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Topic: Glories of Sri Nityananda Prabhu Date:20th February 2024 Speaker: HG Sarvabhauma Prabhu HG Sarvabhuma Prabhu: HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj ki Jai. Gaur bhakta ki Jai. guravegauracandrayaradhikayaitadalaye krsnayakrsna-bhaktaya tad-bhaktayanamonamah om namo bhagavata vasudevaye kṛṣṇāyavāsudevāya devakī-nandanāya ca nanda-gopa-kumārāya govindāyanamonamaḥ nārāyaṇaṁnamaskṛtya naraṁcaivanarottamam devīṁsarasvatīṁvyāsaṁ tatojayamudīrayet namomahā-vadānyāya kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāyate kṛṣṇāyakṛṣṇa-caitanya- nāmnegaura-tviṣenamaḥ Jaya Sri-Krishna-Chaitanya Prabhu Nityananda, Sri-Advaita Gadadhara Srivasadi-Gaura-Bhakta-Vrinda Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare - Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare  HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj ki Jai. Gaur bhakta ki Jai.  By the mercy of Sri SriKrsna and Balrama and Sri Sri Gaur Nitai there will be three day Bhagavat Katha on the Appearance of Sri Nityananda Prabhu.He  is“Akurdha”- one never gets angry. So, we will hear his pastimes today who is even merciful on Jagai and Madhai. CC Ādi 2.3 jayajayaśrī-caitanyajayanityānanda jayādvaita-candrajayagaura-bhakta-vṛnda Translation All glories to Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord ŚrīNityānanda! All glories to Advaitacandra, and all glories to the devotees of Lord Gaurāṅga! Please chant this mantra for Nityananda Prabhu: Nityanandamahamnaumi sarvananda-karam param hari-nama-pradamdevam avadhuta-shiromanim Translation "I bow down to the Supreme Lord Nityananda Prabhu, who is the awarder of the highest joy to all, the bestower of the holy name and the crest jewel of all paramahamsa mendicants." He gives us bliss on behalf of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and he has opened the market for distributing holyname. Mahajan means a business man. Anyone can take the holynames of the Lord. He has opened the naam hat. Avdhut Shiromani means one who is engaged in the chanting of holynames. They are above all designations and they are not bothered about this world.  Datatraye Muni in Srimad Bhagavatam is called “Avdhut.” Shiromani means crest jewel of all paramhamsas.He is always absorbed and drowned in Krsna prema. We should recite this prayer in whichever temple we visit before Gaur Nitai deities. Shastanga pranam is for Lord, Panchanga Pranam is for matajis. Mind and words are both of prabhujis and matajis. From mind we have to think about Lord and from our tongue we should recite this shloka. So after Prabhupada mantra, we should recite this mantra. We should recite this mantra for Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. CC Ādi 1.14 pañca-tattvātmakaṁkṛṣṇaṁ bhakta-rūpa-svarūpakam bhaktāvatāraṁbhaktākhyaṁ namāmi bhakta-śaktikam Translation I offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, who is nondifferent from His features as a devotee, devotional incarnation, devotional manifestation, pure devotee and devotional energy. CB Madhya-khaṇḍa 28.200 ānanda-līlā-maya-vigrahāya hemābha-divyac-chavi-sundarāya tasmaimahā-prema-rasa-pradāya caitanya-candrāyanamonamaste O Śrī Caitanya-candra, I offer You my repeated obeisances. You are the personification of Kṛṣṇa's blissful pastimes, and You are extraordinarily beautiful, having a dazzling golden luster. You have awarded to the people of the world the topmost mellows of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa. So this is a simple shloka.So we should learn these shlokas as well with pranam mantras. Then the pranam is complete not just falling flat like a stick! Then this type of pranam mantra is called Ashtang Dandvat Pranam. In Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi lila is from Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s birth to Sannayasa Lila.Madhya Lila is the six years in which he travelled in South India and then went to Vrindavan. Antyalila describes his last eighteen years in Jagannatha Puri. Nityanand tattva is described there. Nityananda lila is everywhere but Nityananda tattva is described in the fifth chapter. Kaviraj Goswami writes CC Ādi 5.1 vande ’nantādbhutaiśvaryaṁ śrī-nityānandamīśvaram yasyecchayā tat-svarūpam ajñenāpinirūpyate Translation Let me offer my obeisances to Lord ŚrīNityānanda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose opulence is wonderful and unlimited. By His will, even a fool can understand His identity. It is one of the Navada Bhakti. He is AdbutEswar and Ananta, the expansion of Nityananda. He distributesthe love of God.He begged everyone fromdoor to door to chant Hare Krishna mantra. Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare - Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare  He is theNaam Acharya.Nityanand prabhu inspires everyone to chant Hare Krishna mantra. He is that Nityanand Eswar. He is bliss giver and he was asked by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to do this. He is not like God who is the controller of all activities but he is the giver of Holyname prasad. CC Ādi 5.1 vande ’nantādbhutaiśvaryaṁ śrī-nityānandamīśvaram yasyecchayā tat-svarūpam ajñenāpinirūpyate Translation Let me offer my obeisances to Lord ŚrīNityānanda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose opulence is wonderful and unlimited. By His will, even a fool can understand His identity. He is very mercifuland  if is happy with us, then Tat means God and Svarup is Nityanand prabhu. Tat tvamasi- this is a shloka in Vedas which says that just like Krsna, I am also  God. I am the part and parcel of Krsna. Nityananda When an illiterate  can understand his glories of Nityanand. Even children can understand this philosophy that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna and Nityanand Prabhu is Balrama and make others also understand this There is no difference in these personalities Hari Haribifale by Narottama Das Thakur Vrajendra-nandanajei, saci-sutahoilo sei, balaramahoilonitai Translation 0 Lord Hari, I have spent my life uselessly. Having obtained a human birth and having not worshipedRadha and Krishna, I have knowingly drunk poison. Those who are not in Krsna Consciousness they can’t understand Krsna. Even big devotees don’t take his name and understand this philosophy. Have you heard anyone saying this that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is Radha and Krsna?  He is the Acharya tattva. He is the Adi guru. Those who do not know him, how can they know Krsna? Without Nityanand’s mercy no one can understand Krsna. How can he be a Guru then? Many of them are roaming on this planet, but they don’t know about Nityananda Prabhu. They cannot attain the service of the lotus feet of Lord without his mercy. This is a very confidential knowledge which all devotees in ISKCON  know. CC Ādi 5.2 jayajayaśrī-caitanyajayanityānanda jayādvaita-candrajayagaura-bhakta-vṛnda Translation All glories to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityānanda! All glories to Advaita Ācārya! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu! Two- three days before we celebrated Advaita Acharyas appearance. He is non-different from Krsna. He is Advaita Chandra who brought Chaitanya Chandra to this world. Hare na Advaitam. He starts the disciplicsucession that why he is called Acharya. Glories to all the associates of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu are his eternal associates. Sri Chaitanya sangigana.The Panchatattva are Nityasiddha.He is capable of giving Krsna. In CC in fisrt 5 shloka nityanand glories are mentioned. CC Ādi 5.3 eiṣaṭ-ślokekahilakṛṣṇa-caitanya-mahimā pañca-ślokekahinityānanda-tattva-sīmā Translation I have described the glory of ŚrīKṛṣṇa Caitanya in six verses. Now, in five verses I shall describe the glory of Lord Nityānanda. In the first four shloka, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s glories are explained. In the fifith shloka, glories of Nityananda Prabhu is explained. Krsnaraj Kaviraj Goswami explains: CC Ādi 5.4 sarva-avatārīkṛṣṇasvayaṁbhagavān tāṅhāradvitīyadehaśrī-balarāma Translation The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the fountainhead of all incarnations. Lord Balarāma is His second body. Krsna is not avatar. He is the source of all incarnations. ŚB 1.3.28 etecāṁśa-kalāḥpuṁsaḥ kṛṣṇastubhagavānsvayam indrāri-vyākulaṁlokaṁ mṛḍayantiyugeyuge Translation All of the above-mentioned incarnations are either plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead. All of them appear on planets whenever there is a disturbance created by the atheists. The Lord incarnates to protect the theists. CC Ādi 5.5 eka-isvarūpadoṅhe, bhinna-mātrakāya ādyakāya-vyūha, kṛṣṇa-līlārasahāya Translation These two are one and the same identity. They differ only in form. Lord Balarāma is the first bodily expansion of Kṛṣṇa, and He assists in Lord Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental pastimes. His other form is Sri Balaram. Lord expands in two forms- Prakash and Vilas. When he expands from one to many Krsnas,  with all similarities in all aspects- form, thinking etc. So this is done in Raas lila. This is the effect of Prakash. One with Radharani is the main Krsna other are his expansions.  