Chaitanya Mahaprabhu – The direct form of Radharani’s feeling of love

Krishna has appeared again in the form of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Where does Krishna take his birth? He was born in Mathura Vrindavan and Krishna has many incarnations and they can appear in many different places, and that is exactly what happens.

But when Krishna appears in the material world, he appears in Vrindavan only. So Sri Krishna Chaitanya is Krishna, Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam.

In the first canto, third chapter of Srimad Bhagavatam, there is mention of this and at the end it is mentioned, ete camsa-kalah pumsah. This verifies what we have just said about incarnations of the Lord, in that they are all plenary portions of the supreme Lord, or parts of the plenary portions of the Lord. Then there are those who are parts of the parts of the planetary portions of the Lord.

But krsnas tu bhagavan svayam, who is Krishna? The original supreme personally of Godhead. He is the original personality of Godhead, the incarnations are different. Sri Krishna is the source of all incarnations and the incarnations come from him who is the supreme cause of all causes. Lord Krishna takes birth in the form of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Mayapura but he is the same original supreme personality of Godhead.

He is not an incarnation of, he is the same Krishna appearing and so Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is not different from Lord Krishna, he is the very same personality of Godhead. They are not two, they are one and the same who have become two. There cannot there are any ifs and buts about this matter, and if someone asks how is this so, because if this is the case then he should be taking birth in Vrindavan, then we can say that Mayapura is the same Vrindavan.

Mayapura is the same and non different from Vrindavan. Mayapura dham ki jai. Just like there is a Gokula in Vrindavan, (Krishna jinka naam hai, gokul jinka dham hai (to him whose name is Krishna and abode is Gokula), in the same Gokula there are twelve forests where Nanda Nandan, the son of Krishna had his pastimes. These very forests are present in Navadwipa where Lord Chaitanya takes his birth, and indeed they are eternal.

In Nawadvipa where the Yogapitha is where Gauranga Mahaprabhu appeared on this day five hundred years ago, that place is not different from Gokula. And the same Krishna is appearing as Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. And his parents who gave birth to him, who should they be? They should be the same Nanda Baba and Yashoda, is that true or not? Then of course there is Vasudeva and Devaki so it could be any of these two sets of parents.

This is not the only fact, let’s say today Lord Krishna has appeared in the form of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and that’s why we are speaking about him again and again. But also the other thing is, Krishna alone did not manifest in Vrindavan. It was filled then with his devotees, his friends and his own entourage and the Gopi’s, and it is the same even today.

In Navadwipa Mayapura the same personalities have appeared and so just as Krishna became Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Nanda Baba came as Jagannath Misra and then Saci Mata was there. Balaram hoila Nitai, Balaram becomes as Lord Nityananda, and like this, there is a long list in the book called Shri Gaura Ganoddesha Dipika. This is a book which is describing each and every devotee in Krishna Lila, and who they come as in Gauranga Lila.

Even Uncle Kamsa appears again as Chand Kazi and he who gave the Lord’s their names in Mathura Vrindavana, Gargacharya is present there. Here Krishna is there in the form if Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu then he who have him his name in Krishna Lila will again do the same now in the form of Nilambara Chakrwarti. He is the same Gargacharya in Krishna Lila.

So like that it’s a long list and also I was thinking that there is a slight difference between Krishna and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and at the same time there is no difference. No difference, no no no- there is no difference! So Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is not only Krishna, but rather he is Radha and Krishna. So Radha and Krishna are one and for their Vrindavan pastimes they become two.

When the Lord appears in Mayapura, those who had become two to enjoy in vrindavan, they again become one in the form of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. In the Sastras it is said Sri Krishna Caitanya radha krsna nahe anya. Radha and Krishna combined together are Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. If he was only Krishna, he would only be as merciful as Sri Krishna was.

But Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu is so much more merciful than Lord Krishna, and what is the reason for this? It is beca he has come as Radharani along with Krishna. Karunam kuru mayi karuna bharite, she is filled with compassion. Radharani is famous for her mercy, and so Krishna is always prayed to along with Radharani, and when they are together, Krishna becomes Maha Vadanyaya, greatly merciful or the most merciful.

