SRI CAITANYA CARITAMRITA
ADI LILA
Chapter 5: The Glories Of Lord Nityānanda Balarāma
CC Ādi 5.1: Let me offer my obeisances to Lord Śrī
Nityānanda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose opulence is wonderful and
unlimited. By His will, even a fool can understand His identity.
CC Ādi 5.2: All glories to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! All
glories to Lord Nityānanda! All glories to Advaita Ācārya! And all glories to
all the devotees of LordCaitanya Mahāprabhu!
CC Ādi 5.3: I have described the glory of Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Caitanya in six verses. Now, in five verses I shall describe the glory of Lord
Nityānanda.
CC Ādi 5.4: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is
the fountainhead of all incarnations. Lord Balarāma is His second body.
CC Ādi 5.5: These two are one and the same identity. They
differ only in form. Lord Balarāma is the first bodily expansion of Kṛṣṇa,
and He assists in Lord Kṛṣṇa's transcendental pastimes.
CC Ādi 5.6: That original Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared in
Navadvīpa as Lord Caitanya, and Balarāma appeared with Him as Lord Nityānanda.
CC Ādi 5.7: May Śrī Nityānanda Rāma be the object of my
constant remembrance. Sańkarṣaṇa, Śeṣa Nāga and the Viṣṇus who lie on the
Kāraṇa Ocean, GarbhaOcean and ocean of milk are His plenary portions and the
portions of His plenary portions.
CC Ādi 5.8: Lord Balarāma is the original Sańkarṣaṇa. He
assumes five other forms to serve Lord Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 5.9: He Himself helps in the pastimes of Lord
Kṛṣṇa, and He does the work of creation in four other forms.
CC Ādi 5.10: He executes the orders of Lord Kṛṣṇa in the
work of creation, and in the form of Lord Śeṣa He serves Kṛṣṇa in various
ways.
CC Ādi 5.11: In all the forms He tastes the transcendental
bliss of serving Kṛṣṇa. That same Balarāma is Lord Nityānanda, the companion
of Lord Gaurasundara.
CC Ādi 5.12: I have explained the seventh verse in four
subsequent verses. By these verses all the world can know the truth about Lord
Nityānanda.
CC Ādi 5.13: I surrender unto the lotus feet of Śrī
Nityānanda Rāma, who is known as Sańkarṣaṇa in the midst of the catur-vyūha
[consisting of Vāsudeva,Sańkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha]. He possesses
full opulences and resides in Vaikuṇṭhaloka, far beyond the material
creation.
CC Ādi 5.14: Beyond the material nature lies the realm known
as paravyoma, the spiritual sky. Like Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, it possesses all
transcendental attributes, such as the six opulences.
CC Ādi 5.15: That Vaikuṇṭha region is all-pervading,
infinite and supreme. It is the residence of Lord Kṛṣṇa and His incarnations.
CC Ādi 5.16: In the highest region of that spiritual sky is
the spiritual planet called Kṛṣṇaloka. It has three divisions — Dvārakā,
Mathurā and Gokula.
CC Ādi 5.17: Śrī Gokula, the highest of all, is also called
Vraja, Goloka, Śvetadvīpa and Vṛndāvana.
CC Ādi 5.18: Like the transcendental body of Lord Kṛṣṇa,
Gokula is all-pervading, infinite and supreme. It expands both above and below,
without any restriction.
CC Ādi 5.19: That abode is manifested within the material
world by the will of Lord Kṛṣṇa. It is identical to that original Gokula;
they are not two different bodies.
CC Ādi 5.20: The land there is touchstone [cintāmaṇi], and
the forests abound with desire trees. Material eyes see it as an ordinary
place.
CC Ādi 5.21: But with the eyes of love of Godhead one can
see its real identity as the place where Lord Kṛṣṇa performs His pastimes
with the cowherd boys andcowherd girls.
CC Ādi 5.22: "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the
first progenitor, who is tending cows yielding all desires in abodes built with
spiritual gems and surrounded by millions of purpose trees. He is always served
with great reverence and affection by hundreds and thousands of goddesses of
fortune."
CC Ādi 5.23: Lord Kṛṣṇa manifests His own form in Mathurā
and Dvārakā. He enjoys pastimes in various ways by expanding into the quadruple
forms.
CC Ādi 5.24: Vāsudeva, Sańkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha
are the primary quadruple forms, from whom all other quadruple forms are
manifested. They are all purely transcendental.
CC Ādi 5.25: Only in these three places [Dvārakā, Mathurā
and Gokula] does the all-sporting Lord Kṛṣṇa perform His endless pastimes
with His personal associates.
CC Ādi 5.26: In the Vaikuṇṭha planets of the spiritual sky
the Lord manifests His identity as Nārāyaṇa and performs pastimes in various
ways.
