Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya 15.42

nityanande ajna dila, -- 'yaha gauda-dese

anargala prema-bhakti kariha prakase

SYNONYMS

nityanande -- unto Nityananda Prabhu; ajna dila -- Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered; yaha gauda-dese -- go to Gauda-desa (Bengal); anargala -- without restriction; prema-bhakti -- devotional service in love of Godhead; kariha prakase -- manifest.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered Nityananda Prabhu, "Go to Bengal and, without restriction, manifest devotional service to the Lord, Krishna consciousness."

PURPORT

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu thus ordered Nityananda Prabhu to deliver all the Bengalis to devotional service. In the Bhagavad-gita (9.32) the Lord says:

mam hi partha vyapasritya ye 'pi syuh papa-yonayah

striyo vaisyas tatha sudras te 'pi yanti param gatim

"O son of Pritha, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth -- women, vaisyas [merchants], and sudras [workers] -- can attain the supreme destination." Whoever takes to Krishna consciousness and follows the regulative principles can return home, back to Godhead.

In his Anubhashya, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes, "There is a class of so-called devotees called prakrita-sahajiyas who think that Nityananda Prabhu is an ordinary human being. They have spread the news that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered Nityananda Prabhu to return to Bengal from Orissa just to marry and beget children. This is certainly a great offense against Nityananda Prabhu."

Such an offense is called pashanda-buddhi, or an atheistic remark. Offenders consider Nityananda Prabhu to be like one of them, an ordinary human being. They do not know of Nityananda Prabhu's identity with the vishnu-tattva. Thinking Nityananda Prabhu to be an ordinary human being is the business of mental speculators known as kunapatma-vadis. These people accept the material body, which is a bag of three material elements (kunape tri-dhatuke), as themselves. They think that Nityananda Prabhu's body was similarly material and that it was meant for sense gratification. Whoever thinks in this way is a candidate for the darkest regions of hell. Those who hanker after women and money, who are self-interested and have the mentality of merchants, can certainly discover many things with their fertile brains and speak against the authorized revealed scriptures. They also engage in some moneymaking businesses to cheat innocent people, and they try to support their business programs by making such offensive statements. Actually Nityananda Prabhu, being the expansion of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, is the most munificent incarnation. No one should consider Him an ordinary human being or an entity like the prajapatis, who were ordered by Brahma to increase generations. Nityananda Prabhu should not be considered instrumental for sense gratification. Although professional so-called preachers support this idea, such statements are not found in any authorized revealed scriptures. Actually there is no support for these statements made by sahajiyas or other professional distributors of krishna-bhakti.

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