14.7
svarupa-gosani ara raghunatha-dasa
ei duira kadacate e-lila prakasa
SYNONYMS
svarupa-gosani—Svarupa Damodara Gosvami; ara—and; raghunatha-dasa—Raghunatha dasa Gosvami; ei duira—of these two; kadacate—in the notebooks; e-lila—these pastimes; prakasa—described.
Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami recorded all these transcendental activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in their notebooks.
PURPORT
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s transcendental feelings of separation from Krsna and His consequent madness are not at all understandable by a person on the material platform.
Nonetheless, a so-called party of devotees named nadiya-nagari has sprung up and introduced the worship of Visnupriya.
This certainly indicates their ignorance concerning Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s pastimes.
In the opinion of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, such worship is a product of the imagination.
Many other methods of worshiping Caitanya Mahaprabhu have also been introduced, but they have all been rejected by stalwart devotees like Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
The groups practicing such unauthorized worship have been listed by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura:
aula, baula, kartabhaja, neda, daravesa, sani
sahajiya, sakhibheki, smarta, jata-gosani
ativadi, cudadhari, gauranga-nagari Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami witnessed Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s activities firsthand, and they recorded them in two notebooks.
Therefore, without reference to these notebooks, one cannot understand the activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Anyone inventing some new method for worshiping Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is certainly unable to understand the Lord’s pastimes, for he is bereft of the real process of approaching the Lord.