CC Ādi 5.27-28: Kṛṣṇa's own form has only two hands, but
in the form of Lord Nārāyaṇa He has four hands. Lord Nārāyaṇa holds a
conchshell, disc, club and lotus flower, and He is full of great opulence. The
śrī, bhū and nīlā energies serve at His lotus feet.
CC Ādi 5.29: Although His pastimes are His only
characteristic functions, by His causeless mercy He performs one activity for
the fallen souls.
CC Ādi 5.30: He delivers the fallen living entities by
offering them the four kinds of liberation — sālokya, sāmīpya, sārṣṭi and
sārūpya.
CC Ādi 5.31: Those who attain brahma-sāyujya liberation
cannot gain entrance into Vaikuṇṭha; their residence is outside the
Vaikuṇṭha planets.
CC Ādi 5.32: Outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets is the
atmosphere of the glowing effulgence, which consists of the supremely bright
rays of the body of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 5.33: That region is called Siddhaloka, and it is
beyond the material nature. Its essence is spiritual, but it does not have
spiritual varieties.
CC Ādi 5.34: It is like the homogeneous effulgence around
the sun. But inside the sun are the chariots, horses and other opulences of the
sun-god.
CC Ādi 5.35: "As through devotion to the Lord one can
attain His abode, many have attained that goal by abandoning their sinful
activities and absorbing their minds in the Lord through lust, envy, fear or
affection."
CC Ādi 5.36: "Where it has been stated that the Lord's
enemies and devotees attain the same destination, this refers to the ultimate
oneness of Brahman and LordKṛṣṇa. This may be understood by the analogy of
the sun and the sunshine, in which Brahman is like the sunshine and Kṛṣṇa Himself
is like the sun."
CC Ādi 5.37: Thus in the spiritual sky there are varieties
of pastimes within the spiritual energy. Outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets
appears the impersonal reflection of light.
CC Ādi 5.38: That impersonal Brahman effulgence consists
only of the effulgent rays of the Lord. Those fit for sāyujya liberation merge
into that effulgence.
CC Ādi 5.39: "Beyond the region of ignorance [the
material cosmic manifestation] lies the realm of Siddhaloka. The Siddhas reside
there, absorbed in the bliss ofBrahman. Demons killed by the Lord also attain
that realm."
CC Ādi 5.40: In that spiritual sky, on the four sides of
Nārāyaṇa, are the second expansions of the quadruple expansions of Dvārakā.
CC Ādi 5.41: Vāsudeva, Sańkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha
constitute this second quadruple. They are purely transcendental.
CC Ādi 5.42: There [in the spiritual sky] the personal
feature of Balarāma called Mahā-sańkarṣaṇa is the shelter of the spiritual
energy. He is the primary cause, the cause of all causes.
CC Ādi 5.43: One variety of the pastimes of the spiritual
energy is described as pure goodness [viśuddha-sattva]. It comprises all the
abodes of Vaikuṇṭha.
CC Ādi 5.44: The six attributes are all spiritual. Know for
certain that they are all manifestations of the opulence of Sańkarṣaṇa.
CC Ādi 5.45: There is one marginal potency, known as the
jīva. Mahā-sańkarṣaṇa is the shelter of all jīvas.
CC Ādi 5.46: Sańkarṣaṇa is the original shelter of the
puruṣa, from whom this world is created and in whom it is dissolved.
CC Ādi 5.47: He [Sańkarṣaṇa] is the shelter of everything.
He is wonderful in every respect, and His opulences are infinite. Even Ananta
cannot describe His glory.
CC Ādi 5.48: That Sańkarṣaṇa, who is transcendental pure
goodness, is a partial expansion of Nityānanda Balarāma.
CC Ādi 5.49: I have briefly explained the eighth verse. Now
please listen with attention as I explain the ninth verse.
CC Ādi 5.50: I offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Śrī
Nityānanda Rāma, whose partial representation called Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu,
lying on the KāraṇaOcean, is the original puruṣa, the master of the illusory
energy, and the shelter of all the universes.
CC Ādi 5.51: Outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets is the
impersonal Brahman effulgence, and beyond that effulgence is the Kāraṇa Ocean,
or Causal Ocean.
CC Ādi 5.52: Surrounding Vaikuṇṭha is a mass of water that
is endless, unfathomed and unlimited.
CC Ādi 5.53: The earth, water, fire, air and ether of
Vaikuṇṭha are all spiritual. Material elements are not found there.
CC Ādi 5.54: The water of the Kāraṇa Ocean, which is the
original cause, is therefore spiritual. The sacred Ganges, which is but a drop
of it, purifies the fallen souls.
CC Ādi 5.55: In that ocean lies a plenary portion of Lord
Sańkarṣaṇa.
