yan nāptaṁ karma-niṣṭhair na ca samadhigataṁ yat tapo-dhyāna-yogair
vairāgyais tyāga-tattva-stutibhir api na yat tarkitaṁ cāpi kaiścit |
govinda-prema-bhājām api na ca kalitaṁ yadrahasyaṁ svayaṁ tan
nāmnaiva prādurāsīd avatarati pare yatra taṁ naumi gauram
Śrī Caitanya-candrāya namo namaste
Caitanya-caritāmṛta ādi-līlā
Chapter 13 verses 2-6
jaya jaya śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya gauracandra
jayādvaitacandra jaya jaya nityānanda
jaya jaya gadādhara jaya śrīnivāsa
jaya mukunda vāsudeva jaya haridāsa
jaya dāmodara-svarūpa jaya murāri gupta
ei saba candrodaye tamaḥ kaila lupta
jaya śrī-caitanyacandrera bhakta candra-gaṇa
sabāra prema jyotsnāya ujjvala tri-bhuvana
CC Ādi 13.2-5
jaya jaya śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya gauracandra
jayādvaitacandra jaya jaya nityānanda
CC Ādi 13.2
All glories to Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu! All glories to Advaitacandra! All glories to Lord Nityānanda Prabhu!
jaya jaya gadādhara jaya śrīnivāsa
jaya mukunda vāsudeva jaya haridāsa
CC Ādi 13.3
All glories to Gadādhara Prabhu! All glories to Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura! All glories to Mukunda Prabhu and Vāsudeva Prabhu! All glories to Haridāsa Ṭhākura!
jaya dāmodara-svarūpa jaya murāri gupta
ei saba candrodaye tamaḥ kaila lupta
CC Ādi 13.4
All glories to Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara and Murāri Gupta! All these brilliant moons have together dissipated the darkness of this material world.
jaya śrī-caitanyacandrera bhakta candra-gaṇa
sabāra prema jyotsnāya ujjvala tri-bhuvana
CC Ādi 13.5
All glories to the moons who are devotees of the principal moon, Lord Caitanyacandra! Their bright moonshine illuminates the entire universe.
Purport by Śrīla Prabhupāda:
In this verse we find the moon described as candra-gaṇa, which is plural in number. This indicates that there are many moons. In the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says, nakṣatrāṇām ahaṁ śaśī:“Among the stars, I am the moon.” Bhagavad-gītā (10.21) All the stars are like the moon. Western astronomers consider the stars to be suns, but Vedic astronomers, following the Vedic scriptures, consider them moons. The sun has the ability to shine powerfully, and the moons reflect the sunshine and therefore look brilliant. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta Kṛṣṇa is described to be like the sun. The supreme powerful is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, or Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and His devotees are also bright and illuminating because they reflect the supreme sun. The Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.31) states:
kṛṣṇa — sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra
yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa, tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra
“Kṛṣṇa is bright like the sun. As soon as the sun appears, there is no question of darkness or nescience.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta madhya līla) Similarly, the present verse also describes that by the illumination of all the moons, brightened by the reflection of the Kṛṣṇa sun, or by the grace of all the devotees of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the entire world will be illuminated, despite the darkness of Kali-yuga. Only the devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu can dissipate the darkness of Kali-yuga, the ignorance of the population of this age. No one else can do so. We therefore wish that all the devotees of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement may reflect the supreme sun and thus dissipate the darkness of the entire world. (End of purport)
