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So Kaviraja Gosvami, after offering his respectful obeisances to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and describing the purpose of His incarnation, he is now trying to describe Nityananda. Sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-nityananda. Panca-tattva, one after another... First of all Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, then Nityananda Prabhu, then Advaita Prabhu, then Gadadhara, and then srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda. He is summarizing the obeisances to the Panca-tattva. Now, what is the identification of Nityanandakhya-Rama? Rama, Balarama, and Baladeva, Sahkarsana-there are so many names of Sri Baladeva. In the Upanisad it is said, nayam atma bala-hinena labhyo [Munḍaka Upanisad ]: "Self-realization is not possible without being strengthened by the mercy of Balarama." Sometimes they take it foolishly, that "Without being very strong bodily, nobody can realize self." But that is not the fact. Nayam atma pravacanena labhya na medhaya na bahuna srutena [Munḍaka Upanisad ]. This is the Vedic injunction. That bala-hinena means without being favored by Nityananda Prabhu, Balarama. (More...)

The impersonal glowing effulgence known as Brahman is the outerspace of the Vaikuntha planets in spiritual sky. Outside that impersonal Brahman there is a great ocean which is (?) causal water lying in between the material and spiritual skies. The material energy or Nature is offsuit of this causal ocean. The causal ocean is the margin between spirit and matter. The Karan Vishnu who lies on in that causal ocean creates the universes by his glance only upon the material nature. Therefore in the matter of such material creation Krishna has nothing to do personally. In the Bhagwat Geeta this is confirmed that the Lord throws His glance over material nature and thus she produces so many material cosmos. Either Krishna in the Goloka or Narayana in Vaikuntha does not directly come in contact for material creations. They are completely out of all connection with material energy. It is the function of the Mahasamkarshan who in the form of Karan Vishnu puts His glance over the material creations. The material nature is therefore situated outside the limits of causal ocean. The material nature is connected with the Personality of Godhead by His glances over her. and nothing more. She is impregnated so to say by His glancing energy. The material energy called by name Maya does not even touch the causal ocean as the glancing focus is transferred from far away distant. This glancing power of the Lord agitates the whole cosmic energy and its actions begin at once. This means matter, however powerful she may be, has no power by herself. The activity begins by the grace of the Lord and then the whole cosmic creation is manifested one by one in a systematic. The example of our own experience in the matter of conception of a woman can be applied here also to understand the subject to a certain extent. The mother is inert. The father puts his energy within the mother and thus she conceives. She supplies the ingredients for the growth of the child in the womb. Similarly material nature supplies the ingredients of cosmic development. Therefore the material nature stands in two different phases. The one side of her manifestation is called 'Pradhan' as she supplies the material ingredients for such cosmic development and the other phase is called 'Maya' i.e. the manifestation made by her ingredients are just like the foams of the ocean which stands for a temporary period. 'Maya' means a false temporary flareup. In reality such manifestations of the material nature is originally caused by the spiritual glancing over her. The direct or remote cause of creation is the Personality of Godhead and material nature is the indirect or immediate cause. The materialistic scientist, on account of their being puffed up by some magical changes of their so-called invention, cannot see behind the matter, the real potency of Godhead. Therefore such jugglery of science is gradually leading people to a Godless civilization at the cost of missing the great goal of human life. The materialists have missed the goal of life. They are running after self-sufficiency without knowing that material nature is by Herself self-sufficient by grace of God. What they are doing is that they are disturbing the fixed up position of self sufficiency in the name of civilization creating a collosal hoax of imbalanced distribution. In fact to think of material nature as all in all without knowing the original cause, is a sort of ignorance and Lord Chaitanya appeared to dissipate this darkness of ignorance and to ignite the spiritual sparks of life which once generated the fire of tribulations all over the world becomes at once mitigated by His causeless mercy. (More...)

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