Category:Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila Chapter 04 Purports - Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord at Jagannatha Puri
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- A devotee always engages wholeheartedly in the service of the Lord, forgetting about bodily conceptions and bodily activities
- A devotee on the topmost platform of devotional service always humbly thinks that he is not rendering any devotional service. He thinks that he is poor in devotional service and that his body is material
- A devotee should make a point of visiting all the places where Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu performed His pastimes
- A gosvami is one who executes the will of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- A materialist might see Sanatana Gosvami's body as being full of itching sores that exuded foul moisture and a bad smell
- A pure devotee engaged in the service of Lord Krsna has no desire for his personal sense gratification, and thus he never accepts anything for that purpose
- A pure devotee knows that a devotee's body, being always transcendental, is just suitable for rendering service to the Lord
- A Vaisnava should be indifferent to material enjoyment and renunciation and should always hanker for the spiritual life of rendering service to the Lord
- A Vaisnava, a sannyasi or a learned person has no conception of the material world; he has no conception of anything materially important
- Acceptance or rejection of material things is not the concern of a sannyasi, a Vaisnava or a learned person
- Although Srila Rupa Gosvami renounced his family life, he nevertheless was not unjust to his family members
- An advanced devotee has no desire to enjoy or reject anything. His only duty is to accept whatever is favorable for the advancement of Krsna consciousness
- An associate of the Lord is one whose body is fully engaged in the service of the Lord
- At the time of initiation, a devotee gives up all his material conceptions. Therefore, being in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is situated on the transcendental platform
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- Because he (a devotee) always engages in the service of the Lord, his body is transcendental and full of spiritual bliss
- Because the karmis are very much attached to the world and material activities, they always try to establish atheistic principles that oppose the understanding of the Vaisnavas
- Being in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he (a devotee) is situated on the transcendental platform. Thus having attained knowledge and the spiritual platform, he always engages in the service of the spiritual body of Krsna
- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura gives his opinion about how a person completely engaged in the service of the Lord transforms his body from material to transcendental
- By his (Sanatana Gosvami's) personal behavior he taught how one should act in the renounced order, completely devoted to the service of the Lord
- By his (Sanatana Gosvami's) personal example, he taught people how to stay in Vrndavana to execute devotional service
- By humility and meekness one attracts the attention of Krsna. That is the verdict of all the Vedas
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- Caitanya Mahaprabhu is trying to convince Haridasa Thakura and Sanatana Gosvami that a devotee whose life is dedicated to the service of the Lord is never in the material conception
- Caitanya Mahaprabhu said in Siksastaka (3): one should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and ready to offer all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly - CC Adi 17.31
- Caitanya Mahaprabhu told Sanatana Gosvami, I am a sannyasi. Therefore even if your body were material, a sannyasi should see no distinction between a good body and a bad body
- Caitanya Mahaprabhu told Sanatana Gosvami, “Since you are a Vaisnava, your body is spiritual, not material. Therefore you should not consider this body to be subjected to superior or inferior qualities
- Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to accomplish many purposes through the exegetical endeavors of Srila Sanatana Gosvami
- Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to spread the bhakti cult all over the world. Therefore devotees in the line of Krsna consciousness must go to different parts of the world and preach, as ordered by the spiritual master. That will satisfy Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- Chanting or devotional service does not depend on any paraphernalia, nor on one’s having taken birth in a good family
- Chanting the holy name is the chief means of attaining love of Godhead
- Conceptions of good and bad are all imaginations or mental speculations
- Constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord is the way of success for all, including those who are free from all material desires, those who are desirous of all material enjoyment, and those who are self-satisfied by dint of transcendental knowledge
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- Even after renunciation, he (Rupa Gosvami) returned to Bengal, where he properly divided whatever money he had and gave it to his relatives so that they would not be inconvenienced
- Everyone in the line of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s devotional cult should accept the words of the spiritual master and thus spread the Krsna consciousness movement
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- Haridasa Thakura was the ideal spiritual master because he regularly chanted on his beads a prescribed number of times. Indeed, he was chanting the holy name of the Lord 300,000 times a day
