Pradyumna: "I offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityananda, who are like the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all."

Prabhupada:

vande sri-krṣṇa-caitanya-
nityandandau sahoditau
gauḍodaye puṣpavantau
citrau sandau tamo-nudau
[Cc. Adi 1.2]

So yesterday we discussed the first verse,

(vande) gurun isa-bhaktan
isam isavatarakan
tat-prakasaṁs ca tac-chaktiḥ;
krṣṇa-caitanya-saṁjñakam
[Cc. Adi 1.1]

Krṣṇa Caitanya, Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya, He has got manyfold expansion. The first expansion is prakasa, svayaṁ-prakasa, Balarama. And Nityananda is Balarama. Vrajendra-nandana yei, saci-suta hoilo sei, balarama hoilo nitai. We have to understand from the mahajana, Narottama das Ṭhakura. Sometimes some foolish people interpret Nityananda as expansion of Radharaṇi, but that is not the fact. Nityananda is Balarama. We have to know from mahajana. We cannot manufacture our own idea. That is blasphemy, sahajiya. Yata mat tata pat. These things are not accepted by mahajana. Mahajana means who follows the previous mahajana. This is the system. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu strictly followed this principle. Krṣṇa also recommended evaṁ parampara-praptam [Bg. 4.2]. We have to receive knowledge through the disciplic succession. Mahajana-gataḥ;. You cannot manufacture. This concoction has killed the spiritual life of India. "You can think any way; I can think in my way"—that is not at all scientific. You cannot think "Two plus two equal to three" or "five." Two plus two equal to four. You cannot think otherwise. (people talking in background) (aside:) Ask them to stop.

So Nityananda means prakasa, svayaṁ-prakasa, Balarama. Balarama is, I mean to say, presenting Krṣṇa. Therefore Balarama is guru-tattva. Guru is representative of Balarama, of Nityananda, Guru Nityananda, because He is exhibiting Krṣṇa. He is presenting Krṣṇa, prakasa. Just like when there is sunshine you can see everything very correctly. That is called prakasa. In the darkness everything is covered. At night we cannot see, but during daytime, when there is prakasa, illumination, then we can see everything. So Nityananda Prabhu is Balarama. Balarama is prakasa-tattva. He's manifesting Krṣṇa. Balarama hoila nitai. So vande sri... Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya is the Supreme Absolute Personality of Godhead, and next, Nityananda, or, yes, Nityananda, is exhibiting Him. When Nityananda was preaching in Bengal, He first of all delivered the Jagai and Madhai. That was his first business. He showed how to serve Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya means Krṣṇa Himself. Sri-krṣṇa-caitanya radha-krṣṇa nahe anya. Radha-Krṣṇa combined together is Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya. And Nityananda is exhibiting Krṣṇa Caitanyadeva.

So how one can exhibit Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that is... By His personal example Nityananda Prabhu has given us lesson. When Caitanya Mahaprabhu was sending His devotees to preach and Nityananda Prabhu was doing that, He used to go with Haridasa Ṭhakura to preach on the street, home to home. So when they saw there was a big crowd on the street, so Nityananda Prabhu inquired from the people, "Why there is so many people assembled?" He was informed that "There are two gundas, rogues. They are creating some trouble." The gundas, their business is to create trouble, that's all. Every one of us we know, especially at the present moment in Bengal. Yes. This is due to lack of preaching of Krṣṇa consciousness. Nityananda Prabhu is not given the chance. Nityananda Prabhu is very eager to preach, but He's not given chance. Actually, those who are proud of becoming descendants of Nityananda Prabhu... In Bengal there is a family, they say that they are descendants from Nityananda Prabhu. So apart from controversy, even accepting that they are descendants from Nityananda Prabhu, their business is also to act like Nityananda Prabhu. So that business, what is that business? That is described by Narottama dasa Ṭhakura, mahajana, papi tapi yata chilo, hari-name uddharilo, ta'ra sakṣi jagai-madhai. This is the business of Nityananda Prabhu along with Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Vrajendra-nandana yei, saci-suta hoilo sei, balarama hoilo nitai.

So here Krṣṇa Caitanya and Nityananda, Their identification is Lord Krṣṇa and Balarama. Now, in the Krṣṇa incarnation, these two brothers were engaged as cowherd boys and friends of the gopis, sons of mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja. That is actual life in Vrndavana. Krṣṇa and Balarama, They are village cowherds boy. That is the early age history of Krṣṇa-Balarama. And Their another business, when They went to Mathura They killed Kaṁsa and the wrestlers, and then again, when They went to Dvaraka, They had to fight with so many demons. But Their childhood life, up to sixteenth year, They were in Vrndavana, happy life, simply love. That is paritraṇaya sadhunam [Bg. 4.8]. Sadhus, devotees, they are always anxious to see Krṣṇa, Balarama and Their associates. They are always very much aggrieved on account of separation. To give them rejuvenation of life, Krṣṇa-Balarama play Their childhood days in Vrndavana. And out of Vrndavana, beginning from Mathura up to Dvaraka and other places, the business was vinasaya ca duṣkrtam: killing. So They have got two businesses, one for pacifying the devotees, and the other is to kill the demons. Of course, Krṣṇa and Balarama, They are Absolute Truth. There is no difference between killing and loving. They... Absolute. Those who were killed, you know, they were also delivered from this material bondage.

