his house. And the Lord is giving so many arguments from His side. “Yes its ok, it’s sanctioned, I want to do it. I am following the parampara, I am following the mahajana acaryas, I am following the line, the prema parampara, the parampara of premi bhaktas. I am not following the smartas, I am not following vidhi nisedha, lokadharma, lokavicara, I am following prema parampara.”
A premi bhakta, Madhavendra Puri, Iswara Puri, My guru, My parama guru. “In My own heart, I want to take food from your hand. That’s why I have come to your house, I accepted your nivedana, your invitation. Now you are denying Me!”
“O My Lord it’s not like this, just that because You are My Lord, and the last thing that I ever would want to see happen is that someone would say something bad about You, because I would be the cause of that bad statement, that dusta vacana would be caused by me. Because from my hand I gave You food. You are saying You don’t care, to hell with everybody, what do I care, I care about you, I care about your love, let the whole world go to hell, let them say whatever they say, I am here for you, you live for Me, and I live for you.”
This is the love of the Lord, the all encompassing view and heart of the Lord. The Lord’s devotee has his viewpoint also. And he has his heart also, and he is thinking, “But My Lord, You are everything to Me. If someone simply says one bad word about Your name or character or behavior then I will kill myself. I can’t bear to live. I will not tolerate the words of these mischievous people.”
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says, although that Sanodiya
brahmana did not belong to a superior community, he fearlessly chastised the caste brahmanas, caste brahmanas means smartas, vaidic brahmanas, the vipras, smartas.
He fearlessly chastised the caste brahmanas, because these are the foolish people as I mentioned. the murkhas, he is calling these panditas and smartas murkha. These foolish people, these foolish brahmanas, murkha, they will blasphemy You, they will do sadhu ninda and dusta vacana. First they will make offense in their mind, then they will speak badly. First ninda, ninda begins in the mind, offensive mentality, then dusta vacana, bad speech, blasphemous speech.
So this lower caste brahmana was fearlessly chastising them. How could you do that, because he was situated on the platform of suddha bhakti – pure devotional service therefore he was fearless. Krsna is my friend
kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati
I will not perish, nothing can happen to me.
There are people who are opposed to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s accepting a Vaisnava belonging to a lower caste. Therefore they are described as murkha, foolish and dusta, mischievous. A pure devotee has the power to challenge such a high caste people and his brave statements are not considered proud and puffed up. On the contrary, he is considered to be straight forward, such a person does not like to flatter high class brahmanas who belong to the non-Vaisnava community.
So now this conversation is going on in the house of this Sanodiya brahmana. Lord Caitanya is there, Sanodiya brahmana is there, may be his wife is there and some children. Then the servant of Lord Caitanya is there – Balabhadra Bhattacarya, one brahmana from Navadvipa traveling with the Lord.
May be few other brajavasis are there. Very confidential, intimate conversation is going on. The Lord, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He is pleading on behalf of His beloved devotee. He is basically saying, “Oh My devotee I have accepted you fully in My heart. Oh My devotee I don’t care anything about your varna, your asrama, I love you, you are My devotee, you are dedicated to Me, Atma nivedanam, that’s all that matters. Nothing else matters in this world. Name, fame, gain, family, friends, society, anything, nothing else matters at all, because you have accepted Me as everything in your life, and I have accepted you as everything in My life.”
nāham vipro na ca nara-patir nāpi vaiśyo na śūdro
nāham varnī na ca grha-patir no vanastho yatir vā
kintu prodyan-nikhila-paramānanda-pūrnāmrtābdher
gopī-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsah
“You are My dasa, that’s everything to Me. And I am your Prabhu and I am everything to you. What more matters? Nothing else matters. This brahmana may say that, that brahmana may say this, who cares! Give me food from your hands. Please.”
“Oh no My Lord, I cant do that.. Please because I know what they will say, these foolish vipras say, these murkhas, they will do ninda, they will do offense, I can’t tolerate it.”
Then what does Lord Caitanya say in response?
TEXT 184
prabhu kahe,——sruti, smrti, yata rsi-gana
sabe ‘eka’-mata nahe, bhinna bhinna dharma
SP: Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, “The Vedas, Puranas and great learned sages are not always in agreement with one another. Consequently there are different religious principles.
