Caitanya Mahāprabhu – Page 12

premā nāmādbhutārthaḥ śravaṇa-patha-gataḥ kasya nāmnāṁ mahimnaḥ

premā nāmādbhutārthaḥ śravaṇa-patha-gataḥ kasya nāmnāṁ mahimnaḥ
ko vettā kasya vṛndāvana-vipina-mahā-mādhurīṣu praveśaḥ |
ko vā jānāti rādhāṁ parama-rasa-camatkāra-mādhurya-sīmām
ekaś caitanyacandraḥ parama-karuṇayā sarvam āviścakāra ||
(Caitanya-candrāmṛta: 130)

“Who would have heard of that amazing object [i.e., the supreme puruṣārtha] known as prema? Who would know of the name’s glory? Who would have entered the absolute sweetness of Vṛndāvana’s groves? Who would have known Rādhā, the [personified] climax of the astonishing sweetness of the supreme rasa? Only Caitanyacandra, out of his supreme compassion, has revealed all of this.”

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rakṣo-daitya-kulaṁ hataṁ kiyad idaṁ yogādi-vartma-kriyā

rakṣo-daitya-kulaṁ hataṁ kiyad idaṁ yogādi-vartma-kriyā-
mārgo vā prakaṭī-kṛtaḥ kiyad idaṁ sṛṣṭy-ādikaṁ vā kiyat |
mediny-uddharaṇādikaṁ kiyad idaṁ premojjvalāyā mahā-
bhakter vartma-karīṁ parāṁ bhagavataś caitanya-mūrtiṁ stumaḥ ||
(Caitanya-candrāmṛta: 7)

“How great is this killing of rākṣasas and Daityas? Or how great is this establishing the remedial processes of the paths of yoga and so on? Or how great is emanating and so on [manifesting, maintaining, and dissolving the material universes]? How great is saving the earth and so on? We adore only Bhagavān’s form of Śrī Caitanya, the establisher of the supreme path of bhakti resplendent with prema [i.e., in comparison to Śrī Caitanya, the best of all avatāras who has given the paramount spiritual gift, we do not highly praise the acts of Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, and others (who killed demons), Kapila and others (who taught yoga and other disciplines), Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva (who manifest and oversee saṁsāra), or Varāha and others (who saved the earth and performed other feats)].”

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caitanya-samāna āra kṛpālu vadānya

caitanya-samāna āra kṛpālu vadānya |
bhakta-vatsala nāhi āra trijagate anya ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.25.268)

“There is no one else in the three worlds as gracious and magnanimous as, or more affectionate to bhaktas than, Caitanya.”

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sañcārya rāmābhidha-bhakta-meghe

sañcārya rāmābhidha-bhakta-meghe
sva-bhakti-siddhānta-cayāmṛtāni |
gaurābdhir etair amunā vitīrṇais
taj-jñatva-ratnālayatāṁ prayāti ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.8.1)

“The ocean Gaura filled the bhakta cloud named Rāma with the waters [lit., nectars] of the siddhānta regarding his own bhakti [alt., bhakti to himself] and then with these [waters] poured forth by him became an abode of the jewel of knowledge of them.”

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caitanya-līlā-amṛta-pūra

caitanya-līlā-amṛta-pūra, kṛṣṇa-līlā-sukarpūra,
do̐he meli haya sumādhurya |
sādhu-guru-prasāde, tāhā yei āsvāde,
se-i jāne mādhurya-prācurya ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.25.270)

“Caitanya-līlā is [like] an abundance of condensed milk [lit., nectar], and Kṛṣṇa-līlā is [like] fine camphor. By combining, the two become extremely sweet. One who tastes this [combination] by the grace of the sādhus and guru knows its abundance of sweetness.”

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kṛṣṇa-līlāmṛta-sāra

kṛṣṇa-līlāmṛta-sāra, tāra śata śata dhāra,
daśa-dike vahe yāhā haite |
se caitanya-līlā haya, sarovara akṣaya,
mano-haṁsa carāha tāhāte ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.25.264)

“Kṛṣṇa-līlā is the essence of nectar, and Caitanya-līlā is the inexhaustible reservoir from which hundreds of streams of it flow in the ten directions. May the swan of your heart play there.”

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ko’yaṁ paṭṭa-dhaṭī-virājita-kaṭī-deśaḥ kare kaṅkaṇaṁ

ko’yaṁ paṭṭa-dhaṭī-virājita-kaṭī-deśaḥ kare kaṅkaṇaṁ
hāraṁ vakṣasi kuṇḍalaṁ śravaṇayor bibhrat pade nūpurau |
ūrdhvīkṛtya nibaddha-kuntala-bhara-protphulla-mallī-sragā-
pīḍaḥ krīḍati gaura-nāgara-varo nṛtyan nijair nāmabhiḥ ||
(Caitanya-candrāmṛta: 132)

“Wearing a silk sash around his waist, bracelets on his wrists, a necklace across his chest, earrings on his ears, bells on his ankles, and a garland-crown of blooming jasmine flowers atop his top-knotted wavy hair—who is that golden king of revelers who frolics, dancing to [the chanting of] his own names?”

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vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga-

vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga-
śikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ |
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-śarīra-dhārī
kṛpāmbudhir yas tam ahaṁ prapadye ||
(Caitanyacandrodaya-nāṭakam: 6.74; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.6.254)

“I take shelter in him, the ocean of grace, the one, primeval Puruṣa, who assumed the form of Śrī Krṣṇa Caitanya to teach the principles of vairāgya and bhakti-yoga to himself [i.e., Śrī Kṛṣṇa].”

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śrī-rādhāyāḥ praṇaya-mahimā kīdṛśo vānayaivā

śrī-rādhāyāḥ praṇaya-mahimā kīdṛśo vānayaivā-
svādyo yenādbhuta-madhurimā kīdṛśo vā madīyaḥ |
saukhyañ cāsyā mad-anubhavataḥ kīdṛśaṁ veti lobhāt
tad-bhāvāḍhyaḥ samajani śacī-garbha-sindhau harīnduḥ ||
(Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 1.1.6)

“‘What is the greatness of Śrī Rādhā’s love? What sort of astonishing sweetness of mine is relishable only by her through that [love]? And what sort of happiness does she feel as a result of experiencing me?’ Out of such intense desire [i.e., intensely desiring to experience these three mysteries], the moon Hari, endowed with her bhāva, arose from the ocean of Śacī’s womb.”

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yo’jñāna-mattaṁ bhuvanaṁ dayālur

yo’jñāna-mattaṁ bhuvanaṁ kṛpālur
ullāghayann apy akarot pramattam |
sva-prema-sampat-sudhayādbhutehaṁ
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanyam amuṁ prapadye ||
(Govinda-līlāmṛta: 1.2; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.19.54)

“I take shelter in him,
The gracious Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya,
Astonishing in his activities,
Who cured the world
Maddened by ignorance,
And drove it thoroughly mad,
With the nectar of the wealth
[alt., the vṛddhi-tonic]
Of prema for himself.”

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