Verse: Sannyasa of Lord Caitanya - Part 2
Speaker: HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami
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I was explaining about the sannyasa pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and
prior to the explanation or description of the sannyasa pastimes of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu had shed some light about this whole sannyasa business
in Caitanya Mahaprabhu's life, how this happens, it just happened like that,
what was the reason behind this, what the normal reason could be and what is
the deeper reason for Caitanya Mahaprabhu taking sannyasa, the order of
sannyasa the integral part of param brahman Svarup. I talked on these
different points. How many of you where there in my last class that I gave
in the temple on Ekadasi. Very few! Many have left and new devotees have
joined.
I will discuss the sannyasa pastimes because this year we are celebrating
500th anniversary or Caitanya Mahaprabhu taking sannyasa. After Mahaprabhu
took sannyasa the common understanding is that Mahaprabhu took sannyasa to
deliver the people in general because there were many people that took
sannyasa Caitanya Mahaprabhu to whom Mahaprabhu gave prema bhakti but there
are some people they were not coming to take shelter of Mahaprabhu, the
pasandis, all the intellectuals, the blasphemers. They were running away
from Mahaprabhu. So Mahaprabhu was thinking, "I have come to deliver
everybody but how these people will be delivered? They do not understand Me.
They are not surrendering to Me." What to speak of surrendering to
Mahaprabhu they were blaspheming Mahaprabhu. They were trying to beat
Mahaprabhu. The other day I explained when Mahaprabhu was chanting,
"Vrindavan, Vrindavan! Gopi gopi!"
eke dine gopi jagada isvara, vrindavava gopi gopi bole nirantara
One day Mahaprabhu, jagat isvara in the mood of the gopis was chanting,
"Gopi gopi! Vrindavan, Vrindavan!" But these people did not understand Him.
An intellectual man came and saw Mahaprabhu chanting "Gopi gopi!" He said,
"Oh Nimai what are You doing? You should chant krsna nama then you will get
punya. Why you chanting Gopi gopi?" Mahaprabhu was in a different mood.
When he was insisting that Mahaprabhu chant krsna-nama Mahaprabhu said, "Oh
that Krishna He is dasyu a thief. [Bengali] Who told you to worship that
Krishna? Krishna is an ungrateful personality. Without any thought He killed
Bali. Also he cut the nose of a lady - Sooparnaka. He is such a duplicitous
personality. Without any fault He plundered everything from Bali Maharaj and
sent him to hell, to Patalaloka. Who is going to worship that Krishna?" This
person could not understand the mood of Mahaprabhu and he kept insisting.
Mahaprabhu became so angry He picked up a big stick, and he threatened to
beat the scholar. "You are teaching to worship Krishna?i"
Sometimes Radharani also develops a mood like that towards Krishna. This is
special anger. The ordinary scholar could not understand. The Lord's
activities are so bewildering that even great demigods and rsis cannot
understand. So in this way we can understand how these people don't
understand what is Mahaprabhu's mood. So this scholar ran to his friends and
said, "Oh see how Nimai is reacting! I told Him to chant harinama, krsna
nama but He is chanting gopi nama and He wants to beat me up." They were all
pasandis. "Oh what kind of Vaisnava id He? You are chanting krsna nama.
Which sastra says to chant gopi, gopi? We are not ordinary. We are also
special. We were all studying together. Now He is complete Goswami? Next
time if He comes to beat us we will also beat Him." This is what they
planned.
Mahaprabhu realized this. Antaryami Bhagavan. "These people are thinking
like this. What will happen to them? How will they be delivered? I am
distributing prema. How will they get this prema?" Mahaprabhu told
Nityananda Prabhu, "I have come here to give some medicine." korila
pippalikhanda kapha nibarite ulatiya aro kapha badila dehete.