You should be worthy to reflect this supreme sun. If you are not worthy, how can you reflect? How can you reflect? You cannot reflect. Isn't it? Rahu-graha is there, it doesn't reflect; Ketu-graha is there, it doesn't reflect, it's black. So unless you become worthy how can you reflect this supreme sun, that Kṛṣṇa or Chaitanya Candra? This is most important thing. Therefore we should beg mercy. We should beg mercy of Chaitanya Candra, also the mercy of all moons, those who are dear devotees of Chaitanya Candra. Without their mercy, how can we develop that quality that we will be worthy to reflect the sun, supreme sun? So Kaviraj Gosvāmī in the beginning now is glorifying these dear devotees of Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, begging their mercy. Without the mercy of such moons, dear devotees of Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, the darkness cannot be dissipated. Ignorance is darkness, nescience is darkness, isn't it? Godhead is light. Godhead is light. That is quoted,
kṛṣṇa — sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra
yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa, tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra
CC madhya 22.31
Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead, there is no nescience. So you must be worthy. Your heart should be cleansed of all material contamination; your heart should be cleansed of all nescience, should be purified. Then you will reflect, then you will carry Lord Kṛṣṇa, develop kṛṣṇa-prema then you will be able to bind Kṛṣṇa, the supreme sun. Then you, moon, can be reflected. Otherwise how can you reflect? This sentence is most important in Prabhupada's purport. Here Prabhupada says: “Similarly, the present verse also describes that by the illumination of all the moons, brightened by the reflection of the Kṛṣṇa sun, or by the grace of all the devotees of Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, the entire world will be illuminated, despite the darkness of Kali-yuga. Only the devotees of Lord Chaitanya Mahāprabhu can dissipate the darkness of Kali-yuga, the ignorance of the population of this age. No one else can do so. We therefore wish that all the devotees of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement may reflect the supreme sun and thus dissipate the darkness of the entire world.”
So this is your duty. This is the responsibility entrusted on you, devotees of the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement. The Founder Acharya entrusts this responsibility on you. Understand the gravity of the statement that Prabhupada has said. Understand it. Realize it. Yes. Make yourself worthy and fit now! You should understand it. Without the mercy of such moons, such dear devotees of Chaitanya Candra, the supreme Sun, how can we be worthy? How can we reflect? Therefore we should glorify.
jaya jaya śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya jaya nityānanda
jayādvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vṛnda
jaya jaya śacī-suta gaurāṅga-sundara
jaya nityānanda padmāvatīra koṅara
jaya jaya sītā-nātha advaita gosāi
yāhāra kṛpāte pāya caitanya-nitāi
jaya jaya gadādhara premera sāgara
gaurāngera priyottama paṇḍita pravara
śrī-vaṁśī vadana jaya gaura priyottama
śrīvāsa paṇḍita jaya jaya bhakta gaṇa
jaya śrī paṇḍita gadādhara prema maya
jaya śrī advaita deva unira āloya
jaya prema-bhakti dātā paṇḍita śrīvāsa
jaya vakreśvara sidhu rāya haridāsa
jaya sarvabhauma kāśī miśra rāmānanda
jaya vāsudeva ghoṣa mādhava mukunda
jaya dhanañjaya śrī svarūpa dāmodara
jaya narahari gauri dāsa kāśīśvara
jaya dāsa gadādhara śrī-dharaṇī jaya jaya
śuklāmbara brahmacārī jaya śrī sañjaya
jaya bhakta gopāla śrī rūpa-sanātana
jaya raghunātha dāsa duḥkhīra jīvana
jaya śrī bhūgarva lokamātā śrī jāhnava
jaya raghunātha bhaṭṭa ācārya yadhava
jaya jaya śrī nīkate bhūmira nidhāna
jaya kavirāja kṛṣṇa dāsa gāya mana
jaya jaya śrīnivāsa ācārya ṭhākura
jaya narottama jaya mahimā pracura
jaya jaya śyāmānanda daridra apāra
śrī duḥkhīni kṛṣṇa dāsa nāma purve jāra
jaya jaya śrī vaiṣṇava gaṇa dayāra avadhī
jasa bara anugrahe haya karya siddhi
kṛpā kori sabe mili karaha kāruṇa
eha dhana patita jane na kori kāruṇa
e tina saṁsāra madhye tuwa pada sāra
madiya dekhilu mane gati nāhi āra
se pada pāvāra āse cheda uṭhe mane
vyākula hṛdaye sadā karaye krandane
sabā kara caraṇa reṇu śire rahu mora
yanhāra prabhāve nāce kali mahā ghora
jaya jaya śrī-gosāi śarana tomāra
yaṅhara kṛpate kari e bhava saṁsāra
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
These are so many, innumerable moons, innumerable moons, dear devotees of Chaitanya Mahāprabhu.
