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Cult of Lord r Caitanya

[This has been proofread against the original handwritten manuscript. and
spelling changes have been made for the VedaBase.Ed.]
Cult of Lord Sri Caitanya
rdhyo bhagavn vrajea tanayas tad dhma r vrdvanam
ramy kcid upsan vrajavadh vargea v kalpit
rmad-bhgavatam amala pura
r-caitanya mahprabhor matam ida tatrdar na para
The Personality of Godhead r Krishna, Who is known as the son of the
King of Vrajadhma i.e. r Nanda Mahraj, is the ultimate worshipful
Lord of all Lords. Similarly His residential abode namely the holy place of
Vndvana is as much worshipful as the Lord is Himself. The ways of His
worship maybe various but the one which was conceived by the circle of the
damsels of Vrajadhma is unsurpassable by any other devotee.
rmad-Bhgavatam Puram is the unalloyed guidance for this purpose of
approaching the worshipful Lord and that is the sum total opinion or
cultural philosophy of Lord r Caitanya Mahprabhu. We shall therefore
as duty-bound must bow down our heads before the cult and shall not
accept any other cultural movement whatsoever.
r Caitanya Mahprabhu's cult of philosophy is therefore known as
bhgavata-dharma or the religion which renovates the lost relation of the
living being with the Supreme Lord. All the living beings never mind who
and what they are, all of them are different parts and parcels of the
Surpeme Lord and this fact is clearly mentioned in the Bhagavad-gt by
the Lord Himself as follows:
mama yonir mahad brahma
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tasmin garbha dadhmy aham
sambhava sarva bhtn
tato bhavati bhrata
sarva-yoniu kaunteya
mrtaya sambhavanti y
ts brahma mahad yonir
aha bja-prada pit
(Bg. 14.3-4)
The whole animated world is a creation of a combination of matter and the
living force called by the name spirit. These spiritual sparks are so many
fragments of the original Whole spirit without which it is impossible to
bring in animation in the matter. The complete material resource which is
called mahat-tattva or the material energy is also called Brahman or the
Absolute on account of its being the energy of the Absolute. Anything that
emanates from the Absolute is also Absolute is the version of the Vedas.
Both the energies namely the matter as well as the living force both of them
are different energies of the Lord. But in the action of creating the material
world the matter is energised as the body of the the spirit living being. The
material energy is therefore presented as the mother of the living being
because she is impregnated by the Lord with the seeds of spiritual sparks
namely the living forces. It is just like the mother conceives in her womb
the seed received from the father and thus there are children born. In other
words the material world being the field of activities of the imitation
Lordsthey are sent here by the Supreme Lord to play their parts as they
desired. That is the original cause of contact of the living being with the
material existence.
Therefore all living entities beginning from r Brahma the fore-father
of the gods in the heaven as well as the men on the earth down to the
lowest of the living being namely the microscopic germs all of them can
claim the material energy as their nursing mother and the Supreme Lord
Personality of Godhead as the original father. The living entities in their 84
lakhs of different species of life are undergoing the terms of field activities
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according to the law of karma or the law of desire and actions.
The above fact is reconfirmed in the Bhagavad-gt as follows:
mamaivo jva-loke
jva-bhta santana
Mana ahnndriyi
prakti-sthni karati
(Bg. 15.7)
The living entities are separated parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord who
originally wanted to become many. These living entities are however
different from His (the Lord's) plenary parts and parcels who are called
viu-koi. The viu-kois are distinct from jva-kois. But after all the
jvas are directly connected with the Lord as His parts and parcels and
definitely they are not the parts and parcels either of iva or Brahm. Such
jva-kois are eternal by nature and they are not to be supposed as
temporary manifestations like the pots or sky. Such living entities have
been entangled in the material energy and therefore they are dragging a
hard struggle for existence in the matter as much as a man who is put into
the water of the sea, struggles very hard for existence of life. Such
circumstantial existence is not only troublesome but also unnatural to the
living being. The material senses namely the eyes, the ear, the nose, the
tongue and the skin all combined are just like the iron chain of the living
being and the perpetual struggle for existence is an endeavor to get out of
these chained up situation. These chains have developed by his (the living
being's ) contact with matter by the false ego of identifying one self with the
matter without knowing or forgetting his pure spiritual existence. The mind
is a product of such false ego in the mode of goodness while the other
working senses are the product of such false ego in the mode of passion. As
such liberation of the living being means to cut off these fetters of material
senses and revive the pure spiritual senses consciousness called by the name
hka. The hkas or the purified senses, freed from all sorts of material
designation, can be engaged in the service of the Hkea in such liberated
stage only and that is the definition of devotional activities. With such pure
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senses only one is admitted in the Kingdom of God for a life of eternal
existence, permanent bliss and complete knowledge which are all impossible
facts in the conditioned existence of material senses. The material senses
cannot enjoy permanent bliss neither do they exist for eternity. As such
they are also imperfect to gather knowledge of the transcendance. The
purified hkas are however just the opposite numbers of the material
senses and with such senses only one can enjoy the association of the Lord
Who is all spirit substance. Exchange of spiritual reciprocity with the Lord
by the liberated soul is called rasall or the display of spirit (indistinct).
Each and every individual living has separate identity and therefore their
amalgamation with the whole is an imagination only unless there is the act
of spiritual suicide by the individual. Such living entities are described in
the Bhagavad-gt as the superior energy of the Lord and as such they are
different from the Lord as much as heat is different from the fire.
The cult of r Caitanya Mahprabhu is a pure spiritual movement for
awakening the dormant spiritual consciousness by purified senses of the
living being. His relation with the Lord being eternally complete, the living
being may forget it by his foreign association in the matter but the
consciousness is subject to be revived by the transcendental method of
hearing in a submissive mood. The materialistic living being has nothing to
do extraordinary but if he at all has any spiritual interest, which is also
influenced by good association of realised souls, he may be given the chance
of hearing very patiently from the realised souls [REST MISSING].