Pippalikhanda is one kind of ayurvedic medicine that one can take to cure
cold disease. So Mahaprabhu compares this, "I came to make them free from
this disease. I took pippalikhanda to remove cold." "ulatiya aro kapha
badila dehete - instead of reducing the cold it is increasing," Mahaprabhu
is saying. "I have come to deliver these people Nityananda. [Bengali.] I
think I have not come to deliver them. I have come to destroy them.
[Bengali.] What to speak of by seeing Me, getting My darsan they will be
free from material bondage. [Bengali.] They are bound in material bandan,
years of bondage they will get." So Mahaprabhu became very worried. "What
will happen? I have come here to deliver or to destroy humanity?"
Then Mahaprabhu said, "Nityananda tomorrow I will take sannyasa. [Bengali.]
I shall shave My head, dress like a sannyasi and I will go house to house to
beg. Those people that are offending Me, that are planning to beat Me,
[Bengali.] I shall go in front of them tomorrow begging, begging from their
house, their street," Mahaprabhu is so expert to conquer the heart of the
people. This is Mahaprabhu's magnanimity. [Bengali] No other incarnation, no
other bhagavat svarup has gone to that extent to deliver the living
entities. Krishna form or Rama form, has killed to deliver somebody but
Mahaprabhu He delivered the most miscreants like Jagai and Madhai. He
delivered the animals of Jarikanda forest. And they have forgotten about
that and are planning to beat Him! He is planning how to deliver them. "I
will give up everything. I will take sannyasa. I will stand in front of
their doors to beg alms from them." This is the way in which Mahaprabhu is
thinking.
With Mahaprabhu's mercy, in the material world all of you know that one
minus one is zero, but in the spiritual world, Vaikuntha planets it is
different.
om purnam adah purnam idam
purnat purnam udacyate
purnasya purnam adaya
purnam evavasisyate [Iso Invocation]
In Vaikuntha one minus one is equal to one. When Caitanya Mahaprabhu came
one minus one is equal to two. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy. One
minus one is equal to two. How does that happen here? In this way the
acaryas are explaining if you see one bucket of water in this material world
and you take one lotta of water, one lotta of water will be reduced in the
bucket. In Vaikuntha if you take from one bucket of water one lotta of water
out it will remain the same. In Mahaprabhu's case if from one bucket of
water you take one lotta water out of it, it will double! That means it will
overflow. So Mahaprabhu is so merciful He brought that golokera prema-dhana,
hari-nama-sankirtana from Goloka Vrindavan [Bengali.] The ocean of mercy
that was kept in Goloka Vrindavan [Bengali] He brought that here.
People who are interested they come to the river and take bath. Some lazy
fellows, they don't take the trouble of going to the river. Then what
happens? The river floods and water comes then they take bath there. When
there is flood in Mayapur water does not only come to the pathways but goes
into the temple also. Before you know there is this much water. So
Mahaprabhu is so merciful that He distributes His mercy. When I go to preach
I tell the Indians, "You Indians, you took your birth in India but you don't
understand. Your are just interested in making money. Mahaprabhu is so
merciful that He is running behind you also." "Whoever you are take this
prema."
The point here is that Mahaprabhu took sannyasa. The sacrifice that He has
gone through is a great sacrifice. Just imagine His family. Father has left
the body, elder brother has taken sannyasa, in His house there is a
sixteen-year-old wife and old mother. How strong hearted one has to be, what
kind of strong determination one has to have, what kind of compassion one
has to develop at heart so that he will renounce his family situation and
take sannyasa. This is the magnanimity of Caitanya Mahaprabhu! How severe
renunciation, how strong sacrifice He has that He gave up everything. What
to speak of Mahaprabhu's renunciation, how much Saci Matta has given up!
Just imagine He will take sannyasa. Mahaprabhu told Nityananda Prabhu that,
"You only tell five personalities that tonight I will take sannyasa." He
told Nityananda Prabhu, "I will take sannyasa."
So when the whole of Navadvip came to know that Nimai is planning to take
sannyasa. At one point He said tonight I will take sannyasa. Navadvip basis
know that Nimai will take sannyasa maybe after some nama sankirtana in
future but they don't know that that particular night - kal astra, most
difficult night of life that Nimai will take sannyasa. Nobody knows.
