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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19 Summary|CC Madhya 19 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu started for Vṛndāvana through the forest of Madhya Pradesh (Jhārikhaṇḍa), Rūpa Gosvāmī left home and sent news to Sanātana that he was leaving with his younger brother (Anupama Mallika) to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī finally reached Prayāga and met with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for ten successive days. During this time, Vallabha Bhaṭṭa extended an invitation to the Lord with great respect. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu introduced Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī to Vallabha Bhaṭṭa. After this, a brāhmaṇa scholar named Raghupati Upādhyāya arrived and discussed Kṛṣṇa consciousness with the Lord. Kavirāja Gosvāmī then extensively describes the living condition of Śrī Rūpa and Sanātana at Vṛndāvana. During the ten days at Prayāga, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was instructed by the Lord, who gave him the basic principles of the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. The Lord then sent Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī to Vṛndāvana. The Lord Himself returned to Vārāṇasī and stayed at the home of Candraśekhara.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.92|CC Madhya 19.92, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At that time Raghupati Upādhyāya of the Tiruhitā district arrived. He was a very learned scholar, a great devotee and a respectable gentleman.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.93|CC Madhya 19.93, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Raghupati Upādhyāya first offered his respects to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and the Lord gave him His blessings, saying, "Always stay in Kṛṣṇa consciousness."</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.94|CC Madhya 19.94, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Raghupati Upādhyāya was very pleased to hear the Lord's blessings. The Lord then asked him to describe Kṛṣṇa.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.95|CC Madhya 19.95, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Raghupati Upādhyāya was requested to describe Kṛṣṇa, he began to recite some verses he had personally composed about Kṛṣṇa's pastimes. Hearing those verses, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was overwhelmed with ecstatic love.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.96|CC Madhya 19.96, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Raghupati Upādhyāya recited, “Those who are afraid of material existence worship the Vedic literature. Some worship smṛti, the corollaries to the Vedic literature, and others worship the Mahābhārata. As far as I am concerned, I worship Kṛṣṇa's father, Mahārāja Nanda, in whose courtyard the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, is playing.”</p><br />
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<div class="purport text"><p>This verse recited by Raghupati Upādhyāya was later included in Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Padyāvalī (126).</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.97|CC Madhya 19.97, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Raghupati Upādhyāya was requested by the Lord to recite more, he immediately offered his respects to the Lord and granted His request.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.99|CC Madhya 19.99, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu requested Raghupati Upādhyāya to continue speaking about the pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Thus the Lord was absorbed in ecstatic love, and His mind and body slackened.</p><br />
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<div class="purport text"><p>Our minds and bodies are always engaged in material activities. When they are activated on the spiritual platform, they slacken on the material platform.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.100|CC Madhya 19.100, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Raghupati Upādhyāya saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's ecstatic symptoms, he decided that the Lord was not a human being but Kṛṣṇa Himself.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.101|CC Madhya 19.101, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Raghupati Upādhyāya, "According to your decision, who is the foremost being?"</p><br />
<p>Raghupati Upādhyāya replied, "Lord Śyāmasundara is the supreme form."</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.102|CC Madhya 19.102, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Raghupati Upādhyāya said, "Madhu-purī, or Mathurā-dhāma, is certainly the best."</p><br />
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<div class="purport text"><p>Lord Kṛṣṇa has many forms, as stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.33): advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Raghupati Upādhyāya which form was the best of Lord Kṛṣṇa's millions of forms, and he immediately replied that the supreme form was the Śyāmasundara form. In that form, Kṛṣṇa stands curved in three places and holds His flute. The Śyāmasundara form is also described in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.38):</p><br />
:premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena<br />
:santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti<br />
:yaṁ śyāmasundaram acintya-guṇa-svarūpaṁ<br />
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi<br />
<p>"I worship the primeval Lord, Govinda, who is always seen by the devotee whose eyes are anointed with the pulp of love. He is seen in His eternal form of Śyāmasundara, situated within the heart of the devotee."</p><br />
<p>Those who are filled with ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa always see the form of Śyāmasundara within their hearts. Raghupati Upādhyāya confirms that the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has many incarnations—Nārāyaṇa, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha and others—but Kṛṣṇa is distinguished as the supermost. According to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.3.28), kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam: "Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead." Kṛṣṇa means Śyāmasundara, who plays His flute in Vṛndāvana. Of all forms, this form is the best of all. Kṛṣṇa lives sometimes in Mathurā and sometimes in Dvārakā, but Mathurā is considered the better place. This is also confirmed by Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Upadeśāmṛta (9): vaikuṇṭhāj janito varā madhu-purī. "Madhu-purī, or Mathurā, is far superior to the Vaikuṇṭhalokas in the spiritual world."</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.103|CC Madhya 19.103, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked, "Of the three ages of Kṛṣṇa known as childhood, boyhood and fresh youth, which do you consider best?"</p><br />
<p>Raghupati Upādhyāya replied, "Fresh youth is the best age."</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.104|CC Madhya 19.104, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked, "Among all the mellows, which do you consider best?"</p><br />
<p>Raghupati Upādhyāya replied, "The mellow of conjugal love is supermost."</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.107|CC Madhya 19.107, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then embraced Raghupati Upādhyāya in ecstatic love. Raghupati Upādhyāya also was overwhelmed by love, and he began to dance.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.108|CC Madhya 19.108, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Vallabha Bhaṭṭācārya was struck with wonder to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghupati Upādhyāya dance. He even brought forward his two sons and made them fall down at the Lord's lotus feet.</p><br />
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<div class="purport text"><p>The two sons of Vallabhācārya were Gopīnātha and Viṭhṭhaleśvara. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited Prayāga in the year 1434 or 1435 Śakābda Era (A.D. 1512 or 1513), Viṭhṭhaleśvara was not yet born. In this regard, one should see Madhya-līlā 18.47.</p><br />
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