He becomes great hearted and so we cannot say that they are two because they are not two, they are one. In the home of Vrindavan and the home of Navadwipa it seems as if there are so many states in between these two places like Upttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharakhand and it takes 24 hours to go from Vrindavan to Mayapura by train. But this is not the fact, because actually these two places are next to each other.

But we are just thinking that they are far away from each other, which is our misconception. Where does Krishna live? Goloka namni nija dhamni, the planet Goloka, the Lord’s supreme abode. That Goloka which is one, has two parts. One part is Vrindavan where Radha and Krishna have their pastimes. The second part which is next door or applying the corner, there the same Radha Krishna of Vrindavan become one.

Here they are one for eternity and they perform their pastimes in this way. It seems so far and then we look at where Dwaraka is and Vaikuntha and Pandharpura, then there is Ayodhya. All these dhams, vyakto ‘vyaktat sanatanah (they are) eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter.

Krishna is saying that whenever he descends or whenever his incarnations descend, he perform his pastimes in his different abodes accordingly, such as Saket dham in the spiritual world, which is the original replica of Ayodhya dham here. Just like there is Goloka and Vaikuntha is the spiritual world, Saket dham is there also. Jai Sri Rama!

In the spiritual world, Vrindavan and Navadwipa are next to each other and in Vrindavan there are many pastimes which are performed including the Rasa Lila, which is the most special pastime of the Lord. Rasa Lila is the topmost pastime. In Navadwipa, Mayapura the most important pastimes are Kirtan pastimes. In Vrindavan Krishna dances in the Rasa dance with Radha and many other Gopi’s, whereas in Navadwipa, Radha and Krishna become one in the form of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Then all the Gopi’s, so many of them, become associates of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, they become male members, plenty of them. Just like Rupa Goswami, he was in Vrindavan, so the six Goswami’s are all Gopi’s and Manjari’s. So Rupa Manjari is Rupa Goswami in Vrindavan. So Rupa Manjari is obviously female, but in Vrindavan he takes a male body. The same thing is with Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

sundara lala sachi dulala nachata sri hari kirtana mein. (The beautiful darling cold of mother Saci is dancing in the Kirtan of Lord Hari). He has beautiful anklets on his lotus feet and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu himself is dancing in Kirtan of the Lord. Here this much is said and so now Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has appeared, he has or no? (Shouts of Haribol)! At that very time of his descent, Kirtan was going on -or we can say that the Lord made the Kirtan happen for his descent.

Slowly Chaitanya Mahaprabhu himself started his Sankirtan movement and his dancing in the towns and villages.

Just like when Krishna, along with Radha and the Gopi’s would have their Rasa dancing, and for your information, this Rasa dance lasts from 10.30 in the night till 3.30 am, a full five hours non-stop. The. There is Julhan Yatra, the swing pastimes and the pastimes in the water between Krishna and the Gopi’s. There is dancing and so on and so there was a time in Navadwipa when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu along with his associates, sri krsna caitanya prabhu along with nityananda sri advaita gadadhara srivas and other devotees who are uncountable; started their Kirtan.

Mahaprabhu kirtana nrtya gita

vaditra madyan- vaditra means with musical instruments. Vaditra madyan manaso rasena, this Kirtan and dancing lasted all night long, just like the Rasa dancing between Lord Krishna and the Gopi’s. Then they gradually bought this Kirtan on the streets and they Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu performed Kirtan in the whole of Navadwipa.

So there was singing of Kirtan and dancing, then Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu took Sannyasa. It is written in Mahabharata, suvarna varna hemango, the Lord is golden in colour. The Lord will be Gauranga, of a gold complexion and he will take Sannyasa. This was all foretold in the Mahabharata, that he will be born on the banks of the Ganges to Saci, and many scriptures have foretold Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s appearance in the same way.