vṛndāvana-vāsī jata vaiṣṇavera gaṇa
prathame vandanā kari sabāra caraṇa
nīlācala-vāsī jata mahāprabhura gaṇa
bhūmite poḍiyā vandoń sabāra caraṇa
navadvīpa-vāsī jata mahāprabhura bhakta
sabāra caraṇa vandoń haiyā anurakta
mahāprabhura bhakta jata gauḍa-deśe sthiti
sabāra caraṇa vandoń kariyā praṇati
je-deśe je-deśe baise gaurāńgera gaṇa
ūrdhva-bāhu kari vandoń sabāra caraṇa
haiyāchena haibena prabhura jata dāsa
sabāra caraṇa vandoń dante kari’ ghāsa
brahmāṇḍa tārite śakti dhare jane jane
e veda purāṇe guṇa gāya jevā śune
mahāprabhura gaṇa saba patita-pāvana
tāi lobhe mui pāpī lainu śaraṇa
vandanā karite mui kata śakti dhari
tamo-buddhi-doṣe mui dambha mātra kari
tathāpi mūkera bhāgya manera ullāsa
doṣa kṣami’ mo-adhame kara nija-dāsa
sarva-vāñchā siddhi haya yama-bandha chuṭe
jagate durlabha haiyā prema-dhana luṭe
manera vāsanā pūrṇa acirāte haya
devakīnandana dāsa ei lobhe kaya
(Vṛndāvana-vāsī jata, Devakīnandana Dāsa Ṭhākura)
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
This is significant here. Then how can you become moon of Chaitanya Chandra, the chief moon, or chief sun? Understand my language? Mahāprabhu gives prema, prema-puruṣottama.
namo mahā-vadānyāya
kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te
kṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya-
nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ
CC madhya 19.53
paraṁ vijayate sri-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam
“This sri-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam invites, as a future church of the world.” Yes, these are the words of Śacīdānanda Bhaktivinod Ṭhākura. “All classes of men, without distinction of caste, creed or clan, to the highest cultivation of the spirit, should come and join here.” Mahājana vāṇī. “This church, it appears, will extend all over the world and take the place of all sectarian churches, and exclude outsiders from the precincts of the mosque, church, or temple.” You should understand what he has said. This is Mahāprabhu’s prema-dharma.
paraṁ vijayate sri-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam
The gross materialists, westerners, who are running after this material enjoyment, and they went up to the peak, couldn't get peace. So? Now they are attracted to Mahāprabhu’s kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana - paraṁ vijayate sri-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam - Yes. And they have given up all their material enjoyment, sense gratification where there is no happiness at all, no peace at all. They realized so they came, joined.
pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma
sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma
Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya 4.126
“My name will be chanted throughout the world, in all corners, all villages, all towns, all cities, all corners of the world.” Yes, that has come true now. ... and see the temple of Chaitanya Mahāprabhu now. He has established “Jaya Śacīnandana!” they are uttering. How it is? In so many places the worship of Lord Jagannāth, Ratha Yātrā, “Jaya Śacīnandana!” Therefore here it is said, Prabhupada said, “Only the devotees of Lord Chaitanya Mahāprabhu can dissipate the darkness of Kali-yuga, the ignorance of the population of this age.” Make Kṛṣṇa appear! Then dissipate the darkness! Nescience is darkness. Kali-yuga is dark age, covered up with nescience, yes - quarrelling, hypocrisy, cheating - all these things. It is out of nescience only this darkness. So? So make Kṛṣṇa appear then you, gaura-bhaktas, devotees and followers of Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu, this is your duty - Make Kṛṣṇa appear! Then all darkness, the nescience, will be completely dissipated. Therefore, this is the purport here. What is this that the Founder Acharya says? You have to understand it. “Therefore we hope, we wish that all the devotees of the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement may reflect the supreme sun and thus dissipate the darkness of the entire world.” How? How will it be possible unless you make Kṛṣṇa appear in your heart, make your heart purified? Convert your heart into Vrindavan! Yes! Convert your heart into Vrindavan! If your heart will be completely purified of all material contaminations, no filth will be there through chanting, ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam, through chanting,
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
then your heart will be cleansed of all material dirt. If your chanting is pure, offenseless, then your heart will be purified - more pure, most pure, most purified. Then kṛṣṇa-surya, the supreme sun Kṛṣṇa will appear brilliant, more brilliant, most brilliant. Then you, gaura-bhaktas, the devotees of Gaurāṅga, will be able to dissipate the darkness prevailing over the entire world, this darkness of Kali-yuga. Only Gaura bhaktas can do it. And Prabhupad, the founder Acharya of ISKCON, cherishes this hope. “We hope, I wish that all the devotees of the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement may reflect the supreme sun and thus dissipate the darkness of the entire world.” You follow? That means, how can you unless you develop kṛṣṇa-prema? Mahāprabhu gives that kṛṣṇa-prema through chanting:
mukhya pate jīva paya kṛṣṇa-prema dhana
niraparādhe nāma laile pāya prema-dhana
CC Antya 4.71
If your chanting is offenseless, if your chanting is pure then you will get kṛṣṇa-prema. And Kṛṣṇa becomes bound up with that prema, that love. And Mahāprabhu gives that love through chanting. So you, gaura-bhaktas, followers of Mahāprabhu, should qualify yourselves. Develop, get that prema by the mercy of all these dear devotees of Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu, unlimited moons, unlimited moons. Therefore we are glorifying them, we are begging mercy. Without their mercy how can we develop it? How can we get it? So how can we qualify ourselves to carry Kṛṣṇa or to binding Kṛṣṇa in our heart with the rope of love? Then you will be able to inculcate Then how can you be able to dissipate the darkness of the world? Understand my language? That is what Prabhupad wants. Yes. All should, all the members of Iskcon, the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement should qualify to reflect the supreme sun and thus dissipate the darkness of the entire world. First you become completely Kṛṣṇa conscious, develop complete Krishna consciousness. Carry Kṛṣṇa in your heart first. Let your heart be illuminated with the bright sunshine, the supreme sun Kṛṣṇa. Then you will reflect it. You will become a moon and reflect it. Then you will be able to inculcate Kṛṣṇa Consciousness into each one of the world. Then this will be the result: “The entire world will be illuminated despite the darkness of Kali-yuga. Only the devotees of Lord Chaitanya Mahāprabhu can dissipate the darkness. Nobody else can. Nobody gives kṛṣṇa-prema; nobody gives Kṛṣṇa. Mahāprabhu gives Kṛṣṇa. Yes, so gaura-bhaktas, dear devotees of Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu, should do it, can do it. Others cannot. Do you follow? In this Kali-yuga, the name, holy name will give everything. The name is everything. Name is everything. Understand my language? Yes. Pure name is Kṛṣṇa. If you can chant pure name then you get Kṛṣṇa then that is everything.
