1|Adi 8-1975: The Author Receives the Orders of Krsna and Guru
2|Chapter 8
3|The Author Receives the Orders of Krsna and Guru
4|The Eighth Chapter of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta is summarized
>|by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya.
>|In this Eighth Chapter the glories of Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu and Nityananda are described, and it is also
>|stated that one who commits offenses in chanting the Hare
>|Krsna mantra does not achieve love of Godhead, even after
>|chanting for many years. In this connection, Srila
>|Bhaktivinoda Thakura warns against artificial displays of
>|the bodily symptoms called asta-sattvika-vikara.
>|That is also another offense. One should seriously
>|and sincerely continue to chant the Panca-tattva names sri-
>|krsna-caitanya prabhu-nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara
>|srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda. All these acaryas will bestow
>|their causeless mercy upon a devotee and gradually purify
>|his heart. When he is actually purified, automatically he
>|will experience ecstasy in chanting the Hare Krsna maha-
>|mantra. Previous to the composition of Caitanya-
>|caritamrta, Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura wrote a book
>|called Sri Caitanya-bhagavata. Only those subjects which
>|were not discussed by Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura in his
>|Caitanya-bhagavata have been taken up by Krsnadasa Kaviraja
>|Gosvami to be depicted in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. In his
>|very old age, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami went to Vrndavana,
>|and by the order of Sri Madana-mohanaji he wrote Sri
>|Caitanya-caritamrta. Thus we are now able to relish its
>|transcendental bliss.
5|Adi 8.1
6|TEXT 1
7|TEXT
8|vande caitanya-devam tam
9|bhagavantam yad-icchaya
10|prasabham nartyate citram
11|lekha-range jado 'py ayam
12|SYNONYMS
13|vande-I offer my respectful obeisances; caitanya-devam-unto
>|Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; tam-Him; bhagavantam-the
>|Personality of Godhead; yat-icchaya-by whose desires;
>|prasabham-all of a sudden; nartyate-dancing; citram-
>|wonderfully; lekha-range-in the matter of writing; jadah-
>|dull fool; api-although; ayam-this.
14|TRANSLATION
15|I offer my respects to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, by whose desire I have become like
>|a dancing dog and, although I am a fool, I have suddenly
>|taken to the writing of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
>|.
16|Adi 8.2
17|TEXT 2
18|TEXT
19|jaya jaya sri-krsna-caitanya gauracandra
20|jaya jaya paramananda jaya nityananda
21|SYNONYMS
22|jaya jaya-all glories; sri-krsna-caitanya-Sri Krsna
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; gaura-candra-whose name is Lord
>|Gauranga; jaya jaya-all glories; paramananda-most joyful;
>|jaya-all glories; nityananda-unto Nityananda Prabhu.
23|TRANSLATION
24|Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Krsna
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is known as Gaurasundara. I also
>|offer my respectful obeisances unto Nityananda Prabhu, who
>|is always very joyful.
25|Adi 8.3
26|TEXT 3
27|TEXT
28|jaya jayadvaita acarya krpamaya
29|jaya jaya gadadhara pandita mahasaya
30|SYNONYMS
31|jaya jaya-all glories; advaita-unto Advaita Prabhu; acarya-
>|teacher; krpamaya-very merciful; jaya jaya-all glories to;
>|gadadhara-of the name Gadadhara; pandita-learned scholar;
>|mahasaya-great personality.
32|TRANSLATION
33|Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Advaita Acarya,
>|who is very merciful, and also to that great personality
>|Gadadhara Pandita, the learned scholar.
34|Adi 8.4
35|TEXT 4
36|TEXT
37|jaya jaya srivasadi yata bhakta-gana
38|pranata ha-iya vandon sabara carana
39|SYNONYMS
40|jaya jaya-all glories; srivasa-adi-unto Srivasa Thakura,
>|etc.; yata-all; bhakta-gana-devotees; pranata-offering
>|obeisances; ha-iya-doing so; vandon-I pray; sabara-all;
>|carana-lotus feet.
41|TRANSLATION
42|Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Srivasa Thakura
>|and all other devotees of the Lord. I fall down to
>|offer them respect. I worship their lotus feet.
43|PURPORT
44|Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami teaches us first to offer
>|respect to the Panca-tattva-Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>|Nityananda Prabhu, Advaita Prabhu, Gadadhara Prabhu and
>|Srivasa and other devotees. We must strictly follow
>|the principle of offering our respects to the Panca-tattva,
>|as summarized in the mantra sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-
>|nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-
>|vrnda. At the beginning of every function in preaching,
>|especially before chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra-Hare
>|Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare
>|Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare-we must chant the Panca-tattva's
>|names and offer our respects to them.
