Be careful what you see, think or hear about Sri Nitai Gaurangachandra. We have not seen Nitai Gauranga (Krsna) as the people imagined. Do not imagine.
Just because you take the name of Nitai good things happen. Just remember what ever happens its your karma
Madhya 18.93
prabhu dekhi� karila loka carana vandana
prabhu kahe,�kahan haite karila agamana?
TRANSLATION
Upon seeing Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, all the people offered respects at His lotus feet. The Lord then asked them, �Where are you all coming from?�
Madhya 18.94
loke kahe,�krishna prakata kaliya-dahera jale!
kaliya-sire nritya kare, phana-ratna jvale
TRANSLATION
The people replied, �Krishna has again manifested Himself on the waters of Kaliya Lake. He dances on the hoods of the serpent Kaliya, and the jewels on those hoods are blazing.
Madhya 18.95
sakshat dekhila loka�nahika samsaya
suni� hasi� kahe prabhu,�saba �satya� haya
TRANSLATION
�Everyone has seen Lord Krishna Himself. There is no doubt about it.� Hearing this, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu began to laugh. He then said, �Everything is correct.�
Madhya 18.96
ei-mata tina-ratri lokera gamana
sabe asi� kahe,�krishna pailun darasana
TRANSLATION
For three successive nights people went to Kaliya-daha to see Krishna, and everyone returned saying, �Now we have seen Krishna Himself.�
Madhya 18.97
prabhu-age kahe loka,�sri-krishna dekhila
�sarasvati� ei vakye �satya� kahaila
TRANSLATION
Everyone came before Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and said, �Now we have directly seen Lord Krishna.� Thus by the mercy of the goddess of learning they were made to speak the truth.
Madhya 18.98
mahaprabhu dekhi� �satya� krishna-darasana
nijajnane satya chadi� �asatye satya-bhrama�
TRANSLATION
When the people saw Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, they actually saw Krishna, but because they were following their own imperfect knowledge, they accepted the wrong thing as Krishna.
Madhya 18.99
bhattacarya tabe kahe prabhura carane
�ajna deha�, yai� kari krishna darasane!�
TRANSLATION
At that time Balabhadra Bhattacarya placed a request at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He said, �Please give me permission to go see Lord Krishna directly.�
PURPORT
The puzzled people who visited Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were actually seeing Lord Krishna, but they were mistaken in thinking that Lord Krishna had come to Kaliya Lake. They all said that they had seen Krishna directly performing His pastimes on the hoods of the serpent Kaliya and that the jewels on Kaliya�s hoods were blazing brilliantly. Because they were speculating with their imperfect knowledge, they saw Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as an ordinary human being and a boatman�s light in the lake as Krishna. One must see things as they are through the mercy of a spiritual master; otherwise, if one tries to see Krishna directly, he may mistake an ordinary man for Krishna or Krishna for an ordinary man. Everyone has to see Krishna according to the verdict of Vedic literatures presented by the self-realized spiritual master. A sincere person is able to see Krishna through the transparent via medium of Sri Gurudeva, the spiritual master. Unless one is enlightened by the knowledge given by the spiritual master, he cannot see things as they are, even though he remains constantly with the spiritual master. This incident at Kaliya-daha is very instructive for those eager to advance in Krishna consciousness.
Madhya 18.100
tabe tanre kahe prabhu capada mariya
�murkhera vakye �murkha� haila pandita hana
TRANSLATION
When Balabhadra Bhattacarya asked to see Krishna at Kaliya-daha, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu mercifully slapped him, saying, �You are a learned scholar, but you have become a fool, being influenced by the statements of other fools.
PURPORT
Maya is so strong that even a person like Balabhadra Bhattacarya, who was constantly staying with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was influenced by the words of fools. He wanted to see Krishna directly by going to Kaliya-daha, but Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, being the original spiritual master, would not allow His servant to fall into such foolishness. He therefore chastised him, slapping him just to bring him to a real sense of Krishna consciousness.