- He (a pure devotee) desires only the happiness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and because of his ecstatic love for Krsna, he acts in various ways
- He (a sannyasi, a Vaisnava or a learned person) has no desire to use sandalwood pulp for sense gratification, nor does sense gratification make him hate mud
- He (Sanatana Gosvami) compiled the Hari-bhakti-vilasa, wherein he collected authoritative scriptural injunctions regarding how a Vaisnava should behave
- Human society should be saved from such a risky civilization and the danger of animalism by awakening to God consciousness, Krsna consciousness. The Krsna consciousness movement has been started for this purpose
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- If I (Baktivinoda Thakura) think I am a Vaisnava, I shall look forward to receiving respect from others. And if the desire for fame and reputation pollutes my heart, certainly I shall go to hell
- If one becomes very humble and meek, he can easily attain the lotus feet of Krsna in this Age of Kali. That is the fulfillment of all great sacrifices, penances and austerities
- If one thinks that the body of a pure devotee is material, he is an offender, for that is a vaisnava-aparadha. In this connection one should consult Srila Sanatana Gosvami’s Brhad-bhagavatamrta - 1.3.45 and 2.3.139
- In every part of India, and especially in the holy places of pilgrimage, even an ordinary uneducated man is inclined toward Krsna consciousness, and as soon as he sees a Krsna conscious person, he offers obeisances
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 3.33.7) Devahuti says to Kapiladeva: O my Lord, even a person born in a low family of dog-eaters is glorious if he always chants the holy name of the Lord
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 6.3.22) Yamaraja says: Devotional service, beginning with the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, is the ultimate religious principle for the living entity in human society
- In the beginning one has to discharge devotional service according to regulative principles, but gradually, as devotional service becomes one’s life and soul, one achieves the most exalted position of ecstatic love for Krsna
- In the Garuda Purana this mixture, which is called catuhsama, is described as follows: "Two parts of musk, four parts of sandalwood, three parts of aguru or saffron and one part of camphor, when mixed together, form catuhsama"
- In the Hari-bhakti-vilasa there are so many quotations from the satvata scriptures that sometimes it is inquired how the atheistic smartas can refuse to accept them and instead imagine some other opinions
- Indeed, pure devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu even want to see the places He simply visited for only hours or minutes
- India has many sacred rivers, such as the Ganges, Yamuna, Narmada, Kaveri and Krsna, and simply by bathing in these rivers people are liberated and become Krsna conscious
- It is customary for the priests of temples in India not even to touch outsiders or enter the Deity room after having been touched. This is a very important item in temple worship
- It is the duty of a sannyasi, a person in the renounced order, to be always equipoised, and that is also the duty of a learned man and a Vaisnava
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- Karmis may consider the body of a devotee material, but factually it is not, for a devotee has no conception of material enjoyment
- Karmis think that the material body is an instrument for material enjoyment, and that is why they work extremely hard. A devotee, however, has no such desires
- Krsna does not accept anything from a person with a material conception of life
- Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the Absolute Truth, ever existing with different varieties of energies
- Kuntidevi says to Lord Krsna: A person who is proud of his birth, opulence, knowledge and beauty cannot achieve Your lotus feet. You are available only to the humble and meek, not to the proud - SB 1.8.26
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- O Hari-nama! The tips of the toes of Your lotus feet are constantly being worshiped by the glowing radiance emanating from the string of gems known as the Upanisads, the crown jewels of all the Vedas
- O King, constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord after the ways of the great authorities is the doubtless and fearless way of success for all
- One need not have taken birth in an aristocratic brahmana family to attain the lotus feet of Krsna, nor is a person born in a low family unfit for achieving Krsna’s lotus feet
- One should never consider his body material, just as one should never consider the body of the Deity worshiped in the temple to be made of stone or wood
- One should not mistakenly think that Srila Rupa Gosvami compiled 100,000 books. He actually wrote sixteen books, as mentioned in the First Wave of the Bhakti-ratnakara
- One who cannot distinguish between devotion and ordinary karma may mistakenly consider the body of a pure devotee material. One who knows does not commit such a mistake
- One who does so (chanting a minimum of sixteen rounds a day and preaching the Bhagavad-gita As It Is) is quite fit to become a spiritual master for the entire world
- One who has carried out the orders of the spiritual master is understood to have carried out the orders of Krsna or Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- One who has taken birth in the land of Bharata-bhumi, India, should take full advantage of his birth. He should become completely well versed in the knowledge of the Vedas and spiritual culture & should distribute the experience of KC all over the world