45|Adi 8.5
46|TEXT 5
47|TEXT
48|muka kavitva kare yan-sabara smarane
49|pangu giri langhe, andha dekhe tara-gane
50|SYNONYMS
51|muka-dumb; kavitva-poet; kare-becomes; yan-whose; sabara-
>|all; smarane-by remembering; pangu-the lame; giri-mountains;
>| langhe-crosses; andha-blind; dekhe-sees; tara-gane-the
>|stars.
52|TRANSLATION
53|By remembering the lotus feet of the Panca-tattva, a dumb
>|man can become a poet, a lame man can cross mountains, and
>|a blind man can see the stars in the sky.
54|PURPORT
55|In Vaisnava philosophy there are three ways for perfection-
>|namely, sadhana-siddha, perfection attained by executing
>|devotional service according to the rules and regulations ;
>|nitya-siddha, eternal perfection attained by never
>|forgetting Krsna at any time ; and krpa-siddha, perfection
>|attained by the mercy of the spiritual master or another
>|Vaisnava. Kaviraja Gosvami here stresses krpa-siddha,
>|perfection by the mercy of superior authorities. This mercy
>|does not depend on the qualifications of a devotee. By such
>|mercy, even if a devotee is dumb he can speak or write to
>|glorify the Lord splendidly, even if lame he can cross
>|mountains, and even if blind he can see the stars in the
>|sky.
56|Adi 8.6
57|TEXT 6
58|TEXT
59|e-saba na mane yei pandita sakala
60|ta-sabara vidya-patha bheka-kolahala
61|SYNONYMS
62|e-saba-all these; na-does not; mane-accept; yei-anyone;
>|pandita-so-called learned; sakala-all; ta-sabara-of all of
>|them; vidya-patha-the educational cultivation; bheka-of
>|frogs; kolahala-tumultuous sound.
63|TRANSLATION
64|The education cultivated by so-called learned scholars who
>|do not believe these statements of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
>|is like the tumultuous croaking of frogs.
65|PURPORT
66|The croaking of the frogs in the rainy season resounds very
>|loudly in the forest, with the result that snakes, hearing
>|the croaking in the darkness, approach the frogs and
>|swallow them. Similarly, the so-called educational
>|vibrations of the tongues of university professors who do
>|not have spiritual knowledge is like the croaking of frogs.
67|Adi 8.7
68|TEXT 7
69|TEXT
70|ei saba na mane yeba kare krsna-bhakti
71|krsna-krpa nahi tare, nahi tara gati
72|SYNONYMS
73|ei-these; saba-all; na mane-does not accept; yeba-anyone
>|who; kare-executes; krsna-bhakti-devotional service; krsna-
>|krpa-mercy of Krsna; nahi-is not; tare-unto him; nahi-there
>|is not; tara-his; gati-advancement.
74|TRANSLATION
75|One who does not accept the glories of the Panca-tattva but
>|still makes a show of devotional service to Krsna can never
>|achieve the mercy of Krsna or advance to the ultimate goal.
76|PURPORT
77|If one is seriously interested in Krsna conscious
>|activities, he must be ready to follow the rules and
>|regulations laid down by the acaryas, and he must
>|understand their conclusions. The sastra says: dharmasya
>|tattvam nihitam guhayam maha-jano yena gatah sa panthah (
>|Mahabharata, Vana-parva 313.117). It is very difficult to
>|understand the secret of Krsna consciousness, but one who
>|advances by the instruction of the previous acaryas and
>|follows in the footsteps of his predecessors in the line of
>|disciplic succession will have success. Others will not.
>|Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says in this connection,
>|chadiya vaisnava-seva nistara payeche keba: "Unless one
>|serves the spiritual master and acaryas, one cannot be
>|liberated." Elsewhere he says:
78|ei chaya gosani yara-mui tara dasa
79|tan' sabara pada-renu mora panca-grasa
80|"I simply accept a person who follows in the footsteps of
>|the six Gosvamis, and the dust of such a person's lotus
>|feet is my food."
