The third reason that Lord Caitanya appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Rādhārāṇī. The Lord thought that undoubtedly Rādhārāṇī enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the company of Rādhārāṇī, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī than to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Rādhārāṇī felt more transcendental pleasure in the company of Kṛṣṇa than He could understand without taking Her position, but for Śrī Kṛṣṇa to enjoy in the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was impossible because that position was completely foreign to Him. Kṛṣṇa is the transcendental male, and Rādhārāṇī is the transcendental female.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.10|CC Adi 2.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The living beings are not all in all. They are undoubtedly parts of the Supreme Lord and are qualitatively one with Him, yet they are subject to His control. Thus they are never equal to the Lord or one with Him. The Lord who associates with the living being is the Paramātmā, or supreme living being. No one, therefore, should view the tiny living beings and supreme living being to be on an equal level.</p> | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.10|CC Adi 2.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The living beings are not all in all. They are undoubtedly parts of the Supreme Lord and are qualitatively one with Him, yet they are subject to His control. Thus they are never equal to the Lord or one with Him. The Lord who associates with the living being is the Paramātmā, or supreme living being. No one, therefore, should view the tiny living beings and supreme living being to be on an equal level.</p> | ||
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<div id="CCAdi267_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="172" link="CC Adi 2.67" link_text="CC Adi 2.67"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.67|CC Adi 2.67, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This statement of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.3.28) definitely negates the concept that Śrī Kṛṣṇa is an avatāra of Viṣṇu or Nārāyaṇa. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead, the supreme cause of all causes. This verse clearly indicates that incarnations of the Personality of Godhead such as Śrī Rāma, Nṛsiṁha and Varāha all undoubtedly belong to the Viṣṇu group, but all of Them are either plenary portions or portions of plenary portions of the original Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.</p> | |||
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<div id="CCAdi379_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="305" link="CC Adi 3.79" link_text="CC Adi 3.79"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.79|CC Adi 3.79, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who says that ten million aśvamedha sacrifices are equal to the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa is undoubtedly an atheist. He is sure to be punished by Yamarāja.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAdi4Summary_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="340" link="CC Adi 4 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 4 Summary"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4 Summary|CC Adi 4 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The third reason that Lord Caitanya appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Rādhārāṇī. The Lord thought that undoubtedly Rādhārāṇī enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the company of Rādhārāṇī, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī than to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Rādhārāṇī felt more transcendental pleasure in the company of Kṛṣṇa than He could understand without taking Her position, but for Śrī Kṛṣṇa to enjoy in the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was impossible because that position was completely foreign to Him. Kṛṣṇa is the transcendental male, and Rādhārāṇī is the transcendental female.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAdi441_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="376" link="CC Adi 4.41" link_text="CC Adi 4.41"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.41|CC Adi 4.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The concoctions of unauthorized persons pretending to be bona fide have not been accepted by Lord Caitanya. Presentations such as those of the gaura-nāgarīs are only disturbances to the sincere execution of the mission of Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya is undoubtedly Kṛṣṇa Himself, and He is always nondifferent from Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. But the emotion technically called vipralambha-bhāva, which the Lord adopted for confidential reasons, should not be disturbed in the name of service. A mundaner should not unnecessarily intrude into affairs of transcendence and thereby displease the Lord. One must always be on guard against this sort of devotional anomaly.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAdi534_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="637" link="CC Adi 5.34" link_text="CC Adi 5.34"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.34|CC Adi 5.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Outside of Vaikuṇṭha, the abode of Kṛṣṇa, which is called paravyoma, is the glaring effulgence of Kṛṣṇa's bodily rays. This is called the brahma-jyotir. The transcendental region of that effulgence is called Siddhaloka or Brahmaloka. When impersonalists achieve liberation, they merge into that Brahmaloka effulgence. This transcendental region is undoubtedly spiritual, but it contains no manifestations of spiritual activities or variegatedness. It is compared to the glow of the sun. Within the sun's glow is the sphere of the sun, where one can experience all sorts of varieties.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAdi727_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="975" link="CC Adi 7.27" link_text="CC Adi 7.27"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.27|CC Adi 7.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In this connection, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya that since the living entities all belong to the marginal potency of the Lord, each and every living entity has a natural tendency to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, although at the same time the seed of material enjoyment is undoubtedly within him. The seed of material enjoyment, watered by the course of material nature, fructifies to become a tree of material entanglement that endows the living entity with all kinds of material enjoyment. To enjoy such material facilities is to be afflicted with the three material miseries. However, when by nature's law there is a flood, the seeds within the earth become inactive.