Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Lord Caitanya in Five Features

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the supreme teacher, accepts the form of a devotee to taste the transcendental mellow of conjugal love of Krsna. It is so wonderful that Krsna Himself accepts the form of a devotee to relish and taste it fully. 

He accepts the form of a devotee, accepts Nityananda prabhu as His elder brother. Sri Advaita Acarya is Lord Caitanya's incarnation as a devotee, but their relationship is very sweet. Mahaprabhu considers Advaita Acarya his spiritual master as Advaita Acarya is Mahaprabhu's spiritual master,Sri Isvara Puri's Godbrother, but Sri Avaita Acarya considers himself as a servant of Mahaprabhu. These three are called the visnu-tattvas. The fourth principle Sri Gadadhara Prabhu is understood as their worshiper. He is considered an incarnation of the internal potency of the Lord and are confidential devotees engaged in the service of the Lord. The pure devotees of the Lord headed by Srivasa Thakura are know as the unalloyed devotees.  The last two (Sri Gadadhara and Srivasa Thakura) are considered Sakti-tattvas.

CC Ādi 7.20-21: The characteristics of Kṛṣṇa are understood to be a storehouse of transcendental love. Although that storehouse of love certainly came with Kṛṣṇa when He was present, it was sealed. But when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came with His associates of the Pañca-tattva, they broke the seal and plundered the storehouse to taste transcendental love of Kṛṣṇa. The more they tasted it, the more their thirst for it grew.
CC Ādi 7.22Śrī Pañca-tattva themselves danced again and again and thus made it easier to drink nectarean love of Godhead. They danced, cried, laughed and chanted like madmen, and in this way they distributed love of Godhead.
CC Ādi 7.24: Although the members of the Pañca-tattva plundered the storehouse of love of Godhead and ate and distributed its contents, there was no scarcity, for this wonderful storehouse is so complete that as the love is distributed, the supply increases hundreds of times.

CC Ādi 7.27: When the five members of the Pañca-tattva saw the entire world drowned in love of Godhead and the seed of material enjoyment in the living entities completely destroyed, they all became exceedingly happy.

Srila Prabhupada in this purport so beautifully describes how Love for Krsna burns our desires for material enjoyment - "The seed of material enjoyment, watered by the course of material nature, fructifies to become a tree of material entanglement that endows the living entity with all kinds of material enjoyment. To enjoy such material facilities is to be afflicted with the three material miseries. However, when by nature's law there is a flood, the seeds within the earth become inactive. Similarly, as the inundation of love of Godhead spreads all over the world, the seeds of material enjoyment become impotent. Thus the more the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement spreads, the more the desire for material enjoyment decreases. The seed of material enjoyment automatically becomes impotent with the increase of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement."

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  1. Wonderful prabhu...please share more nectar..more pics & keep us in your prayers in the Land of Gaura Nitai-Gandharvika

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