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Japa Talk 01-02-2024 [HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj] Srila Jayadeva Gosvami Disappearance Day festival! All glories to the Srila Jayadeva Gosvami Disappearance Day festival!On this day, what to say about today’s special day? Whether it is a good day or bad day? Approximately 700 or 800 years ago, SrilaJayadeva Goswami, where he was born at Kendubilva in district of Birbhum in Bengal; the place where he was born or where Lord gave him birth; in the end, he came back there only and disappeared from the same place. Therefore, in this month of Magh, at Kindulbilva, a fair is also organized.As we are talking about this, SrilaJayadeva Goswami Ji Maharaj here, similarly, on his birthplace as well at the place of his disappearance, a fairis being organized today in his remembrance. Hari bol! In Jaipur also, when it was known that SrilaJayadeva Goswami was no more, then his beloved deities, all glories toSri Radha-Madhava; as he himself worshiped Them.Those deitiesreached Sri Vrindavan Dham from Bengal via Odisha and then from  there, the King of Jaipur brought those deities of Sri RadhaMadhava to Jaipur and installed them there and built the temple. Their deityworship is continuing till date. Few years back, I have also been fortunate to have darshans of Sri Radha Madhava. On this auspicious occasion, in that temple as well, celebrations must be going on. Now, Srila Jaydadev Goswami has been renowned in the world. The Lord himself makes his devotee world renowned. The Lord himselfbecomes PR Director or an image maker for His devotees. This is to be said that when Lord incarnates in this world then, along with Him, He also incarnates some of His eternal pure devotees on this earth. Once Srila Jaydadev Goswami Maharaj used to stay in vicinity of capital of Navadwip of the King Naresh. Jayadeva Goswami has been great poet, author, specially the king, whose name was Lakshman Sen. The word Sen meant King. When he heard Sri Dasavatarastotra by Jayadeva Gosvami then he was impressed so much that he wanted to meet the author. He came and was pleased to meet Srila Jayadeva  Goswami, however Srila Jayadeva Goswami not that much happy. It is similar to that once Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, being a sannyasi, did not want to meet King Pratap Rudra. This is so because a King is influenced by women and wealth. They are attached to women as well as wealth. He understood that now meetings with king will continue as he will keep coming to meet him. Therefore, Srila Jayadeva  Goswami declared that he wanted to leave that place and go to Jagannath Puri in Odisha. He was thinking like this and was expressing as well. But the king Laksham Sen refused. He requested, “If not desired, then you may not live in vicinity of my kingdom. I can make separatearrangements for you but at least please stay in Navadvip Dham. The King, made special arrangements for Srila Jayadeva Goswami and his wife Padmavati’s stayin Champa Hati in Ritudwip and they started living there. In this way, he stayed in the dham and along with that he continued to pen down the poetries as well as Books. Marriage of Srila Jayadeva  Goswami As I told you about his wife Padmavati, Srila Jayadeva Goswami had to accept Padmavati as her wife against his actual will. Once, a brahmana of Odisha did not had any child. He observed specific austerities and performed special offerings to Lord Jagannath. With that,Lord Jagannath was pleased and blessed him with a daughter. When the girl reached her age of marriage, so the brahman went to Lord Jagannath’s deity, prayed, and asked, “To whom I should marry her?” Lord Jagannath said, “Give herto Jayadeva Goswami.”Brahmanacame there with her daughter. However,  Jayadeva  Goswami had no interest. He always wanted to observe his vow of celibacy, as he was a goswami by heart. However, the brahmana said, “No! it is the order of the Lord. The Lord took your name!” Poor Jayadeva Goswami had to accept the orders. This is how Padmavati married to Jayadeva  Maharaj. We can’t say goswami at this point. Hari! Hari! Despite being married, he followed celibacy for his whole life. Both of themJayadeva Maharaj and His wife Padmavati stayed to be vaishnava and vaishnavirespectively. The kind of love the vaishnavashave, that love remained between them. Composition of Iconic Gita Govinda When they were staying in Champahati, at that