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BY: SUN STAFF
May 6, 2022 — CANADA (SUN) — A serial presentation of Shri Krishna Chaitanya-carita Mahakavya, written by Shrila Murari Gupta (1513 A.D.). Translation into English by Bhaktivedanta Bhagavata Swami. FIRST PRAKRAMA natva hari punah praha / shnuva susamahitah 1 iti - thus; shrutva - having heard; vacah - words; tasya - his; cintayitva - considering; vicarya - pondering; ca - and; natva - bowed; harim - the remover of sin; punah - again; praha - he said; shnuva - listen; su-samahita - very attentively. Hearing Damodara's words, Murari considered and pondered over them. Then first bowing to Shri Hari, he spoke as follows, "Please hear me with rapt attention."
hareh pravesho hdaye / jayate sumahatmanah 2 janasya - of a person; bhagavat - on the Supreme Lord; dhyanat - by meditation; kirtanat - by chanting; shravanat - by hearing; api - also; hareh - of Lord Hari; praveshah - entrance; hdaye - in the heart; jayate - born; su-maha-atmanah - of a great soul. When a very pure soul meditates on Shri Hari, or speaks and hears about Him, the Lord thereby enters and arises within his heart.
dadhati puruo nityam / atma-dehadi-vismtah 3 tasya - for that person; anukaram - following; cakre - practices; sah - He; tat - His; tejah - power; tat - His; parakramam - prowess; dadhati - He bestows; puruah - the Lord; nityam - eternal; atma-deha-adi - mind, body and so on; vismtah - forgetfulness. The Lord creates a semblance of Himself in the bhakta, endowing him with His own eternal potencies and prowess, and thus the bhakta forever forgets all identification with his material mind, body, and related attachments.
karoti sahaja karma / prahladasya yatha pura 4 bhavet - he becomes; evam - thus; tatah - thus; kale - in time; punah - further; bahyah - external; bhavet - he becomes; tatah - than that; karoti - he does; sahajam - naturally; karma - action; pra-hladasya - of the very joyous one (Prahlada Maharaja); yatha - as; pura - in ancient times. With the passage of time, as he becomes more and more aloof from externals, at last he performs his bodily functions spontaneously, as did the enduringly jubilant devotee, Prahlada Maharaja, in ancient times.
eva hi gopa-sadhvina / tadatmya sambhavet kvacit 5 tadatmyah - the one nature; abhut - it was; toya-nidhau - in the ocean; punah - again; deha-smtih - remembrance of the body; tate - on the shore; evam - thus; hi - indeed; gopa-sadhvinam - to the saintly wives of the cowherd men; tat-atmyam - oneness of nature; sambhavet - it may be; kvacit - sometimes. One who bathes in the ocean feels a oneness with it. However upon reaching the shore, one remembers once more the separate state of his body. Similarly the saintly wives of the cowherd men of Vraja would on occasion taste oneness with Lord Krishna (as in the rasa dance but when again they engaged in their household chores, they felt duality).
lokasya kna-bhaktasya / bhaved etat sva-rupata 6 ishvaras - supreme Lord; tasya - His; sashikam - instruction; darshayan - showing; tat - that; cakara - performed; ha - indeed; lokasya - of the person; kna-bhaktasya - of the devotee of Krishna; bhavet - it may be; etat - this; sva-rupata - in his constitutional nature. The Lord performed this pastime to show the exalted stage attainable by the Krishna-bhakta, who has awakened his svarupa in relation to Shri Krishna.
bhakta-deho bhagavato / hy atma caiva na sashayah 7 yatha - so that; atra - in this matter; na - not; vimuhyanti - they are bewildered; janah - people; iti - thus; abhyashikayan - teaching; bhakta-dehah - the body of a devotee; bhagavatah - of the Lord; hi - indeed; atma - self; ca - and; eva - surely; na - not; sashayah - doubt. So that people are not confused regarding this point, the Gaura Hari taught here that He lives and acts through the body of His devotee. Of this there is no doubt.
tejash ca darshayam asa / tato muni-varo bhuvi 8 papata dandavat tasmin / sthane shata-gunadhikam phalam apnoti gatva tu / vainavo mathura purim 9 knah - Lord Krishna; keshi-vadham - the killing of Keshi, the horse demon; ktva - did; naradaya - for Shri Narada; atmanah - of Himself; yashah - fame; tejah - power; ca - and; darshayam asa - showed; tatah - then; muni-varah - the best of sages; bhuvi - on the earth; papata - he fell; dandavat - like a stick; tasmin - in that; sthane - place; shata-guna-adhikam - more than a hundred times; phalam - result; apnoti - he obtains; gatva - having gone; tu - but; vainavah - the devotee of Vishnu; mathuram purim - Shri Mathura city. When Lord Krishna slew the Keshi demon, and thus displayed His glory and power to Narada, that exalted sage fell to the earth offering obeisances like a rod. Thus that Vaishnava's transcendental quality became magnified one hundred times as he departed for Mathura.
shivaya punar evasau / manuim akarot kriyam 9 evam - thus; ramah - Balarama; jagat-yonih - womb of the universe; vishva-rupam - Shri Vishvarupa; adarshayat - showed; shivaya - for auspiciousness; punah - again; eva - certainly; asau - he; manuim - human-like; akarot - did; kriyam - deeds. Similarly Shri Ramacandra, the cause of the cosmic manifestation showed His universal form to Shiva and thereafter He performed further human-like activities.
tac chrutva shraddhaya martyo / mucyate bhava-bandhanat 11 punah - again; shnuva - hear; bho - Oh!; brahman - brahmana; chaitanyasya - of Shri Chaitanya; katham - story; shubham - sublime; tat - that; shrutva - hearing; shraddhaya - with faith; martyah - a mortal; mucyate - is liberated; bhava-bandhanat - from the bondage of birth and death. O brahmana, listen further to the sublime history of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. A mortal being who hears it with full faith becomes freed from the bondage of birth and death.
pathayam asa shiyan sa / sarasvati-patih svayam 12 guroh - of the guru; gehe - in the house; vasan - staying; jinuh - victorious; vedan - the Vedas; sarvan - all; adhitavan - studied; pathayam asa - taught; shiyan - students; sah - He; sarasvati-patih - the protector of Sarasvati; svayam - Himself. While staying in the house of His guru, the victorious Lord, the husband of Sarasvati, studied all the Vedas. Thereafter He began to teach His own students.
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