(1/7) Mahaprabhu's Order

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Tarakeshwar Temple, evening class,
11 February 2021, part 1
Translated from Bengali

Hare Krishna! Say together with me:

হরে কৃষ্ণ হরে কৃষ্ণ কৃষ্ণ কৃষ্ণ হরে হরে ।
হরে রাম হরে রাম রাম রাম হরে হরে ॥

hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

The day before Mahaprabhu left for Katwa to take sannyas in this month of Magh (He left on the day of Sakranti), all the devotees gathered in the evening, and Mahaprabhu told them:

যদি আমা’-প্রতি স্নেহ থাকে সবাকার ।
তবে কৃষ্ণ-ব্যতিরিক্ত না গাইবে আর ॥

yadi ama’-prati sneha thake sabakara
tabe krsna-vyatirikta na gaibe ara

‘If you all have love and affection for Me, then do not chant anything else except “Krishna”.’

(Sri Chaitanya-bhagavata, 2.28.27)

‘You are all residents of Nabadwip: if you love Me, then can you promise Me something?’ ‘What is it?’ ‘Do not say anything except the Name of Krishna. Always say, “Krishna, Krishna.”’ Call the Lord as loud as you can. When you call your children, you call them by their names and they respond; in the same way, if you call the Lord, He will respond, too. When you call the Lord, you must call Him with all your heart and soul, not to impress others – you must call Him with all your heart. You must call the Lord extracting and smearing the mellows of love from the depths of your hearts.

When Mahaprabhu started doing kirtan at the house of Srivas Pandit, the area was inhabited and ruled by Muslim people (most officials were Muslim – the judges, the villagers, and so on). When we do Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama, we go to Mayapur on the first day, and there is a place there called ‘the place where the mridanga was broken’ (‘kol bhangar danga’). It is the place where Chad Kazi broke Mahaprabhu’s mridanga. Actually, Mahaprabhu did not play the mridanga, but other devotees did, and Kazi broke their mridanga to stop kirtan. He prohibited devotees to chant kirtan in his Muslim kingdom and said, ‘If you do kirtan again, I will set all your houses on fire or break and throw them into the Ganges!’ (In those days, the houses were made of clay.) He also said, ‘We will beat your leader, Nimai!’ Later that day, when Mahaprabhu came to Srivas Pandit’s house, everybody was sitting quiet. Mahaprabhu could understand everything (He is antaryami, the omniscient Supreme Lord!), so He asked, ‘What is the matter? Why have you stopped kirtan? Why is everyone sitting quiet?’ Mahaprabhu became angry, and Srivas Pandit quickly said, ‘Prabhu, please sit down, sit down. Calm down.’ Mahaprabhu replied, ‘Why must I sit down? Tell Me why kirtan has been stopped?!’ Then Srivas Pandit explained, ‘Prabhu, we do not mind it if they break our houses and throw them into the Ganges, but they said that they would beat You – we cannot allow this.’

At the house, there was a small girl, Narayani. She was Srivas Pandit’s niece, and she did not have parents. She was three and a half or four years old at that time. When Mahaprabhu came to Srivas Pandit’s house, she sometimes came and disturbed Him – Mahaprabhu would sit down to eat, and she would come and take food from Him. Later, she was married, although her husband was not very good (he did not come to this line), she was fortunate to get a great son, Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur, who wrote Sri Chaitanya-bhagavata.

So, at that time, Narayani came again to Mahaprabhu, and Mahaprabhu put His hand on her head, saying, ‘You will get Krishna-bhakti!’ Then, suddenly, she started rolling on the veranda and crying, ‘O Krishna! O Gaura!’ She was just three and a half years old! Everyone was astonished, ‘He has just put His hand on her head, and she is now crying and calling out to the Lord!’ So, Mahaprabhu said to everyone, ‘Do you believe now, or do you still think they can break your houses?’ The devotees said, ‘No, we were wrong, Prabhu. We will not stop kirtan again!’ That time Mahaprabhu said, ‘Yes, do kirtan, and now you must also do parikrama – make a hundred parties and go village to village with fourteen mridangas. We shall see who will stop your kirtan!’ When devotees went out chanting kirtan in this way, they eventually came to the house of Chad Kazi who had broken the mridanga…

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1) Mahaprabhu's Order
2) Chad Kazi: Defeated Again
3) Listen and Learn
4) In Search of Real Benefit
5) Rescue Programme
6) Eating Up Old Rice
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