CC daily 42 – M 4.167-170 – Make tasting Krishna’s glories is symbiotic with sharing those glories

Chandanadeya Pratyah Ghasiya Paraya Sevaka Sab Anandh Kariya Eemata, in this way, Chandanadeya Pratyah Ghasiya Chandanadeya, everyday Chandan was offered Pratyah, Aha is day, Pratyah is everyday Ghasiya, it was ground and rubbed on Gopinath Paraya Sevaka, Sevaka is the servants As Gopinath was offered this Chandan, Paraya Sevaka Sab Anandh Kariya, Anandh Kariya They all became very happy Now, Anandh Kariya, the point here is that we are all at our core spiritual and we all long for the happiness that comes by loving and serving Krishna though we may not realize that this is our core longing we may have many surface longings to see this to watch that, to touch that but actually the heart gets the deepest satisfaction when it is connected with Krishna and the world is meant to act as a tool for enabling us to connect with Krishna so worldly resources act as means by which we link with Krishna and so when we practice Bhakti when we serve Krishna through Bhakti Yoga Anandh Ahoy, we get great happiness so now the Sevaka of Gopinath they already, as was mentioned in the early part of Chaitanya Amrit in this chapter itself that they were doing high class service and they always wanted to offer better and better things to Gopinath so when they saw this Chandan being offered everyday they were naturally delighted Anandh Kariya, naturally immensely delighted Pratyaha Chandan Paraya Yavatahail Antah Tathaya Rahila Puri Tavat Paryantah Pratyaha Chandan Paraya, everyday Chandan was offered Yavatahail Antah in the material world all good things have to come to an end so everyday it was a festival for Gopinath where he was offered profuse quantities of Chandan and there was great joy but then with everyday's offering the Chandan was getting over Tathaya Rahila Puri Tavat Paryantah now actually for Madhavendra Puri Ramana had just been one passing point during his journey which was to Vrindavan but when Gopinath had come in his dream and told Aurobindo Gopal had come in his dream and told offer Chandan to Gopinath then his purpose the urgency of going to Vrindavan was no longer there and his desire, his heart's desire was also to behold the beautiful form of Jagannath of the Lord of Krishna who had manifested in Govardhan as Gopal and Ramana as Gopinath to manifest to him so Madhavendra Puri's heart's desire was to have to serve that Lord, to glorify that Lord, to beautify that Lord and as long as this was being done with Chandan he desired to behold it so he stayed in Ramana although he was a mendicant who did not stay at one place but he stayed in Ramana for the period that there was Chandan over there Yavatahaila Anta Grishmakala Ante Puna Neela Chale Gela Neela Chale Chatur Masi Anande Rahila Grishmakale Anta Puna Neela Chale Gela so now when the Grishmakal the warm hot season got over Ante Puna Neela Chale Gela he was a travelling pilgrim so wherever the Lord inspired him to go that's where he went Neela Chale Gela Neela Chale Chatur Masi Anande Rahila so Neela Chale Chatur Masi Anande Rahila so in Neela Chale he stayed happily for the period of Chatur Mas and generally Chatur Mas is a period of extreme of heavy rains and travelling is difficult so it's good to mendicants also stay at one place and now Puri was a holy place so Puri was signed Madhavendra Puri decided to stay in Jagannath Puri at that time for that period Shri Mukhe Madhav Puri Amrit Charita Bhakta Ganeshu Naha Prabhu Kare Aswadita so here the story ends and Madhavendra Puri here the story is being told by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to his associates and Lord Chaitanya who after taking Sannyas was travelling towards Puri was travelling towards Puri had on the way come to Ranguna and he was telling his associates this story Shri Mukhe Madhav Puri Shri Mukhe with his beautiful with his lotus lips with his auspicious mouth Shri Mukhe Madhav Puri Amrit Charita Madhav Puri the of Madhavendra Puri the Amrit Charita is the word Amrita can mean immortal the word Amrita can also mean nectarian here it means nectarian nectarian characteristics says he heard so Chaitanya Mahaprabhu spoke about this nectarian characteristics of Madhavendra Puri Bhakta Ganeshu Naha Prabhu Kare Aswadita Bhakta Ganeshu Naha so he helped his devotees to hear these characteristics and as the devotees heard these characteristics through him he himself Kare Aswadita he himself was relishing them so the point is that when we speak about Krishna it is not just for the benefit of others it is for our own taste and that's why when we speak our focus needs to be not on demonstrating our cleverness our focus needs to be on showing the world or rather on broadcasting the glories of Krishna and his devotees to the extent we keep that focus to the extent we will be able to relish wonderful taste and to that extent we will be able to move onwards towards Krishna by doing that particular activity of glorifying Krishna so Chaitanya Mahaprabhu his renunciate and his only treasure was Krishna Bhakti Krishna Prem and Krishna Prem is relished by glorifying Krishna and by glorifying those who have devoted their lives to glorifying Krishna so Kare Aswadita Chaitanya Mahaprabhu by glorifying the Amrit Charita of Madhavendra Puri he relished the nectar himself and he shared the nectar with others in this world when we want enjoyment usually our enjoyment comes at the expense of others enjoyment if there is a delicious food item if I eat it then you can't eat it even if we share it then our enjoyment becomes halved because I get half you get half there is competition and our enjoyment is usually at the expense of others enjoyment but in the case of devotional satisfaction actually our satisfaction contributes to others satisfaction and others satisfaction contributes to our satisfaction because when we glorify Krishna not only do others relish it but we ourselves relish it not only we ourselves relish it but others also relish it so in this way this is the best form of enjoyment now we may say that sometimes there are some activities like say music or literature where also people produce something and others enjoy yes that may be there but there also usually if there is no spiritual consciousness and people are not satisfied just by the art they want the product of the art they want a distinction I want to be the country's top artist I want to be the award winning writer I want some external things from the pursuit of art and those external things are temporary are finite and they lead to competition and complication and suffering so we need to connect with Krishna and stay at this spiritual level and there we can experience a happiness which is purely spiritual and we don't need external positions for serving and glorifying Krishna as long as we are internally connected with him and as long as we are internally satisfied then we relish and others relish and that tasting Krishna and broadcasting the taste of Krishna is life's greatest perfection thank you.