CC daily 5 – CCM 4.10-12 – Use ability to take responsibility on spiritual journey

Next talk, thank you chaitanjata amrit madhya nila chapter 4 verse 10 so now in this way krishna swami is carrying on the description of the past time of lord chaitanya till now he has been offering obeisances to madhavendra puri to lord chaitanya lord nityananda with acharya and associates and to rindananda sthakura so maha prabhu chalila nila chale in this way chaitanya maha prabhu was on his way to nila chal so he had bid farewell to his mother and to the other mayapur vasis and he started off he had just four associates in mayapur he was surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of devotees but here when he started off on his journey he did not have many associates the most prominent of his associates was of course lord nityananda and although they were small small group but still kirtana kutuhal they were absorbed in kirtan they were performing kirtan with great enthusiasm and in this way it was a travelling kirtan party which was relishing and thereby through the example sharing the lecture of the holy names of krishna chaitanya maha prabhu had on the request of his mother who had said vrindavan is so far away if you go there i will not be able to hear anything about you that same lord of vrindavan is present in puri as jagannath so please go to please stay in jagannath puri and we will be able to know about you regularly chaitanya maha prabhu had agreed and now he was on his way to jagannath puri eager to see the lord of his heart lord krishna manifested as jagannath and while he was longing to see that lord he was also relishing that lord who as he manifested as the holy name bhiksha lagi ek din ek gram giya apane bahutan anil magiya so bhiksha lagi so now chaitanya maha prabhu was a sanyasi and the tradition was for sanyasi to go and beg for alms chaitanya maha prabhu very humbly and dutifully did the duty of a sanyasi ek din ek gram giya so in one day he would go to one village so that means each day he would go to a different village because they were all on their journey and they would keep moving forwards apane bahutan bahutan he would bring a lot of food anil magiya when he asked for alms he got a lot of charity that was because people could see that he was such a effulgent, attractive sanyasi they realized he was no ordinary soul and the people understood that actually to be able to give charity to somebody in the renounced order itself is a matter of fortune but to be able to give charity to a great soul in the renounced order that is a matter of even greater fortune and we should not lose such a fortune they are thinking so therefore they are saying that let us give profuse charity so chaitanya maha prabhu although he was not at home still he took care of the associates by getting abundant food for all of them although he was a sanyasi he was the leader of that group but he did not send others he went himself and he got profuse charity so this way chaitanya maha prabhu in an exemplary way exhibited his performance of duties of a sanyasi a sanyasi is meant to humble himself although a sanyasi is given respect in society but chaitanya maha prabhu is meant to humble himself by begging for alms and that's what chaitanya maha prabhu did twelfth verse pathe bada bada dani vighna nahi kare ta sabare kripa kari aila re munare pathe on the path bada bada dani so bada bada means beg beg dani and the word dan can mean one who gives charity but charity can be either way it can be this way or that way so dani in this context refers to those who received money and this money was not just giving charity it was a tall tax collector so those tax collectors vighna nahi kare they did not put up any obstacle ta sabare kripa kari unto all of them kripa kari chaitanya maha prabhu bestowed his mercy aila re munare and he came to remuna remuna is the place where the recollection of lord where madhavendra puri's most famous pastime occurred and where the recollection of that pastime by chaitanya maha prabhu will happen now chaitancharita amrit describes the transcendental on the backdrop of the material so for example when we travel from one place to another we have to take tickets, we may have to stand in long queue to purchase the tickets sometimes the trains will be crowded and all those things can irritate us but if you remember when we are going for yatra we are going to ecstatic place for relishing higher ecstasy then all that this sub material becomes subordinated to the spiritual similarly the material circumstances are described in chaitancharita amrit in just a rough detail krishna asked krishna doesn't go too much into those details and chaitanya maha prabhu was so attractive so charismatic that nobody obstructed him so this was told they were often great trouble great trouble to travelers because in general every kingdom has to maintain its revenue and one of the means to maintain revenue is by taxing especially traders those who are going about earning money those who travel they are meant to be taxed and that was fair and right but renunciates, they have no money and they are not going for trading so they should not be taxed but with a with a muslim government in place they could very easily have troubled lord chaitanya but lord chaitanya was so charismatic that they too were moved this is a great saint, we should not trouble him nor should we trouble those who are serving him and in this way they let him go and chaitanya maha prabhu being pleased by their non obstructive disposition he was so eager to go on to meet lord jagannath he was able to go quickly he kripa kare kripa kare he offered his mercy to them and in that way he kept moving onwards so now chaitanya maha prabhu is using his extraordinary ability his ability is his his charisma, his spiritual potency for for ensuring that his service goes on so his service as a sanyasi is to travel and to relish higher spiritual happiness and to share that relish with others and sometimes there was a conducive environment but sometimes there was a non conducive environment, chaitanya maha prabhu used his abilities so he does his beauty unconsciously not that he is consciously thinking that i am going to use my charisma or my beauty, it just happened that his charisma has captivated people and they joined they assisted him in whatever way they could we may not have such charisma and we may feel that when i try to do service to people instead of assisting me, actually obstruct me, now that may happen but even that obstruction can be for our purification if we take it in a proper disposition Prashanth simply wants me to increase my desire, to use to express my desire through more diligent action in trying to serve him chaitanya maha prabhu demonstrated how he for him, he is diligently ensuring that his progress towards Vrindavan, towards Jagannilachal goes on unimpeded and for that he is he is ready to beg not just for himself but for all his associates also and he is also ready to bless the toll keepers and in this way he keeps going forward and he comes to a place of momentous spiritual significance and the significance of that place we will discuss in our next talk.