SRI CAITANYA CARITAMRITA
ADI LILA
CC Ādi 11.1: After offering my obeisances unto all the
devotees of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, who are like bumblebees collecting honey
from His lotus feet, I shall try to describe those who are the most prominent.
CC Ādi 11.2: All glories to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! Anyone
who has taken shelter at His lotus feet is glorious.
CC Ādi 11.3: All glories to Śrī Advaita Prabhu, Nityānanda
Prabhu and all the devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu!
CC Ādi 11.4: Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu is the topmost branch of
the indestructible tree of eternal love of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya
Mahāprabhu. I offer my respectful obeisances to all the subbranches of that
topmost branch.
CC Ādi 11.5: Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu is an extremely heavy
branch of the Śrī Caitanya tree. From that branch grow many branches and
subbranches.
CC Ādi 11.6: Watered by the desire of Śrī Caitanya
Mahāprabhu, these branches and subbranches have grown unlimitedly and covered
the entire world with fruits and flowers.
CC Ādi 11.7: These branches and subbranches of devotees are
innumerable and unlimited. Who could count them? For my personal purification I
shall try to enumerate only the most prominent among them.
CC Ādi 11.8: After Nityānanda Prabhu, the greatest branch is
Vīrabhadra Gosāñi, who also has innumerable branches and subbranches. It is not
possible to describe them all.
CC Ādi 11.9: Although Vīrabhadra Gosāñi was the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, He presented Himself as a great devotee. And although
the Supreme Godhead is transcendental to all Vedic injunctions, He strictly
followed the Vedic rituals.
CC Ādi 11.10: He is the main pillar in the hall of
devotional service erected by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He knew within Himself
that He acted as the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu, but externally He was prideless.
CC Ādi 11.11: It is by the glorious mercy of Śrī Vīrabhadra
Gosāñi that people all over the world now have the chance to chant the names of
Caitanya andNityānanda.
CC Ādi 11.12: I therefore take shelter of the lotus feet of
Vīrabhadra Gosāñi, so that by His mercy my great desire to write Śrī
Caitanya-caritāmṛta will be properly guided.
CC Ādi 11.13: Two devotees of Lord Caitanya named Śrī
Rāmadāsa and Gadādhara dāsa always lived with Śrī Vīrabhadra Gosāñi.
CC Ādi 11.14-15: When Nityānanda Prabhu was ordered to go to
Bengal to preach, these two devotees [Śrī Rāmadāsa and Gadādhara dāsa] were
ordered to go with Him. Thus they are sometimes counted among the devotees of
Lord Caitanya and sometimes among the devotees of Lord Nityānanda. Similarly,
MādhavaGhoṣa and Vāsudeva Ghoṣa belonged to both groups of devotees
simultaneously.
CC Ādi 11.16: Rāmadāsa, one of the chief branches, was full
of fraternal love of Godhead. He made a flute from a stick with sixteen knots.
CC Ādi 11.17: Śrīla Gadādhara dāsa was always fully absorbed
in ecstasy as a gopī. In his house Lord Nityānanda enacted the drama Dāna-keli.
CC Ādi 11.18: Śrī Mādhava Ghoṣa was a principal performer
of kīrtana. While he sang, Nityānanda Prabhu danced.
CC Ādi 11.19: When Vāsudeva Ghoṣa described Lord Caitanya
and Nityānanda while performing kīrtana, even wood and stone would melt upon
hearing it.
CC Ādi 11.20: There were many extraordinary activities
performed by Murāri, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Sometimes in
his ecstasy he would slap the cheek of a tiger, and sometimes he would play
with a venomous snake.
CC Ādi 11.21: All the associates of Lord Nityānanda were
formerly cowherd boys in Vrajabhūmi. Their symbolic representations were the
horns and sticks they carried, their cowherd dress and the peacock plumes on
their heads.
CC Ādi 11.22: The physician Raghunātha, also known as
Upādhyāya, was so great a devotee that simply by seeing him one would awaken
his dormant love of Godhead.
CC Ādi 11.23: Sundarānanda, another branch of Śrī Nityānanda
Prabhu, was Lord Nityānanda's most intimate servant. Lord Nityānanda Prabhu
perceived the life of Vrajabhūmi in his company.
