Jagadish Pandita – The Lord reciprocates wonderfully with the desire to serve

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on the sacred day associated with Sri Jagdish Pandit let us contemplate on his extraordinary position and contribution in Sri Chaitanya Leela Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had many associates who were all of different levels in terms of their relationships with him ultimately they are all his servants but just as we have Jagannath Mishra and Shachi Mata who acted as his parents so like that there were a few devotees who were elder to him Advaita Acharya was one similarly Srivas Thakur was older in age but Srivas Thakur always acted very humbly Advaita Acharya also desired to act very humbly so one such devotee who was in a rasa almost similar to that of Jagannath Mishra and Shachi Mata was Jagadish Pandit and his wife Dukhini Jagadish Pandit was from Pragyotishapur that is in Assam Gauhati and he came all the way from there and he started residing in Navadvip and his house was right next to the house of Jagannath Mishra and they became very close intimate friends and his wife Dukhini she acted almost like a second mother for little Nimai in fact there were times when she would also act as her as his wet nurse such fortune is extraordinary and actually Gowda Gowdanda Deshdeepakar describes that Jagadish Pandit was actually one of the was a Sakha named Chandra Haas in Krishna Leela and was also one of the Nagapatnis so his important roles even in Krishna Leela and here he was so dear to Lord Chaitanya that Lord Chaitanya right from his childhood he would perform pastimes with his family and one day when he was just growing up at that time Lord Chaitanya little Nimai at that time he started crying now the devotees were of course older to him at this time the ladies over there knew that whenever Nimai starts crying the only way to make him peaceful is to chant the holy names and they would start chanting and this way Nimai would make everyone chant but on this particular occasion even when Nimai chanted and chanted and when devotees chanted still Nimai didn’t stop singing stop crying and seeing this the devotees became frantic with anxiety and they asked Nimai what is the matter what do you want us to do and Nimai said in the neighboring house of Jagdish Pandit they have made some rice offering today is Ekadashi but they have made rice offering for the Vishnu deities please go and give me get those for me immediately without that I will die of hunger and exhaustion and weakness so the devotees were amazed and Jagannath Mishra went there and he saw it true right enough how could little Nimai have known but Nimai had made but Jagdish Pandit had made this beautiful offering of rice food and now Jagannath Mishra started thinking is it proper for Nimai to eat rice on Ekadashi it was Ekadashi day so they said no this is Nimai’s desire Jagadish Pandit said no it is a perfection you know if the lord has by his arrangement got Nimai to know that I have made this offering then it is his desire that he wants him to eat also so they did not think of him as the lord directly but they understood his exalted position and then they fed and then Nimai became very happy and later on after Nimai is Jagannath Mishra had departed from the world and then Nimai decided to take sanyas so he asked Jagadish Pandit to go to Puri and to preach in Puri also in that area so when he went to Puri and he took the darshan of Jagannath he was so ecstatic on taking that darshan that he just felt how can I live in separation from lord Jagannath I cannot and he just couldn’t tolerate the thought of leaving Jagannath Puri and going back to Bengal and as he was barely dragging himself somehow considering how I could go back Jagannath was so immensely pleased by his intense devotion and Jagannath decided that I will ensure that my devotee his separation will be mitigated and that night lord Jagannath came in the dream of the king of Puri and told him that when the Navakalever festival takes place that means lord Jagannath performs the pastime of giving up his wooden form and a new wooden form is given for him so the old wooden form is called a samadhistha deha so that should be given to Jagadish Pandit and the king when Jagadish Pandit came to offer his respects to the king the king was delighted to see the exalted devotee for whom lord had come in his dream and he gave him that that particular form of Jagannath now Jagadish Pandit was elated as well as agitated elated that the lord had fulfilled his desire but also filled with anxiety how can I carry this huge duty all the way back to Bengal so the lord told him don’t worry you know I will become as light as a cork for you and you will be able to carry me just like as if on a staff you carry very easy no problem at all then Jagadish Pandit felt relieved as lord said that I will be as light as this only as long as I want to travel and the place I wish to stop that is where I will become heavy and you will not be able to move me and accordingly Jagannath started moving so Jagadish Pandit also got two brahmins and they all started carrying Jagannath and they went along and they came to a village of Jashora and Jagadish Pandit just went to the Ganga to take bath and suddenly the brahmins who were carrying Jagannath found that Jagannath had become unbearably heavy and he couldn’t carry any further so then they decided what to do they decided to stay there itself so Jagadish Pandit surrendered so that his home was at another place in Bengal but he immediately decided this is where the lord wants me to stay this is where I will stay and then at that time he did not have any place to properly worship the lord so it was just under a tree that he started worshiping the lord the king of the local area he came to know about this he came to offer his respects to Jagannath and he saw how wonderful the deity was and how totally devoted Jagadish Pandit was to the worship he built a temple for the deity over there and this temple in Jashora was so dear to all the devotees Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda themselves when they were travelling around they came there and then they had darshan of the deities and they gave their merciful association to Jagadish Pandit and not only that when Lord Chaitanya was about to depart Dukhini she started crying at the thought of imminent separation from the lord and seeing her intense emotion the lord manifested and gave her a Gaur Gopal deity and that Gaur Gopal deity and the Jagannath deity they were the worshipable deities of Jagadish Pandit so here we see how Jagadish Pandit throughout his life served Lord Chaitanya and Lord Krishna in such intimate and devoted ways and it is the example of selfless pure devotion of exalted devotees like these that is the inspiration for us in our spiritual sadhana in our spiritual struggles and by praying to them by begging for their mercy by begging for a drop of the faith and the devotion that they have our heart can also become slowly enriched and we can also taste the sweet glories of Lord Chaitanya and Lord Krishna Shri Jagadish Pandit ki Jai Thank you