MS: The Vedas, Purānas and great learned sages are not always in agreement with one another, eka matta, eka matta nahe, they don’t always agree, their mati, their consideration, their discrimination, their ideas. Consequently there are different religious principles.
In other words, there is a lot of divided ideas out there, there is a lot of divided opinions. This is the point which we have been discussing. Now Lord Caitanya is making this point. So we should hear this point. This is a statement that Lord Caitanya made to the Sanodiya brahmana and this is called Sri Caitanya Siksamrta – the nectarine instructions of Lord Caitanya, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So this is of course the teaching for one time, and one person, and one place. One time – 500 years ago, one place – Mathura in the house of this brahmana, and it was meant for person – the Sanodiya brahmana, of the lower caste brahmana society.
Now this instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is meant for all people, it is also meant for all people, in all times, and all places. So we are some of those all people, and this is one of those all times, and this is one of those all places, so listen very attentively to this instruction which is part of reply which Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave to the Sanodiya brahmana.
TEXT 185
dharma-sthapana-hetu sadhura vyavahara
puri-gosanira ye acarana, sei dharma sara
SP: “A devotee’s behavior establishes the true purpose of religious principles. The behavior of Madhavendra Puri Gosvami is the essence of such religious principles.”
MS: “A devotee’s behavior establishes the true purpose of religious principles. The behavior of Madhavendra Puri Gosvami is the essence of such religious principles.” dharma-sthapana-hetu sadhura vyavahara.
Sadhu vyavahara, the behavior of the sadhu, the etiquette, the behavior, the characteristics, this sthapana which means to establish. It fixes, it makes the foundation. It creates the foundation, it builds the foundation of dharma, the behavior – dharma-sthāpana-hetu.
And it says purī-gosāsira ye ācarana. In other words, the behavior of Puri gosvami is the essence – sei dharma sāra.
First Lord Caitanya is saying like this, this is the principle, the dharma, religion, the proper duty of the human being, the proper action and activity of the human being in relation to God is dharma. In one sense dharma means proper adjustment of the environment in relation to God.
This is dharma. So dharma-sthapana means to establish the principles of religion. So Lord Caitanya is said – how is this done? How are the principles of religion established? He said it is established by the behavior of the devotees.
We already discussed that yesterday about Sanatana Gosvami was glorifying Haridasa Thakura that you are doing very good pracara and you are backing that pracara with very good acara. Your preaching is very wonderful and your behavior is very wonderful. Sanatana Gosvami says – some people they preach very nicely but they do not behave nicely, and then he said, but some people behave very nicely, mannerly, but they don’t preach, they are quiet, they are doing their own life, private life. So there is some flaw in both.
Behaving nicely, that’s good, but not preaching, that’s bad. And preaching nicely is good, but behaving badly, that’s not good. So if you preaching very nicely and behaving very nicely that’s the best combination, so Haridasa Thakura was the perfect exemplar of that combination of proper behavior and proper speaking of Krsna – krsna katha. Krsna conscious behavior and speaking Hari katha. So he was called namacarya Thakura Haridasa.
This is the point, in other words, Gaudiya Vaisnavism means that we wear our philosophy. Just like you wear clothes, “O you look so pretty, blue dress and green jacket and this and that. You look so handsome, so pretty, nice jewelry this and that.”
What is the content of your heart, what is your personality? Then we say, “O my God, you are like a snake. You are like a tigress, like an elephant, like a bull, inconsiderate heart…”
Just as the person wears fancy colors and clothes, but their heart or behavior might be animalistic or bestial. One may have bestial mentality or completely devoid of all sensitivities and culture of a proper loving caring human being. He or she may be a completely self-centered, selfish, egoistic psychotic! To really lay it on thick!
So although they may dress very fancy, very clean, prim and pretty, but their hearts is as black as coal, and minds are as poisonous as cyanide, like visa, visamana, poisonous..so this is not good.
Non devotee may be wearing fancy clothes but they have no character, no quality, no personality, they are vicious vipers and beastly people. But devotees, Gaudiya Vaisnavas, especially, their philosophy is their behavior. They distribute Krsna consciousness by their Krsna conscious behavior, because all their behavior is based on love. Their behavior is based on their philosophy and their philosophy is love.