time he was composing the iconic Gita-Govinda  All glories to GitaGovinda! for which and other books as well, Srila Jayadeva Goswami is very popular. However, Srila Jayadeva Goswami means Gita Govinda. Srila Jayadeva Goswami appearedalmost300 years before the appearance of Sri Krishna ChaitanyaMahāprabhu. That means, until, that time Caitanya Mahāprabhu had not appeared.Still, it was possible thatChaitanya Mahāprabhugave darshan to Jayadeva Goswami. Hari bol! Besides, for the composure of all of these books, direct dictations were coming from Lord as He was guiding as what all was to be written i.e. write this, write that etc. In this particular book, Jayadeva Goswami mentioned about the conjugal love pastime especially sringar rasa of Lord.  Even in that, when Srimati Radha Rani becomes manini which comes from maanwhich is Her transcendental loving anger towards Krishna. This maanis kind of her love only. Affection is also a kind of love and Pranaya is also a description of love, Rag is also a type of love, Mahabhav is also a type of love, and so maanis also a description of love, and the names which I just took, all are a reflection of what Gopis and especially Sri Radha Rani have for Krishna and become Manini. One who is full of maanor Manmaya, and so the Manini can only be Sri Radha Rani. Srila Jayadeva  Goswami, in his GitaGovindabook mentions about the same and how Krishna pleads to persuade Sri Radha Rani, the Manini. In this from of Maan, Vipralambhai.e. the mood of separation, the intense condition of separation, and to persuade such distressedRadha Rani, Krishna does everything and what not to make her happy and to satisfy her. He even has to touch Her lotus feet and He does that too! Till that point SrilaJaydadeva Goswami reached while composing his books. smara-garala-ghadanam, mama shirasimandanam dehi pada-pallavam udaram jvalati mayi daruno madana-kadananalo haratu tad upahita-vikaram, priyecharushile Translation: “My beloved! Offer the fresh buds of your enchanting feet as an ornament upon my head, so the devastating effect of Cupid’s poison may be alleviated and the harsh fire of amorous desires may also be relieved.” [Ashtapadi(Geet Govinda) 19-7] In thisverse, Lord Krishnasays, “O Radhey! from your enchanting feet, my grandeurenhances. Your lotus feet are graceful for me. Your lotus feet enhance my glory!” Further, JayadevaGoswami was supposed to write this; “O Radhey! Offer the fresh buds of your enchanting feet as an ornament upon my head!” dehi pada-pallavam udaram. Dehimeans to offer your lotus feet. Where? shirasimandanam upon my head. dehi pada-pallavamudaram, Srila Jayadeva  Goswami had to write this, however, he was bewildered thinking that whether in reality, does Krishna plead like this? Does Krishna really wants itthat Lotus feet of Sri Radha Rani are upon his head? In that confusing state, he stopped writing and went to river Ganga to take holy bath and shortly came back home and knocked the door. Padmavati opened the door and asked “How come you have come so early from bathing?” The person standing at the door, who looked just like Jayadeva Goswami, answered, “I just remembered few things which Icould write, therefore I came early. I want to write it now. He went inside and wrote dehi pada-pallavamudaram.” Thereafter, He had prasadam as well. Padmavati served as she used to serve her husband. She didn’t have any other thoughts in mind. As He had returned from bath so there was lunch and He did some writing work also. After some time, someone knocked on the door again and this time there was the real, the original Jayadeva Goswami! As soon as he entered, the already present person, so called Jayadeva Goswami, who just looked like him, who was not real, disappeared. Padmavati recites her whole experience and told, “Just now only you had come and you wrote in your book. You told that you remembered something more to write on the way to Ganga.”Jayadeva  Goswami ran and reached the place where he was writing in his book, saw that the thoughts which he was debating upon whether he should write them or not, questioning if thosewere really the thoughts of Krishna? He saw that it was already written in beautiful calligraphic words.dehi pada-pallavamudaram O Radhe!On seeing this, he got overwhelmed and Padmavati also understood what had happened. Jayadeva Goswami told Padmavati “How fortunate you are! Lord Himself appeared and gave darshan to you! Besides, you served the Lord, food as well! Look at me, how unfortunate I am! I couldn’t see Lord but you could see. This Gita-Govinda is like Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself dictated to Jayadeva Goswami. Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahāprabhu would appear due confidential reason of His appearance i.e. to understand the heart of Radha and relish the mellow of transcendental love. prema-rasa-niryāsa karite āsvādana rāga-mārga bhakti loke karite pracāraṇa rasika-śekhara kṛṣṇa parama-karuṇa ei dui hetu haite icchāra udgama Translation: The Lord’s desire to appear was born from two reasons: the Lord wanted to taste the sweet essence of the mellows of love of God, and He wanted to propagate devotional service in the world on the platform of spontaneous attraction. Thus, He is known as supremely jubilant and as the most merciful of all.[CC Adi 4.15-16]  In Caitanya Caritamrita, Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami writes that the confidential, personal, or private reason of appearance of Lord was that He wanted to taste the sweet essence of the mellows of love of God in this pastime of Lord Caitanya. Besides, He wanted to propagate that as well. The kind of devotional service that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to taste and distribute, that devotional service was jam-packedin this Gita-Govinda, written by Jayadeva Goswami.premāpumarthomahān, panchampurusharth Lord Caitanya recommended that the greatest achievement of human life is to achieve the grace of the Lord, love of God. He said, “This scripture written by Jayadeva a Goswami. It was relished by Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahāprabhu along with other scriptures, like Krishna Karnamrita by Vilvamangala Thakur. Nectar of the top most scripture Srimad Bhagwatam was also relished by Sri Krishna CaitanyaMahāprabhu in Jagannath Puri. śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda Translation: I offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Lord Nityananda, Sri Advaita, Gadadhara Pandit, Srivas Thakur, and all the devotees of Lord Caitanya.[Mangla Arti] Here, also Radha Rani has appeared as Gadadhara. Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to hear the nectar of Srimad Bhagwatam from the lotus mouth of Gadadhara. Different topics which Caitanaya Mahāprabhu used to relish, among them GitaGovinda by Jayadeva Goswami was the top most. When we say that Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to relish it then it’s not required to mention separately that Jagannath Swami also used to relish this nectar. As I mentioned Jagannath Swami also, although it is not require to be mentioned separately as vāsudeva ghoṣa bole korijoḍahāt jeigaura sei kṛṣṇa sei jagannāth Translation: Vasudeva Ghosa says with folded hands, “He who is Gaura is He who is Krishna is He who is Jagannatha.[Text 5 of Bhajan Jaya Jaya Jagannatha Sacira by Vasudeva Ghosa] Jagannath Swami is also Gauranga Mahāprabhu and Lord Krishna Himself. For Him also this scripture by Jayadeva Goswami was quite adored. In the evening or before going to yoga meditation sleep, He wanted to, He had to, He liked to hear GitaGovinda. In Jagannath temple, GitaGovinda is sung every day! Many a times when we go and come out of temple after darshan then singing of this GitaGovinda was sung and we have also heard and sung it as well. While taking rest Jagannath Swami is covered with the bedsheet, GitaGovindawritten on it. Hari bol!Once there was daughter of a gardener who used to sing GitaGovinda. When Jagannatha Swami heard it, He left His place and followed her in the garden in which she was collecting some flowers or fruits. Jagannath Swami was following her and was hearing and relishing the GitaGovinda.The daughter of the gardener was singing and doing kirtana and it was heard and relished by Jagannath Himself. It was the time of either bhoga offering or sleep, conch shell was heard or bells started ringing. Lord Jagannath immediately ran from there and on the next day, when the priest woke up Jagannath then he observed that there were some thorns in the clothes of Jagannath as it was the field of brinjal where Jagannath had went last night. Clothes of Lord were somewhat dirty and there was some dirt on the body of Jagannath as well. Later on, slowly, it was found out as to what had happen and that Lord had gone to hear GitaGovinda sung by the daughter of the