So if you want proof, then the proof is that in the scriptures and there are many references to his birth. And only if the proof is foretold like this, can we accept the Lord Chaitanya as the supreme Lord, otherwise not. So Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu took Sannyasa and he travelled the whole of India. What do Sannyasi’s do? They travel and preach.

Bhutani bhavyani janardanasya, Sannyasi’s show compassion to the fallen souls by preaching about to the supreme personality of Godhead. Bhuta means the living entity, not some kind of ghost. Anugrahayeha caranti, they wander everywhere to preach because they are Anugraha, compassionate. In this way, the Sannyasi’s have become as good as the supremeLord himself.

By travelling everywhere, they are purifying the whole world, well at least India. There was a very big scale of preaching. Wherever Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would go, just like the Lord went to Jagannatha Puri and he would go all over south India and he would then return back to Puri. From there he went to East India, Bangladesh and like that he would go to all the places.

He then again returned to Jagannatha Puri and as soon as he reached back, he prepared to go to Vrindavan. At that time he was going through the Jharkhand forest and he showed his supreme nature of being the supreme personality of Godhead. You understand west that means, his supremacy? You can say this is the Lord’s opulence.

This supremacy includes the Vaibhava, the opulence of the absolute truth, and this was fully shown when the Lord went through the Jharakhanda forest. Another thing that should be said is that when Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would go to a village with a smaller population of people living there, say around four hundred people, that place would immediately become filled with a thousand people.

There was no advertisements, no banners, no posters and no email messages, nothing. Nobody knew how those people would reach there and come together. Of course the Lord knows as he is the knower of everything, but nobody knew who was arranging this all, who was communicating and organising and sending messages that ‘tonight Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is coming to the village Punyanagari.’

The people would just come to know about this because Chaitanya Mahaprabhu himself is in everyone’s heart, sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto. What does the Lord do in everybody’s heart? Mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca, ‘from me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. I am doing this. I dont just sit in the heart,’ the Lord is saying.

The Lord is very active and he is the well wisher of the living entity in whose heart he resides. Who else is the well wisher?

The lord is asking this question and is saying, ‘for you I have appeared and is there anybody else apart from me who is your real friend?’

Sukadeva Goswami is saying that you have got your children, wife and body just like soldiers who are useless and so they are not much help. This is especially the case when Yamaraja or the Yamaduta’s come. You may have guards who are standing ready with their guns and their german dogs. ‘Beware of the dog!’ So will the Yamduta’s be scared of this and not enter the home? No!

And when you have fallen in this way, you will be surrounded by doctors amd loves ones. ‘Daddy Daddy, say Bhola.’ Daddy was dying and the house was full with friends and family and Daddy only has one or two life breaths left, and so the son says ‘please Daddy say Bhola.’ He was a devotee of Bhola, Lord Siva but what did Daddy say? ‘Coca cola.’ (Laughter).

Our Sarvabhauma Prabhu found out out when he went to Haridwara to the place on the banks of the of the Ganges where the water falls, and there there were quite a few bottles of coca cola and some people were distributing this coca cola. Sarvabhauma Prabhu asked them, ‘why are you freely distributing coca cola?’ They answered that they were fulfilling their Daddy’s last wish.

‘We were asking him to call Bhola but our Daddy answered coca cola.’ So it is possible that he went to coca cola loka in America. The sons continued, ‘we thought that he wanted to drink coca cola, and to fulfil his last wish we are distributing coca cola here.’ Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ki jai. So the merciful Lord stays with us, and you must have wondered that when Lord Krishna danced in the Rasa dance, he was with each and every Gopi.

Another Gopi, another Krishna. Same Krishna but different Gopi’s and for as many Gopi’s who are there, Krishna expands to be with each and every Gopi. Sometimes one may think, ‘This is partiality. Krishna becomes one for each Gopi but he is not doing this for me.’ Actually this is our ignorance. So if you are a living entity, and you must be because if you were not a living entity then you would not be here listening to this cl-ass.