"Nityananda Prabhu only tell five people about this, My mother, Gadadhara
and Mukundai." Mother Saci knows Nimai will take sannyasa. The night that
Nimai took sannyasa, for the whole night Mother Saci could not sleep. Which
mother can sleep?
Nimai was leaving the house. Mother Saci was sitting at the doorstep. Tears
were rolling from her eyes, she seemed like she had no life, she could not
speak anything. Mahaprabhu was very attached to His mother just like any
other child. Mahaprabhu was sitting in the middle. One side was Haridas and
one side was Gadadhara. So at one point Mahaprabhu woke up to leave the
house. One said, "Nimai, I must go with you. I am Your childhood friend."
"No I will go alone. I don't like anybody to see." Visnu Priya does not know
this.
On the doorstep Saci Mata was sitting. Tears were flowing from her eyes. She
cannot speak anything. Mahaprabhu went and touched her lotus feet. And
showing His gratitude He said, "Oh you have done so much for Me, you have
taken care of my life. For what you have done I have not done anything in
return." Caitanya Mahaprabhu was speaking but Saci Mata was not replying a
single word. She was simply shedding tears and Mahaprabhu left. Mahaprabhu
left but again after few days after taking sannyasa Nityananda Prabhu
tricked Him and He came back to Santipura. Nityananda Prabhu told Advaita
Acarya, "Now I am bring Caitanya Mahaprabhu back to Santipur. Tell all
Navadvipbasis that they should come to see Mahaprabhu." Thousands of
Navadvipbasis went and Saci Mata also went.
Mahaprabhu then said to Saci Mata - Radhanath Maharaj was saying in one
program that Mahaprabhu told Saci Mata, "Now My dear mother I have realized
that I have committed a great mistake by taking sannyasa but know I am
thinking that I should come back home." Can you imagine He finished taking
sannyasa and is with shaven head and saffron cloth and then He is saying
that He is thinking of going back home? Mahaprabhu told, "I will go back to
My house now. Just see Mother Saci's heart so tolerant so much tyga,
sacrifice she has and she said, "No You don't go back to the house. If You
come back home I will be very happy but if You go back to the house after
taking sannyasa people will blaspheme and blame You as big kalanka. So I can
I tolerate that? Better You remain as sannyasa."
The core of Mother Saci's heart she is thinking that Nimai has taken
sannyasa to deliver the whole universe. When Radhanath Maharaj was giving a
lecture in Jagannath Puri he was saying Nimai is very much glorified. The
whole world knows Nimai, His great sacrifice, what a great personality He is
but if you compare to the suffering in separation of Saci Mata and what went
throughi Caitanya Mahaprabhu left home by He has already preached to so many
devotees and He is chanting, dancing, having Krishna katha but He left
Mother Saci alone. Saci Mata was so tolerant. She gave permission, which
mother can give permission.
After we join Iskcon - father, mother and everybody say," No, no. You come
back to our house. Please come back." Here on single mother, the day Nimai
took sannyasa Mother Saci sacrificed. That was on Maha Sankranti. Who
remembers Mother Saci's sacrifice? Everybody glorifies Mahaprabhu. Behind
that sannyasa the sacrifice of the Navadvipbasis, what the residents of
Navadvip have sacrificed, Vrindavan das Thakur explained what the residents
of Navadvip went through, such suffering, what separation, how they spent
their days and nights in separation from Gauranga Who was their life and
soul, for them there was no suffering in their lives because of Caitanya
Mahaprabhu's presence and Mahaprabhu left them.
The sacrifice of the Navadvipbasis, the sacrifice of Sacimata - just imagine
the sacrifice of Visnu Priya! What sacrifice she has done! Mahaprabhu left
when she was sixteen years old, small sixteen year old girl - just married.
And what kind of husband she had! Some ordinary husband ready for divorce -
so much pain. After getting a husband like Gauranga Mahaprabhu, so
beautiful, so nice, well behaved that increased the amount of suffering in
separation. If you have bad husband you do not feel so much separation.