CC Ādi 5.56: He is known as the first puruṣa, the creator
of the total material energy. He, the cause of the universes, the first
incarnation, casts His glance overmāyā.
CC Ādi 5.57: Māyā-śakti resides outside the Kāraṇa Ocean.
Māyā cannot touch its waters.
CC Ādi 5.58: Māyā has two varieties of existence. One is
called pradhāna or prakṛti. It supplies the ingredients of the material world.
CC Ādi 5.59: Because prakṛti is dull and inert, it cannot
actually be the cause of the material world. But Lord Kṛṣṇa shows His mercy
by infusing His energy into the dull, inert material nature.
CC Ādi 5.60: Thus prakṛti, by the energy of Lord Kṛṣṇa,
becomes the secondary cause, just as iron becomes red-hot by the energy of
fire.
CC Ādi 5.61: Therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa is the original cause
of the cosmic manifestation. Prakṛti is like the nipples on the neck of a
goat, for they cannot give any milk.
CC Ādi 5.62: The māyā aspect of material nature is the
immediate cause of the cosmic manifestation. But it cannot be the real cause,
for the original cause is LordNārāyaṇa.
CC Ādi 5.63: Just as the original cause of an earthen pot is
the potter, so the creator of the material world is the first puruṣa
incarnation [Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu].
CC Ādi 5.64: Lord Kṛṣṇa is the creator, and māyā only
helps Him as an instrument, just like the potter's wheel and other instruments,
which are the instrumental causes of a pot.
CC Ādi 5.65: The first puruṣa casts His glance at māyā from
a distance, and thus He impregnates her with the seed of life in the form of
the living entities.
CC Ādi 5.66: The reflected rays of His body mix with māyā,
and thus māyā gives birth to myriad universes.
CC Ādi 5.67: The puruṣa enters each and every one of the
countless universes. He manifests Himself in as many separate forms as there
are universes.
CC Ādi 5.68: When the puruṣa exhales, the universes are
manifested with each outward breath.
CC Ādi 5.69: Thereafter, when He inhales, all the universes
again enter His body.
CC Ādi 5.70: Just as atomic particles of dust pass through
the openings of a window, so the networks of universes pass through the pores
of the skin of thepuruṣa.
CC Ādi 5.71: "The Brahmās and other lords of the
mundane worlds appear from the pores of Mahā-Viṣṇu and remain alive for the
duration of His one exhalation. I adore the primeval Lord, Govinda, of whom
Mahā-Viṣṇu is a portion of a plenary portion."
CC Ādi 5.72: "Where am I, a small creature of seven
spans the measure of my own hand? I am enclosed in the universe composed of
material nature, the total material energy, false ego, ether, air, water and
earth. And what is Your glory? Unlimited universes pass through the pores of
Your body just like particles of dust passing through the opening of a
window."
CC Ādi 5.73: A part of a part of a whole is called a kalā.
Śrī Balarāma is the counterform of Lord Govinda.
CC Ādi 5.74: Balarāma's own expansion is called Mahā-sańkarṣaṇa,
and His fragment, the puruṣa, is counted as a kalā, or a part of a plenary
portion.
CC Ādi 5.75: I say that this kalā is Mahā-Viṣṇu. He is the
Mahā-puruṣa, who is the source of the other puruṣas and who is all-pervading.
CC Ādi 5.76: Garbhodaśāyī and Kṣīrodaśāyī are both called
puruṣas. They are plenary portions of Kāraṇodaśāyī Viṣṇu, the first
puruṣa, who is the abode of all the universes.
CC Ādi 5.77: "Viṣṇu has three forms called puruṣas.
The first, Mahā-Viṣṇu, is the creator of the total material energy [mahat],
the second is Garbhodaśāyī, who is situated within each universe, and the third
is Kṣīrodaśāyī, who lives in the heart of every living being. He who knows
these three becomes liberated from the clutches of māyā."
CC Ādi 5.78: Although Kāraṇodaśāyī Viṣṇu is called a kalā
of Lord Kṛṣṇa, He is the source of Matsya, Kūrma and the other incarnations.
CC Ādi 5.79: "All these incarnations of Godhead are
either plenary portions or parts of the plenary portions of the
puruṣa-avatāras. But Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.
In every age He protects the world through His different features when the
world is disturbed by the enemies of Indra."
CC Ādi 5.80: That puruṣa [Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu] is the
performer of creation, maintenance and destruction. He manifests Himself in
many incarnations, for He is the maintainer of the world.
CC Ādi 5.81: That fragment of the Supreme Lord, known as the
Mahā-puruṣa, appears for the purpose of creation, maintenance and annihilation
and is called an incarnation.
CC Ādi 5.82: That Mahā-puruṣa is identical with the
Personality of Godhead. He is the original incarnation, the seed of all others,
and the shelter of everything.