Madhya 18.101
krishna kene darasana dibe kali-kale?
nija-bhrame murkha-loka kare kolahale
TRANSLATION
�Why would Krishna appear in the Age of Kali? Foolish people who are mistaken are simply causing agitation and making a tumult.
PURPORT
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu�s first statement (krishna kene darasana dibe kali-kale) refers to the scriptures. According to scripture, Krishna appears in Dvapara-yuga, but He never appears as Himself in Kali-yuga. Rather, He appears in Kali-yuga in a covered form. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.5.32), krishna-varnam tvishakrishnam sangopangastra-parshadam. Krishna appears in the Age of Kali in the garb of a devotee, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who always associates with His internal soldiers�Sri Advaita Prabhu, Sri Nityananda Prabhu, Srivasa Prabhu and Gadadhara Prabhu. Although Balabhadra Bhattacarya was personally serving Lord Krishna in His role as a devotee (Caitanya Mahaprabhu), he mistook Lord Krishna for an ordinary man and an ordinary man for Lord Krishna because he did not follow the rules set down by sastra and guru.
Madhya 18.102
�vatula� na ha-io, ghare rahata vasiya
�krishna� darasana kariha kali ratrye yana�
TRANSLATION
�Do not become mad. Simply sit down here, and tomorrow night you will go see Krishna.�
Madhya 18.103
pratah-kale bhavya-loka prabhu-sthane aila
�krishna dekhi� aila?��prabhu tanhare puchila
TRANSLATION
The next morning some respectable gentlemen came to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and the Lord asked them, �Have you seen Krishna?�
Madhya 18.104
loka kahe,�ratrye kaivartya naukate cadiya
kaliya-dahe matsya mare, deuti jvaliya
TRANSLATION
These respectable gentlemen replied, �At night in Kaliya Lake a fisherman lights a torch in his boat and catches many fish.
Madhya 18.105
dura haite taha dekhi� lokera haya �bhrama�
�kaliyera sarire krishna kariche nartana�!
TRANSLATION
�From a distance, people mistakenly think that they are seeing Krishna dancing on the body of the Kaliya serpent.
Madhya 18.106
naukate kaliya-jnana, dipe ratna-jnane!
jaliyare mudha-loka �krishna� kari� mane!
TRANSLATION
�These fools think that the boat is the Kaliya serpent and the torchlight the jewels on his hoods. People also mistake the fisherman for Krishna.
Madhya 18.107
vrindavane �krishna� aila,�sei �satya� haya
krishnere dekhila loka,�iha �mithya� naya
TRANSLATION
�Actually Lord Krishna has returned to Vrindavana. That is the truth, and it is also true that people have seen Him.
Madhya 18.108
kintu kahon �krishna� dekhe, kahon �bhrama� mane
sthanu-purushe yaiche viparita-jnane
TRANSLATION
�But where they are seeing Krishna is their mistake. It is like considering a dry tree to be a person.�
PURPORT
The word sthanu means �a dry tree without leaves.� From a distance one may mistake such a tree for a person. This is called sthanu-purusha. Although Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was living in Vrindavana, the inhabitants considered Him an ordinary human being, and they mistook the fisherman to be Krishna. Every human being is prone to make such mistakes. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was mistaken for an ordinary sannyasi, the fisherman was mistaken for Krishna, and the torchlight was mistaken for bright jewels on Kaliya�s hoods.
Madhya 18.109
prabhu kahe,��kahan paila krishna darasana?�
loka kahe,��sannyasi tumi jangama-narayana
TRANSLATION
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu then asked them, �Where have you seen Krishna directly?�
The people replied, �You are a sannyasi, a renunciant; therefore You are a moving Narayana [jangama-narayana].�
PURPORT
This is the viewpoint of Mayavada philosophy. Mayavada philosophy supports the impersonalist view that Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has no form. One can imagine impersonal Brahman in any form�as Vishnu, Lord Siva, Vivasvan, Ganesa or Devi Durga. According to the Mayavada philosophy, when one becomes a sannyasi he is to be considered a moving Narayana. Mayavada philosophy holds that the real Narayana does not move because, being impersonal, He has no legs. Thus according to Mayavada philosophy, whoever becomes a sannyasi declares himself Narayana. Foolish people accept such ordinary human beings as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is called vivarta-vada.
