CC daily 204 – 7.33-35 – More important than our desire for the Lord’s proximity is his pleasure

Thank you. Third text. Tabe chari jan bahu minati karila Swatantra ishwara prabhu kabhu na manila Tabe nityananda kahe ye ajna to maar Dukha sukha ye hawka kartavya amaar Kintu eka nivadana karo arbaar Vichara kari atah karangikar So, Shaitan Mahaprabhu has refused his devotees’ request that he take one of them with him.
And he gave reasons, lovingly but firmly he gave reasons why he doesn’t want to take any of them. Bahu minati, the devotees pleaded with him, beseeching him, requesting him, almost begging him, earnestly, desperately, fervently, but the Lord remained firm and unrelenting. And then finally, Nityananda Prabhu, he realized that this is not a battle that they were going to win, the battle of love.
And so, they decided to focus on making a request to the Lord to take at least someone, if not one of them, then someone else. Nityananda Prabhu will bring that point now. And before that he describes that the nature of love is when one accepts what the beloved wants, irrespective of whether it causes one pleasure or pain.
That is the nature of love. Acknowledging this nature, the Lord states, Nityananda Prabhu states that I’ll make a request to you. You consider it, please consider, and you decide what you would like to do.
So here we see the transcendental nature of the relationship of the Lord with His devotees. He’s saying, I am one of the devotees with the Lord. The devotees say that whatever you do, O Lord, whether it gives us pleasure or pain, still you are our master and we are your servant.
So based on that understanding, we accept your will. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu talks about this also in His Shikshashtakam prayer. Madhpranathas tu sa eva na paraha.
Madhpranathas. Krishna, you remain the Lord of my life. Madhpranath.
Tu sa, your Lord, na paraha. No one else. Swam Aashvishyava.
Here, Lord Chaitanya is acknowledging. So in this particular verse, it is the last verse of Shikshashtakam. This is actually Chaitanya Mahaprabhu speaking in the mood of Srimati Radharani.
Where, after the Lord has left Vrindavan, leaving the Gopis heartbroken, barely able to live, but somehow unable to die because of the promise of the Lord that He will come back. So in that situation, when the Gopis are living, at that time, entering into their mood, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is actually in the mood of Radharani, Krishna in the mood of Radharani. Radha bhavati tu suvaritam naumi krishna svarupam.
The Lord who is in Radha bhav. He is in the complexion of a Gopi, who is in the complexion of Radharani and the emotion of Radharani. naumi krishna svarupam.
So here we see that the Lord is demonstrating the sweetness, the bitter sweetness of spiritual love. Bitter in the sense that separation from the Lord is bitter, but when the separation leads to intensification of recollection of the Lord, intensification of meditation on the Lord, that is sweet, that is eminently sweet. And the devotees in this way accept the greatness, accept Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is demonstrating the mood in which we need to accept the supreme will of the Lord. So here that same mood ashtishyava padartam pinashtimam. Now you embrace me or you trample me under your feet.
padartam pinashtimam. Or by not giving darshan of queen you leave me heartbroken. O Lord, now here the word lampata is used.
Lampata is actually a very strong chastising word. But it is used here in the mood of surrender. That is your nature O Lord.
You are fickle, you are a lampata. But still you are my Lord. And even if you act in a fickle way, still I will remain faithful to you.
I have no other Lord other than you. You are my prananath. Here we see the mood of devotion is exactly the opposite of what is the mood in normal life.
The Lord is fruitful but the devotee is fickle. That means the Lord honors his word but the devotee sadhaka sadhaka, the neutral sadhaka under the influence of the fickle mind sadhaka acts fickly. Giving up commitments not doing the things which are expected to be done and overall neglecting and rejecting things.
So amidst that mood it is stated here that the Lord is all attractive and he is all he is eternally the Lord. is one of his characteristics his attractiveness is inclusive of it’s the meaning of all attractive. And on one side he is faithful, he honors his word kaunteya pratijavanihi name bhaktah pranashyati ho kaunteya, oh Arjuna, declare that my devotee will never perish.
That but that same Lord who honors the word of his devotee also does something else and that is he when necessary does whatever it takes to turn the heart and life of the devotee around and as Krishna explains to the Gopis after he returns after having left them when he returns the Gopis ask Krishna how have you left everything to come to you and how could you leave us and go away is it that you did not they did not use those explicit words there was an implication still is it that you are so hard hearted that you don’t care for those who love you Krishna says no I care so much for those who love me that I want them to taste more and more of that love and thus sometimes I give them separation from me so that their love for me intensifies Chaitanya Mahaprabhu will has given that rasa of separation within our weak devotees now he is going to give that rasa of separation even to those who are going to leave him those who had left everything for him who had come from Navgip to Puri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is going to give them also that rasa and from their point of view Dhanan Prabhu he voices sentiments of selfless love when he says oh lord the nature of love means that we will accept whatever you do oh lord you are our master, you are our lord and whatever you do whatever you tell us to do we will do that and in this way they surrender to the lord they offer themselves utterly to the lord and yet their concern for the lord makes them offer one suggestion which the lord will accept how that happens we will see in future talks thank you