CC daily 15 – M 47-53 – Serve the Lord with sound strategy

Thank you. Chaitanya Charita Amrit Madhya Leela Text 47 Pratah snana kari puri gramya madhe gela Sab loka ekatra kari kahite lagila Here, the pastime of Madhavendra Puri discovering and installing the DT of Gopalji is being narrated. So the Lord had come in his dream and told him to install the DT.

So all this had happened in the night. Late night, Madhavendra Puri had napped slightly after chanting throughout the night. So during that time, when he had napped briefly, the Lord came in his dream and told everything.

So dramatic. So traumatic also. Dramatic because the DT is being discovered.

Traumatic for Madhavendra Puri because he had failed to recognize the Lord. But he came out of his trauma based on his service attitude. And now next morning, Pratah snana kari and he woke up.

In an extraordinary way, he was thinking that I have to go and get the Lord now. So immediately he went and took bath. Puri gramya madhe gela And then he went right in the middle of the village.

Sab loka ekatra kari kahite lagila Sab loka ekatra kari Now he brought all the people out together, assembled them. kahite lagila And then he began to speak. The villagers in the Vrindavan area, even now many of them are very devoted people.

At that time, they were filled with devotionally minded people. And when they saw a saintly looking person has come and he wants us to come out and hear something, they were very curious. And they could probably have seen also the effulgence in Madhavendra Puri's face.

Normally he was effulgent because he was such a great saint. But now he was even more filled with effulgence because of the great excitement of the news that he was going to tell and what was going to transpire thereafter. So he spoke to the villagers.

Gramera eshwar tomar govardhan dhari Kunje ache chal tandra bahir yeh kari So gramera eshwar tomar The Lord, the eshwar, the deity of your village is govardhan dhari. Kunje ache He is there right now in a thicket, in the forest. Chala Chala, please come with me.

Tandra bahir yeh kari So we will take him out from there. Now, how do you introduce to people? He is not just telling, Oh, there is some deity over there. He said Krishna had told him that that I am the master over here.

So Madanendra Puri accepts this. Even if the deity may not be in a temple as a presiding deity, but still, that deity is the master even now. So he says, that even now your master is gramera eshwar tomar.

The Lord of your village is govardhan dhari. And the villagers must have looked at each other. Who is govardhan dhari? He is eagerly waiting to know.

And he said, Kunje ache He is lying in a thicket right now. Come with me. So the people were amazed to hear this.

And they were eager too. First of all, it was an astonishing event to hear about itself. And then they were excited.

Is there really a deity like this? We need to go. And they were immediately about to rush. Let's go.

But Madanendra Puri, he wanted to do this service properly. It was not just that he was overwhelmed with ecstasy and couldn't think coherently. Now he realized that you need a strategy to get to the thicket where the Lord is kept.

atyanta nivida kunje nari praveshite kuthari kodali laha dwarakarite So, atyanta nivida kunje that the forest is extremely thick. And because it is very thick, nari praveshite will not be able to rush in there. kuthari kodali laha kuthari kodari These are different instruments which are used and which the villagers were expected to have.

They will not have. At that time, guns were also not there. But weapons like bows and arrows, these are not what ordinary villagers may have.

And that is not required. Madanendra Puri asked for those implements which they would have and which would be useful here. So, kuthari kodali laha dwarakarite So, we will not be able to enter.

But we will create a way. So, here Madanendra Puri is actually deploying strategy. He is a saint, but a saint does not mean that a saint is impractical.

He is practically showing that even when the Lord has come and it is such an extraordinary event, but we are not meant to give up our intelligence. We have to use our intelligence carefully and plan how to render service to the Lord. So, he is saying this is a strategy.

Take all these instruments and then we will go and we will create a way from there. So, then shuniloka tandrasange chalila harishe kunja kati dwarakari kareela praveshe So, shuniloka tandrasange when people heard this shuniloka tandrasange with him chalila harishe they were jubilant. Oh, what a wonderful thing.

The Lord is here. And then it will decide to go. Taking the implements with them kunja kati dwarakari and they hacked their way cut their way through the kunja in order to reach and then they entered into the kunja.

Now Krishna had at that time when Krishna had come as the boy he had just pointed out the kunja to him to Madhavendra Puri and he just told I am there and now Madhavendra Puri had observed the kunja from far itself but he had seen by observing itself that the kunja is very thick. So, he also was very eager to see the deity. Of course, he had seen Gopal but still he was eager to see the deity also.

And kareela praveshe he entered along with all those people. Thakur dekhi la mati trune achadita dekhi sab lok hai la anand devi smita Thakur dekhi and then they went into the thicket and they saw Thakur lying over here. Mati trune achadita achadita covered over by mati is mud or dust and trune is grass achadita So, actually when the invaders had come and they had tried to desecrate the deity the pujari had taken the deity deep into the forest.

So, he had thought that nobody will search here in the forest and he kept there and probably his plan was to come again but the danger must have become too much and he was not able to come back. So, the lord had remained over there. But afterwards mud and grass had overgrown and they were serving the deities over there by concealing the deities.

So, dekhi sab lok hai la and on seeing this all the people, what happened? Anand devi smita they become astonished and delighted. Delighted with astonished with delight Anand devi smita So, for devotionally minded people to have darshan of the lord is very special and to think that there was some deity of the lord which was lost long ago and has now been discovered and that we have been a part of the team that discovered it what a privilege, what a pleasure and how amazing the saint came to us and said there is a deity and actually there is a deity they were so amazed and delighted to see this. avarana durakari karila viddhite mahabhari thakura keha nare chalaite So, avarana durakari they achchha dhan and avarana is the same thing avarana durakari they removed the dust particles from the lord's deity and then karila viddhite and they spoke after that mahabhari thakura keha nare chalaite mahabhari thakura is extremely heavy keha nare chalaite one person will not be able to lift this huge deity keha nare chalaite actually these villagers were eager to take the lord out and install him as soon as possible but they also realized that one person cannot lift it up then maha maha balishta loka ekatra kariya parvatau parige lapuri thakura laya so maha maha balishta loka ekatra kariya extremely powerful people they all came together and then they climbed up the hill and they brought the deity of the thakurji with him so in this way this transcendental rescue operation was performed restoration operation you could say by which the lord who had been placed in a position where he was not being served that position was ended and now we will discuss in the future talks about how Madhavendra Puri arranged for a magnificent ceremony for installing the lord and worshipping the beautiful festival and thus began the glorious chapter in Vaishnav history of the worship of Gopal Deity in Vrindavan and then later.