CC Ādi 5.83: "The puruṣa [Mahā-Viṣṇu] is the primary
incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Time, nature, prakṛti (as
cause and effect), the mind, the material elements, false ego, the modes of
nature, the senses, the universal form, complete independence and the moving
and nonmoving beings appear subsequently as His opulences."
CC Ādi 5.84: "In the beginning of the creation, the
Lord expanded Himself in the form of the puruṣa incarnation, accompanied by
all the ingredients of material creation. First He created the sixteen
principal energies suitable for creation. This was for the purpose of
manifesting the material universes."
CC Ādi 5.85: Although the Lord is the shelter of everything
and although all the universes rest in Him, He, as the Supersoul, is also the
support of everything.
CC Ādi 5.86: Although He is thus connected with the material
energy in two ways, He does not have the slightest contact with it.
CC Ādi 5.87: "This is the opulence of the Lord.
Although situated within the material nature, He is never affected by the modes
of nature. Similarly, those who have surrendered to Him and have fixed their
intelligence upon Him are not influenced by the modes of nature."
CC Ādi 5.88: Thus the Bhagavad-gītā also states again and
again that the Absolute Truth always possesses inconceivable power.
CC Ādi 5.89: [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] "I am situated in
the material world, and the world rests in Me. But at the same time I am not
situated in the material world, nor does it rest in Me in truth."
CC Ādi 5.90: "O Arjuna, you should know this as My
inconceivable opulence." This is the meaning propagated by Lord Kṛṣṇa
in the Bhagavad-gītā.
CC Ādi 5.91: That Mahā-puruṣa [Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu] is
known as a plenary part of Him who is Lord Nityānanda Balarāma, the favorite
associate of LordCaitanya.
CC Ādi 5.92: I have thus explained the ninth verse, and now
I shall explain the tenth. Please listen with rapt attention.
CC Ādi 5.93: I offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Śrī
Nityānanda Rāma, a partial part of whom is Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. From the
navel of GarbhodakaśāyīViṣṇu sprouts the lotus that is the birthplace of
Brahmā, the engineer of the universe. The stem of that lotus is the resting
place of the multitude of planets.
CC Ādi 5.94: After creating millions of universes, the first
puruṣa entered into each of them in a separate form, as Śrī Garbhodakaśāyī.
CC Ādi 5.95: Entering the universe, He found only darkness,
with no place in which to reside. Thus He began to consider.
CC Ādi 5.96: Then He created water from the perspiration of
His own body and with that water filled half the universe.
CC Ādi 5.97: The universe measures five hundred million
yojanas. Its length and breadth are one and the same.
CC Ādi 5.98: After filling half the universe with water, He
made His own residence therein and manifested the fourteen worlds in the other
half.
CC Ādi 5.99: There He manifested Vaikuṇṭha as His own
abode and rested in the waters on the bed of Lord Śeṣa.
CC Ādi 5.100-101: He lay there with Ananta as His bed. Lord
Ananta is a divine serpent having thousands of heads, thousands of faces,
thousands of eyes and thousands of hands and feet. He is the seed of all
incarnations and is the cause of the material world.
CC Ādi 5.102: From His navel grew a lotus flower, which
became the birthplace of Lord Brahmā.
CC Ādi 5.103: Within the stem of that lotus were the
fourteen worlds. Thus the Supreme Lord, as Brahmā, created the entire creation.
CC Ādi 5.104: And as Lord Viṣṇu He maintains the entire world.
Lord Viṣṇu, being beyond all material attributes, has no touch with the
material qualities.
CC Ādi 5.105: Assuming the form of Rudra, He destroys the
creation. Thus creation, maintenance and dissolution are created by His will.
CC Ādi 5.106: He is the Supersoul, Hiraṇyagarbha, the cause
of the material world. The universal form is conceived as His expansion.
CC Ādi 5.107: That Lord Nārāyaṇa is a part of a plenary
part of Lord Nityānanda Balarāma, who is the source of all incarnations.
CC Ādi 5.108: I have thus explained the tenth verse. Now
please listen to the meaning of the eleventh verse with all your mind.
CC Ādi 5.109: I offer my respectful obeisances unto the feet
of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose secondary part is the Viṣṇu lying in the ocean of
milk. That Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is the Supersoul of all living entities and
the maintainer of all the universes. Śeṣa Nāga is His further subpart.
CC Ādi 5.110: The material planets rest within the stem that
grows from the lotus navel of Lord Nārāyaṇa. Among these planets are seven
oceans.
CC Ādi 5.111: There, in part of the ocean of milk, lies
Śvetadvīpa, the abode of the sustainer, Lord Viṣṇu.