Behavior simply is an expression of your thinking, and your thinking is your philosophy, your way of life, your outlook of life. So their philosophy is love of God, so when you love God, you love everyone else too. Because everyone is a child of God. So that’s the philosophy, the philosophy is bhakti and prema, loving God. So then when you express that philosophy then that’s your behavior, loving behavior. Can’t but be!
Otherwise there is a dichotomy if there is a difference between your behavior and philosophy. Very much in Gaudiya Vaisnavism, if you learn the behavior and you don’t know wear it, and don’t exhibit it, then you haven’t realized it. It’s called jnana without vijnana.
Vijnana is the behavior, jnana is the philosophy, so both are required to be an all-rounder. To be an all-rounder in Gaudiya Vaisnavism, you must have the philosophy and behavior. And that’s why I said, please hear this point, because this point is for all of us. A devotee’s behavior establishes the true purpose, dharma sara –means the essence of dharma.
First of all what is the essence of dharma, what is dharma sara, dharma we can say mean religion, so what is the essence of religion, what is the quintessence of religion, what is the highest, most concentrated form of religion? Bolo? Love of God. Love of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
To realize Brahman, that’s also an expression of religion, that’s dharma, to realize Brahman. Paramatma realization is also dharma. Just serving humanity is like dinaloka dharma. But the essence of all dharma is the essence of all reality. What is the essence of all reality – the Supreme Personality of Godhead
mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah
Everyone is the eternal part and parcel of the Lord. So the essence, the highest expression, most concentrated form of religion is the love of God. Higher than Brahman is Paramatma realization, higher than Paramatma realization if Bhagavan realization and the highest form of Bhagavan realization is not svarupya mukti or salokya mukti, but it is an active serving relationship and a tight bondage of love.
This is prema, Brajaprema, this is the topmost essence of religion, Brhad Bhagavatamrta explains all these different hierarchies, the hierarchies of different holy dhamas, the hierarchies of different devotees, hierarchies of different forms of Bhagavan and hierarchies of different forms of loving relationships between Bhagavan and His devotees.
So you might say all of them are pure devotees – Hanuman is a pure devotee, Pandava is a pure devotee, Uddhava is a pure devotee, Prahlad is a pure devotee, so it’s it all one? No. There are levels of purity, levels of intimacy, levels of rasa. Different forms of Lord, different dhamas of Lord, so much hierarchy, everywhere there is hierarchy. It is not all homogeneous oneness.
But the essence of all of that, when he is saying dharma sara, dharma sara is pure love of God. And the essence of that pure love of God is that highest form of love of God in Vaikuntha becomes the love of God in Braja, and the essence of love in Braja is dasya prema, then sakhya prema, then vatsalya prema, then madhurya prema, and the essence of madhurya prema is madanakya mahabhava, mahabhava prema of Radharani. So if someone is connected with that flow of love, that interaction of love, at the level of mahabhava, he is situated in the dharma sara – highest essence of all religion. And that’s why Madhavendra Puri is coming from that quarter, from that centre. Madhavendra Puri is coming that, Iswara Puri, Lord Caitanya and the Sanodiya brahmana.
First Lord Caitanya first makes the principle – He said, a devotee’s behavior establishes the true purpose of religious principles dhrama sthapana hetu sadhura vyavahara. So this is the principle.
Then Lord Caitanya says, “My dear Sanodiya brahmana, don’t you know that this is the principle, that the essence of all religion which is prema, krsna prema, prema pumartha mahana. The essence of all goals of life, and the essence of all religion is Braja prema, gopi prema.” He is saying, “Don’t you understand My dear Sanodiya brahmana, Mathura brahmana – what is establishing the dharma sthapana? HHHHow do we establish religion or dharma? We establish it through the behavior of the devotees – sadhura vyavahara. Their behavior, their actions, their dealings, their movements, their seva, their speaking, their social intercourse. This is how it is established, it is not just written in the book, it is not some holy grantha – Grantha Sahib, Quran, Bhagavat Gita, Srimad Bhagvatam.
It’s a living principle, active living principle. Living, breathing, walking moving, talking. Dharma talks, dharma walks, dharma speaks, dharma thinks, dharma feels – this is dharma, living dharma.
