“G u r u m u k h a p a d m a v a k y a Lord Chaitanya’s pastimes (2)….………….... Nectarean Mellows During the final years of Lord Caitanya’s life, in the Gambhira, His residence in the Puri dhama, near the Jagannatha temple, He would spend most of His time in the association of His most loving and intimate devotees such as Ramananda Raya, Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, His servant Govinda. And sometimes Lord Caitanya was so restless in the ecstatic love, they would sometimes close the door of His room so that He wouldnt endanger His body. So one time, all the three doors of His room were locked and Govinda was lying just outside in the doorway, but somehow or the other, nobody knows how, it happened. How He got out of the room without even opening the doors? Krishna can do anything and what happened is that He just began to hear from His heart, Krishnas beautiful sound vibration and He wanted to find Krishna in the cows. So just near the Jagannatha temple there was a stall, a Go-shala, where the cows were kept and He ran to the cows in the ecstasy of remembering Krishna and He just, went into such a state that no one has ever seen, nor anyone will see it again. The prema of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in His ecstatic love, He just became unconscious. When Govinda heard there is no sound from the room in the Gambhira, he went to look and Ramananda Raya, Svarupa Damodara, they all began to search for Lord Caitanya here and there, and ultimately they came to the place of Thailanga cows, and there they saw Gauranga Mahaprabhu. In his love of God, He was lying there in an unconscious state, unconscious state means externally unconscious, but internally in such ecstatic love for Krishna that His limbs, arms and legs retracted and went into His trunk just like a tortoise withdraws his limbs into the shell. He was lying there. Shri Krishnadas Kaviraja Gosvami, says, He looked like a big pumpkin, there were no legs, no arms, His mouth was foaming, tears were flowing from His eyes. Whatever was seen of His body were lungs, with repellation and the cows were slipping (licking) the body finding great pleasure. The devotees were trying to take away the cows from Lord Caitanya but the cows were so much attracted that they were just smelling and associating with the body. So ultimately they had to somehow carry His body and took it to His residence. And they began to very loudly chant the Holy Names of Krishna: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. And they were chanting and chanting for a very long time and ultimately somehow the Lord heard the chanting, and it went to His inner heart and He came to His external consciousness and thus all His limbs came out and He began to chant with His devotees. And He said why have you taken Me here? Why have you made this loud noise? And He explained how He was in the pasture grounds with Krishna, the gopas and the gopis, playing the flute and dancing together and joking together with the cows. He said, I was in the external land of Vrindavana. Why did you being Me here with your loud chanting? In this way Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu personally exhibited to the world the most exalted way of love of God, which cannot be imitated by anyone. But He has also come to give entrance to the room of God. Srila Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami explains that anyone who hears the pastimes of the Lords love will develop the love of god. So this is the mercy that Srila Rupa Goswami has given us with beautiful verses. Srila Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has come to give us that no other incarnation has ever given-the love of Vrindavan. He has come in this Kali-Yuga to teach us how to bring our consciousness to our original state.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:01:54 +0000
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