Visnu Priya had to go through increased separation. Sixteen-year-old girl
and Mahaprabhu left. Her heart was breaking but she encouraged, "Yes, if
that is Your desire, I am not here for my pleasure. If You stay by my side I
will enjoy. I am here for your pleasure. And Your pleasure is to deliver all
the living entities." So how Visnu Priya developed a mood to avoid all these
things?
She completely forgot her suffering, how hard hearted, how stone hearted,
how tolerant, what sort of sacrifice she was prepared to do. Even if she was
feeling deep pain she was feeling pain from having to separate from Gauranga
Mahaprabhu. So Mahaprabhu left - 48 years old Mahaprabhu closed His pastime
and went back and this 24 years Mahaprabhu's was in a very blissful mood
though in separation there is always suffering His was blissful suffering,
suffering in the mood of separation from Krishna of Radharani that He was
going through. But what was happening to Visnu Priya. She was left alone
here. No big festival with many people chanting and dancing and easy to
forget. No. She was left behind alone here.
Sometimes Mahaprabhu would send a little message to Mother Saci. She would
get the message fro someone who was coming from Puri, "How my Nimai is
there." Sometimes Nimai would come. He told Saci Mata, "Even though I may
take sannyasa I will take care of you materially and spiritually."
Mahaprabhu was doing that. Mahaprabhu used to come from time to time to meet
Sacimata.
Sacimata would cook something and Mahaprabhu would come and eat. Sometimes
Mahaprabhu would say, "Tell My mother last night she was feeding Me very
nice tasty food." Sacimata would see Mahaprabhu but she knows Nimai has left
and gone to Puri." So she would think that, "I am dreaming." Just like in
Krishna was playing i.Sacimata will think like that, maybe she was dreaming
Mahaprabhu was there but still she would recognize that Mahaprabhu was
there.
So Visnu Priya has to tolerate she was on this planet in manifested pastimes
for ninety-six years old. She left the planet when she was ninety-six years
old. Just imagine sixteen years old and Mahaprabhu left and eighty years -
not five years or ten years she tolerate that but for a long period of
eighty years staying in separation from Caitanya Mahaprabhu. What a life
this is! But this is Mahaprabhu and His associate's sacrifice and that
Radhanath Maharaj was saying, "Who recognizes the sacrifice of Visnu Priya
and what she has done for delivering the whole universe." So Gauranga
Mahaprabhu took sannyasa, that night He crossed the Ganga in a place called
Nirdaya - Daya - no mercy, merciless. Through that ghat Mahaprabhu went to
Katwa - Since then His heart has no daya, no mercy. Mahaprabhu left this
place and went to Katva
So in 5 -10 minutes we will be ready to broadcast that lecture of HH
Jayapataka Swami Maharaj. So I hope technically everything is okay.
So Mahaprabhu crossed and then went to Katva but before I tell you that I
want to tell you one thing - how Mahaprabhu's taking sannyasa is not
accidental. How Mahaprabhu's taking of sannyasa is not just external or just
happened because Mahaprabhu saw, "Oh they are thinking like this about Me,
okay tomorrow I will take sannyasa." No. It is integral part of Mahaprabhu's
life. After explaining Mahaprabhu's lifestyle I have often quoted how when
Radharani was in Vrindavan when Krishna left Mathura, Radharani said
[Bengali] I will become yogini." Yogini means I will take sannyasa.
[Bengali]" Forest to forest, country to country." That desire she had
manifested when She came in the form of Mahaprabhu that took place. Real
sannyasi. So that mood of Srimati Radharani to search for Krishna in the for
of Mahaprabhu telling, "[Bengali.] Where should I go? Where will I find
Muralivadan? What should I do, where should I go?"