81|Adi 8.8
82|TEXT 8
83|TEXT
84|purve yaiche jarasandha-adi raja-gana
85|veda-dharma kari' kare visnura pujana
86|SYNONYMS
87|purve-formerly; yaiche-as it was; jarasandha-King
>|Jarasandha; adi-heading; raja-gana-kings; veda-dharma-
>|performance of Vedic rituals; kari'-doing; kare-does;
>|visnura-of Lord Visnu; pujana-worship.
88|TRANSLATION
89|Formerly kings like Jarasandha [the father-in-law of Kamsa]
>|strictly followed the Vedic rituals, thus worshiping Lord
>|Visnu.
90|PURPORT
91|In these verses the author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta,
>|Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, is very seriously stressing the
>|importance of worship of the Panca-tattva. If one becomes a
>|devotee of Gaurasundara or Krsna but does not give
>|importance to the Panca-tattva (sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-
>|nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-
>|vrnda), his activities are considered to be offenses, or,
>|in the words of Srila Rupa Gosvami, utpata (disturbances).
>|One must therefore be ready to offer due respects to the
>|Panca-tattva before becoming a devotee of Lord Gaurasundara
>|or of Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
92|Adi 8.9
93|TEXT 9
94|TEXT
95|krsna nahi mane, tate daitya kari' mani
96|caitanya na manile taiche daitya tare jani
97|SYNONYMS
98|krsna-Lord Krsna; nahi-does not; mane-accept; tate-
>|therefore; daitya-demon; kari' mani-we accept; caitanya-
>|Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; na-without; manile-accepting;
>|taiche-similarly; daitya-demon; tare-to him; jani-we know.
99|TRANSLATION
100|One who does not accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead is certainly a demon. Similarly, anyone who does
>|not accept Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as Krsna, the same
>|Supreme Lord, is also to be considered a demon.
101|PURPORT
102|Formerly there were kings like Jarasandha who strictly
>|followed the Vedic rituals, acted as charitable, competent
>|ksatriyas, possessed all ksatriya qualities and were even
>|obedient to the brahminical culture but who did not accept
>|Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Jarasandha
>|attacked Krsna many times, and each time, of course, he was
>|defeated. Like Jarasandha, any man who performs Vedic
>|rituals but does not accept Krsna as the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead must be considered an asura, or
>|demon. Similarly, one who does not accept Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu as Krsna Himself is also a demon. This is the
>|conclusion of authoritative scriptures. Therefore, both so-
>|called devotion to Gaurasundara without devotional service
>|to Krsna and so-called krsna-bhakti without devotional
>|service to Gaurasundara are nondevotional activities. If
>|one wants to be successful on the path of Krsna
>|consciousness, he must be thoroughly conscious of the
>|personality of Gaurasundara as well as the personality of
>|Krsna. Knowing the personality of Gaurasundara means
>|knowing the personalities of sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-
>|nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-
>|vrnda. The author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, pursuant to
>|the authorities, stresses this principle for perfection in
>|Krsna consciousness.
103|Adi 8.10
104|TEXT 10
105|TEXT
106|more na manile saba loka habe nasa
107|ithi lagi' krpardra prabhu karila sannyasa
108|SYNONYMS
109|more-unto Me; na-without; manile-accepting; saba-all; loka-
>|people in general; habe-will go to; nasa-destruction; ithi-
>|for this; lagi'-for the reason of; krpa-ardra-all merciful;
>|prabhu-Lord Caitanya; karila-accepted; sannyasa-the
>|sannyasa order.
110|TRANSLATION
111|Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu thought, "Unless people accept
>|Me they will all be destroyed." Thus the merciful Lord
>|accepted the sannyasa order.
112|PURPORT
113|In Srimad-Bhagavatam (12.3.51) it is said, kirtanad eva
>|krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet: "Simply by chanting the
>|Hare Krsna mantra, or Lord Krsna's name, one is liberated
>|and goes back home, back to Godhead." This Krsna
>|consciousness must be achieved through the mercy of Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. One cannot be complete in Krsna
>|consciousness unless he accepts Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and
>|His associates as the only means for success. It is because
>|of these considerations that the Lord accepted sannyasa,
>|for thus people would offer Him respect and very quickly
>|come to the platform of Krsna consciousness. Since Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is Krsna Himself, inaugurated the
>|Krsna consciousness movement, without His mercy one cannot
>|be elevated to the transcendental platform of Krsna
>|consciousness.
