CC daily 2 – CCM 4.2-4 – See other devotees as partners, not competitors

Chaitanya Charita Amrit Madhya Leela verse 2 So after offering obeisances to the main character in the chapter, now Krishnaswami will offer obeisances to the devotee community and to the Lord.

This is also a standard practice that he follows which reveals his deeply reverential attitude. Jaya Jaya Gaurachandra. He offers obeisances, all glories, all glories.

So this is also in one sense we could say a prayer. There can be prayer which is Sambrarthanaatmika which is glorificatory. There is not so much obeisances but it is the glorification.

So generally glorification and prayer are slightly different but the essential point is we connect with the Lord. So glory, glory to Gaurachandra. Jaya Nityananda.

Glory to Nityananda Prabhu. Nityananda Prabhu is the spiritual master of Krishnalaskari Rajagoswami and Jaya Jaya Advaitachandra. Now Advaitacharya and Nityananda Prabhu sometimes had conflicts but Krishnalaskari Rajagoswami knows that their conflicts are transcendental and they are both united in love for the Lord.

And so immediately he is offering obeisances to Advaitachandra also. Jaya Gaurabhakta Vrinda. And then there are so many other devotees.

He offers obeisances to all of them and offers his respects. He glorifies them all. Now let's go to the third and fourth verses together.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has taken sannyas and after taking sannyas he is on his way on the South India tour. And on the South India tour he is sorry yeah it's not exactly South India tour. It's towards the south from Shantipur where he met his mother and the other Mayapur Vasis going southwards.

So we could call it in a generic sense of South India tour although in a specific sense later when he will go towards the south, into actual South India that will be the South India tour. This is just a southern tour. He's going south from Mayapur, from Shantipur towards Puri.

So his departure for Niladri, the blue mountain Nilagiri that is the mountain atop which Jagannath Puri is situated. So it's described over here. Jagannath Darshan.

There when he went he took the Arthana of Jagannath which was the whole purpose for which he was going all the way there. And Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya Prabhu Ramilan. And the most striking dramatic life transforming and his history making event that happened there was during his Jagannath's day was the meeting with Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya and the subsequent transformation of Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya from an impersonalist to a devotee, to a great devotee.

Aesab Leela Prabhu Das Vrindavan. Aesab Leela, all these pastimes. Prabhu of the Lord.

Das Vrindavan. Vrindavan Das was practically the first biographer of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. And after him several biographies were written.

But his biography was the most important and his biography was the most influential and his biography is what Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami refers to quite frequently. So overall almost 27 biographies of Shri Lord Chaitanya were written and among them some had Apasiddhanta which were rejected and many others were Nectarian and many of them are available or slowly getting translated. So Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami especially focuses on Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Das Vrindavan Das Thakur and he refers to it again and again.

In one sense that was one of his primary sources and he basically is in one sense complimenting that book not trying to supersede that book or supplant that book. So his humble disposition would be evident in the few verses. So he says Prabhu Vistari.

So elaborated elaborately explained Kariya chain has already done. Uttama Varnana. So Varnana that description is elaborate and excellent.

Vistari and Uttama. So here we see the humble and appreciative attitude of Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami. He does not in any way try to.

He has no insecurity. He is only humility. You know he doesn't feel that I have to prove the credentials of my book.

I need to somehow minimize the earlier book. He places himself firmly at the feet of Vrindavan Das Thakur and he does not feel that that will anyway cause his book to lose credibility or that who will if I repeatedly keep glorifying the other book then who will read my book. He's not thinking in those terms.

He's thinking simply in terms of glorifying the Lord and glorifying his devotees also. So he profusely carries his mood of glorifying the Lord and his devotees even to the earlier biographer who has already glorified the Lord quite elaborately. That is Vrindavan Das Thakur.

So he sees him not as a competitor but as a venerable superior and he is simply in his own humble small way trying to complete the work which Vrindavan Das Thakur has already done in a glorious way. So we will see his mood continuing on in the subsequent verses also. But excellence and elaboration.

So now we may wonder what is left. It's been elaborately described. It's been excellently described.

So in general among the differences that we will see in these past in the depiction of past times in CC and CB, Chaitanya Bhagwat, one of them, one of the most important things is the philosophical analysis and the theological exposition. Chaitanya Bhagwat is primarily a devotional, is primarily a biographical book which focuses on narrating the incidents in a very sweet way and along with that it also contains philosophical assertions, strong philosophical assertions but it does not go about much into elaborately into substantiating through various scripture quotations those particular assertions or like that. It is primarily a book which is to be relished and it has been relished immensely by devotees whereas Chaitanya Charita Amrit is a book which is primarily meant for for establishing the Siddhanta of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.

So it also has the past times but its thrust is on the Siddhanta. So it is not so much a biography as a treatise on theology in the format of a biography. So the book established its credentials on its own because of its caliber and it did not need to displace or discredit the earlier book rather by placing the Chaitanya Bhagwat on a high pedestal and by crediting it Krishna Sivaraj Goswami demonstrated his deep Vaishnav attitude to his readers and thereby that endured him to them and they relished his creation much more.

So we as devotees should know that in glorifying the lord there is no need for competition. We can all glorify the lord in different ways and there are so many people who need to hear the glories of the lord and you can always find ways and forums for glorifying the lord in various ways according to our capacities and delight in those glories and help others delight in those glories. So by seeing others as partners not competitors in the mission of the lord we can we can relish the lord's glories immensely and help the world relish without expending our energy in unnecessary and internecine conflict.

So this is this dispositive Krishna Sivaraj Goswami as will be revealed in this is revealed in this in subsequent verses.