It’s not an armchair philosophy, bookshelf philosophy, dry philosophy. As much as you are alive that’s as much as this philosophy is alive. This is the living philosophy. Gaudiya Vaisnava is the most living, the most highest expression of life, because the highest expression of life is love. And the highest form of love is between Krsna and the gopis in Braja.
So first He says that, then He says – what’s the example of this sadhu vyavahara – the behavior of Madhavendra Puri is the essence of such religious principles. First he says that the sadhu by his behavior, he dharma sthapana, he establishes religious principles.
So then brahmana says “Yes! Yes!” Then He says, “Do you know there is one big sadhu, there is one famous sadhu named Madhavendra Puri and his behavior, it not only establishes religious principles, dharma sthapana, but it is a dharma sara. It is essence of all religious principles, and then the brahmana is saying “Yes Yes!”
Then obviously the next thing He is going to say, “So therefore, because this is true and this Madhavendra Puri came to your house, this was his vyavahara, this was his behavior, he came to your house, and took food from you – a low class brahmana and even initiated you, therefore because this establishes religion and this is the essence of religion – Give Me something to eat!”
See how much you have to preach philosophy just to get a bite to eat. (everyone laughs) It’s amazing, you invite somebody over for lunch and have a one hour philosophical discourse before you have a capatti! The guest has to convince the host of the qualification to receive the prasadam. Are you qualified? Am I qualified to give to you? I know you are qualified and you want to receive.
So that was an extremely lengthy purport of two solid pages of impossibly small print to read. And you can read that, it’s Chapter 17, verse 185 in Madhya Lila.
Talks about being a karma-vira – a successful karmic, fruitive worker is a karma-vira, vira is one who has strength and power in fruitive activities. There is mahatma karma-vira, so many things.
Srila Prabhupada says here – the behavior of a devotee is a criterion for all other behavior. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself followed the devotional principles and taught others to follow them. Mahaprabhu personally followed the behavior of Madhavendra Puri and advised others to follow this principle. Unfortunately people have been attracted to the material body since time immemorial.
That’s a fact. So this is an important point about behavior. We will try to finish this. Lord Caitanya continued by saying one verse-
TEXT 186
tarko ’pratisthah srutayo vibhinna
nasav rsir yasya matam na bhinnam
dharmasya tattvam nihitam guhayam
mahajano yena gatah sa panthah
SP: Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu continued, “‘Dry arguments are inconclusive.
A great personality whose opinion does not differ from others is not considered a great sage. Simply by studying the Vedas, which are variegated, one cannot come to the right path by which religious principles are understood. The solid truth of religious principles is hidden in the heart of an unadulterated, self-realized person. Consequently, as the sastras confirm, one should accept whatever progressive path the mahajanas advocate.’”
MS: Very famous verse, especially the last couple of lines. This is from the quote in Mahabharata, Prabhupada often quoted it so many times – mahajano yena gatah sa panthah.
Prabhupada would say – we must follow the path of mahajanas. dharmasya tattvam nihitam guhayam, dharmasya tattvam – the truth about religion, where do you find it? This is in the books! You can never understand a spiritual books without a teacher. You can never understand any science book in college without a teacher. Teacher is required, guru, eyes. Guru’s caksu.
dharmasya tattvam nihitam guhayam – the truths of the dharma are hidden in the heart nihitam guhāyām, guhāyām means gufah, gupta, gupi, gopi, hidden, guhayam. They are hidden in the hearts of the devotees.
So this was spoken by Lord Caitanya, originally this is from Mahabharata, Yudhistira spoke this in vanaparva, Yudhistira speaking about dharma. So the translation is tarko ‘pratisthah śrutayo vibhinnā , he says by tarka, by dry arguments, by sruti, dry arguments are inconclusive. A great personality whose opinion does not differ from others is not considered a great sage.
Simply by studying the Vedas which are variegated one cannot come to right path by which religious principles are understood.
The solid truth, I love this term, the way Prabhupada translates – Solid truth. dharmasya tattvam is the truth of religious principles and Prabhupada translates dharmasya tattvam as solid truth, not liquid truth, not vaporous truth, not gaseous truth or airy truth – solid, solid truth.