114|Adi 8.11
115|TEXT 11
116|TEXT
117|sannyasi-buddhye more karibe namaskara
118|tathapi khandibe duhkha, paibe nistara
119|SYNONYMS
120|sannyasi-buddhye-by consideration of a sannyasi; more-unto
>|Me; karibe-they will; namaskara-offer obeisances; tathapi-
>|therefore; khandibe-will diminish; duhkha-distress; paibe-
>|will get; nistara-liberation.
121|TRANSLATION
122|"If a person offers obeisances to Me, even due to accepting
>|Meonly as an ordinary sannyasi, his material
>|distresses will diminish, and he will ultimately get
>|liberation."
123|PURPORT
124|Krsna is so merciful that He always thinks of how to
>|liberate the conditioned souls from the material platform.
>|It is for this reason that Krsna incarnates, as clearly
>|indicated in the Bhagavad-gita (4.7):
125|yada yada hi dharmasya
126|glanir bhavati bharata
127|abhyutthanam adharmasya
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128|tadatmanam srjamy aham
129|"Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious
>|practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise
>|of irreligion-at that time I descend Myself."Krsna always
>|protects the living entities in many ways. He comes Himself,
>| He sends His own confidential devotees, and He leaves
>|behind Him sastras like the Bhagavad-gita Why? It is so
>|that people may take advantage of the benediction to be
>|liberated from the clutches of maya. Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu accepted sannyasa so that even a foolish person
>|who accepted Him as an ordinary sannyasi would offer Him
>|respect, for this would help diminish his material
>|distresses and ultimately liberate him from the material
>|clutches. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati points out in
>|this connection that Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the
>|combined form of Sri Radha and Krsna (mahaprabhu sri-
>|caitanya, radha-krsna-nahe anya). Therefore when fools
>|considered Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be an ordinary human
>|being and thus treated Him disrespectfully, the merciful
>|Lord, in order to deliver these offenders, accepted
>|sannyasa so that they would offer Him obeisances, accepting
>|Him as a sannyasi. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted
>|sannyasa to bestow His great mercy on people in general,
>|who cannot appreciate Him as Radha and Krsna Themselves.
130|Adi 8.12
131|TEXT 12
132|TEXT
133|hena krpamaya caitanya na bhaje yei jana
134|sarvottama ha-ileo tare asure ganana
135|SYNONYMS
136|hena-such; krpamaya-merciful; caitanya-Lord Sri Caitanya;
>|na-does not; bhaje-worship; yei-one; jana-person;
>|sarvottama-supreme; ha-ileo-in spite of his being; tare-
>|unto him; asure-among the demons; ganana-the calculation.
137|TRANSLATION
138|One who does not show respect unto this merciful Lord,
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, or does not worship Him should be
>|considered a demon, even if he is very exalted in
>|human society.
139|PURPORT
140|Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja says in this
>|connection: "O living entities, simply engage yourselves in
>|Krsna consciousness. This is the message of Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu." Lord Caitanya preached this cult, instructing
>|the philosophy of Krsna consciousness in His eight verses,
>|or Siksastaka, and He said, iha haite sarva-siddhi haibe
>|tomara: "By chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, one will get
>|all perfection in life." Therefore one who does not show
>|Him respect or cannot appreciate His mercy despite all
>|these merciful gestures is still an asura, or opponent of
>|bona fide devotional service to Lord Visnu, even though he
>|is very exalted in human society. The word asura
>|refers to one who is against devotional service to the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. It should be noted
>|that unless one worships Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu it is
>|useless to become a devotee of Krsna, and unless one
>|worships Krsna it is also useless to become a devotee of
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Such devotional service is to be
>|understood to be a product of Kali-yuga. Srila
>|Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura remarks in this
>|connection that atheist smartas, or worshipers of the five
>|kinds of demigods, worship Lord Visnu for a little
>|satisfaction in material success but have no respect for
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Thinking Him to be one of the
>|ordinary living entities, they discriminate between
>|Gaurasundara and Sri Krsna. Such understanding is also
>|demoniac and is against the conclusion of the acaryas. Such
>|a conclusion is a product of Kali-yuga.
141|Adi 8.13
142|TEXT 13
143|TEXT
144|ataeva punah kahon urdhva-bahu hana
145|caitanya-nityananda bhaja kutarka chadiya
146|SYNONYMS
147|ataeva-therefore; punah-again; kahon-I speak; urdhva-
>|lifting; bahu-arms; hana-so doing; caitanya-Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; nityananda-Lord Nityananda; bhaja-worship;
>|kutarka-useless arguments; chadiya-giving up.