And if the living entity goes away, then you cannot even return home today. Those who are living are called living entities and that is the definition of those who are alive, but the body is not alive although it appears to be living. But the body is dead even now. It is not that this body is called a dead body when life comes out of it because the body is always dead. The body is made of the five material elements which are not alive.

The soul is that which is living and so the Lord is with all of us individually. Although he’s the supreme one he becomes Eko bahu shyam, eko means one and bahu means many. So he becomes many and he becomes as many as there are living entities. And although he is uncountable, at the same time he is the same one. This is the Lord’s compassion upon us that he stays with us.

We never leave a small baby alone, and the baby’s mother is with him constantly, she is around him, behind him or next to him. If the child is going to school then sometimes the parents take the child to school, and then they go back to bring them home. Like that they never leave children alone. In the same way, our souls are like small children and so you parents take care of your small children, but where did this emotion or thought of looking after your children come from?

This has been given to us by the Lord, rather he is the original father and mother. If parents such as yourselves can take such good care of your children then the Lord who is our mother and father, is taking so much care of as many living entities as there are, because they are his children. He takes so much care, a hundred times more or thousand times we cant even imagine.

So Krishna is not heartless, Hari Hari. Is there any need to emphasise trust the Lord has feelings and especially the feelings of mercy. And he cares, so therefore people say, ‘I’m putting my life in your hands.’ This very Lord leaves his Goloka and appears here to awake the living entities’ feelings of loving devotion or to awake them from their sleeping slumber. The living entities are sleeping,

Till when will you sleep in the lap of Maya, wake up. And who is telling them this? Lord Gauranga. Gaurangais calling, ‘wake up, wake up.’ Further the Lord is saying, ‘bhajibo boliya ese samsara bhitare, when you were in the womb of your mother, you promised, ‘oh Lord, oh Lord, this is enough.’

So much pain and anguish has to be tolerated by the living entity in the womb, if you were to remember this or to hear this, you would just stand up crying. So the living entity so cannot tolerate this pain anymore, starts to pray to the Lord saying, ‘oh Lord, this time, please release me from this pain. As soon as I am born, I will start to worship you. I will worship you my Lord.’ This was what we said, but bhuliya rohile tumi avidyara bhare.

As soon as you are born, you immediately get covered by ignorance, ‘mummy Mummy.’ This all starts as soon as you come out of the mother’s womb and then you forget everything else, including the promise that you had made to the Lord if he released you. Lord Chaitanya further says, ‘tomare loite ami hoinu avatara, just for you and just to make you remember, I have descended to give you my Darshan and also I have many things to say to you.

I come to tell you the message of the Bhagavad Gita, and also dharma samsthapanarthaya, I come to dharma samsthapanarthaya so you can become religious and you will sarva dharman parityajya mam ekam sharanam, abandon all varieties of dharmas and simply surrender unto me alone so you shall take up religion. We can also take other meanings out of this message.

Who else is your friend? Is there anyone? A friend in need is what? Yes, a friend indeed. Can anyone else save you at the time of death? And we will need a lot of help then, ‘help help, help!’ At the time of death we will need a lot of help but no doctor, no relative or no dog at the entrance, or no guards and no bank balance, nothing will help.

Who could help? A friend in need, so this is where you are in need of help, only God can help. Doctors cannot do anything, at the end they raise their hands towards the sky and say, ‘its up to him, now you must pray.’ So he is the only one and thats why it is said in the Bhagavad gita, ‘suhrdahm sarva bhutanam, I am the beneficiary of all living entities.’

He has given this quote in the peace formula and what is that?

‘Sarva loka suhrdam, i am the benefactor of all living entities. He is my dearest closest friend.’ What a statement! And who is saying this? The supreme Lord is saying to the conditioned living entities, ‘I am your friend.’ If anyone can understand and if this happens, is there any need to worry? God is your friend, in case you did not know God, you may know that he is your friend.

So as we are talking about Doctors and medication, one day Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came with a message.

