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sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
SYNONYMS
sri-rupa—Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha—Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami; pade—at the lotus feet; yara—whose; asa—expectation; caitanya-caritamrta—the book named Caitanya-caritamrta; kahe—describes; krsnadasa—Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.
Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, following in their footsteps.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, Sixteenth Chapter, describing the pastimes of the Lord in His childhood and youth.
The Pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu in His Youth This Seventeenth Chapter, as summarized by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya, describes Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s pastimes from His sixteenth year until the time He accepted the renounced order of life.
Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura has already vividly described these pastimes in the Caitanya-bhagavata.
Therefore Krsna dasa Kaviraja Gosvami describes them only briefly.
Vivid descriptions of some portions of His pastimes are seen in this chapter, however, because Vrndavana dasa Thakura has not elaborately described them.
In this chapter we shall find descriptions of the mango distribution festival and Lord Caitanya’s discourses with Chand Kazi.
Finally, the chapter shows that the same son of mother Yasoda, Lord Krsna, tasted four transcendental mellows of devotional service in His form of Sacinandana, the son of mother Saci.
To understand Srimati Radharani’s ecstatic love for Him, Lord Sri Krsna assumed the form of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
The attitude of Srimati Radharani is considered the superexcellent devotional mentality.
As Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Krsna Himself assumed the position of Srimati Radharani to taste Her ecstatic situation.
No one else could do this.
When Sri Krsna assumed the form of the four-armed Narayana, the gopis showed their respect, but they were not very much interested in Him.
In the ecstatic love of the gopis, all worshipable forms but Krsna are rejected.
Among all the gopis, Srimati Radharani has the highest ecstatic love.
When Krsna in His form of Narayana saw Radharani, He could not keep His position as Narayana, and again He assumed the form of Krsna.
The King of Vrajabhumi is Nanda Maharaja, and the same person in Navadvipa is Jagannatha Misra, the father of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Similarly, mother Yasoda is the Queen of Vrajabhumi, and in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya she is Sacimata.
Therefore the son of Saci is the son of Yasoda.
Sri Nityananda occupies an ecstatic position of parental love in servitude and fraternal attraction.
Sri Advaita Prabhu exhibits the ecstasy of both fraternity and servitude.
All the Lord’s other associates, situated in their original love, engage in the service of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
The same Absolute Truth who enjoys as Krsna, Syamasundara, who plays His flute and dances with the gopis, sometimes takes birth in a brahmana family and plays the part of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, accepting the renounced order of life.
It appears contradictory that the same Krsna accepted the ecstasy of the gopis, and of course this is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand.
But if we accept the inconceivable energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we can understand that everything is possible.
There is no need of mundane arguments in this connection because mundane arguments are meaningless in regard to inconceivable potency.
In the end of this Seventeenth Chapter Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, following in the footsteps of Srila Vyasadeva, has analyzed all the Adi-lila pastimes separately.