148|TRANSLATION
149|Therefore I say again, lifting my arms: O fellow human
>|beings, please worship Sri Caitanya and Nityananda without
>|false arguments!
150|PURPORT
151|Because a person who performs krsna-bhakti but does not
>|understand Sri Krsna Caitanya and Prabhu Nityananda will
>|simply waste his time, the author, Krsnadasa Kaviraja
>|Gosvami; requests that everyone take to the worship of
>|Sri Caitanya and Nityananda Prabhu and the Panca-tattva. He
>|assures everyone that any person who does so will be
>|successful in Krsna consciousness.
152|Adi 8.14
153|TEXT 14
154|TEXT
155|yadi va tarkika kahe,-tarka se pramana
156|tarka-sastre siddha yei, sei sevyamana
157|SYNONYMS
158|yadi-if; va-or; tarkika-logician; kahe-says; tarka-logic;
>|se-that; pramana-evidence; tarka-sastre-in the logic;
>|siddha-accepted; yei-whatever; sei-that; sevyamana-is
>|worshipable.
159|TRANSLATION
160|Logicians say, "Unless one gains understanding through
>|logic and argument, how can one decide upon a worshipable
>|Deity?"
161|Adi 8.15
162|TEXT 15
163|TEXT
164|sri-krsna-caitanya-daya karaha vicara
165|vicara karite citte pabe camatkara
166|SYNONYMS
167|sri-krsna-caitanya-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; daya-His
>|mercy; karaha-just put into; vicara-consideration; vicara-
>|when such consideration; karile-will be done by you; citte-
>|in your heart; pabe-you will get; camatkara-striking wonder.
168|TRANSLATION
169|If you are indeed interested in logic and argument, kindly
>|apply it to the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. If you do
>|so, you will find it to be strikingly wonderful.
170|PURPORT
171|Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments in this
>|connection that people in general, in their narrow-minded
>|conception of life, create many different types of
>|humanitarian activities, but the humanitarian activities
>|inaugurated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are different. For
>|logicians who want to accept only that which is proven
>|through logic and argument, it is a fact that without logic
>|and reason there can be no question of accepting the
>|Absolute Truth. Unfortunately, when such logicians take to
>|this path without the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>|they remain on the platform of logic and argument and do
>|not advance in spiritual life. However, if one is
>|intelligent enough to apply his arguments and logic to the
>|subtle understanding of the fundamental spiritual substance,
>| he will be able to know that a poor fund of knowledge
>|established on the basis of material logic cannot help one
>|understand the Absolute Truth, which is beyond the reach of
>|imperfect senses. The Mahabharata therefore says: acintyah
>|khalu ye bhava na tams tarkena yojayet. (Mahabharata,
>|Bhisma-parva 5.22) How can that which is beyond the
>|imagination or sensory speculation of mundane creatures be
>|approached simply by logic? Logic and argument are very
>|poor in spiritual strength and always imperfect when
>|applied to spiritual understanding. By putting forward
>|mundane logic one frequently comes to the wrong conclusion
>|regarding the Absolute Truth, and as a result of such a
>|conclusion one may fall down to accept a body like that of
>|a jackal.
172|Despite all this, those who are actually inquisitive to
>|understand the philosophy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|through logic and argument are welcome. Krsnadasa Kaviraja
>|Gosvami addresses them, "Please put Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu'
>|s mercy to your crucial test, and if you are actually a
>|logician you will come to the right conclusion that there
>|is no personality more merciful than Lord Caitanya." Let
>|the logicians compare all the results of other humanitarian
>|work with the merciful activities of Lord Caitanya. If
>|their judgment is impartial, they will understand that no
>|other humanitarian activities can surpass those of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
173|Everyone is engaged in humanitarian activities on the basis
>|of the body, but from the Bhagavad-gita (2.18) we
>|understand, anta-vanta ime deha nityasyoktah saririnah:
>|The material body is ultimately subject to destruction,
>|whereas the spiritual soul is eternal. Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu's philanthropic activities are performed in
>|connection with the eternal soul. However one tries to
>|benefit the body, it will be destroyed, and one will have
>|to accept another body according to his present activities.