In this regard, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments that jangama-narayana means that the impersonal Brahman takes a shape and moves here and there in the form of a Mayavadi sannyasi. The Mayavada philosophy confirms this. Danda-grahana-matrena naro narayano bhavet: �Simply by accepting the danda of the order of sannyasa, one is immediately transformed into Narayana.� Therefore Mayavadi sannyasis address one another by saying om namo narayanaya. In this way one Narayana worships another Narayana.
Actually an ordinary human being cannot become Narayana. As the chief Mayavadi sannyasi, Sri Sankaracarya, says, narayanah paro �vyaktat: �Narayana is not a creation of this material world. Narayana is above the material creation.� Due to their poor fund of knowledge, Mayavadi sannyasis think that Narayana, the Absolute Truth, takes birth as a human being and that when He realizes this, He becomes Narayana again. They never consider why Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, would accept an inferior position as a human being and then again become Narayana when He is perfect. Why should Narayana be imperfect? Why should He appear as a human being? Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu very nicely explained these points while at Vrindavana.
Madhya 18.110
vrindavane ha-ila tumi krishna-avatara
toma dekhi� sarva-loka ha-ila nistara
TRANSLATION
The people then said, �You have appeared in Vrindavana as an incarnation of Krishna. Just by seeing You, everyone is now liberated.�
Madhya 18.111
prabhu kahe,��vishnu� �vishnu� iha na kahiba!
jivadhame �krishna�-jnana kabhu na kariba!
TRANSLATION
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately exclaimed, �Vishnu! Vishnu! Do not call Me the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A jiva cannot become Krishna at any time. Do not even say such a thing!
PURPORT
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately stated that a living being, however exalted he may be, should never be compared to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. All of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu�s preaching protests the monistic philosophy of the Mayavada school. The central point of Krishna consciousness is that the jiva, the living entity, can never be accepted as Krishna or Vishnu. This viewpoint is elaborated in the following verses.
Madhya 18.112
sannyasi�cit-kana jiva, kirana-kana-sama
shad-aisvarya-purna krishna haya suryopama
TRANSLATION
�A sannyasi in the renounced order is certainly part and parcel of the complete whole, just as a shining molecular particle of sunshine is part and parcel of the sun itself. Krishna is like the sun, full of six opulences, but the living entity is only a fragment of the complete whole.
Madhya 18.113
jiva, isvara-tattva�kabhu nahe �sama�
jvalad-agni-rasi yaiche sphulingera �kana�
TRANSLATION
�A living entity and the Absolute Personality of Godhead are never to be considered equal, just as a fragmental spark can never be considered the original flame.
PURPORT
Mayavadi sannyasis consider themselves Brahman, and they superficially speak of themselves as Narayana. The monistic disciples of the Mayavada school (known as smarta-brahmanas) are generally householder brahmanas who accept the Mayavadi sannyasis as Narayana incarnate; therefore they offer their obeisances to them. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately protested this unauthorized system, specifically mentioning that a sannyasi is nothing but a fragmental portion of the Supreme (cit-kana jiva). In other words, he is nothing more than an ordinary living being. He is never Narayana, just as a molecular portion of sunshine is never the sun itself. The living entity is nothing but a fragmental part of the Absolute Truth; therefore at no stage of perfection can a living entity become the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This Mayavada viewpoint is always condemned by the Vaishnava school. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself protested this philosophy. When the Mayavadis accept sannyasa and consider themselves Narayana, they become so puffed up that they do not even enter the temple of Narayana to offer respects, for they falsely think themselves Narayana Himself. Although Mayavadi sannyasis may offer respects to other sannyasis and address them as Narayana, they do not go to a Narayana temple and offer respects. These Mayavadi sannyasis are always condemned and are described as demons. The Vedas clearly state that living entities are subordinate parts and parcels of the supreme. Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman: the Supreme Being, Krishna, maintains all living entities.
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