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAdi7102_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1046" link="CC Adi 7.102" link_text="CC Adi 7.102"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.102|CC Adi 7.102, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This sort of hearing and chanting has spoiled the whole thing, so one should be very careful about the faulty process. The holy messages of Godhead, as inculcated in the Bhagavad-gītā or in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, are undoubtedly transcendental subjects, but even though they are so, such transcendental matters are not to be received from the professional man, who spoils them as the serpent spoils milk simply by the touch of his tongue.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAdi1273_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1548" link="CC Adi 12.73" link_text="CC Adi 12.73"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.73|CC Adi 12.73, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should simply instruct everyone he meets regarding the principles of kṛṣṇa-kathā, as expressed in Bhagavad-gītā As It Is and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. One who has no interest in kṛṣṇa-kathā or the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is like dry, useless wood with no living force. The ISKCON branch, being directly watered by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, is becoming undoubtedly successful, whereas the disconnected branches of the so-called Hindu religion that are envious of ISKCON are drying up and dying.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAdi1613_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1841" link="CC Adi 16.13" link_text="CC Adi 16.13"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 16.13|CC Adi 16.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Because He is the Lord (īśvara)," the brāhmaṇa told him, "undoubtedly He can give you proper direction."</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAdi17218_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2153" link="CC Adi 17.218" link_text="CC Adi 17.218"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.218|CC Adi 17.218, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Because you have chanted three holy names of the Lord—Hari, Kṛṣṇa and Nārāyaṇa—you are undoubtedly the most fortunate and pious."</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya6232_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1201" link="CC Madhya 6.232" link_text="CC Madhya 6.232"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.232|CC Madhya 6.232, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Indeed, today you have undoubtedly taken shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa, without reservation, has become very merciful toward you.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya7148_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1399" link="CC Madhya 7.148" link_text="CC Madhya 7.148"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.148|CC Madhya 7.148, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Each and every member of this Society was rescued from a very abominable condition, but now they are engaged in preaching the cult of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are not only cured of the disease called materialism but are also living a very happy life. Everyone accepts them as great devotees of Kṛṣṇa, and their qualities are manifest in their very faces. If one wants to be recognized as a devotee by Kṛṣṇa, he should take to preaching work, following the advice of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Then one will undoubtedly attain the lotus feet of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, without delay.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya18200_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4209" link="CC Madhya 18.200" link_text="CC Madhya 18.200"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 18.200|CC Madhya 18.200, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Usually they describe the Lord's impersonal aspect, but they hardly know that the Lord's personal feature is worshipable. They are undoubtedly lacking this knowledge.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya19138_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4377" link="CC Madhya 19.138" link_text="CC Madhya 19.138"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.138|CC Madhya 19.138, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">These living entities may not have the same forms that are found on this planet earth, but they have different forms composed of different elements. Even on this earth we can see that the forms of land animals are different from the forms of aquatics. According to the circumstance, living conditions differ, but undoubtedly there are living entities everywhere. Why should we deny the existence of living entities on this or that planet? Those who have claimed to have gone to the moon have not gone there, or else with their imperfect vision they cannot actually perceive the particular type of living entities there.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya19159_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4398" link="CC Madhya 19.159" link_text="CC Madhya 19.159"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.159|CC Madhya 19.159, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The culprit mind is always suspicious; therefore our dealings should always be straightforward and approved by Vedic authorities. If we treat people diplomatically or duplicitously, our spiritual advancement is obstructed. Jīva-hiṁsana refers to the killing of animals or to envy of other living entities. The killing of poor animals is undoubtedly due to envy of those animals. The human form is meant for the understanding of Kṛṣṇa consciousness (athāto brahma jijñāsā), for inquiring about the Supreme Brahman. In the human form, everyone has a chance to understand the Supreme Brahman. The so-called leaders of human society do not know the real aim of human life and are therefore busy with economic development. This is misleading. Every state and every society is busy trying to improve the quality of eating, sleeping, mating and defending.