>|If one does not, therefore, understand this science of
>|transmigration but considers the body to be all in all, his
>|intelligence is not very advanced. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>|without neglecting the necessities of the body, imparted
>|spiritual advancement to purify the existential condition
>|of humanity. Therefore if a logician makes his judgment
>|impartially, he will surely find that Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu is the maha-vadanyavatara, the most magnanimous
>|incarnation. He is even more magnanimous than Lord Krsna
>|Himself. Lord Krsna demanded that one surrender unto Him,
>|but He did not distribute love of Godhead as magnanimously
>|as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Therefore Srila Rupa Gosvami
>|offers Lord Caitanya his respectful obeisances with the
>|words namo maha-vadanyaya krsna-prema-pradaya te krsnaya
>|krsna-caitanya-namne gaura-tvise namah .
>|Lord Krsna simply gave the Bhagavad-gita, by which one can
>|understand Lord Krsna as He is, but Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>| who is also Krsna Himself, gave people love of Krsna
>|without discrimination.
174|Adi 8.16
175|TEXT 16
176|TEXT
177|bahu janma kare yadi sravana, kirtana
178|tabu ta' na paya krsna-pade prema-dhana
179|SYNONYMS
180|bahu-many; janma-births; kare-does; yadi-if; sravana-
>|hearing; kirtana-chanting; tabu-still; ta'-in spite of; na-
>|does not; paya-get; krsna-pade-unto the lotus feet of Krsna;
>| prema-dhana-love of Godhead.
181|TRANSLATION
182|If one is infested with the ten offenses in the chanting of
>|the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, despite his endeavor to chant
>|the holy name for many births, he will not get the love of
>|Godhead that is the ultimate goal of this chanting.
183|PURPORT
184|Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says in this
>|connection that unless one accepts Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
>|although one goes on chanting the Hare Krsna mantra for
>|many, many years, there is no possibility of his attaining
>|the platform of devotional service
>|. One must follow strictly the
>|instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu given in the
>|Siksastaka (3):
185|trnad api sunicena
186|taror iva sahisnuna
187|amanina manadena
188|kirtaniyah sada harih
189|"One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble
>|state of mind, thinking oneself lower than the straw in the
>|street; one should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of
>|all sense of false prestige, and should be ready to offer
>|all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can
>|chant the holy name of the Lord constantly." One who
>|follows this direction, being freed from the ten kinds of
>|offenses, becomes successful in Krsna consciousness and
>|ultimately reaches the platform of loving service to the
>|Personality of Godhead.
190|One must come to the understanding that the holy name of
>|the Lord and the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself are
>|identical. One cannot reach this conclusion unless one is
>|offenseless in chanting the holy name. By our material
>|calculation we see a difference between the name and the
>|substance, but in the spiritual world the Absolute is
>|always absolute; the name, form, quality and pastimes of
>|the Absolute are all as good as the Absolute Himself. As
>|such, one is understood to be an eternal servant of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead if he considers himself an
>|eternal servant of the holy name and in this spirit
>|distributes the holy name to the world. One who chants in
>|that spirit, without offenses, is certainly elevated to the
>|platform of understanding that the holy name and the
>|Personality of Godhead are identical. To associate with the
>|holy name and chant the holy name is to associate with the
>|Personality of Godhead directly. In Bhakti-rasamrta-
>|sindhu it is clearly said : sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam
>|eva sphuraty adah . The holy name becomes
>|manifest when one engages in the service of the holy name.
>|This service in a submissive attitude begins with one's
>|tongue. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau: One must engage his tongue
>|in the service of the holy name. Our Krsna consciousness
>|movement is based on this principle. We try to engage all
>|the members of the Krsna consciousness movement in the
>|service of the holy name. Since the holy name and Krsna are
>|nondifferent, the members of the Krsna consciousness
>|movement not only chant the holy name of the Lord
>|offenselessly, but also do not allow their tongues to eat
>|anything that is not first offered to the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Lord declares:
191|patram puspam phalam toyam
192|yo me bhaktya prayacchati
193|tad aham bhakty
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>|upahrtam
194|asnami prayatatmanah
195|"If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower,
>|a fruit or water, I will accept it." (Bg. 9.26) Therefore
>|the International Society for Krishna Consciousness has
>|many temples all over the world, and in each and every
>|temple the Lord is offered these foods. On the basis of His
>|demands, the devotees chant the holy name of the Lord
>|offenselessly and never eat anything that is not first
>|offered to the Lord. The functions of the tongue in
>|devotional service are to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra
>|and eat prasada that is offered to the Lord.
196|Adi 8.17
197|TEXT 17
198|TEXT
199|jnanatah su-labha muktir
200|bhuktir yajnadi-punyatah
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