na nāma-sadṛśaṁ jñānaṁ
na nāma-sadṛśaṁ vratam
na nāma-sadṛśaṁ dhyānaṁ
na nāma-sadṛśaṁ phalam
na nāma-sadṛśas tyāgo
na nāma-sadṛśaṁ samah
na nāma-sadṛśaṁ punyaṁ
na nāma-sadṛśi gatiḥ
nāmaiva paramā muktir
namaiva paramā gatiḥ
namaiva paramā sāntir
namaiva paramā sthitiḥ
nāmaiva paramā bhaktir
nāmaiva paramā matiḥ
nāmaiva paramā pritir
nāmaiva paramā smṛtiḥ
nāmaiva kāranaṁ jantor
nāmaiva prabhur eva ca
nāmaiva paramā rādhyo
nāmaiva paramo guruḥ
Name is everything - Ādi Purāṇa. “There is no knowledge, religious vow, meditation, or any other attainment that is equal or superior to the holy name. Neither renunciation, control of the mind, any meritorious deed nor the highest aspiration is equal to or higher than the holy name.” It is the name alone that is the highest form of mukti. The holy name alone is the ultimate end in life. That is Kṛṣṇa. Resort to the holy name alone is the highest kind of peace. “Where is peace? Where is peace?” Here is peace. Yes. Resort to the holy name alone is the abiding welfare. Resort to the holy name is the highest devotion. Recourse to the holy name alone is the ultimate end of knowledge. Yes, brahmānūcur, Kapiladev samvada. One who is chanting, whose tongue utters the holy name ‘Hare Kṛṣṇa’ pure, he has acquired all Vedic knowledge. Yes, automatically. The holy name is knowledge, Kṛṣṇa is knowledge. That is what it says. The holy name alone is the ultimate end of knowledge. Attachment to the holy name alone is the highest love. Recollection of the holy name alone is the true remembrance. The holy name alone is the root cause of all beings and the holy name alone is their sole master. The holy name alone is the highest object of worship and the holy name alone is the highest amongst all spiritual masters." So, the name is everything. And Mahāprabhu gives that name, holy name, kṛṣṇa-nāma that is everything. So get that Kṛṣṇa. Carry that Kṛṣṇa. Yes! Be a worthy recipient, worthy recipient! It is given to you, be a worthy recipient to receive it! Unless you are a worthy recipient it will be given, you cannot receive it. You are not worthy. You understand? Alright. You want Kṛṣṇa? Are you prepared to take?
kṛṣṇa se tomāra, kṛṣṇa dīte pāro,
tomāra śakati āche
āmi to' kāńgāla, 'kṛṣṇa' 'kṛṣṇa' boli',
dhāi tava pāche pāche
(Ohe Vaiṣṇava Ṭhākura, Bhaktivinod Ṭhākura)
Praying to Vaiṣṇava ṭhākura, “ O vaisnava thakura, Kṛṣṇa is yours.
tomāra hṛdaye sadā govinda-viśrāma
O Vaiṣṇava ṭhākura, Kṛṣṇa has taken rest in your heart because your heart is Vrindavan. You have bound up Kṛṣṇa there in your heart with the rope of love. Only you can give me Kṛṣṇa. I am kāṅgāla, I am materially poverish, zero, nothing, I have nothing. There is nothing here in this material world. I want only Kṛṣṇa." Running behind the Vaiṣṇava, “Give me Kṛṣṇa! Give me Kṛṣṇa!” “Alright. You want Kṛṣṇa? Can you take? I will give you. Can you take? Can you receive it? Are you a worthy recipient? If you are a worthy recipient then you can receive. If you are not a worthy recipient, if it is given, you can't receive it. Then? What will happen? Do you follow?
One story is there. One crow was there, he saw a bright korella [bitter melon]. You understand korella? It's bright, looks yellow and seeds are red. The crow developed greed, “I should eat it.” The tree said, “Hey you, you have no right. I am master.” That is his right. How can you take it?
“Who is your master?”
“The owner who has sown me. Go to him, ask him.”
He went to the master. “In your
garden ripe korella is there, I want to eat it.”
“How can you take it! You grow it. I grew it. I sowed the seed then it fructified, it grew, flowers came, then fruit came. Now the ripened fruit is mine. You grow it.”
“How can I grow it?”
“Cultivate the land first. Land should be cultivated properly then seed should be sown.”
“What is needed for cultivation?”
“Plough is needed. Get a plough first then bullocks, then cultivate properly, sow the seed. It will grow, at last it will bear fruit, the fruit will ripe.”
“Where from can I get the plough?”
“Go to the blacksmith. He has iron things, plow, he manufactures there. He will give.”
So he went to the blacksmith. “Oh blacksmith, I have developed greed for that ripened korella, yellow looking and seeds are red. So, I have to cultivate the land. Give me a plough to cultivate.”
