Lord Krishna delivers the Chanter

Vaishnava Das then spoke; The Scriptures declare:

"O best of the Bhrgus, the holy name of Lord Krishna delivers the chanter."
These words mean that the Yavanas and everyone else can attain the supreme spiritual goal of life by chanting the holy name of Lord Krishna. In this way the Hindus and Yavanas may become equals.A human being who does not perform eternal pious deeds like chanting Lord Krishna's name is declared by the scriptures to be "dvi-pada-pasu" (an animal pretending to be a human being). This is because such a person has no faith in the holy name of Lord Krishna.

Although such a person may have taken birth as a human being, he is not really human. In truth he is an animal.

The Mahabharata explains:
"O king, a person whose past pious deeds are small cannot have faith in Lord Govinda, the remnants of food offered to Him, His holy name, or His devotees."

Eternal pious deeds, which purify the soul, are called "great pious deeds". Temporary pious deeds, which are performed without spiritual faith, are called "small pious deeds." The remnants of food offered to Lord Krishna, Lord Krishna, Lord Krishna's holy name, and the pure Vaishnava - these four are spiritual. They reveal the spiritual truth.


Cudamani said (with a smile): What kind of talk is this?
This is just the Vaishnavas' fanatic dogma. How can rice, dal, and curry be spiritual? There is nothing that you will not claim.

Vaishnava dasa: Do what you like, but please do not criticise the Vaishnavas. That is my request. In a debate, only the various arguments should be considered. Why do you need to verbally attack the Vaishnavas? The remnants of foods offered to the Lord are beyond the touch of the material world. One should not eat foods that are not thus offered to the Lord, for eating the remnants of food offered to the Lord illumines the way to the spiritual world and drives away all that is foolish and material.

Therefore Sri Isopanisad (Mantra 1) explains:

"Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong."

Whatever exists in the material universe has a relationship with the potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A person who sees that everything has a relationship with the Lord's potency will not attempt to enjoy the things of this external material world.


If a spiritually conscious soul accepts only what he must to maintain his material body in this world, and if he understands that everything is the Supreme Personality of Godhead's mercy, then he will not fall down. That is the way a person eager to attain the spiritual world will act.

Therefore the remnants of food offered to Lord Krishna are called 'maha-prasada' (great mercy). Still, you are not attracted to these spiritual things - that is your misfortune.

( Jaiva Dharma Chapter Two )

Unwilling to show any duplicity

"Those who are unwilling to show any duplicity, wish to be frank and straightforward, or in other words to exercise unambiguously the function of the soul, such really sincere persons are called sectarian and orthodox by those who practice duplicity. We will cultivate the society only of those who are straightforward. We will not keep company with any person who is not so. We must by all means avoid bad company. We are advised to keep at a distance of a hundred cubits from animals of the horned species. We should observe the same caution in regard to all insincere persons."

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

Narada Muni visits Krsna

Narada Muni visits Krsna in Dvaraka

( from the Caitanya Mangala)

Narada was disturbed within his heart and Krsna asked as to what was the cause of such compassion and sadness. Narada’s body trembled with Love of God and his eyes were reddish and filled with tears. He could not speak at all due to his emotional state. But Sri Krsna was insistent to know why he was disturbed and upset.
Narada answered: “Dear kind one, here is what I am feeling.You are the most merciful Lord. You are the over soul in all organisms. Your holy names and characteristics are everything, and is the nectar that sustains my life. Your transcendental activities bring great fortune to those who hear them and out of compassion I sing your glories every where I go. But, if I cannot hear how your names are sung and if I see the conditioned souls, full of false of pride, engrossed into materialistic activities without devotional love for you, that gives me a lot of pain. I do not see a possibility for release for these people. Therefore my spirit is always disturbed if I think about it. I now declare to you I will carry grief in my heart. In your presence by the mercy of your lotus feet, how will I get some relief?”

