KKS - 29TH NOV2008
namo brahmanya-deväya go-brähmana-hitäya ca/ jagad-dhitäya krsnäya govindäya namo namah.
As Advaita Acarya continued his worship, he chanted that verse. Advaita Acarya fell prostate before the Lord, seeking shelter at His lotus feet. Lord Gauranga lifted His lotus feet and placed it on Advaita Acarya’s head. Upon seeing this the devotees became mad with jubilation, completely forgetting themselves. Some rolled on the ground, others embraced one another or slapped each other boisterously while many others cried out loudly. Advaita Acarya felt as if all of his desires had been fulfilled because the Lord had placed His lotus feet upon his head. Lord Caitanya then instructed, ‘Nada, let Me see you dance!’”
Advaita Acarya was not a young man; it said that when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared in this world that Advaita Acarya was already 52 years old! So after the Lord revealed Himself to him- that was in His 22nd year- so that means 74 years old! And he’s supposed to dance! “Let Me see you dance!” Advaita Acarya lived another 25 years after the disappearance of Lord Caitanya and thus we understand that Advaita Acarya actually became 125 years old.
Advaita Acarya happily began to dance and so the devotees started a very sweet melodious kirtana. As he continued dancing in front of the Lord, Advaita Acarya sometimes moved in a spirited manner and sometimes moved very gracefully. Sometimes he felt very humbled and kept a bunch of straw in between his teeth. Sometimes Advaita Acarya would spin around and jump into the air and then fall to the ground and roll back and forth. At other times he would breathe deeply and quickly and then fall unconscious.”
We know that keeping a bunch of straw between the teeth is indicating humility; that in the mood of humility one keeps straw between the teeth. Exactly why this custom is there, I cannot say, but it is there. And more important than the custom is the mood that Advaita Acarya manifested; because no one can do anything without the mercy of the Supreme Lord. Although Advaita Acarya Himself was also the Supreme Lord, still He was not govindam adi purusam- the original purusa, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna- but rather he was the avatara of Lord Sri Krsna.
In the Bhagavad-Gita it is stated, paritränäya sädhünäm vinäsäya ca duskrtäm dharma-samsthäpanärthäya sambhavämi yuge yuge, that the Lord appears in various millenniums for the sake of establishing the principles of religion and to annihilate the miscreants. That is the work of the incarnations of the Lord. But only the Supreme Lord can give krsna-prema and that is why Advaita Acarya was very eager for Krsna to appear, because Advaita Acarya was not interested just to establish the principles of dharma; Advaita Acarya wanted to establish that one thing he wanted to drown the entire world- in love of God.
Now we can see how it is happening; we can see how gradually, little by little, invisibly, the sankirtana movement of Lord Caitanya is infiltrating. Because, as a person becomes touched by this sankirtana movement, as one hears the holy name or as one engages in devotional service, one becomes captured. Earlier in the Caitanya Bhagavat, it is described how at the time when the Chand Kazi in Navadvipa tried to stop the kirtana and broke the mrdanga, then Nimai Pandita organized a very big procession. He organized a very large protest against this activity and it is said that an enormous sankirtana party was going through the street and there were so many mrdangas, it sounded like thunder! And it was in the early evening and there were so many torches, it was if light was daylight! And all the people that saw the sankirtana party come by just walked out of their houses and as they walked out of their houses they just followed the kirtana party and thieves thought, “O, this is very good!” the doors were wide open, they walked in but even those thieves, they couldn’t full their pockets because somehow or other their ears captured them also and they also joined the kirtana party! So in this way, Lord Caitanya’s sankirtana party can capture even the rogues and thieves and the most fallen, and thus it is spreading everywhere and anywhere.
So Advaita Acarya, although he was the Supreme Lord, was thinking of himself as a servant. His mood was to worship. In the Caitanya caritamrta it is said, ami caitanyera dasa muni, “I am the servant of Lord Caitanya,” again and again. Advaita Acarya tried to establish that he was the servant of Lord Caitanya. And this is actually according to the direction of the scripture; there is one Supreme Lord and all others are dependent on Him, and all others are simply His servants. All are just like puppets, dancing according to His will. Thus the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna has now appeared with a golden luster of Srimati Radharani. Now in that very compassionate mood that She has, but at the same time with His own omnipotent energy, now this incarnation of the Supreme Lord is performing miracles that have never been performed before.