CC Ādi 11.24: Kamalākara Pippalāi is said to have been the
third gopāla. His behavior and love of Godhead were uncommon, and thus he is
celebrated all over the world.
CC Ādi 11.25: Sūryadāsa Sarakhela and his younger brother
Kṛṣṇadāsa Sarakhela both possessed firm faith in Nityānanda Prabhu. They
were a reservoir of love of Godhead.
CC Ādi 11.26: Gaurīdāsa Paṇḍita, the emblem of the most
elevated devotional service in love of Godhead, had the greatest potency to
receive and deliver such love.
CC Ādi 11.27: Making Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda the
Lords of his life, Gaurīdāsa Paṇḍita sacrificed everything for the service of
Lord Nityānanda, even the fellowship of his own family.
CC Ādi 11.28: The thirteenth important devotee of Śrī
Nityānanda Prabhu was Paṇḍita Purandara, who moved in the ocean of love of
Godhead just like theMandara Hill.
CC Ādi 11.29: Parameśvara dāsa, said to be the fifth gopāla
of kṛṣṇa-līlā, completely surrendered to the lotus feet of Nityānanda.
Anyone who remembers his name, Parameśvara dāsa, will get love of Kṛṣṇa very
easily.
CC Ādi 11.30: Jagadīśa Paṇḍita, the fifteenth branch of
Lord Nityānanda's followers, was the deliverer of the entire world. Devotional
love of Kṛṣṇa showered from him like torrents of rain.
CC Ādi 11.31: The sixteenth dear servant of Nityānanda
Prabhu was Dhanañjaya Paṇḍita. He was very much renounced and always merged
in love of Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 11.32: Maheśa Paṇḍita, the seventh of the twelve
gopālas, was very liberal. In great love of Kṛṣṇa he danced to the beating
of a kettledrum like a madman.
CC Ādi 11.33: Puruṣottama Paṇḍita, a resident of
Navadvīpa, was the eighth gopāla. He would become almost mad as soon as he
heard the holy name ofNityānanda Prabhu.
CC Ādi 11.34: Balarāma dāsa always fully tasted the nectar
of love of Kṛṣṇa. Upon hearing the name of Nityānanda Prabhu, he would
become greatly maddened.
CC Ādi 11.35: Yadunātha Kavicandra was a great devotee. Lord
Nityānanda Prabhu always danced in his heart.
CC Ādi 11.36: The twenty-first devotee of Śrī Nityānanda in
Bengal was Kṛṣṇadāsa Brāhmaṇa, who was a first-class servant of the Lord.
CC Ādi 11.37: The twenty-second devotee of Lord Nityānanda
Prabhu was Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa, who was the ninth cowherd boy. He was a
first-class Vaiṣṇava and did not know anything beyond Nityānanda Prabhu.
CC Ādi 11.38: The twenty-third and twenty-fourth prominent devotees
of Nityānanda Prabhu were Sadāśiva Kavirāja and his son Puruṣottama dāsa, who
was the tenth gopāla.
CC Ādi 11.39: From birth, Puruṣottama dāsa was merged in
the service of the lotus feet of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, and he always engaged
in childish play with Lord Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 11.40: Śrī Kānu Ṭhākura, a very respectable
gentleman, was the son of Puruṣottama dāsa Ṭhākura. He was such a great
devotee that Lord Kṛṣṇa always lived in his body.
CC Ādi 11.41: Uddhāraṇa Datta Ṭhākura, the eleventh among
the twelve cowherd boys, was an exalted devotee of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu. He
worshiped the lotus feet of Lord Nityānanda in all respects.
CC Ādi 11.42: The twenty-seventh prominent devotee of
Nityānanda Prabhu was Ācārya Vaiṣṇavānanda, a great personality in devotional
service. He was formerly known as Raghunātha Purī.
CC Ādi 11.43: Another important devotee of Lord Nityānanda
Prabhu was Viṣṇudāsa, who had two brothers, Nandana and Gańgādāsa. Lord
Nityānanda Prabhusometimes stayed at their house.