Krsna turned toward Narada Muni and with the following words said: “Hear this Narada; I have heard a wonderful narration from Rukmini. From it my promise will satisfy you. I will manifest myself in the age Kali Yuga in a form of overwhelming humility. I will appear as a devotee of myself, in order to experience the love of my pure devotees. Experiencing that love I will distribute it to other pure devotees, Krsna continued to explain where he would appear and what his personal bodily features would look like etc. As he was explaining this feeling {the devotional bliss of his pure devotees} his Krsna form gradually became his golden Gauranga Mahaprabhu form!

Narada Muni became nearly unconscious in devotional ecstasy, due to the view of this most beautiful form of Sri Krsna’s which would appear in the coming age. This was the first time that Sri Krsna revealed his transcendental shape as Sri Gauranga, the beautifully golden form, decorated with pure devotional love of God .

Murari Gupta continued: the marvelously beautiful shape exploded Narada Muni’s heart with love and tears that resulted in thousands of rivers from the eyes. Gauranga’s bright golden skin color was more radiant than millions of suns. The hue of millions of moons and millions of demigods fade and appear shameful before Gauranga’s inconceivably pretty face. Completely dazzled by Gauranga’s bright luster his eyes rolled back in ecstasy and trembling, seeing his devotee’s condition, Krsna took his bright radiant emittance back and called with a loud voice toward Narada muni.

Returning to external consciousness, Narada Muni again saw Sri Krsna as he did earlier on, but he was very eager to see again the marvelous shape of the golden appearance of Sri Gauranga.Singing the glories of Gauranga Mahaprabhu filled the air in all directions. It was such a marvelous occurrence.
Oh Devotees, what incomparable beauty I saw in shape of Sri Gauranga, whose large-emotional eyes appear reddish, similar to the rising of the sun. Oh, such an expression of nectar have I seen. I saw the sweetest smile on Gauranga’s face to his beautiful lotus feet. He is more kind than any other appearance (avatar). Never have I seen such a reservoir of love. My eyes and my life are of real value and attained the perfection by seeing the embodiment of the ocean of the mercy. My heart can never forget it. My eyes require seeing Gauranga, always and always.

End

Like gold from the Jambunada river

akaitava krishna prema jena jambunada hem

sei prem nriloke na hoy

jadi hoy tar jog nahi hoy tobe viyog

viyog hoile keho na jiyay

Y

Genuine love for Krishna is like gold

from the Jambunada River;

such love does not exist in the world of men.

For should it exist,

there would never be any separation of lovers,

For if separated, they could not remain alive.

Responsibilities of Service

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu entrusted;

Svarupa Damodara Goswami with the responsibility of teaching the process of seva endowed with transcendental rasa( rasamayi upasana )

Srila Raghunatha Das Goswami - How rasa acts when one renders seva is explained by him.

Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Avaita Acarya were empowered with the responsibility of preaching the glories of the Holy Name.

Rupa Goswami was empowered to manifest rasa tattva.

Srila Sanatana Goswami was empowered to illustrate the relationship between vaidhi bhakti and raga bhakti and also to presnt a clear understanding of prakata and aprakata gokula.

Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Sanatana Goswami entrusted Jiva Goswami whom Mahaprabhu empowered to establish the tattvas of sambandha jnana, abhideya and prayojana.

Sri Ramananada Roya was entrusted with the responsibility of teaching the truths about the absolute reality ( tattva). He then gave that responsibility to Jiva Goswami through the medium of his disciples.

Sri Raghunath Bhatta Goswami was entrusted to teach the glories of Srimad Bhagavatam.

Sriman Gopal Gosvami was instructed by Mahaprabhu to properly protect and preserve the supremely pure Srngara rasa from any distortions and to check any unreasonable negligence toward vaidhi bhakti.

Sriman Prabhodhananda Goswami the guru and uncle of Sri Gopla Bhatta Goswami was entrusted with the responsibility of informing the world of the highest achievement is to cultivate spontaneous loving attachment for Vraja Rasa.

Jaiva Dharma - Sriman Bhaktivinode Thakur