CC Ādi 5.112: He is the Supersoul of all living entities. He
maintains this material world, and He is its Lord.
CC Ādi 5.113: In the ages and millenniums of Manu, He
appears as different incarnations to establish the principles of real religion
and vanquish the principles of irreligion.
CC Ādi 5.114: Unable to see Him, the demigods go to the
shore of the ocean of milk and offer prayers to Him.
CC Ādi 5.115: He then descends to maintain the material
world. His unlimited opulences cannot be counted.
CC Ādi 5.116: That Lord Viṣṇu is but a part of a part of a
plenary portion of Lord Nityānanda, who is the source of all incarnations.
CC Ādi 5.117: That same Lord Viṣṇu, in the form of Lord
Śeṣa, holds the planets upon His heads, although He does not know where they
are, for He cannot feel their existence upon His heads.
CC Ādi 5.118: His thousands of extended hoods are adorned
with dazzling jewels surpassing the sun.
CC Ādi 5.119: The universe, which measures five hundred
million yojanas in diameter, rests on one of His hoods like a mustard seed.
CC Ādi 5.120: That Ananta Śeṣa is the devotee incarnation
of Godhead. He knows nothing but service to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 5.121: With His thousands of mouths He sings the
glories of Lord Kṛṣṇa, but although He always sings in that way, He does not
find an end to the qualities of the Lord.
CC Ādi 5.122: The four Kumāras hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from
His lips, and they in turn repeat it in the transcendental bliss of love of
Godhead.
CC Ādi 5.123: He serves Lord Kṛṣṇa, assuming all the
following forms: umbrella, slippers, bedding, pillow, garments, resting chair,
residence, sacred thread and throne.
CC Ādi 5.124: He is thus called Lord Śeṣa, for He has
attained the ultimate end of servitude to Kṛṣṇa. He takes many forms for the
service of Kṛṣṇa, and thus He serves the Lord.
CC Ādi 5.125: That person of whom Lord Ananta is a kalā, or
part of a plenary part, is Lord Nityānanda Prabhu. Who, therefore, can know the
pastimes of LordNityānanda?
CC Ādi 5.126: From these conclusions we can know the limit
of the truth of Lord Nityānanda. But what glory is there in calling Him Ananta?
CC Ādi 5.127: But I accept it as the truth because it has
been said by devotees. Since He is the source of all incarnations, everything
is possible in Him.
CC Ādi 5.128: They know that there is no difference between
the incarnation and the source of all incarnations. Previously Lord Kṛṣṇa
was regarded in the light of different principles by different people.
CC Ādi 5.129: Some said that Kṛṣṇa was directly Lord
Nara-Nārāyaṇa, and some called Him Lord Vāmanadeva incarnate.
CC Ādi 5.130: Some called Lord Kṛṣṇa an incarnation of
Lord Kṣīrodakaśāyī. All these names are true; nothing is impossible.
CC Ādi 5.131: When the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Kṛṣṇa appears, He is the shelter of all plenary parts. Thus at that time all
His plenary portions join in Him.
CC Ādi 5.132: In whatever form one knows the Lord, one
speaks of Him in that way. In this there is no falsity, since everything is
possible in Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 5.133: Therefore Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu has
exhibited to everyone all the pastimes of all the various incarnations.
CC Ādi 5.134: Thus Lord Nityānanda has unlimited
incarnations. In transcendental emotion He calls Himself a servant of Lord
Caitanya.
CC Ādi 5.135: Sometimes He serves Lord Caitanya as His guru,
sometimes as His friend and sometimes as His servant, just as Lord Balarāma
played with LordKṛṣṇa in these three different moods in Vraja.
CC Ādi 5.136: Playing like a bull, Lord Balarāma fights with
Kṛṣṇa head to head. And sometimes Lord Kṛṣṇa massages the feet of Lord
Balarāma.
CC Ādi 5.137: He considers Himself a servant and knows
Kṛṣṇa to be His master. Thus He regards Himself as a fragment of His plenary
portion.
CC Ādi 5.138: "Acting just like ordinary boys, They
played like roaring bulls as They fought each other, and They imitated the
calls of various animals."
CC Ādi 5.139: "Sometimes when Lord Kṛṣṇa's elder
brother, Lord Balarāma, felt tired after playing and lay His head on the lap of
a cowherd boy, Lord KṛṣṇaHimself served Him by massaging His feet."
CC Ādi 5.140: "Who is this mystic power, and where has
she come from? Is she a demigod or a demoness? She must be the illusory energy
of My master, LordKṛṣṇa, for who else can bewilder Me?"
CC Ādi 5.141: "What is the value of a throne to Lord
Kṛṣṇa? The masters of the various planetary systems accept the dust of His
lotus feet on their crowned heads. That dust makes the holy places sacred, and
even Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, Lakṣmī and I Myself, who are all portions of His
plenary portion, eternally carry that dust on our heads."