- Only by the endeavors of Sri Sanatana Gosvami were all the lost places of pilgrimage in the Vrndavana area excavated. He established Madana-mohana, the first Deity in the Vrndavana area
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- People all over the world are madly engaging in sense gratification and in this way spoiling their human lives, with the risk that in the next life they may become animals or less. Human society should be saved from such a risky civilization
- Priests performing Deity worship should be careful to keep themselves completely pure and not be touched by outsiders
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- Referring to the words laksa-grantha, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the total number of verses written by Rupa Gosvami is 100,000 (eka-laksa or laksa-grantha). The copyists count both the verses and the prose sections of the Sanskrit works
- Regarding the ten offenses in chanting the holy name, one may refer to Adi-lila, Chapter Eight, verse 24
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- Sanatana Gosvami and Haridasa Thakura, thinking themselves mlecchas and yavanas because of their past association with Muslims, did not enter the temple or even travel on the path in front of the temple gate
- Sanatana Gosvami compiled many, many books, all with the aim of describing how to serve the principal Deities of Vrndavana - Govinda and Madana-gopala. Later, other Deities were gradually established, and the importance of Vrndavana increased
- Sanatana Gosvami compiled the book called Brhad-bhagavatamrta to teach people how to become devotees, execute devotional service and attain love of Krsna
- Sanatana Gosvami defines the bona fide spiritual master of the world. The qualifications expressed in this connection are that one must act according to the scriptural injunctions & at the same time preach. One who does so is a bona fide spiritual master
- Sanatana Gosvami has praised the chanting of the holy name as follows in his Brhad-bhagavatamrta (1.1.9): all glories to the all-blissful holy name of Sri Krsna, which causes the devotee to give up all conventional religious duties, meditation & worship
- She (Rukmini) wrote Krsna a confidential letter, which was presented and read to Him by a brahmana messenger. This verse (of CC Antya 4.63) appeared in that letter
- Simha-dvara refers to the main gate on the eastern side of the Jagannatha temple
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said in His Siksastaka (3): One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking oneself lower than the straw in the street - CC Adi 17.31
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that actually the aroma of his (Sanatana Gosvami's) body was the excellent scent of a mixture of sandalwood pulp, camphor, musk and aguru
- Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura writes in a song (Saranagati 31.3): May I visit all the holy places associated with the lilas of Lord Caitanya and His devotees
- Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami were previously ministers directly in charge of the government of Nawab Hussain Shah, and they were also householders, but later they became gosvamis
- Srila Sanatana Gosvami and Srila Rupa Gosvami became genuine gosvamis after dedicating their lives to the service of the Lord
- Such a person (who chants the holy name of the Lord) has already performed all types of austerities, penances & Vedic sacrifices, has already bathed in the sacred rivers, & has studied all the Vedic literature. Thus he has become an exalted personality
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- That person is a resident of hell who considers the spiritual master an ordinary man, and who thinks that the body of a Vaisnava fully dedicated to the service of the Lord belongs to the material modes of nature
- The aroma of catuhsama is very pleasing. It is also mentioned in the Hari-bhakti-vilasa
- The Bhakti-ratnakara refers to the following books by Sanatana Gosvami: (1) the Brhad-bhagavatamrta, (2) the Hari-bhakti-vilasa and his commentary Dig-darsini, (3) the Lila-stava and (4) the commentary on the Tenth Canto of SB known as Vaisnava-tosani
- The body of a devotee who tries his best to work very hard for the satisfaction of Krsna by fully engaging in the Lord's service must be accepted as transcendental
- The body of a karmi is called material because the karmi, being too absorbed in material activities, is always eager to enjoy material facilities
- The chanting of the holy name of Krsna - Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare - has been praised by Srila Rupa Gosvami in his Namastaka
- The chanting of the holy name of Krsna has been praised by Srila Rupa Gosvami in his Namastaka (verse 1): O Hari-nama! You are eternally adored by liberated souls such as Narada and Sukadeva. I take complete shelter of You
- The Hari-bhakti-vilasa was originally compiled by Srila Sanatana Gosvami. Later, Gopala Bhatta Gosvami produced a shortened version of it and added the Dig-darsini-tika
- The injunctions of the Padma Purana state, That person is a resident of hell who considers the Deity worshiped in the temple to be stone or wood
- The Lord dispatched Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami to Vrndavana to excavate and renovate the holy places and from there establish the cult of bhakti. Therefore Vrndavana was given to Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami as their place of residence
