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Purport to Parama Koruna

Los Angeles, January 16, 1969
Prabhupada: Parama koruna, pahu dui jana, nitai gauracandra. This is a song sung by Locana dasa Thakura, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya, almost contemporary. He wrote one book, Caitanya-mangala, depicting the activities of Lord Caitanya. That is a very famous book, Caitanya-mangala. And he has composed many songs. Practically all Vaisnavas, they are transcendentally poetic. That is one of the 26 qualifications of the Vaisnava. So he says that "These two Lords," nitai gauracandra, "Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga, or Lord Caitanya, They are very merciful incarnations.'' Saba avatara-sara siromani. "They are essence of all incarnations.'' The incarnation is stated in the Bhagavad-gita that whenever there is discrepancies in the prosecution of religiosities and there is prominence of impious activities, at that time the Lord incarnates, or He descends on this material world, for protecting the pious and annihilating the impious. That is the mission of incarnation. Every incarnation you'll find two things. Lord Krsna, He's so beautiful, so kind, but He is very dangerous to the demons. The demons were seeing Him as thunderbolt and the gopis were seeing Him as the most beautiful cupid. So in the Bhagavad-gita also it is stated, ye yatha mam prapadyante [Bg. 4.11]. The God is realized in proportion to one's freedom from the demoniac propensities.
So in this age... Of course, the last incarnation, Kalki, will simply kill. Long, long after, He will come. But here Lord Caitanya, His mission is no killing, simply favoring. That is the specific characteristic of Lord Caitanya. Because in this age, of course, there is very much prominence of irreligiosity. But if Lord Caitanya wanted to kill them, then there was no question of their salvation. They would be... Of course, anyone who is killed by incarnation he also gets salvation. But not to the spiritual planets, but they merge into the Brahman effulgence as the impersonalists desire. In other words, the impersonalist's goal of salvation is as good as the goal of salvation of the enemies of God. That is not a very difficult job. So Lord Caitanya is very merciful because He is embracing everyone by bestowing love of Krsna. Rupa Gosvami has described Lord Caitanya as the most munificent of all the incarnations because He is giving Krsna to everyone, without any qualification. So Locana dasa Thakura says that parama koruna, pahu dui jana, nitai gauracandra, that They are essence of all incarnation. Kevala ananda-kanda. And Their preaching process is very pleasing. Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommends "You chant Hare Krsna, dance nicely, and when you feel tired, just take rest and eat Krsna prasadam." So His formula is very pleasing. Kevala ananda-kanda. While He was present in Jagannatha Puri, every day in the evening, dancing was, chanting and dancing continued. And after dancing is finished, He used to distribute sumptuously prasadam of Jagannatha. So many thousands of people used to assemble every night. So simply transcendentally pleasing, this movement. Kevala ananda-kanda.
Then he recommends, bhajo bhajo bhai, caitanya nitai. "My dear brother, just try to worship these two Lords, Caitanya and Nityananda," sudrdha visvasa kori', "with faith and conviction." One should have faith in the words of Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya says that "Go on chanting. Simply by chanting, one will get all perfection of life." So this is a fact. Unless we take to chanting, we cannot realize it, but those who are chanting, they are realizing that they're getting all desired perfection of life very quickly. So we should chant this mantra with faith and conviction. But the only qualification required in this connection, he says, visaya chadiya, se rase majiya, mukhe bolo hari hari. We have to chant with faith and conviction at the same time we should take care, we should be guarding against sense enjoyment. Visaya chadiya, visaya means sense enjoyment. And chadiya means give up. One should give up sense enjoyment. Of course, in this materialistic life we have got our senses and we are practiced to use them. We cannot stop it. But there is no question of stopping, but regulating it. Just like we want to eat. Visaya means eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. So these things are not forbidden altogether. But they're adjusted just to make it favorable for executing my Krsna consciousness. So we should not take... Just like eating. We should not eat just to satisfy the taste. We should eat only just to keep ourself fit for executing Krsna consciousness. So eating is not stopped, but it is regulated favorably. Similarly, mating. Mating is also not stopped. But the regulative principle is that you should marry and you should have sex life only for begetting children Krsna conscious. Otherwise don't do it. So everything is regulated. There is no question of stopping defense also. Arjuna was fighting, defending, under the order of Krsna. So everything is there. Nothing stop. Simply it is adjusted for executing our Krsna consciousness. Visaya chadiya. We should not accept these visaya, these four principles of bodily demands, namely eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, for sense gratification. No. The politicians, they fight for sense gratification. They do not see to the good of the people. For their political aggrandizement they fight. That fight is forbidden. But when fight is necessity for defending people, that fighting should be taken. So we have to give up this principle of sense gratification, or sense gratificatory process.
Dekho dekho bhai tri-bhuvane nai. Then he says, "Just see that there is nobody else so merciful.'' Pasu pakhi jhure, pasana vidare. By His mercy even the birds and beasts, they are also maintained. Actually, when Caitanya Mahaprabhu passed through the forest known as Jharikhanda in central India, He was only accompanied by his personal attendant, and He was alone, and when He was passing through the forest He touched one tiger. He was sleeping, and the tiger answered roaring. The company, Caitanya Mahaprabhu's attendant, he thought, "Now we are gone.'' But actually, Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked the tiger, "Why you are sleeping? Just stand up. Chant Hare Krsna.'' And the tiger began to dance. So actually, this happened. When Caitanya Mahaprabhu preached this Hare Krsna movement, the tigers, the deers, the Everyone joined. So, of course, we are not so powerful. But it is possible that At least, we have seen, the dogs are dancing in sankirtana. So it is possible also to take But we may not attempt such great risk. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu could induce tigers to dance, we can at least induce every human being to dance. This is such a nice movement.
So pasu pakhi jhure, pasana vidare. Pasana means stone. So even the stone-hearted man we also melts by chanting Hare Krsna. That we have experienced, seen. Pasana vidare, suni' jara guna-gatha. Simply by hearing the transcendental pastimes and characteristics of Lord Caitanya, even hard-hearted men, they also melted. There were many instances, Jagai Madhai. Many fallen souls, they became elevated to the highest spiritual platform. Then Locana dasa Thakura says that visaya majiya, rohili poriya. "Unfortunately I am so much entrapped in these demands of the body or the senses that I have forgotten the lotus feet of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.'' Visaya majiya, rohili poriya, se pade nahilo asa. "I could not desire to be attached to the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya.'' So why it is so? So he's lamenting that apana karama, bhunjaye samana, that "I am suffering the sequence of my past misdeeds, that I could not be attracted by the Krsna consciousness movement. It is a punishment on me by the Yamaraja, the superintendent of death.'' Actually, this Krsna consciousness movement, sankirtana movement, is so nice and attractive, every simple, I mean to say, unsophisticated person shall be attracted. But if one is not attracted it is to be understood that he is being punished by the laws of the superintendent of death. Anyway, if we stick to this principle of chanting, then even Yamaraja, the superintendent of death, he'll also fail to punish. That is the verdict of Brahma-samhita. Brahma-samhita says, one who takes to this devotional life, his reaction of past deeds are adjusted immediately. so every one of us should take part in this movement of Krsna consciousness by chanting Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. (end)

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