CC Ādi 5.142: Lord Kṛṣṇa alone is the supreme controller,
and all others are His servants. They dance as He makes them do so.
CC Ādi 5.143: Thus Lord Caitanya is also the only
controller. All others are His associates or servants.
CC Ādi 5.144-145: His elders such as Lord Nityānanda,
Advaita Ācārya and Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura, as well as His other devotees — whether
His juniors, equals or superiors — are all His associates who help Him in His
pastimes. Lord Gaurāńga fulfills His aims with their help.
CC Ādi 5.146: Śrī Advaita Ācārya and Śrīla Nityānanda
Prabhu, who are plenary parts of the Lord, are His principal associates. With
these two the Lord performs His pastimes in various ways.
CC Ādi 5.147: Lord Advaita Ācārya is directly the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Although Lord Caitanya accepts Him as His preceptor,
Advaita Ācārya is a servant of the Lord.
CC Ādi 5.148: I cannot describe the truth of Advaita Ācārya.
He has delivered the entire world by making Lord Kṛṣṇa descend.
CC Ādi 5.149: Lord Nityānanda Svarūpa formerly appeared as
Lakṣmaṇa and served Lord Rāmacandra as His younger brother.
CC Ādi 5.150: The activities of Lord Rāma were full of
suffering, but Lakṣmaṇa, of His own accord, tolerated that suffering.
CC Ādi 5.151: As a younger brother He could not stop Lord
Rāma from His resolution, and so He remained silent, although unhappy in His
mind.
CC Ādi 5.152: When Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared, He [Balarāma] became
His elder brother to serve Him to His heart's content and make Him enjoy all
sorts of happiness.
CC Ādi 5.153: Śrī Rāma and Śrī Lakṣmaṇa, who are plenary
portions of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma respectively, entered into Them at
the time of Kṛṣṇa's andBalarāma's appearance.
CC Ādi 5.154: Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma present Themselves as
younger brother and elder brother, but in the scriptures They are described as
the original Supreme Personality of Godhead and His expansion.
CC Ādi 5.155: "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord,
who by His various plenary portions appears in the world in different forms and
incarnations such as LordRāma, but who personally appears in His supreme
original form as Lord Kṛṣṇa."
CC Ādi 5.156: Lord Caitanya is the same Lord Kṛṣṇa, and
Lord Nityānanda is Lord Balarāma. Lord Nityānanda fulfills all of Lord
Caitanya's desires.
CC Ādi 5.157: The ocean of Lord Nityānanda's glories is
infinite and unfathomable. Only by His mercy can I touch even a drop of it.
CC Ādi 5.158: Please listen to another glory of His mercy.
He made a fallen living entity climb to the highest limit.
CC Ādi 5.159: To disclose it is not proper, for it should be
kept as confidential as the Vedas, yet I shall speak of it to make His mercy
known to all.
CC Ādi 5.160: O Lord Nityānanda, I write of Your mercy out
of great exultation. Please forgive me for my offenses.
CC Ādi 5.161: Lord Nityānanda Prabhu had a servant named Śrī
Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa, who was a reservoir of love.
CC Ādi 5.162: At my house there was sańkīrtana day and
night, and therefore he visited there, having been invited.
CC Ādi 5.163: Absorbed in emotional love, he sat in my
courtyard, and all the Vaiṣṇavas bowed down at his feet.
CC Ādi 5.164: In a joyful mood of love of God he sometimes
climbed upon the shoulder of someone offering obeisances, and sometimes he
struck others with his flute or mildly slapped them.
CC Ādi 5.165: When someone saw the eyes of Mīnaketana
Rāmadāsa, tears would automatically flow from his own eyes, for a constant
shower of tears flowed from the eyes of Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa.
CC Ādi 5.166: Sometimes there were eruptions of ecstasy like
kadamba flowers on some parts of his body, and sometimes one limb would be
stunned while another would be trembling.
CC Ādi 5.167: Whenever he shouted aloud the name Nityānanda,
the people around him were filled with great wonder and astonishment.
CC Ādi 5.168: One respectable brāhmaṇa named Śrī
Guṇārṇava Miśra was serving the Deity.
CC Ādi 5.169: When Mīnaketana was seated in the yard, this
brāhmaṇa did not offer him respect. Seeing this, Śrī Rāmadāsa became angry and
spoke.
CC Ādi 5.170: "Here I find the second
Romaharṣaṇa-sūta, who did not stand to show honor when he saw Lord
Balarāma."
CC Ādi 5.171: After saying this, he danced and sang to his
heart's content, but the brāhmaṇa did not become angry, for he was then
serving Lord Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 5.172: At the end of the festival Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa
went away, offering his blessings to everyone. At that time he had some
controversy with my brother.
