Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami's Gratitude

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Adhivas of Lord Nityananda Prabhu's Appearance, evening class
Sri Ekachakra Dham, 24 February 2021, part 9
Translated from Bengali

This book, Sri Nityananda Mahimamrita, contains the words of our Param Guru Maharaj (Om Vishnupad Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj) and our Gurudev (Om Vishnupad Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj). You can read it, they are describing very nice things.

Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami said, "I have got Sri Vrindavan Dham by the mercy of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. He ordered me to Vrindavan saying I would get all possible benefit there." I told you yesterday about Gunarnava Misra and Ramdas Minaketan. Ramdas Minaketan was Sri Nityananda Prabhu's servant, but Gunarnava Misra committed an offence to him. Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami's brother was doing a whole-day-and-night kirtan (just as they do asta-prahar kirtans these daysardha-kukkuti there is nothing except Nama-aparadh there). Many people came to their house that night, and when Ramdas came, everybody offered obeisance and much respect to him because he was Sri Nityananda Prabhu's servitor. However, Gunarnava Misra showed no respect to him. Ramdas Minaketan thought, "What is he doing? My hair stands on end just to think about it! He is an atheist! He is giving honour to one person and gives no honour to another person. This is a half-hen logic (ardha-kukkuti-nyaya, অর্ধকুক্কুটী-ন্যায়)!" I told you yesterday what this half-hen logic is, Gurudev explained it to me. When I asked Gurudev, "What does ardha-kukkuti mean?" He said it meant a hen. Hen drops eggs from backside and eats with its mouth, so if you think, "OK, I will keep the backside since it brings eggs, and I will throw the rest away because it is useless!" Giving honour to one and not giving honour to another person is being an atheist. Gunarnava Misra gives honour to Mahaprabhu and gives no honour to Sri Nityananda Prabhu. They are one, so what he did is nothing but being an atheist. Ramdas Minaketan explained this to Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami, and Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami quarrelled with his brother. In the end, he went to bed saying to his brother, "I want to have nothing to do with you, do what you like." At night, Sri Nityananda Prabhu came to him in a dream saying, "Wake up, wake up, Krishna Das! Do not stay in Jhamatpur any more—come to Vrindavan! Do not keep any connection with your brother." Then, in his old age, Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami came to Vrindavan and wrote Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita there. He said,

ei grantha lekhaya more 'madana-mohana'
amara likhana yena sukera pathana

"Actually Sri Madana Mohan is writing this scripture through me. My writing is like the repetition of a parrot."

(Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, 1.8.78)

When Sri Nityananda Prabhu first came to Nabadwip, Mahaprabhu said that a great personality had come, but nobody could find Him. Then, Mahaprabhu personally took all the devotees to the house of Sri Nanda Acharya. There, they saw a beautiful figure of extraordinary radiance sitting at the veranda and understood, "Oh, this is that great personality Mahaprabhu was talking about!" This was the first meeting of Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Sriman Mahaprabhu. We always go there during the parikrama.

In this way, Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami writes, "I have got Sri Vrindavan Dham by the mercy of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. He ordered me to Vrindavan saying I would get all possible benefit there. When I came there, I attained the lotus feet of Sri Radha Madan Mohan, Sri Radha Govinda, Sri Radha Gopinath. What is more, I have attained the super mercy of Mahaprabhu's dearmost devotees, Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Sanatan Goswami, Srila Jiva Goswami, Srila Raghunath Das Goswami. They have embraced me and I have attained the mercy of Sri Rupa-Raghunath." When he wrote Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, he wrote in every chapter,

sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
chaitanya-charitamrta kahe krsna-dasa

"Always desiring the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Raghunath, Krishna Das is narrating this Chaitanya-charitamrita."

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