Now these same two brothers have again descended as Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya-Nityananda. Sahoditau: simultaneously They have appeared. Not that one is appeared, another is not there. No. Both of Them, sahoditau. And They are compared with the sun and moon. The business of sun and moon is to dissipate darkness. The sun rises during daytime, and the moon rises at night. But this sun and moon, wonderful sun and moon, citrau, They have appeared together. But the business is the same, tamo-nudau. Business is to dissipate darkness, because we are in darkness. We, anyone who is in this material world, he's in darkness. Darkness means ignorant, no knowledge. They are mostly animals. "Why they are animals, so civilized men, so well-dressed and university education degrees? Why they are in darkness?" Yes, they are in darkness. "What is the proof?" The proof is that they are not Krṣṇa conscious. This is the proof. That is their darkness. Ask anybody, item by item, that... Ask, what do they know about Krṣṇa. Everyone is ignorant, dark. So that is the proof. How this is proof? Now, Krṣṇa says. We do not say; Krṣṇa says. How does He say? Na maṁ duṣkrtino muḍhaḥ; prapadyante naradhamaḥ;, mayayapahrta-jñana [Bg. 7.15]. Apahrta-jñana means that although they have got university degrees, although they are called civilized, advanced in material civilization, but mayayapahrta-jñana. Their degrees, because they do not know Krṣṇa thoroughly and therefore do not surrender to Krṣṇa, which Krṣṇa is canvassing personally, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekaṁ saraṇaṁ vraja... [Bg. 18.66]. He's personally canvassing. Because these rascals and fools, they are in darkness—they do not know what is the goal of life—Krṣṇa is so kind that He is canvassing, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekaṁ saraṇaṁ vraja. This is the philosophy. So still, they are not doing so. Why? Naradhamaḥ;. Because the lowest of the mankind, naradhama. How they have become naradhama? Now, duṣkrtina, always committing sinful life. What is sinful life? Illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, and gambling. Because they are addicted to these things they are duṣkrtina and naradhama, lowest of the mankind. And whatever knowledge they are acquiring by so-called education, that is false knowledge. Mayayapahrta-jñana. This is the position.

So Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya and Nityananda, They came, descended again, being merciful, same Krṣṇa. Vrajendra-nandana yei, Saci-suta hoilo sei. Same Krṣṇa. In a different way they canvassed the same principle. (aside:) You can sit down there. You are sleeping. Don't sleep. Don't show that sleeping. Go there. So this is the darkness. And Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared to drive away this darkness—same Krṣṇa, the same Krṣṇa. There is no difference between Krṣṇa's preaching and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's preaching. There is no difference. The difference is that Krṣṇa, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is demanding that "You rascal, you surrender unto Me. You are suffering so much. You are rascal. I am your father. I want to see you happy; therefore I have come. Surrender unto Me. I shall give you all protection." Ahaṁ tvaṁ sarva-papebhyo [Bg. 18.66]. "You are suffering on account of your duṣkrti, all sinful activities. Whatever you are doing, all sinful activities." Except Krṣṇa consciousness activities, whatever you do, that is sinful activity. But they have been summarized into four principles. The whole sinful activities of the world, they have been summarized in four lines: no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication. This is the summary. But otherwise, of these activities there are many, many branches. But if you cut the root of sinful activities—this illicit sex and gambling and meat-eating—then generally, automatically other sinful activities will go. Therefore we who are propagating Krṣṇa consciousness movement, we are just requesting that you give up this sinful life. Otherwise you will be implicated again.

What is that implication? Implication is that your sinful life will get you next body which is also sinful. And again you suffer. Suffering there is. As soon as you get material body, there is suffering. It may be a king's body or it may be a cobbler's body, it doesn't matter, the suffering is there. But because these people are mayayapahrta-jñana, they are accepting suffering as pleasure. This is called maya. He's suffering, but he is thinking it is a good pleasure. Just like the pig. He's eating stool, and he's thinking he's enjoying life. This is called ignorant. He does not know that he's suffering. Maya has given his body to suffer, but even in the pig's body, he's thinking that is enjoying life. This is called maya. Mohitaṁ nabhijanati mam ebhyaḥ; param avyayam [Bg. 7.13]. This is called illusion. Illusion. Everyone in this material world, they are suffering in different grades. Just like in the prison house there are different grades of prisoner: first class, second class, third class. But if the first-class prisoner thinks they are enjoying life, that is ignorance. He should know that he's in the prison house. In the prison house where is there enjoyment? It is all suffering. Maybe first-class suffering, (laughter) but it is suffering. So they are all in the darkness, and Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu appeared to dissipate, tamo-nudau, to dissipate this darkness of the whole human society. That is Their kindness. They are...

So Nityananda Prabhu, being prakasa, He is manifesting Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He's canvassing the same thing. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is canvassing to accept Krṣṇa consciousness, and to accept Krṣṇa consciousness through the mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Nityananda Prabhu and Their other assistants is easier, easier. Therefore we see practically, we have taught our disciples to chant first of all the Pañca-tattva, sri-krṣṇa-caitanya (devotees chant) prabhu-nityananda, sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda. Thank you. So through the mercy of this Pañca-tattva, easily you can approach Krṣṇa, easily. Otherwise how it is possible? These Europeans, Americans, they did not know what was Krṣṇa. Four or five years ago they were unknown. How they have become so devotee of Krṣṇa that ten thousand miles, crossing over the sea, they have come here at Mayapur, unless they have got developed love for this? Their coming is not so easy from neighboring villages, but it costs. They have spent lakhs of dollars—one dollar equal to eight rupees—and they have come here. Why? Through the mercy of Sri Krṣṇa Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (end)

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