Vrindavan, November 22, 2015: The temple town of Vrindavan grips the ‘Harinam’ fervor on the event of Shri Chaitanya Mahparabhu’s 500th advent to Vrindavan. Mahaprabhu arrived in Vrindavan on the day of Kartiki Purnima in the year 1515. The celebration of Mahaprabhu’s Vrindavan arrival coincided with the Kartik Niyam seva which doubled up the excitement of the devotees.
A grand celebration to glorify Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is being organized at Imlitala which is the only place where Mahaprabhu used to sit for several hours immersed in the ‘Krishna Consciousness’.
Every day several renowned scholars, priests, saints and preachers delivers there discourse. Shri Pundrik Goswami, Shri Radhanath Swami, Dr. Achyutalal Bhatt, Tridandi Swami B.V. Madhusudana, Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti etc. are some of the name who glorified Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and preached the pastime of Gournga at Imlitala.
speaker on the 3rd and 4th day of the celebration. Goswami ji glorified Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and elaborately described the reason of Mahaprabhu’s appearance. Maharaj ji sang several bhajan’s while glorifying Gouranga. When he sang the bhajan ‘Amader Pran Gora Rai’, the devotees became overwhelmed and the tears rolled down from their eyes. The audience was mesmerized as the nectar of the pastimes of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was being delivered.
Shrivatsa ji stressed, “Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, being Shri Krishna himself can’t be contradicted. Shri Krishna manifested His appearance in this world in order to enlighten the world by His causeless mercy on the highest loving service to Himself that had never been granted to any conditioned soul, prior to his appearance. Shri Krishna descended on the earth as a spiritual master, in the form of Mahaprabhu, and proclaimed the Naam Sankirtan, enabling the souls of even the in the sinful age of Kaliyuga, to attain the absolute truth.”
“Shri Krishna wanted to experience the ecstatic bliss of Radha’s love towards him, by carrying her heart in him. Therefore Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared as the combination of Radha and Krishna”, added Goswami ji.
He recited the shlokas from Shrimad Bhagvatam, Vedas and Purnas in which it is said about Mahaprabhu’s incarnation.
According to Shrimad Bhagvatam 1.7.13-14, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was Krishna Himself in the garb of a devotee of Krishna and therefore the version of both Lord Krishna and Shri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu are identical.
“Sometimes Shri Krishna Himself wonders how much transcendental pleasure is within him, and in order to taste his own potency, he sometimes takes the position of tasting himself. Lord Chaitanya is Krishna Himself, but he appears as a devotee to taste the sweetness of the transcendental mellow in Himself, which is tasted by Shrimati Radha Rani the greatest of all devotees,” as mentioned in Shrimad Bhagvatam 3.33.4
In Adi Puran and in the Narad Puran, the Lord says, I shall advent in the form of Brahamana devotee (aham eva dvija shresjhtho), I shall hide my factual identity (prachanna vigraha), I shall deliver all the worlds (lokam raksami sarvada).
Several devotional events are being organized in Vrindavan to commemorate Mahaprabhu’s arrival in Vrindavan. The devotees from Puri walked to Vrindavan following the difficult route passing through the dense forests of Jharkhand, mountains and rivers.
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