Kashishvara Pandit – How the Lord rewards humble and sacrificing service

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Hare Krishna On this sacred occasion associated with Shri Kashishwar Pandit let us contemplate on His glory Shri Kashishwar Pandit is a personification of humility and dedication in extraordinary ways Shri Kashishwar Pandit was a disciple of Ishwara Puri in that sense He is a God-brother of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and yet Shri Ishwara Puri instructed Kashishwar Pandit and Govinda to go to Puri and serve Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Kashishwar Pandit immediately surrendered to the instruction of the spiritual master and became a servant of his own God-brother Of course, everyone knew at that time that Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is Himself the Supreme Lord come as a Channa Avatar come as a Lord in the mood of a devotee but still, He is teaching over here surrender to the instruction of the Guru and even if the Guru instructs that serve your God-brother almost as a menial servant one should be ready for that Now, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu also exemplifies another aspect of Vaishnava etiquette He said that how can I take service from my God-brother that is not possible, He is extremely reluctant but then Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu consulted senior Vaishnavas over there like Sarvam Bhattacharya and others and they said that yes, the etiquette is important but the instruction of the spiritual master supersedes the etiquette and if the instruction of the spiritual master that they should serve you then you should not deprive them of the opportunity to follow the instruction of the spiritual master and then Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu consented. Now, Kashishwar Pandit was very strongly built and when Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would dance there are two factors could take the Kirtans out of control Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Himself while dancing would be in such ecstasy that hundreds and thousands of people would come to see His dance and when He would dance in ecstasy, He would jump and fall and run and move completely in arbitrary ways like a divine madman, Divyon Mad as Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu calls it, divine madness sometimes He would fall right in the midst of the crowds and things could become very chaotic or on the second factor would be the crowds would want to rush in to touch Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s feet to get His mercy in that way and that could also be dangerous. So, Kashishwar Pandit with His strong body and His strong arms would keep the crowds away and would enable Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to drink the nectar of Kirtan without any distractions at all and thereafter when the devotees would sit for Prasad, Kashishwar Pandit would be eager although he was a senior devotee of the same level generation wise as Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu still he would personally serve Prasad to all the devotees and he was one of the primary devotees who would arrange for serving Prasad whenever major festivals would take place when Haridas Thakur disappeared from the world when the Vaishnavas, hundreds of them from Bengal would come to Vrindavan come to Puri and like this he was ecstatically serving Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and one day Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu got a message from Rupa Goswami that after great effort, Rupa Goswami had discovered rediscovered the deity of Govinda Dev now Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was jubilant that the deity had been lost for a long time has now come back and he felt that Rupa Goswami needed more and more help so that he would be able to arrange for the proper worship of Govinda Dev deity and Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu called his trustworthy associate and servant Kashishwar Pandit that told him please go to Vrindavan to assist Rupa Goswami in the service of Govinda Dev Kashishwar Pandit was devastated on hearing this and he humbly folded his hands in front of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and told him with tears in his eyes, my dear lord if I go away from you within a moment my heart will split into two and yet I cannot disobey your instruction please guide me as to what I should do Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was so touched by the love of his devotee that he manifested a magnificent deity, the deity of Krishna which was so attractive just like the deity of just like the original form of Krishna and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu told him that this is my gift to you so the lord gave Krishna to his devotee in the form of the deity this is a gift that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gave to very very few devotees personally giving a deity that he had manifested to to an intimate associate and he told him in this way I will always be with you and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu right with the deity sat down to take prasad, it was being served by Kashishwar Pandit seeing this reassurance and his love of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu agreed and he took that deity which came to be known as Gaur Govinda and carrying that deity with him he travelled from Puri long journey to Vrindavan and in Vrindavan lifelong thereafter he served the two Govindas the Govinda deity which had been discovered by Rupa Goswami and the Gaur Govinda deity which had been given by Srila Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to him and later on this Gaur Govinda deity was also moved to Jaipur and in the Sararth it is said that actually it is by the grace of Kashishwar Pandit that this beautiful deity of Krishna of Gaur Govinda came to western India and blessed the people of western India so we can meditate on how on considering the example of Kashishwar Pandit how we can serve with humility and sacrifice in whatever situation we are put in so that we can please the lord and gain his mercy Thank you very much Hare Krishna