This symptom was there in Mahaprabhu, which was manifested in full when He
took sannyasa. Our acaryas are quoting just like when Visvarupa took
sannyasa and Mother Saci was very worried that Visvarupa took sannyasa and
Mahaprabhu is pacifying Mother Saci but what He is saying?
bhala haila, -- visvarupa sannyasa karila
pitr-kula, matr-kula, -- dui uddharila [Cc Adi 15.14]
"My dear mother there is nothing to worry. Visvarupa has taken sannyasa.
That is very good - pitr-kula, matr-kula. There is a belief that in
somebody's family if a person takes sannyasa both mothers' side family and
fathers' side family, they all get delivered." So from this statement we can
see that how Mahaprabhu Nimai from the beginning He was supporting, the
tendency was there to take sannyasa.
Another incident also after Visvarupa took sannyasa is that one-day
Mahaprabhu was chewing some betel nut, tambula and He fainted for long.
There was no external consciousness. So when He came back t external
consciousness then He said to everybody, He said to Mother Saci, "You know
what happened to Me? Visvarupa told Me , 'Nimai come with me and take
sannyasa.' " Mother Saci said, "You can do anything besides this one thing,
taking sannyasa." Sannyasa she is a very allergic to. She hates the word
sannyasa. And Nimai said, "My elder brother came and told me to come with
him and take sannyasa." You can realize what Mother Saci felt when she heard
this. Then Nimai said, "But I told My brother, 'No, no I am a small boy.
What will I understand about sannyasa? I will serve my mother and father and
attain the perfection of my life.'"
That time Mahaprabhu hide the real reason of exposing but here also we see
that Mahaprabhu after He lost His external consciousness how it is an
indication that He is also going to follow in the footsteps of His brother.
Also when Mahaprabhu went to what is now Bangladesh to Tapana Misra and
Tapana Misra said, "I will go with You to Navadvip. I will stay on the bank
of Ganga." Most of Mahaprabhu's associates appeared in Bangladesh or all
different areas. But in the pretext of staying on the banks of Ganga, they
all gathered here when Mahaprabhu's pastimes were to manifest here. Tapan
Misra said, "I will go with You to Navadvip." Mahaprabhu said, "No. You go
to Benares."
So why Mahaprabhu said to go to Benares? Because Mahaprabhu knows that after
taking sannyasa He will go to Benares on the way to while traveling to
Vrindavan. All these things are there in His Svarupa, not accidentally
happening like that.
Mahaprabhu used to do all night kirtan in Srivasangam. Only intimate
associates will get a chance to enter inside. Outsiders were not allowed.
Once one brahmana went to see Mahaprabhu's chanting and dancing and he was
not allowed inside. The brahmana became very angry. So one day while
Mahaprabhu went to take His bath in the Ganga the brahmana saw Him. Both
Mahaprabhu and the brahmana paths crossed and the brahmana said to Nimai,
"Oh. You are doing kirtan and not allowing me to enter. I am so dukhi, I am
so unhappy. I am so angry." He took his brahmana thread and broke it. He was
so angry like Durvasa Rsi. "I am breaking my brahmin thread and I curse You
that You will never get the pleasure of Your family life." Yes he cursed
Him.
Mahaprabhu was very happy that, "Oh, such nice blessings are there for Me."
When Narada Muni was cursed by daksa he also said very nice. The brahmana
was very angry; "I cursed You that You will never take pleasure in family
life." Mahaprabhu accepted, "Yes, give Me that curse. I want that curse. I
will take sannyasa and go." So all these things are there in Mahaprabhu's
whole life.
Long before this incident took place at Srivasa's house, when these scholars
said they should beat Nimai, before this criticism also when Mahaprabhu was
doing sankirtan in the house of Srivas Thakur everyday and one day while
Mahaprabhu was in kirtan Srivasa's son died. Then when Srivasa saw all the
ladies crying, Srivasa became very worried, "If you all cry like this, this
will hamper the kirtan of Mahaprabhu and this will be the obstacle in
Mahaprabhu's enjoyment of kirtan. Please stop crying." But the ladies could
not stop crying since the eldest son just died. Then Srivas said, "You like
to cry? Okay I will die so that you can cry for me and my son also."