“Oh, you need? Do you need that iron? Can you take it? I will give you. Can you take it? Are you prepared? Are you a worthy recipient? I will give you, can you take it?”
The blacksmith is putting iron in the fire, bellow, red-hot. Now it is red-hot, hammering, hammering, making shape. Now it is red-hot. “Now, are you prepared to take it? Can you take? It is red hot, bābā, red-hot. It will burn you. Are you a worthy recipient? Can you take it?”
“Oh yes!” He has greed, he has developed greed. “I must.”
“How can you take it? Where?”
“Aaaahhh, put it in my beak.” Then he put the red-hot ploughshare in his beak. The crow burned to ashes. Finished.
If you are not a worthy recipient, how can you receive it? Understand my language? Understand? Yes, you want Kṛṣṇa, running behind, “O Vaiṣṇava ṭhākura, give me Kṛṣṇa! Give me Kṛṣṇa!” “Are you worthy? Are you prepared? I will give you. Can you receive?” First, first make yourself a worthy recipient to receive Kṛṣṇa. It is not an easy thing to receive Kṛṣṇa, bābā. Yes, this is the condition of the crow, crow's condition. That story is there. But Mahāprabhu is very, very merciful. Really we have no qualification at all. We are not worthy recipients at all. We are very, very fallen, such degraded, low, lowest of the low, yes, adhama patit. But Mahāprabhu is so wonderfully merciful. He showers His mercy. He is patita-pāvana. He is the deliverer of the patitas. Without discrimination, indiscriminately He distributes kṛṣṇa-prema means He gives Kṛṣṇa. Yes. kṛṣṇa-prema because Kṛṣṇa becomes bound up with the prema, the rope of love. And Mahāprabhu gives that. He gives. In other words, He gives Kṛṣṇa. Gaura-bhaktas, those who are dear gaura-bhaktas, they are giving Kṛṣṇa. They have gotten Kṛṣṇa, they have bound up Kṛṣṇa in their heart. They have developed kṛṣṇa-prema by chanting pure name. By the mercy of Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu, Nityānanda Prabhu, and Their dear devotees so many moons, they are distributing. But you should first make yourself worthy becoming a proper recipient to receive that first. Otherwise you will lose it. You will lose it. What is the condition? What is the principle?
tṛṇād api sunīcena
taror iva sahiṣṇunā
amāninā mānadena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ
Śikṣāṣṭakam (3)
This is Mahāprabhu’s teaching. Follow this. Adopt this formula. Follow this. Cultivate this. Yes. Kaviraj Gosvāmī says, “Make a garland of this verse, put it around your neck and chant.”
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
thinking oneself much humbler than a blade of grass in the laying in the street. Be as tolerant as a tree. Yes. Don't demand respect, pay respect to one and all, ‘I am lowest of the low.’ Yesterday we were discussing how Kaviraj Gosvāmī says that he is most fallen. Yes! The compiler of Caitanya-caritāmṛta, he says, “I am the most fallen.” He thinks himself as the most fallen. Yes. The compiler of Caitanya-caritāmṛta he says, "I am the most fallen." He thinks himself as the most fallen. Yes. Yes.
purīṣera kīṭa haite muñi se laghiṣṭha
jagāi mādhāi haite muñi se pāpiṣṭha
mora nāma yei laya tāra puṇya kṣaya
CC Ādi 5.205-206
Kaviraj Gosvāmī says, who is the crest-jewel of paramahaṁsas. “I am worse than a worm in the stool. I am more sinful than Jagai and Madhai. Don't utter my name or you will lose all your auspiciousness, all your auspiciousness.” So? This is the mood. This is the mood that should be developed. Then you will be a worthy recipient. Otherwise you cannot be a worthy recipient. Yes. Vaiṣṇava ṭhākura, dear devotees of Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu are giving you Kṛṣṇa. “All right, take Kṛṣṇa, take Kṛṣṇa.” But if you are not a worthy recipient, how can you take it? How can you have it? This is the first thing needed.