CC Ādi 5.173: My brother had firm faith in Lord Caitanya but
only a dim glimmer of faith in Lord Nityānanda.
CC Ādi 5.174: Knowing this, Śrī Rāmadāsa felt unhappy in his
mind. I then rebuked my brother.
CC Ādi 5.175: "These two brothers," I told him,
"are like one body; They are identical manifestations. If you do not
believe in Lord Nityānanda, you will fall down.
CC Ādi 5.176: "If you have faith in one but disrespect
the other, your logic is like the logic of accepting half a hen.
CC Ādi 5.177: "It would be better to be an atheist by
slighting both brothers than a hypocrite by believing in one and slighting the
other."
CC Ādi 5.178: Thus Śrī Rāmadāsa broke his flute in anger and
went away, and at that time my brother fell down.
CC Ādi 5.179: I have thus described the power of the
servants of Lord Nityānanda. Now I shall describe another characteristic of His
mercy.
CC Ādi 5.180: That night Lord Nityānanda appeared to me in a
dream because of my good quality in chastising my brother.
CC Ādi 5.181: In the village of Jhāmaṭapura, which is near
Naihāṭi, Lord Nityānanda appeared to me in a dream.
CC Ādi 5.182: I fell at His feet, offering my obeisances,
and He then placed His own lotus feet upon my head.
CC Ādi 5.183: "Arise! Get up!" He told me again
and again. Upon rising, I was greatly astonished to see His beauty.
CC Ādi 5.184: He had a glossy blackish complexion, and His
tall, strong, heroic stature made Him seem like Cupid himself.
CC Ādi 5.185: He had beautifully formed hands, arms and
legs, and eyes like lotus flowers. He wore a silk cloth, with a silk turban on
His head.
CC Ādi 5.186: He wore golden earrings on His ears, and
golden armlets and bangles. He wore tinkling anklets on His feet and a garland
of flowers around His neck.
CC Ādi 5.187: His body was anointed with sandalwood pulp,
and He was nicely decorated with tilaka. His movements surpassed those of a
maddened elephant.
CC Ādi 5.188: His face was more beautiful than millions upon
millions of moons, and His teeth were like pomegranate seeds because of His
chewing betel.
CC Ādi 5.189: His body moved to and fro, right and left, for
He was absorbed in ecstasy. He chanted "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa" in a deep
voice.
CC Ādi 5.190: His red stick moving in His hand, He seemed
like a maddened lion. All around the four sides of His feet were bumblebees.
CC Ādi 5.191: His devotees, dressed like cowherd boys,
surrounded His feet like so many bees and also chanted "Kṛṣṇa,
Kṛṣṇa," absorbed in ecstatic love.
CC Ādi 5.192: Some of them played horns and flutes, and
others danced and sang. Some of them offered betel nuts, and others waved
cāmara fans about Him.
CC Ādi 5.193: Thus I saw such opulence in Lord Nityānanda
Svarūpa. His wonderful form, qualities and pastimes are all transcendental.
CC Ādi 5.194: I was overwhelmed with transcendental ecstasy,
not knowing anything else. Then Lord Nityānanda smiled and spoke to me as
follows.
CC Ādi 5.195: "O my dear Kṛṣṇadāsa, do not be
afraid. Go to Vṛndāvana, for there you will attain all things."
CC Ādi 5.196: After saying this, He directed me toward
Vṛndāvana by waving His hand. Then He disappeared with His associates.
CC Ādi 5.197: I fainted and fell to the ground, my dream
broke, and when I regained consciousness I saw that morning had come.
CC Ādi 5.198: I thought about what I had seen and heard and
concluded that the Lord had ordered me to proceed to Vṛndāvana at once.
CC Ādi 5.199: That very second I started for Vṛndāvana, and
by His mercy I reached there in great happiness.
CC Ādi 5.200: All glory, all glory to Lord Nityānanda
Balarāma, by whose mercy I have attained shelter in the transcendental abode of
Vṛndāvana!
CC Ādi 5.201: All glory, all glory to the merciful Lord
Nityānanda, by whose mercy I have attained shelter at the lotus feet of Śrī
Rūpa and Śrī Sanātana!
CC Ādi 5.202: By His mercy I have attained the shelter of
the great personality Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, and by His mercy I have
found the refuge of ŚrīSvarūpa Dāmodara.
CC Ādi 5.203: By the mercy of Sanātana Gosvāmī I have
learned the final conclusions of devotional service, and by the grace of Śrī
Rūpa Gosvāmī I have tasted the highest nectar of devotional service.
CC Ādi 5.204: All glory, all glory to the lotus feet of Lord
Nityānanda, by whose mercy I have attained Śrī Rādhā-Govinda!