So all the ladies stopped crying. Srivas said, "If you want to cry at all
you wait until Mahaprabhu stops chanting and dancing then you cry all day. I
will have no problem. You are crying that your son died in such a nice
brahmanda Isvara chanting and dancing in my house. I pray to die a thousand
times like this. And you are crying for this." His mood is different. So he
stopped. Meantime word has spread and all the devotees were talking,
"Srivasa's eldest son died." But no one was trying to stop Mahaprabhu's
kirtan. So after two or three hours Mahaprabhu realized that something was
wrong, that some calamity has happened. Then devotees said, "Yes Mahaprabhu
Srivasa's eldest son has died." "Oh really when did he die?" "Two or three
hours before." "Then why nobody told Me that he died?" " We wanted to tell
You but Srivasa Thakura did not want it to be an obstacle to Your enjoyment
in chanting the Hare Krishna maha mantra."
Then Mahaprabhu said, "Okay. Bring the boy here." And they brought Srivasa's
eldest dead son. Mahaprabhu said, "Get up, getup!" The dead son became alive
and sat up. Mahaprabhu asked, "Where have you gone. Your father and mother
are crying. Why you have left untimely like this?" The boy asked, "Father
and mother? Which father and mother are they?" They said, "We are your
father and mother."
Then he gave a philosophical explanation how by desire he had come and by
desire he was leaving. After this Mahaprabhu was discussing with the
devotees how Srivas did not realize his eldest son died. He did not want to
interrupt Mahaprabhu's pleasure. In that way Mahaprabhu told softly, not
loudly - these words came out from His mouth. "Alas! How can I leave such
dear people? They are so dear, they don't realize the pain and suffering of
their son dieing. They are so dear to Me. How can I leave them?"
All the devotees could hear that Mahaprabhu was saying, "How can I leave
them?" From there they could imagine that Nimai is going to take sannyasa.
They started to cry, "Why Nimai is talking like this that, 'How can I
leave?'" So there were different indications that how Mahaprabhu was
planning in different ways that He will take sannyasa. Mahaprabhu was
telling different people that when He told Mother Saci. Mother Saci said,
"No. No Nimai. Why will You leave home/ You stay here. Advaita Acarya is
there. Gadadhara is there. You can do chanting and dancing with them. Your
brother Nitai is also here."
Just like when we leave our house, our parents say, "No. No don't join
Iskcon. I will build a nice temple here. You can chant and dance here.
Whatever you like you can do here." Similarly Mother Saci tried to pacify
Nimai, "No don't go. Stay in my house." The same mood also she showed
motherly affection.
One day Mahaprabhu revealed to Mother Saci, "You don't worry My dear mother.
How can I leave you? You are not My mother only in this life but life after
life you are My mother." Then He gave the whole explanation how she was
Aditi when Lord appeared as Vamanadev, Prsni, Devaki then He appeared as
Krishna. "Then I appeared from you again also. Two more times I appear from
You." In Bengal all these false gods they quote Mahaprabhu that, "See
Mahaprabhu has told His mother that again twice He will come. So therefore I
am one of them." [Laughter.] Sometimes I think in Bengal there are dozens of
Bhagavans. They all claim out of those two they are one of them. I don't
know who is that one!
After that Mahaprabhu said - this verse in Caitanya-bhagavat explains that
Mahaprabhu said, "I will appear in two other forms, that is arca-vigraha and
holy names. And you will be My mother in the form of tongue. I will appear
from the tongue of everybody - you as mother and I will appear as the holy
name. And I will appear as arca-vigrah from the earth. You will appear like
earth and I will appear from you as arca-vigraha." But these stupid fellows
they cheat people. They just quote one line that Mahaprabhu said that, "I
will appear again in two different forms." That much they say and, "Out of
those two I am one." These truths they don't tell to the people that
Mahaprabhu said He would appear as holy name and arca-vigrah. And the whole
f Bengal is cheated like this. Whole India is cheated like this. Then
Mahaprabhu pacified Mother Saci.
