CCdaily 1- CCM 4.1 – The love that makes the Lord appear and steal is extraordinarily extraordinary

Thank you Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami usually begins each verse of the chetan charita amrit or rather each chapter of the chetan charita amrit with a verse that is a prayer offering obeisances to a character the character that is central in that chapter so for example chetana maha prabhu is dancing with is dancing a ratha yatra then it will be obeisances to chetana maha prabhu as the expert dancer this chapter is describing gopinath she reached out to gopinath and but it is titled as madhavendra puri is pure devotional service and this chapter actually describes madhavendra puri the great devotee and so he begins by offering obeisances to madhavendra puri and the formulation of the prayer itself indicates the thrust of the chapter and it highlights the specific glories of the devotee that are the heart of this chapter so it concludes with tam madhavendram natosmi that madhavendra puri ayat natosmi I offer my obeisances now who is that madhavendra puri yasmai datum chorayan ksheer bhandam yasmai datum to give him chorayan who stole ksheer bhandam the pot of kheer gopinath ksheer chor abhido bhut and who got the name ksheer chor now normally normally if somebody gets a criminal record it's a big blotch a big blot on the profile of a person and often subsequently employment prospects become very gloomy and people try as much as possible and as desperately as possible never to get criminal record on their profile but when the lord does a activity like this you know robbing is normally a criminal activity but what is denigrated in others is celebrated in the lord because whereas others are motivated by selfishness krishna is motivated by selfless love and that's why it is said that he became form of krishna or gopinath became celebrated by the name ksheer chor abhido bhut he became celebrated by the name of ksheer chor gopinath kheer chor gopinath if you want to use the mainstream pronunciation as used in hindi or other languages so that lord who stole or for whom that lord for whom the lord stole a pot of kheer and thereby got the easily misunderstandable name of of kheer thief such is the extraordinary person about whom we are discussing so this is what is described in the first line is distinctively extraordinary not just extraordinary but distinctively radically extraordinary and then beyond that shri gopal pradurasi dvasah san shri another glory of this great person madhavindapur is described shri gopal gopal was the deity which pradurasi means appeared dvasah san why because he was captivated premna by his love normally we worship the deity faithfully throughout our life and by that we get some we become purified we become elevated but rarely does the lord reciprocate by doing something miraculous and even if he doesn't do anything miraculous its not that we are missing something the lord still is miraculously purifying our heart but for even a devote for the deity to do something miraculous is itself extraordinary but the deity did two miraculous things for madhavindapuri first is the deity manifested so shri gopal pradurasi dvasah san shri gopal was unmanifest for a long long time and the story will be described later but that gopal chose to reveal himself by appearing directly before and then appearing in a dream and then then letting himself be established in a temple all through all to madhavindapuri so for a lost form of the lord to reappear through a particular devotee is itself a special special mercy and is a sign of the great devotion of that devotee and beyond that now that story is not although it's very rare and special but it's still not so extraordinarily rare as the first part there are many great devotees there are few great devotees to whom the lord has appeared in a dream and revealed his location but the lord stealing something for a devotee that is practically unprecedented never before has such a thing happened and yet premna why did this happen because the lord was captivated by the love of his devotee so to that madhavindapuri I offer my obeisance as krishna swami is saying what will be we can scarcely imagine what will be the extraordinary nature of the love of a devotee that you know by our love if you can get just the lord to manifest even in the holy name you will get purified and get elevated but for the lord to manifest as a deity and to manifest as a deity which acts and steals but steals kheer that just indicates how powerful is the love of madhavindapuri so that love stirred the lord to action that the lord to action in such miraculous ways so when fervent love calls the lord the supreme lord the loving lord just can't resist the lord gets conquered by that love and how the lord is conquered by the love of madhavindapuri vashaha now vashaha to become subordinated to be conquered is normally not considered to be a very flattering thing but for the lord it is a glorious thing the lord such so great is the love the lord becomes conquered by the love of his devotee and that immense love will be described in this past time and that immense love comprise the heart of this great devotee madhavindapuri and thus we who are aspiring for just a drop of that love we can do nothing but offer obeisances to this great soul madhavindapuri not once not twice but hundreds and thousands and millions and billions of times the madhavendram with those me I offer my obeisances.