CC daily 53 – M 5.1-6 – The highlight of the Lord’s tour is his ecstatic routine

Chaitanya Chantamrita Madhya Vila, Chapter 5 The Activities of Sakshi Gopal First verse So, Madhavendra Puri So, Krishna's Kaviraj starts each of his chapters with Sanskrit verse that more or less summarizes the pastime described in that chapter while also stressing the highlight of that pastime.

So, here he says Padhyam, padhyam, with one's own legs Chalan He walked or went Prathima Swaroopo In the form of the Prathima, in the form of the deity And who was that? Brahmanyadevohi Shatahagamyam Brahmanyadevohi Krishna, who is the, is considered to be Brahmanyadev, the lord of the brahmanas Shatahagamyam For hundred days Deshamyayau Viprakute Adbhuteham Deshamyayau He went to a distant country, Viprakute, for the sake of benefiting a brahmana Adbhuteham How wonderful is it? Tam sakshi gopalam aham natosmi Unto that Sakshi Gopal, I offer my obeisances Aham natosmi So here, Madhavendrapur, here Krishnadasa Kaviraj again emphasizes three points He says that that lord walked on his own feet Normally, the deity doesn't move by its own feet, but the deity moved And not just a little bit, you know, the deity moving A pot of kheer just from one place to another place For the sake of a devotee It's such a great pastime, that is, that is the Ramanas Kirti of Gopinath And now in this case, Shatahagamyam So the deity walked, not just walked a little distance, but walked for a hundred days Shatahagamyam How amazing it is, the deity walked for a hundred days And further, it said Why did the lord do that? The prakriti, for the sake of a brahmana So viprakriti adbhutaham Such is the wonderful activity, adbhutaham of Tam Sakshi Gopalam That Sakshi Gopal, aham natosmi I bow down to him So the amazing thing is that the lord walked And the lord walked for a hundred days And the lord walked for benefiting a brahmana So how special is it? How wonderful it is? And it is this pastime that he'll be narrating in this chapter Second text Jaya Jaya Sri Chaitanya, Jaya Nithyananda Jaya Advaita Chandra, Jaya Gauravakta Vrinda So usually the second text In almost, in most chapters in Chaitanya Charita Amrit Is after an obeisance to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Or to the central character of that particular deity in the first world Or of that particular chapter in the first verse Then it is an obeisance to the pancha tattva So Chaitanya Nithyananda, Advaita Chandra And these three are the primary characters Chaitanya Charita Amrit And describes how these three are the These Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's tree The two main branches wedge The that of Aditya Acharya and Nithyananda Prabhu So these two are talked about And then the remaining two elements of pancha tattva And others are put in Gauravakta Vrinda So all of them are glorified So now the pastime continues The pastime of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's going towards Nilachit, Jagannath Puri continues now Third text Chaitanya Mahaprabhu kept walking When he was a sanyasi at that time The Kshatriyas would move around on horses And chariots and elephants But the common people would usually move around On bullock carts or on feet Sanyasis especially would move around on feet Chalite chalite, he walked Chalite chalite, aila Yajapur gram Yajapur is a place famous for the deity of Varaha Dev There are not many Varaha deities And this particular Varaha deity was there So he saw the deity and karila pranam He offered obeisances to that deity This is a characteristic of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's travel Essentially the highlight, the landmark of his travels Is visiting temples And that's what Visiting temples and interacting with either devotees or Spiritual teachers of other paths Whom he preaches to and quite often transforms, converts Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, he considered himself to be the servant of the lord And as a servant he wanted to give pleasure to the lord So the servant gives pleasure to the lord in various ways To the master in various ways So one way Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gave pleasure was by dancing and singing So he sang for the pleasure of the deities Dance for the pleasure of deities And he was filled with love With love he did, he praised the lord And his way, he spent the night in Yajpur He spent the night So then from there, from Yajpur, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came to Katak And there, there was the beautiful, there was the deity of Sakshi Gopal Chaitanya Mahaprabhu beheld that deity And when he saw, beheld the beauty of Gopal He became joyful And normally when we love someone, just the sight of that person fills us with joy And when we see that person is dressed and adorned beautifully Then that increases our joy In fact, when there is love between two people, they dress each other They dress beautifully just for the pleasure of their beloved So the devotee desires to serve the lord And the lord desires to reveal more and more of his beauty for his devotees So when the deity's pujaris are dressing and decorating the lord Actually, it is the lord who is guiding them, inspiring them To dress and decorate the deity by which The deity's beauty will be revealed to the devotees So when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu saw the beauty of the lord He became immensely happy And just as in this world, when people see a beautiful sense object Then they feel delighted That is a distorted version of the original pleasure that the devotee gets In relationship with the lord When the devotee serves and glorifies the lord At that time, the lord becomes, the devotee becomes Delighted and that's how the That's the joy of a devotee's life So there was the same ecstatic routine that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu followed everywhere Normally routine is something which you consider to be monotonous But Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's routine was ecstatic Although routine, it means it is routine every day But it did not become humdrum, it did not become hackneyed, it did not become ordinary Every day it was ecstatic, it was joyful So what was that ecstatic routine of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu? For some time he performed being overwhelmed by love On seeing the beauty of Gopal He danced and he sang And again Premaveshi is mentioned in the first itself But in the avishtahaya, the more he danced and sang Greater was the love that permeated him, that overwhelmed him And in this way he praised Gopal profusely Such were the ecstatic routines of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Where he beheld the lord, danced for the lord And feasted on the lord's beauty And pleased the lord by his dancing and singing.