Other is vilas in which he expands but he looks different in form, dress etc. Balram has appeared from Krsna and wears blue colour as he sees Krsna inside as well as outside. This is the same for Radhrani. Balram is white and Krsna is black. They are same in strength. Nityanandaalso wears Blue colour. Radharani also sees Krsna inside and outside. That’s why he is called Nilambar. When Krsna said that he didn’t eat dirt, Balram disagreed and said that he had actually eaten mud. So Krsna calls him black from inside. He says that I am adopted and teases me. So it  is true that Balram is black from inside as Krsna is inside him. Sohe is his first expansion. Why does he expand? Because he wants to help in Krsna Lila and appears from the right side of Krsna. Then Balarama expands himself as Chaturbhuja form. All the Vishnu in the Vishnu loka will come from Balaram. Vasudev, Sankarshan, Pradyumna  andAniruddha. This shloka was once discussed  with Srila Prabhupda and he was in Prayag raajtwo times. He has his first initiation here and also had his business as well. Yamuna matajisung Govindamadhipurusham. She is one of first disciple of Srila Prabhupada. Other disciple was HG Madhudvesh Prabhu and preached in Australia and Newzland. This shloka says that Krsna and Balram is same. Yamuna mataji says that Krsna and Balram are different. Krsna can perform raaslila, Balram cannot. Tamal Krsna Goswami went to Srila Prabhupada and asked this to him. To this Srila Prabhupada said MadhudveshPrabhuji is right that they both are same. They are same but have different bodies. Srila Prabhupada said what Yamuna said is also right. Then Tamal Krsna Goswami Maharaj said how is this possible? Then Srila Prabhupada said that he is also right. Giriraj Maharaj told that all three were correct. Then he narrated the pastime of five blind people who try to analyse the elephant. Every person had different interpretations. Sothis is our condition, we can understand them as per our realisations. But we are right on our part. It is difficult to analyse Krsna. CC Ādi 5.6 sei kṛṣṇa — navadvīpeśrī-caitanya-candra sei balarāma — saṅgeśrī-nityānanda Translation That original Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared in Navadvīpa as Lord Caitanya, and Balarāma appeared with Him as Lord Nityānanda. One who appeared as Krsna in Vraja similarlyappeared in Nawadwip as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. In one part of Goloka the associates stays and other part has the associates of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Navadwip’s Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is same as Krsna. Balram and Laxman who came with the Lord he only appeared as Nityananda. Saket dham is the first, then above that is Dwaraka, then Mathura and then Goloka. Wherever Chaitanya Mahaprabhu went, all those places are in Vaikuntha also. CC Ādi 5.7 saṅkarṣaṇaḥkāraṇa-toya-śāyī garbhoda-śāyī ca payo ’bdhi-śāyī śeṣaś ca yasyāṁśa-kalāḥsanityā- nandākhya-rāmaḥśaraṇaṁmamāstu Translation May Śrī Nityānanda Rāma be the object of my constant remembrance. Saṅkarṣaṇa, ŚeṣaNāga and the Viṣṇus who lie on the Kāraṇa Ocean, Garbha Ocean and ocean of milk are His plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions. Sri Krsna is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Balram is Nityanand Prabhu. Sankarshan who sleeps in Karunodakshai Vishnu and Garbha sagar and Khirodakshiye Vishnu and shesha who holds them. These five are expansions of Nityananda. He is Nityanand Rama who gives pleasure to all devotees. CC Ādi 5.8 śrī-balarāmagosāñimūla-saṅkarṣaṇa pañca-rūpadhari’ karenakṛṣṇerasevana Translation Lord Balarāma is the original Saṅkarṣaṇa. He assumes five other forms to serve Lord Kṛṣṇa. CC Ādi 5.9 āpanekarenakṛṣṇa-līlārasahāya sṛṣṭi-līlā-kāryakaredhari’ cārikaya Translation He Himself helps in the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and He does the work of creation in four other forms. CC Ādi 5.10 sṛṣṭy-ādikasevā, — tāṅraājñārapālana ‘śeṣa’-rūpekarekṛṣṇeravividhasevana Translation He executes the orders of Lord Kṛṣṇa in the work of creation, and in the form of Lord Śeṣa He serves Kṛṣṇa in various ways. Mul Sankarashna is the first expansion. Balram is  the helpers in Krsna lila. He takes other 4 forms to participate in formation of this material world. All other forms  also serves Lord. Sesha means all the activites which are not performed by lord is performed by him. Siurpamakha’s nose was cut by Laxman. He tastes all the 5 types of rasa. CC Ādi 5.11 sarva-rūpeāsvādayekṛṣṇa-sevānanda sei balarāma — gaura-saṅgenityānanda Translation In all the forms He tastes the transcendental bliss of serving Kṛṣṇa. That same Balarāma is Lord Nityānanda, the companion of Lord Gaurasundara. In five forms he serves the Lord. All the ornaments and dresses are the expansions of Balaram. In shantarupa- serves Krsna in shaantrupa. Dasya rup- he massages the feet of Krsna. Balaram is big brother in Sakhya bhaav and in Vatsalya bhaav which motheryasoda  instructs Balram to take care of Krsna. He is Anang Manjiri as Madhurya bhaav who is Radhrani’s sister. CC Ādi 5.12 saptamaślokeraarthakaricāri-śloke yātenityānanda-tattva jānesarva-loke Translation I have explained the seventh verse in four subsequent verses. By these verses all the world can know the truth about Lord Nityānanda. In the 7th shloka Nityanand tattva is explained. Then tomorrow we will discuss about his pastimes and lila.    

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