Vakreshvara Pandit – The wing of devotion for the Lord to fly into the sky of love

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Hare Krishna. On this sacred day associated with Shri Vakhareshwar Pandit, let us contemplate on his glories. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu had many associates who joined him in his pastimes at various times.
But a few were there right from the beginning of his pastimes in Navadvip. One such special soul was Vakhareshwar Pandit. He was a fabulous dancer and he would dance with such devotional grace and spiritual ecstasy that he would get completely lost and sometimes for hours and hours and hours he would keep on dancing, being animated by transcendental energy.
So, Caitanya Mahaprabhu loved him so much that he said that seeing his ecstasy, Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s ecstasy would increase and Caitanya Mahaprabhu would say that you are like my wing and if I had one more wing then I could fly. Caitanya Mahaprabhu was through this conveying what an intimate role Vakhareshwar Pandit had in the pastimes. The Lord wanted to fly in the sky of devotional ecstasy and Vakhareshwar Pandit was transporting him into that fathomless, endless sky.
So, Vakhareshwar Pandit was there with Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Navadvip. Then he would be there in the pastimes in the dancing in Shiva Sangam and then he was there with Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu performing Hidam Sankirtan and then he was there diligently serving Lord Chaitanya even in his pastimes in Puri. It was he who established the Radhakanta Deities in Kashi Mishra’s house near which which was right close to Gambhira and so, among his many disciples, Vakhareshwar Pandit one of his disciples is Gopal Guru Goswami and another his disciple is Dhyana Chandra Goswami and he says that Vakhareshwar Pandit is actually Tunga Vidya Sakhi one of the Ashta Sakhi of Srimati Radharani who has descended along with Radharani.
Radharani, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is there in the mode of Radharani and assisting him very intimately is Tunga Vidya Sakhi. So, one pastime which illustrates the glory of Vakhareshwar Pandit is the pastime of how a Vaishnava who is, a person who is offended, a Vaishnava gets redemption, gets freedom from that offence by service to another Vaishnava. Not just freedom from that offence but actually purification and the opportunity to please the Lord.
So, Devanand Pandit had what one time offended Sivash Pandit Sivash Thakur because he had neglected Sivash Thakur Devanand Pandit was a speaker on the Bhagavatam and when he was speaking, Sivash Thakur went and started hearing but Sivash Thakur went into ecstasy hearing the description of the Bhagavatam. Unfortunately, Devanand Pandit’s students and disciples were all merely intellectually oriented and they felt all this ecstasy is simply a disturbance and they just picked Sivash Thakur and almost threw him out of the place where they were discussing and Devanand Pandit didn’t object. So, Sivash Thakur when he came back to consciousness felt very bad to have been ejected like this ejected like this Shaitan Mahaprabhu was very displeased by this Now, of course, Devanand Pandit went and offered eventually back forgiveness but that enough that alone was not enough Later on in Puri when Vakreshwar Pandit was dancing in Kirtan so Devanand Pandit decided to act as his guard and he, when he would dance up and down in ecstasy, people would be all around him people would want to come close to him, to touch his feet or to be close to him and he did not want he did not want Vakreshwar Pandit to be either hurt or to be even disturbed in his Kirtan So, he would act like a guard all around keeping the people away and keeping Vakreshwar Pandit safe not just safe in terms of safe physically but safe in the sense of absorbed in spiritual ecstasy and when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu heard about this service he was so pleased and he said What is the great mercy that you have got Actually, Lord Krishna resides in the heart of Vakreshwar Pandit and Krishna dances with Vakreshwar Pandit, Krishna dances in his heart and that dance of ecstasy exists in itself as Vakreshwar Pandit’s dance and whoever is blessed by Vakreshwar Pandit will get supreme blessings In fact, the place that Vakreshwar Pandit goes, that place will become the greatest of all pilgrimage places such was the exalted position of Vakreshwar Pandit and we can pray to Vakreshwar Pandit also that he grant us his mercy that we can also get some taste in the remembrance of Lord Chaitanya taste of devotion and we can become also free from whatever offenses we may have committed to anyone Thank you Hare Krishna