Case hardened, solid steel. Solid truth of religious principles is hidden in the heart of an unadulterated self-realized person, consequently as the sastras confirm, one should accept whatever progressive path the mahajanas advocate.
Lord Caitanya says, listen – It’s devotees and not sastras that I want to follow. The srutis say this and…
First Lord Caitanya started His argument by saying, different munis have different opinions. Some munis say these are religious principles, and other munis says these other principles are religious principles, and then Lord Caitanya said but My opinion is this, that the sadhu vyavahara, dharma sthapana. That dharma is actually established by the behavior of the devotees.
And Madhavendra Puri, he is such a high caliber devotee, that his behavior is not only establishing dharma, but is the essence of dharma, dharma sara.
Then He quotes the sastras, then he quotes the Mahabharata, Yudhistira who is one of the mahajanas, not only is Yudhistira saying that but he is one of the mahajanas.
So then He is saying – Well even by argument, all these great munis and rsis by their argument, or by srutis, they cannot establish, still even all these sastras and all these dharmas, even despite so many sastras being written, if you really want to establish truth, want to get to the essence of truth, it is hidden inside the heart of the devotee. So don’t worry about what these vipras and what they will say and then He says –
TEXT 187
tabe sei vipra prabhuke bhiksa karaila
madhu-purira loka saba prabhuke dekhite aila
SP: After this discussion, the brahmana served lunch to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Then all the people residing in Mathura came to see the Lord.
MS: After this discussion, the brahmana served lunch to Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu. Haribol!
So it has a happy ending, will He eat or not eat? To eat or not to eat, that is the question.
So this is the good ending that Yes! Lord Caitanya did get fed after much philosophical wrangling. In quoting various sastras the brahmana was convinced, “Yes! You are right I should feed You.. to hell with the vipras of Mathura.” Then all the people residing in Mathura came to see the Lord. Madhupuri, that was the old name, madhu-purīra loka saba prabhuke dekhite āila.
TEXT 188
laksa-sankhya loka aise, nahika ganana
bahira hana prabhu dila darasana
SP: People came by the hundreds of thousands, and no one could count them. Therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came out of the house to give audience to the people.
MS: Lakhs and lakhs of people came, thousands, hundreds, no one could count them. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu came out of the house to give audience to the people. Hari Bol! Nitai Gaura Hari Bol! Massive darsana, it’s a mela.
Because lakhs of people could not fit into Sanodiya brahmana’s living room. How can you fit lakhs of people in your living room? So Lord Caitanya came outside – Ok relax everybody its ok Hari Bol..came out to give darsana. Just imagine what a scene that would be! Lakhs and lakhs of people…Lord Caitanya is eating out in the house of the Sanodiya brahmana, haa! Everyone’s running, lets see!
TEXT 189
bahu tuli’ bale prabhu ‘hari-bola’-dhvani
preme matta nace loka kari’ hari-dhvani
SP: When the people assembled, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu raised His arms and said very loudly, “Haribol!” The people responded to the Lord and became ecstatic. As if mad, they began to dance and to vibrate the transcendental sound “Hari!”
MS: When the people assembled, Mahaprabhu raised His arms and said very loudly, “Haribol!” “Haribol!”
Bolo, “Haribol!”, jor se! “Haribol!”
The people responded to the Lord and became ecstatic. So become ecstatic… As if mad, they began to dance and to vibrate the transcendental sound “Hari!” (audience says “Hari Hari”)
You ate too much chappana bhoga? All of you had a big feast for Giriraja and now “Hari Hari…”
Acha?
And that is the end of the story – Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepts Prasadam from a house of a Sanodiya Brahmin.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ki jai!
So this is a very joyous story with lots of philosophical points to consider and reflect upon. And now that was a very nice pastime in Mathura. Tomorrow will be in another location. It will be filmed, live appearance of the Lord. Not in Braja mandala now, He will be shifting the venue to another, the shooting is going on in another place, the film, the drama and tomorrow’s story is – Lord Caitanya Delivers Amogha The Offender.
So you have to tune in tomorrow, I mean come tomorrow to find out whom did Amogha offend and why? Who was offended and why did the Lord deliver him? Gaura Haribol!