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya20350_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4837" link="CC Madhya 20.350" link_text="CC Madhya 20.350"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.350|CC Madhya 20.350, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sanātana Gosvāmī had been a minister under Nawab Hussain Shah, and he was undoubtedly as intelligent as Bṛhaspati, the chief priest of the heavenly kingdom. Due to the Lord's unlimited mercy, Sanātana Gosvāmī questioned Him without hesitation.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya2240_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5082" link="CC Madhya 22.40" link_text="CC Madhya 22.40"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.40|CC Madhya 22.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Whenever Kṛṣṇa is requested to fulfill one"s desire, He undoubtedly does so, but He does not award anything which, after being enjoyed, will cause one to petition Him again and again to fulfill further desires. When one has other desires but engages in the Lord's service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya24103_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5419" link="CC Madhya 24.103" link_text="CC Madhya 24.103"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.103|CC Madhya 24.103, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Whenever Kṛṣṇa is requested to fulfill one"s desire, He undoubtedly does so, but He does not award anything which, after being enjoyed, will cause one to petition Him again and again to fulfill further desires. When one has other desires but engages in the Lord's service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya24199_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5515" link="CC Madhya 24.199" link_text="CC Madhya 24.199"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.199|CC Madhya 24.199, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Whenever Kṛṣṇa is requested to fulfill one"s desire, He undoubtedly does so, but He does not award anything which, after being enjoyed, will cause one to petition Him again and again to fulfill further desires. When one has other desires but engages in the Lord's service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCMadhya25270_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5941" link="CC Madhya 25.270" link_text="CC Madhya 25.270"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.270|CC Madhya 25.270, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth."</p> | |||
<p>It is very difficult to understand Kṛṣṇa, but if one tries to understand Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam through Caitanya Mahāprabhu's bhakti cult, one will undoubtedly understand Kṛṣṇa very easily. If somehow or other one understands Kṛṣṇa, his life is successful. Again, as Kṛṣṇa states in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.9):</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="CCAntya19106_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3039" link="CC Antya 19.106" link_text="CC Antya 19.106"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.106|CC Antya 19.106, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are undoubtedly uncommon, especially His talking like a madman. Therefore, one who hears of these pastimes should not put forward mundane arguments. He should simply hear the pastimes with full faith.</p> | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:30, 29 January 2012
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
The living beings are not all in all. They are undoubtedly parts of the Supreme Lord and are qualitatively one with Him, yet they are subject to His control. Thus they are never equal to the Lord or one with Him. The Lord who associates with the living being is the Paramātmā, or supreme living being. No one, therefore, should view the tiny living beings and supreme living being to be on an equal level.
This statement of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.3.28) definitely negates the concept that Śrī Kṛṣṇa is an avatāra of Viṣṇu or Nārāyaṇa. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead, the supreme cause of all causes. This verse clearly indicates that incarnations of the Personality of Godhead such as Śrī Rāma, Nṛsiṁha and Varāha all undoubtedly belong to the Viṣṇu group, but all of Them are either plenary portions or portions of plenary portions of the original Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
One who says that ten million aśvamedha sacrifices are equal to the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa is undoubtedly an atheist. He is sure to be punished by Yamarāja.
The concoctions of unauthorized persons pretending to be bona fide have not been accepted by Lord Caitanya. Presentations such as those of the gaura-nāgarīs are only disturbances to the sincere execution of the mission of Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya is undoubtedly Kṛṣṇa Himself, and He is always nondifferent from Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. But the emotion technically called vipralambha-bhāva, which the Lord adopted for confidential reasons, should not be disturbed in the name of service. A mundaner should not unnecessarily intrude into affairs of transcendence and thereby displease the Lord. One must always be on guard against this sort of devotional anomaly.
Outside of Vaikuṇṭha, the abode of Kṛṣṇa, which is called paravyoma, is the glaring effulgence of Kṛṣṇa's bodily rays. This is called the brahma-jyotir. The transcendental region of that effulgence is called Siddhaloka or Brahmaloka. When impersonalists achieve liberation, they merge into that Brahmaloka effulgence. This transcendental region is undoubtedly spiritual, but it contains no manifestations of spiritual activities or variegatedness. It is compared to the glow of the sun. Within the sun's glow is the sphere of the sun, where one can experience all sorts of varieties.
In this connection, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya that since the living entities all belong to the marginal potency of the Lord, each and every living entity has a natural tendency to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, although at the same time the seed of material enjoyment is undoubtedly within him. The seed of material enjoyment, watered by the course of material nature, fructifies to become a tree of material entanglement that endows the living entity with all kinds of material enjoyment. To enjoy such material facilities is to be afflicted with the three material miseries. However, when by nature's law there is a flood, the seeds within the earth become inactive.