Then Mahaprabhu left to Katva and there He met Kesava Bharati, Mayavadi
sannyasi. That is why many people interpret that Nimai also was a Mayavadi
sannyasi because He took sannyasa from Kesava Bharati. Actually it was not
Mayavadi sannyasi. Mayavadi people take sannyasa from i Their sannyasa
mantra is tatvam asi. This is Mayavadi mantra - tatvam asi, so aham - that
means their goal of life is to become one with god, to merge with god and
become one with god. Their philosophy is that we are all god and because of
maya we have become this. When we are free from maya we become god. So then
they follow this aham brahmasmi and tatvam asi.
So that mantra was given to Madhavendra Puri, Isvara Puri but when a
Vaisnava takes sannyasa they don't accept that meaning tat means that
Supreme Being, tvam means You, asi means You are. Tattvam asi means - You
are the Supreme Being. That is not the way they chant. Tattvam asi. Tattvam
asi. By chanting like that they come to the platform of being one with God.
Nobody can become one or equal with God but to some extent they elevate
themselves to that level.
Our Vaisnavas taking of this mantra tattvam asi is different. Tattvam asi is
not that you are god tasya tvam asi - you are His. Mayavadi says tatvam asi
means you are He but Vaisnava acaryas say, you are His. So in this way
Vaisnava sannyasis take the meaning of Vedas.
On the first night that Mahaprabhu went to Katva, in the morning He went
whole night He was spending in Krishna katha. So He mentioned to Kesava
Bharati, "I will take sannyasa from you." Kesava Bharati was very happy. "I
am so happy I will get You as my disciple." Usually disciples feel very
happy, very careful to get a good spiritual master but here Kesava Bharati
is feeling grateful to get a disciple. Usually Guru delivers the disciples.
Sometimes the disciple delivers the Guru. So Mahaprabhu and Kesava Bharati's
relationship is like that.
"Okay tomorrow morning I will give You sannyasa initiation. No problem."
Mahaprabhu told Candrasekhara to make all the arrangements. So Candrasekhara
acarya was there. Huge arrangements lot of ingredients was brought. Big
ceremony, thousands of people came. Tomorrow Nimai will take sannyasa.
People were crying. "We will miss that beautiful form of Nimai with long
hair." When I was reading this book wherever He would go to Nityananda
Prabhu, then He went to Mukunda, to Gadadhara everybody said the same thing,
"Nimai when You take sannyasa we can see Your beautiful face but we will
miss Your long hair." Everybody was worried about their hair - how will I
look like, how will I tolerate shaving it off. So all the Navadvipbasis were
all thinking that all this beautiful hair would be cut.
Then the barber came. Mahaprabhu said, "Okay cut My hair." He said, "How can
I cut this hair? In my whole life I have not seen hair like this." He was
feeling very reluctant to move his razor. Mahaprabhu saw he was delaying and
on top of that Mahaprabhu met Kesava Bharati, so much ecstasy. He said,
"Mukunda you chant." Mukunda was chanting and Mahaprabhu was dancing. Then
he stopped and said, "Okay hair will be shaved." Mahaprabhu sat down. When
the barber moved his razor once, Mahaprabhu got up then again he chant and
dance. Then He sat down, again one move of the razor and again He chant and
dance. The whole day this happened. Chanting and dancing and Mukunda and
everybody were wondering what is going on here. The finally Mahaprabhu took
bath and came back.
Now was time for initiation. Who will give initiation to whom? Kesava
Bharati was to give initiation to Gauranga Mahaprabhu or was Gauranga
Mahaprabhu to give initiation to Kesava Bharati? He is jagad-guru.
Mahaprabhu said, "Oh Gurudev last night I had a dream. In this dream one
maha-purusa came to Me and told Me a mantra. I will tell you that mantra. Is
it correct mantra?" So Mahaprabhu told that mantra to His Guru.
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