ei-rūpa hañā yei kṛṣṇa-nāma laya
śrī-kṛṣṇa-pade prema upajaya
CC Antya 20.26
Developing this mood, one who chants
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
This is is prema-nāma-saṅkīrtana. This is prema-nāma, the name gives love, means prema-nāma-saṅkīrtana. It is not ordinary nāma-saṅkīrtana. Understand my language? This is not ordinary nāma-saṅkīrtana, this is prema-nāma-saṅkīrtana because it is potent with prema, potent. You understand? It gives that prema that comes out from the mouth of Gaura,
gaurāṅga udgirṇa nāma
The name, holy name, name of Kṛṣṇa coming out, vomited by Gaura, it is vomiting, like vomiting, like a volcanic eruption. What is inside, that is coming out. Inside is prema so it is coming out. Understand my language? That is name. Otherwise, what is name? Letters only coming out, yes, only letters
nāma aksāra bahira haya nāma nāhi haya
Only letters are coming out - 'ha-re', 'kṛṣ-ṇa-' 'rā-ma' - only letters but no name. So how will you be a recipient? How will you be a recipient? Yes, you should understand. This Kali-yuga is special Kali-yuga because
kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet
ŚB 12.3.51
In Kali-yuga, there are ills, nasty things, so many ills, like an ocean, ocean-like. - kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya - kṛṣṇa-kīrtana. That one good quality is there. If there will be kṛṣṇa-kīrtana then all the ills, all sinful reactions of Kali-yuga will be destroyed, will be destroyed. That is the result of hari-saṅkīrtana, kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana.
paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam
sarvātma-snapanaṁ
ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ
śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam
ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ prati-padaṁ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaṁ
sarvātma-snapanaṁ paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam
Śikṣāṣṭakam
Seven results are there. What is that? This saṅkīrtana-yajña, the fire of this saṅkīrtana-yajña, has seven flames, seven flames - sapta jihva. Understand? You understand my language? This saṅkīrtana-yajña, the fire sacrifice, fire coming out, it has seven flames, seven flames that will burn to ashes all ills, all ills of Kali-yuga. First is ceto-darpaṇa. First flame is ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ. It will cleanse your dirty heart, the dirt accumulated in the heart from time immemorial, from lakhs of lives - nasty things, so many anarthas! So many anarthas are there like a Himalayan mountain.
It will burn to ashes, finish. First flame - ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ
bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ
then it will extinguish this forest fire - three tāpas: adhyātmika, adhidaivika, adhibhautika - three types of material afflictions. It will extinguish. All are in the frying pan, isn't it? Being fried, fried, fried. Yes, burning, burning, burning, burning. So, that fire will be extinguished if you do kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana. Second flame: - bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ - Then third flame: śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ. The bright sunshine will be reflected in the moon, that is very cooling. Cooling moonshine will come from the rising full moon, very cooling after the scorching heat of the sun. Third flame.
bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ
śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam
this is the jīvan, this is the life of vidyā-vadhū. What is that?All knowledge. Vidya means knowledge, Vedic, spiritual knowledge, not material knowledge. That is vadhū, that is the life, bridegroom. Bridegroom, you understand? vadhu means bridegroom, bride, vadhū, bride, you understand? A newly wedded, newly wedded bride has come to the father-in-law's house. How is she? How is she? How she walks? How she moves? She is bent, veiled. Veil is there. This vadhū. This is vadhū, not half-naked. She's not half-naked - the whole body covered, veil is on the head, bent, so very silently moving. So, yes. She is shameful, she is not shameless. That is chaste lady, chaste bride. That is chastity, chastity. You understand? The vidyā-vadhū-jīvana, this śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, is the life of vidyā-vadhū, that is chaste education. Nowadays there is no chastity in education. The vidyā, material vidyā is unchaste, yes, unchaste. Where is chastity? Where is submissiveness? Where is humility? Pride, yes, pride - heads are erect, sleeveless, sleeveless, sleeveless garments, sleeveless garments, galloping like horse, mares, "tok-tok, tok-tok, tok-tok, tok-tok". Such education is there. No chastity in education because there is no kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, bābā! If you do kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana then chastity will come. vidyā dadāti vinayaṁ, the spiritual knowledge, pure knowledge gives you humility. Then you will become humble.
vidyā-vinaya-sampanne
brāhmaṇe gavi hastini
śuni caiva śva-pāke ca
paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ
Bg 5.18
That verse says vinaya. Vinaya means humility. There is no humility nowadays. Is there humility? No. "! ham baḍa he!" (I am great!)
