CC daily 188 – 6.277 – Training our emotions is the key to transforming them
Chaitanya chartamrita 6.277 bhattacharya kaila prabhu dhruda alangane so shuniya on hearing this chaitanya mahaprabhu anandithamane he became jubilant his heart became enlivened his mind became happy and he laughed in joy and he embraced sarvabhauma alangana so the context is sarvabhauma has been saying that the he first said that the word muktipade should be changed to bhaktipade he actually changed it like that and when chaitanya mahaprabhu gave a devotional explanation of muktipade that the lord is the shelter of the lord is the person who bestow on mukti he is the source of mukti the fountainhead of all liberty and he is also the shelter of everything including mukti so then sarvabhauma bhattacharya accepted that explanation but then he said still the first thought that comes in the mind on hearing the word mukti is of impersonal liberation and such a thought is is abhorrent he said that gruna and trasu it causes apprehension and it causes revulsion on the other hand the word bhakti itself brings jubilation to the heart now hearing this chaitanya mahaprabhu has become delighted chaitanya mahaprabhu chaitanya mahaprabhu is the person who has come to give us the highest benediction of love for krishna specifically love in the mood of shimati radharani now that mood of love in the mood that gift of love in the mood of shimati radharani will be displayed especially by chaitanya mahaprabhu after his meeting with ramanand rai which will be two chapters later prior to this chaitanya mahaprabhu is absorbed in krishna prema chanting the names of krishna and inspiring others to chant the names of krishna so that is his mission as a yuga avatar and along with that he has an internal mission also to relish the love that shimati radharani exhibits in her relationship with the lord so here sarvabhauma has exhibited such a devotional heart that he is telling that he feels revulsion on hearing the word mukti and jubilation on hearing the word bhakti in the past before he received the mercy of lord chaitanya mahaprabhu sarvabhauma like many other impersonalists would have even on being presented a verse which is directly devotional would have tried some way to find a impersonal interpretation for that verse but now he even on being presented a a verse that seems to use impersonal terminology so he wants to far from being delighted by that he is feeling uncomfortable with that so such a spontaneous attraction of the heart is the proof of transformation bhakti in the sadhana stage is a matter of training our emotions educating our emotions that means that there are certain emotions that are proper and certain emotions that are improper now sometimes people say that emotions are just something that happens to us now people talk about say I fell in love now the idea of falling in love is like people fall into a ditch so is falling in love like falling into a ditch the bhagavatam of course talks about it that the attached life of attached materialistic life is like a person falling is like existence in a well deep dark well so now when people get infatuated often they go deep into illusion which they think is love which may be decorate with the name love marriage or love in general even if marriage doesn't happen but the important point is that there has to be understanding that emotions are not just something that happen yes there may be some initial attraction strong infatuation but the relationship may be initiated by that initial infatuation but for sustaining that one cannot depend on feelings that just happen feelings need to be made to happen that means if a relationship is to be sustained even if you don't feel love for a person you still have to act as if there is love and gradually by that action love will develop so feelings initially there has to be some training and after the training it is ok even if I don't feel like this I will do like this and in such a situation I should try to feel like this and by that training gradually emotions start getting developed properly and as the emotions start getting developed more and more we start moving closer and closer to Krishna especially when the emotions are in relationship with Krishna so one of the differences between say Vaidya Bhakti and Ravanuga Bhakti and later between Sadhana Bhakti and Bhava Bhakti and Prem Bhakti the difference between the initial stages of devotion and the later stages of devotion is primarily in the spontaneity of emotions in the later stages spontaneously the force of emotion gets activated when there is any contact with any manifestation of Krishna and by that force our consciousness and we are moved towards Krishna are propelled towards Krishna and such is the wonderful life of devotion now in the case of in the case of say for a spiritual teacher for a great spiritual Acharya, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is himself God he is also a Bhakti Acharya so for him to teach Bhakti his goal is not just to doctrinally shift the affiliation of some people from a impersonal school to a personal school his purpose is to attract people's hearts to inspire them to love Krishna and just as in every field you know when some foundational some fundamental some glorious success is achieved then a person becomes very very happy so for a for a person who was in the past an impersonalist and for such a person to be spontaneously attracted to the Lord and to be attracted to not just the Lord but to Bhakti and to feel discomfort about Mukti that is a sign of deep total and complete heartfelt transformation and seeing this Chaitanya Mahaprabhu feels jubilant and that jubilation expresses itself by his laughing and embracing Sarvabhauma Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is delighted to see the exalted Bhakti of Sarvabhauma and thus he embraces him Thank you.