CC Ādi 5.205: I am more sinful than Jagāi and Mādhāi and
even lower than the worms in the stool.
CC Ādi 5.206: Anyone who hears my name loses the results of
his pious activities. Anyone who utters my name becomes sinful.
CC Ādi 5.207: Who in this world but Nityānanda could show
His mercy to such an abominable person as me?
CC Ādi 5.208: Because He is intoxicated by ecstatic love and
is an incarnation of mercy, He does not distinguish between the good and the
bad.
CC Ādi 5.209: He delivers all those who fall down before
Him. Therefore He has delivered such a sinful and fallen person as me.
CC Ādi 5.210: Although I am sinful and I am the most fallen,
He has conferred upon me the lotus feet of Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī.
CC Ādi 5.211: I am not fit to speak all these confidential
words about my visiting Lord Madana Gopāla and Lord Govinda.
CC Ādi 5.212: Lord Madana Gopāla, the chief Deity of
Vṛndāvana, is the enjoyer of the rāsa dance and is directly the son of the
King of Vraja.
CC Ādi 5.213: He enjoys the rāsa dance with Śrīmatī
Rādhārāṇī, Śrī Lalitā and others. He manifests Himself as the Cupid of Cupids.
CC Ādi 5.214: "Wearing yellow garments and decorated
with a flower garland, Lord Kṛṣṇa, appearing among the gopīs with His
smiling lotus face, looked directly like the charmer of the heart of
Cupid."
CC Ādi 5.215: With Rādhā and Lalitā serving Him on His two
sides, He attracts the hearts of all by His own sweetness.
CC Ādi 5.216: The mercy of Lord Nityānanda showed me Śrī
Madana-mohana and gave me Śrī Madana-mohana as my Lord and master.
CC Ādi 5.217: He granted to one as low as me the sight of
Lord Govinda. Words cannot describe this, nor is it fit to be disclosed.
CC Ādi 5.218-219: On an altar made of gems in the principal
temple of Vṛndāvana, amidst a forest of desire trees, Lord Govinda, the son of
the King of Vraja, sits upon a throne of gems and manifests His full glory and
sweetness, thus enchanting the entire world.
CC Ādi 5.220: By His left side is Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and Her
personal friends. With them Lord Govinda enjoys the rāsa-līlā and many other
pastimes.
CC Ādi 5.221: Lord Brahmā, sitting on his lotus seat in his
own abode, always meditates on Him and worships Him with the mantra consisting
of eighteen syllables.
CC Ādi 5.222: Everyone in the fourteen worlds meditates upon
Him, and all the denizens of Vaikuṇṭha sing of His qualities and pastimes.
CC Ādi 5.223: The goddess of fortune is attracted by His
sweetness, which Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has described in this way:
CC Ādi 5.224: "My dear friend, if you are indeed
attached to your worldly friends, do not look at the smiling face of Lord
Govinda as He stands on the bank of theYamunā at Keśīghāṭa. Casting sidelong
glances, He places His flute to His lips, which seem like newly blossomed
twigs. His transcendental body, bending in three places, appears very bright in
the moonlight."
CC Ādi 5.225: Without a doubt He is directly the son of the
King of Vraja. Only a fool considers Him a statue.
CC Ādi 5.226: For that offense, he cannot be liberated.
Rather, he will fall into a terrible hellish condition. What more should I say?
CC Ādi 5.227: Therefore who can describe the mercy of the
lotus feet of Him [Lord Nityānanda] by whom I have attained the shelter of this
Lord Govinda?
CC Ādi 5.228: All the groups of Vaiṣṇavas who live in
Vṛndāvana are absorbed in chanting the all-auspicious name of Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 5.229: Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda are the life
and soul of those Vaiṣṇavas, who do not know anything but devotional service
to Śrī ŚrīRādhā-Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 5.230: The dust and shade of the lotus feet of the
Vaiṣṇavas have been granted to this fallen soul by the mercy of Lord
Nityānanda.
CC Ādi 5.231: Lord Nityānanda said, "In Vṛndāvana all
things are possible." Here I have explained His brief statement in detail.
CC Ādi 5.232: I have attained all this by coming to
Vṛndāvana, and this was made possible by the mercy of Lord Nityānanda.
CC Ādi 5.233: I have described my own story without
reservations. The attributes of Lord Nityānanda, making me like a madman, force
me to write these things.
CC Ādi 5.234: The glories of Lord Nityānanda's
transcendental attributes are unfathomable. Even Lord Śeṣa, with His thousands
of mouths, cannot find their limit.
CC Ādi 5.235: Praying at the lotus feet of Śrī Rūpa and Śrī
Raghunātha, always desiring their mercy, I, Kṛṣṇadāsa, narrate Śrī
Caitanya-caritāmṛta, following in their footsteps.
