Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Ādi 7.104

tomāra vacana śuni' judāya śravana

tomāra mādhurī dekhi' judāya nayana

SYNONYMS

tomāra — Your; vacana — speeches; śuni' — hearing; judāya — very much satisfied; śravana — aural reception; tomāra — Your; mādhurī — nectar; dekhi' — seeing; judāya — satisfies; nayana — our eyes.

TRANSLATION

"Dear Caitanya Mahāprabhu," they said, "to tell You the truth, we are greatly pleased to hear Your words, and furthermore Your bodily features are so pleasing that we feel extraordinary satisfaction in seeing You.

PURPORT

In the śāstras it is said:

atah śrī-krishna-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaih

sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adah

[BRS. 1.2.234]

"With one's materially contaminated senses one cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His name, form, qualities or paraphernalia, but if one renders service unto Him, the Lord reveals Himself." (Bhakti-rasāmrita-sindhu 1.2.234) Here one can see the effect of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs' service toward Nārāyana. Because the Māyāvādīs offered a little respect to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and because they were pious and actually followed the austere rules and regulations of sannyāsa, they had some understanding of Vedānta philosophy, and by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu they could appreciate that He was none other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is endowed with all six opulences. One of these opulences is His beauty. By His extraordinarily beautiful bodily features, the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs recognized Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as Nārāyana Himself. He was not a farcical Nārāyana like the daridra-nārāyanas invented by so-called sannyāsīs.

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