‘I have bought the medicine because you are diseased, you are Bhava Rogi.’ this is the disease of being too attached to this material world. They are also kama Rogi, they have the disease of lust. They also are Krodha Rogi is the disease of anger. Lobha, greed is also an enemy of the living entity. The six enemies of the living entity are Kama lust, krodha, anger. lobha, greed, moha, illusion mada, pride and matsarya and envy.

Being envious of others, these are all diseases and they are all enemies of the soul. ‘So I have come with the remedy.’ What is this remedy?

And where has this medicine come from? It has come from Ramban, the ban, bow of Lord Rama. And it has never come to be that Lord Rama’s arrow would ever miss the target. That’s why this is called Ramban and also Rama’s bow is one, his vow that he has made is to have only one wife and he has given this one promise to marry only once. There is so much more we could say about this.

So all glories to Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and this holy name is the medicine that has come out of bow of Lord Rama, enchanting the holy name is the Dharma, religious principle of Kali yoga.

So Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu descended, and he inaugurated the holy name. Dharmo rakshati rakshitah, Dharma protects those who protect it. If we upkeep religious principles and protect them, then those very religious principles will then protect us. Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu did not descend just for the Indians.

He did not only want mamas good of the Indians, why would he do so? Who do the living entities in all other countries belong to? They belong to the supreme Lord and not the don’t know the Lord by a specific name. When you do not know the Lord’s name you say ‘Bhagavan or Iswara or God.’ But those who know his names also know the he has one thousand names in which Krishna is the principal name.

Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu jai. The living entities all belong to him. I don’t know what others call him, God or I don’t know, this is another topic. This is why Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had come, to save everyone and indeed he wanted to save everyone. But nothing happens just by one’s desire only, there must be some practical application.

So the Lord told a prophecy in which he said, ‘Harinama ausadhi, I have bought the medicine is the holy name.’ So we have got the Ramban, the medicine of Lord Rama’s bow which is the Dharma, religious principal of chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna.

‘Sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama, in every town and village throughout the world, my name will be preached.’ Here the Lord is emphasising that it is his holy name

How far will this holy name reach? Prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama. Do not undermine this but highlight it. In as many towns and villages that are present, sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nama. ‘So this Hare Krishna Hare Krishna are the Lord’s name, and you are Krishna himself, one may address the Lord like this.

‘No I am not only Krishna, I am also Radharani and Krishna. So my name is spread all over the world, this means that Hare Krishna will be preached everywhere.’ And who is Hare? Radha. When the Ha meet the Ra, it becomes Hara and Hare, and of course Krishna is present there in the form of his name.

Basically this is the holy name, the Maha Mantra and this has been given to us in the form of the sixteen names. And this holy name will be preached all over the world. This prophecy was told by Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, five hundred years ago and AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada made this prophecy come true! Srila Prabhupada ki jai!

He formed the international Society of Krishna consciousness and he personally travelled all over the world fourteen times. He started preaching the holy names all over the world, and alongside this he made temples in every country and introduced book distribution of his own books which he wrote. He also translated Chaitanya Charitamrita in English with his purports. All the information of Lord Chaitanya is in this one book, but that book was written in Bengali language.

That is how Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would reach all over, as he is and at that time, nobody knew anything about him and his form or pastimes. Srila Prabhupada first of all translated Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita in English and then he told his disciples, ‘translate this book in as many languages as possible.’ Now this book is available in almost one hundred languages, Haribol!

This is also the reason why Gauranga Purnima is being celebrated today in more than one hundred countries! Haribol! Srila Prabhupada made these books get distributed and he preached far and wide. The Hare Krishna people did not just perform Kirtan indoors because Chaitanya Mahaprabhu didn’t do so much Kirtan indoors. He performed Sankirtan outdoors prominently.

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the supreme Lord himself performed village to village Sankirtan and so this Hare Krishna movement is everywhere around the world. That is why we are recognised everywhere and people recognise us and say, ‘oh these are the Hare Krishna people.’ This is how we are recognised and our movement is also known as the Hare Krishna movement, and we are the Hare Krishna people. Hari Hari.