Gauranga Shata Nama 14 – The world’s challenges are meant to strengthen our devotion

Narayani Kripa Sindhu Jeeve Raniyanta Shri Padhuya Dandi Bhakta Doshahanta Narayani Kripa Sindhu So this is Gauranga Shethanam text 14 Narayani was the niece of Shiva's Thakur and mother of the great Vaishnava Vaishnava author Nandas Thakur who is considered the Vyasade of Gauranga Leela and he wrote the classic devotional biography of Lord Chaitanya named as Chaitanya Bhagwat So Narayani Kripa Sindhu Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was like the ocean of mercy for Narayani how did he bestow this ocean of mercy on her when the devotees were filled with anxiety thinking about how the lechha rulers were threatening them and had broken a pradanga and had banned kirtan how the defenseless, weaponless Vaishnavas could possibly counter them and yet the devotees could not live without doing kirtan so what to do was their great dilemma so at that time Lord Chaitanya said that I will make even the wild animals chant wild animals chant and dance in ecstasy and in that way I will attract them I will impress impress on the lechha rulers that the holy name is potent and they should not stop the chanting of the holy names and to demonstrate what he could do Chaitanya Mahaprabhu called upon Narayani gave her a little bit of his Mahaprasad and told her chant Krishna's names now as a sweet cultured girl born in a devotee family naturally she chanted the holy names but what was amazing was she became overwhelmed with symptoms of ecstasy tears started coming, her body started trembling and her hair started running and she started manifesting the ashtavikaro bhakti and thus the devotees understood that this is this is nothing that an ordinary child can manifest and this is the mercy of Lord Chaitanya that he has bestowed love on her and that was the love that she she gave to her beloved son and thus the thus Chaitanya Mahaprabhu demonstrated that he was jiveraniyanta, he was the controller of all living beings and then paduya, paduya refers to the brahmanas who criticized him because he was chanting the holy names he was chanting the names of the gopis and they could not appreciate instead of chanting the names of Krishna, why are you chanting the names of gopis and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was actually in the mood of Radharani in separation from Krishna and so he felt so annoyed that why are you glorifying that Krishna who betrayed us who disappointed us, who left us and so he started chasing after the sannyasis, after the brahmanas and they got angry and they conspired against him and they started blaspheming him and so Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had to take sannyas as we mentioned in the next verse so bhaktadoshyohanta Chaitanya Mahaprabhu by taking him in the part of renunciation he expanded, intensified the devotion of his devotees said about love that when there is when there is little, love is like a fire if the flame is small, then when the wind comes the wind extinguishes the fire but if the love is strong, it is like a very big flame when wind comes, the wind increases the fire so like that, when the lord Chaitanya left the devotees in Navadweep their love for him increased manifold so bhaktadoshyohanta, so whatever little faults might have been there in the devotion, the lord removed those faults and took them to the highest summit of devotion similarly, we should know that no matter what difficulties come in our life, the lord is always in control and whatever challenges we are facing he can overcome all challenges and if he allows challenges to continue to exist, that simply means that he wants us to grow through those challenges and he is working to overcome our faults, to free us from the faults bhaktadoshyohanta so we just, a patient just has to cooperate with the doctor and keep taking the medicine, we just keep cooperating with the lord and keep taking the medicine of remembering him and he will free us from misery and grant us the highest love.