gardener. From this, I don’t know whether you can have an idea as how glorified this GitaGovinda is, which was written by Jayadeva a Goswami. GitaGovinda! GitaGovinda! It feels really good even when we take its name. GitaGovinda, GitaGovinda ! which attracts Govinda Himself and which is most dear to Lord.It is of His choice. The Gita Govinda: A Journey into Realms of Delight At the very end of this same GitaGovinda, JayadevaGoswami glorifies it and compares it. How sweet it is! it is full of mellow of conjugal love which is incomparable to any other sweet thing or person in this material world. Listen carefully what Jayadeva Goswami, i.e. the author himself has written in the end of his scripture, its glorification also. sädhvi mädhvika, cintä na bhavati, bhavata: sharkare karkashäsi dräkshe drakshyanti ke, tväm amruta mruta masi, kshirairam rasaste | mäkanda kranda, käntä-dhara dharani talam, gaccha yacchanti bhävam yävacshringära,särasswatha miha, Jayadeva asyavishwagachamsi Translation: “Hey powerful wine! Do not think you are so intoxicating. Hey sugar! You are too harsh. Hey grapes! Who will look at you? Hey nectar (amåta)! You arelike death (måta). Hey milk! You taste like water. Hey ripe mango! Now go and weep. Hey lips of a beautiful woman! Now you have no place to go. As long asthe complete essence of erotic love exists in the form of the auspicious, artful composition of Sri Jayadeva, those who are expert in relishing the rasa of this poetry do not experience any sweetness in you.” [Gita Govinda a 24.13]  sädhvi mädhvika, cintä na whatever sweet is available in this world, like honey is sweet. People keep on remembering such sweetness and continue to meditate on sweet things as they want to enjoy that again. JayadevaGoswami says, “As this nectar of Gita Govindais available then who will care for honey or any other sweet element available in this material world? Forget it! No one will think about it. No one will remember worldly sweetness. Further he writes bhavati, bhavata: sharkare karkashäsi, the sugar is harsh in in comparison to my Gita Govinda. Sugar tastes like sand as compared to Gita Govinda. It is sand only as compared to my Gita Govinda. dräkshe drakshyanti ke, dräkshe mean grapes and drakshyanti refers to seeing, coming from same word, like to see. Further, Jayadeva Goswami is saying dräkshedrakshyantike, which means, “Hey grapes! Who will look at you?” when my Gita Govinda is available and it is sight worthy.  tväm amruta mruta masi There is nectar in this world. Amruta means which does not die. Jayadeva Goswami is saying that as this GitaGovinda has appeared so nectar of this material world will die. This so callednectar of the material world will die in front of Gita-Govinda! kshirairam rasaste kshira means milk. Hey milk! You taste like water. You will no longer be milk.Youwill taste just like water. What is the value of this milk when I have made Gita Govinda available?mäkandakranda,mäkanda means ripened mango. Mango is called the king of the fruits. When we take its name, our mouth is watered just by thinking about its taste. However, Jayadeva Goswami addresses this ripe mango and says, “Hey ripe mango! Now go and weep.” Nextis käntä-dhara.Inthe eyes of materially engrossed people, so called nectar of lips of a beautiful woman is the top most. There is no nectar greater than this. All conditioned souls want to drink this nectar of lips of a beautiful woman and kiss her. Itcan’t be compared with any other nectar. käntä-dhara, adhara means the lower one.Jayadeva Goswami says that “Hey nectar of lips of a beautiful woman! You go to hell now.” dharani talam, gacchasi.  In comparison to this artful composition of Sri Jayadeva Gita Govinda, which has appeared now, mellow of beauty and conjugal love, which is very auspicious also. It is incomparable to any materially engrossed so called nectar, as it is relished by the Lord Himself and His pure devotees also relish it. Mellow in this recipe is relishable by Lord as He is the supreme enjoyer. bhoktāraṁyajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati Translation: A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries. [BG 5.29] When Lord relishes the nectar, it isbhoga offering for Him and then it becomes prasad for the devotees. All glories to disappearance day festival of Jayadeva Goswami who has composed this most relished and audible Gita Govinda!  

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