Yes, then there is quarreling. 'ham baḍa!' 'ham baḍa!' That means quarrelling. Where is humility? You understand me? This is śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana. That is:
ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ
śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam
Fourth flame. This is the fourth flame.
vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam
ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ
Then comes ānanda, transcendental blissfulness. That ocean of blissfulness will increased, ocean-like transcendental blissfulness will be increased, vardhana, ever increasing, ever increasing. The fifth flame: ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ
prati-padaṁ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaṁ
At every step you will relish amṛta, nectar. Every step you will relish. Sixth flame.
sarvātma-snapanaṁ
Then all the jīvas, all the souls will be blissful, so peaceful. sarvātma, the seventh flame of śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana. Then the whole world will be so blissful, so peaceful. All souls, all jīvas, they will all reflect, all souls, jīvas, will reflect that effulgent sunshine emanating from the supreme sun Kṛṣṇa, and all will become moon now.
That is what the purport says: “Despite the darkness of Kali-yuga, all the devotees of Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, the entire world, will be, by the grace of Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, all the devotees of Caitanya Mahāprabhu can dissipate the darkness of Kali-yuga, the ignorance of the population of this age.” This is what. Understand me? This is what Prabhupada has said in one sentence. Can you explain that sentence? What is that? Caitanya-caritāmṛta mentions:
saṅkīrtana haite pāpa-saṁsāra-nāśana
citta-śuddhi, sarva-bhakti-sādhana-udgama
kṛṣṇa-premodgama, premāmṛta-āsvādana
kṛṣṇa-prāpti, sevāmṛta-samudre majjana
CC Antya 20.13-14
This is the result for the whole world. - saṅkīrtana haite pāpa-saṁsāra-nāśana - If you do kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, real saṅkīrtana, prema-nāma-saṅkīrtana, understand my language? It is not ordinary name - prema-nāma-saṅkīrtana then, all sinful reactions of Kali-yuga, Kali-affected people, will be completely destroyed. Understand me? Then citta-śuddhi, the heart will be purified.
sarva-bhakti-sādhana-udgama
then you will develop pure kṛṣṇa-bhakti, kṛṣṇa-premodgama then, love of Godhead, love of Kṛṣṇa will arise. premāmṛta-āsvādana - then you will relish the nectar emanating from the holy name, premāmṛta, nectar of love, nectarean, you understand, that loving mellow you can relish. Then kṛṣṇa-prāpti, premāmṛta-samudre majjana, then you will get Kṛṣṇa, then you will drown yourself in that ocean of prema - Yes, if you can do real kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana. And Mahāprabhu was doing, teaching, and His dear devotees, we glorify those unlimited, unlimited moons, unlimited moons. Those dear devotees of Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu, they are all doing that thing. 'Only then can you dissipate the darkness of Kali-yuga, the ignorance of the population of this age. No one else can do it. We therefore wish that all the devotees of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement may reflect the supreme sun and thus dissipate the darkness of the entire world.' That means Prabhupada, the Founder Acharya of ISKCON, cherishes this hope, desire that all the members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will chant pure name, develop kṛṣṇa-prema and get Kṛṣṇa and they will be able to dissipate the darkness of the whole world. That is Prabhupada’s wish. Now time has come. Just think of, just retrospect, make self-analysis how far you are doing this, yes, as a member of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Yes. Make self-analysis now, retrospect now how far you are giving pleasure to the Founder Acharya? Think of this thing, Jagadātmā. Alright? Then how can you get his mercy? This time has come now for you to do this.