CC Ādi 11.44: Paramānanda Upādhyāya was Nityānanda Prabhu's
great servitor. Śrī Jīva Paṇḍita glorified the qualities of Śrī Nityānanda
Prabhu.
CC Ādi 11.45: The thirty-first devotee of Lord Nityānanda
Prabhu was Paramānanda Gupta, who was greatly devoted to Lord Kṛṣṇa and
highly advanced in spiritual consciousness. Formerly Nityānanda Prabhu also
resided at his house for some time.
CC Ādi 11.46: The thirty-second, thirty-third, thirty-fourth
and thirty-fifth prominent devotees were Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇadāsa, Manohara and
Devānanda, who always engaged in the service of Lord Nityānanda.
CC Ādi 11.47: The thirty-sixth devotee of Lord Nityānanda
was Hoḍa Kṛṣṇadāsa, whose life and soul was Nityānanda Prabhu. He was
always dedicated to the lotus feet of Nityānanda, and he knew no one else but
Him.
CC Ādi 11.48: Among Lord Nityānanda's devotees, Nakaḍi was
the thirty-seventh, Mukunda the thirty-eighth, Sūrya the thirty-ninth, Mādhava
the fortieth,Śrīdhara the forty-first, Rāmānanda the forty-second, Jagannātha
the forty-third and Mahīdhara the forty-fourth.
CC Ādi 11.49: Śrīmanta was the forty-fifth, Gokula dāsa the
forty-sixth, Hariharānanda the forty-seventh, Śivāi the forty-eighth, Nandāi
the forty-ninth andParamānanda the fiftieth.
CC Ādi 11.50: Vasanta was the fifty-first, Navanī Hoḍa the
fifty-second, Gopāla the fifty-third, Sanātana the fifty-fourth, Viṣṇāi the
fifty-fifth, Kṛṣṇānanda the fifty-sixth and Sulocana the fifty-seventh.
CC Ādi 11.51: The fifty-eighth great devotee of Lord
Nityānanda Prabhu was Kaḿsāri Sena, the fifty-ninth was Rāmasena, the sixtieth
was Rāmacandra Kavirāja, and the sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third were
Govinda, Śrīrańga and Mukunda, who were all physicians.
CC Ādi 11.52: Among the devotees of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu,
Pītāmbara was the sixty-fourth, Mādhavācārya the sixty-fifth, Dāmodara dāsa the
sixty-sixth,Śańkara the sixty-seventh, Mukunda the sixty-eighth, Jñāna dāsa the
sixty-ninth and Manohara the seventieth.
CC Ādi 11.53: The dancer Gopāla was the seventy-first,
Rāmabhadra the seventy-second, Gaurāńga dāsa the seventy-third,
Nṛsiḿha-caitanya the seventy-fourth and Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa the
seventy-fifth.
CC Ādi 11.54: Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura, the son of Śrīmatī
Nārāyaṇī, composed Śrī Caitanya-mańgala [later known as Śrī
Caitanya-bhāgavata].
CC Ādi 11.55: Śrīla Vyāsadeva described the pastimes of
Kṛṣṇa in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The Vyāsa of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya
Mahāprabhu was Vṛndāvanadāsa.
CC Ādi 11.56: Among all the branches of Śrī Nityānanda
Prabhu, Vīrabhadra Gosāñi was the topmost. His subbranches were unlimited.
CC Ādi 11.57: No one can count the unlimited followers of
Nityānanda Prabhu. I have mentioned some of them just for my self-purification.
CC Ādi 11.58: All these branches, the devotees of Lord
Nityānanda Prabhu, being full of ripened fruits of love of Kṛṣṇa,
distributed these fruits to all they met, flooding them with love of Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 11.59: All these devotees had unlimited strength to
deliver unobstructed, unceasing love of Kṛṣṇa. By their own strength they
could offer anyone Kṛṣṇaand love of Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 11.60: I have briefly described only some of the
followers and devotees of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu. Even the thousand-mouthed
Śeṣa Nāga cannot describe all of these unlimited devotees.
CC Ādi 11.61: With an ardent desire to serve the purpose of
Śrī Rūpa and Śrī Raghunātha, I, Kṛṣṇadāsa, narrate Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta,
following in their footsteps.
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