- The members of the Krsna consciousness movement chant a minimum of sixteen rounds a day, which can be done without difficulty, and at the same time they must preach the cult of Caitanya Mahaprabhu according to the gospel of Bhagavad-gita As It Is
- The nine kinds of devotional service are hearing, chanting, remembering Krsna, offering service to Krsna’s lotus feet, offering worship in the temple, offering prayers, working as a servant, making friendship with Krsna and surrendering to Krsna
- The nine kinds of devotional service are mentioned in Srimad-Bhagavatam
- The nine processes of devotional service can grant one Krsna and ecstatic love for Him
- The principal mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was to preach Krsna consciousness
- The special feature of a birth in India is that a person born in India becomes automatically God conscious
- The spiritual master is the representative of Lord Krsna
- The title gosvami is not an inherited designation; it is meant for a person who has controlled his sense gratification and dedicated his life to executing the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- The words prabhu-datta desa are very significant. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's devotional cult teaches one not to sit down in one place but to spread the devotional cult all over the world
- They (everyone in the line of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's devotional cult) should go everywhere, to all parts of the world, accepting those places as their prabhu-datta desa, the places of residence given by the spiritual master or Lord Krsna
- This is a quotation (of CC Antya 4.175) from Srimad-Bhagavatam - SB 11.28.4
- This is a quotation (of CC Antya 4.177) from the Bhagavad-gita - BG 5.18
- This is a quotation (of CC Antya 4.178) from the Bhagavad-gita - BG 6.8
- This is a verse (of CC Antya 4.69) from Srimad-Bhagavatam - SB 7.9.10
- This verse (of CC Antya 4.59) is from Srimad-Bhagavatam - SB 11.14.20
- This verse (of CC Antya 4.63) was spoken by Rukminidevi in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.52.43). Rukminidevi, the daughter of King Bhismaka, had heard about Krsna’s transcendental attributes, and thus she desired to get Krsna as her husband
- This verse (SB 10.29.35) was spoken by the gopis (in CC Antya 4.63) when they were attracted by the vibration of Krsna’s flute in the moonlight of autumn. All of them, being maddened, came to Krsna
- Those known as the sahajiyas foolishly think that their material bodies are transcendental. Because of this, they are always bereft of the association of pure devotees, and thus they cannot behave like Vaisnavas
- To increase their ecstatic love, Krsna gave them moral instructions to return home. The gopis did not care for these instructions. They wanted to be kissed by Krsna, for they had come there with lusty desires to dance with Him
- Two parts of musk, four parts of sandalwood, three parts of aguru or saffron and one part of camphor, when mixed together, form catuhsama
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- Ultimately, Krsna is the goal of life
- Unbiased men of the highest echelon should study the principles of the Krsna consciousness movement and fully cooperate with this movement to save human society
- Unfortunately, her (Rukmini's) elder brother Rukmi was envious of Krsna and therefore wanted her to be offered to Sisupala. When Rukmini became aware of this, she was greatly aggrieved
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- What is recorded in the Hari-bhakti-vilasa strictly follows the Vedic scriptures and is certainly pure, but the attitude of the karmis is always one of giving up the conclusion of pure Vaisnava understanding
- Whatever one does in executing devotional service must be accompanied by the chanting of the holy name of the Lord
- When a devotee no longer has any desire for material sense gratification, in his spiritual identity he engages in the service of the Lord, for his dormant spiritual consciousness awakens. This awakening of spiritual consciousness makes his body spiritual
- When a father maintains a child and the child is maintained by the father, the father never takes seriously the faults of the child. Even if they actually are faults, the father does not mind them
- When one achieves ecstatic love of Godhead, he attains the complete perfection of life
- When one forgets that he is an eternal servant of Krsna, he wants to enjoy the material world through different plans. At that time he distinguishes between material plans that are good and those that are bad. Actually, however, they are all false
- When one is absorbed in the illusory energy of Krsna and cannot understand Krsna, one cannot ascertain what is good for him and what is bad
- When one is freed from material connections in this way, his body immediately becomes spiritual, and Krsna accepts his service
- When somehow or other uttered even once by a living entity, the holy name awards him liberation. The holy name of Krsna is the highest nectar. It is my very life and my (Sanatana Gosvami's) only treasure
- When will Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada, who has established within the material world the mission to fulfill the desire of Lord Caitanya, give me shelter under his lotus feet
- Whereas karmis are interested only in the personal satisfaction of their senses, devotees work for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord
- Wherever there is a relationship of love of Godhead, the natural symptoms are that the devotee does not think himself a devotee, but always thinks that he has not even a drop of love for Krsna