This sort of hearing and chanting has spoiled the whole thing, so one should be very careful about the faulty process. The holy messages of Godhead, as inculcated in the Bhagavad-gītā or in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, are undoubtedly transcendental subjects, but even though they are so, such transcendental matters are not to be received from the professional man, who spoils them as the serpent spoils milk simply by the touch of his tongue.
One should simply instruct everyone he meets regarding the principles of kṛṣṇa-kathā, as expressed in Bhagavad-gītā As It Is and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. One who has no interest in kṛṣṇa-kathā or the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is like dry, useless wood with no living force. The ISKCON branch, being directly watered by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, is becoming undoubtedly successful, whereas the disconnected branches of the so-called Hindu religion that are envious of ISKCON are drying up and dying.
"Because He is the Lord (īśvara)," the brāhmaṇa told him, "undoubtedly He can give you proper direction."
"Because you have chanted three holy names of the Lord—Hari, Kṛṣṇa and Nārāyaṇa—you are undoubtedly the most fortunate and pious."
CC Madhya-lila
“Indeed, today you have undoubtedly taken shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa, without reservation, has become very merciful toward you.
Each and every member of this Society was rescued from a very abominable condition, but now they are engaged in preaching the cult of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are not only cured of the disease called materialism but are also living a very happy life. Everyone accepts them as great devotees of Kṛṣṇa, and their qualities are manifest in their very faces. If one wants to be recognized as a devotee by Kṛṣṇa, he should take to preaching work, following the advice of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Then one will undoubtedly attain the lotus feet of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, without delay.
“Usually they describe the Lord's impersonal aspect, but they hardly know that the Lord's personal feature is worshipable. They are undoubtedly lacking this knowledge.
These living entities may not have the same forms that are found on this planet earth, but they have different forms composed of different elements. Even on this earth we can see that the forms of land animals are different from the forms of aquatics. According to the circumstance, living conditions differ, but undoubtedly there are living entities everywhere. Why should we deny the existence of living entities on this or that planet? Those who have claimed to have gone to the moon have not gone there, or else with their imperfect vision they cannot actually perceive the particular type of living entities there.
The culprit mind is always suspicious; therefore our dealings should always be straightforward and approved by Vedic authorities. If we treat people diplomatically or duplicitously, our spiritual advancement is obstructed. Jīva-hiṁsana refers to the killing of animals or to envy of other living entities. The killing of poor animals is undoubtedly due to envy of those animals. The human form is meant for the understanding of Kṛṣṇa consciousness (athāto brahma jijñāsā), for inquiring about the Supreme Brahman. In the human form, everyone has a chance to understand the Supreme Brahman. The so-called leaders of human society do not know the real aim of human life and are therefore busy with economic development. This is misleading. Every state and every society is busy trying to improve the quality of eating, sleeping, mating and defending.
Sanātana Gosvāmī had been a minister under Nawab Hussain Shah, and he was undoubtedly as intelligent as Bṛhaspati, the chief priest of the heavenly kingdom. Due to the Lord's unlimited mercy, Sanātana Gosvāmī questioned Him without hesitation.
“"Whenever Kṛṣṇa is requested to fulfill one"s desire, He undoubtedly does so, but He does not award anything which, after being enjoyed, will cause one to petition Him again and again to fulfill further desires. When one has other desires but engages in the Lord's service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’
“"Whenever Kṛṣṇa is requested to fulfill one"s desire, He undoubtedly does so, but He does not award anything which, after being enjoyed, will cause one to petition Him again and again to fulfill further desires. When one has other desires but engages in the Lord's service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’
“"Whenever Kṛṣṇa is requested to fulfill one"s desire, He undoubtedly does so, but He does not award anything which, after being enjoyed, will cause one to petition Him again and again to fulfill further desires. When one has other desires but engages in the Lord's service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’
"Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth."
It is very difficult to understand Kṛṣṇa, but if one tries to understand Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam through Caitanya Mahāprabhu's bhakti cult, one will undoubtedly understand Kṛṣṇa very easily. If somehow or other one understands Kṛṣṇa, his life is successful. Again, as Kṛṣṇa states in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.9):
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The activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are undoubtedly uncommon, especially His talking like a madman. Therefore, one who hears of these pastimes should not put forward mundane arguments. He should simply hear the pastimes with full faith.