svarÅ«pa-gosÄñi Ära raghunÄtha-dÄsa
ei duira kaá¸acÄte e-lÄ«lÄ prakÄÅ›a
svarÅ«pa-gosÄñi - SvarÅ«pa DÄmodara GosvÄmÄ«; Ära - and; raghunÄtha-dÄsa - RaghunÄtha dÄsa GosvÄmÄ«; ei duira - of these two; kaá¸acÄte - in the notebooks; e-lÄ«lÄ - these pastimes; prakÄÅ›a - described.
SvarÅ«pa DÄmodara GosvÄmÄ« and RaghunÄtha dÄsa GosvÄmÄ« recorded all these transcendental activities of ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu in their notebooks.
ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu’s transcendental feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa and His consequent madness are not at all understandable by a person on the material platform. Nonetheless, a so-called party of devotees named nadÄ«yÄ-nÄgarÄ« has sprung up and introduced the worship of ViṣṇupriyÄ. This certainly indicates their ignorance concerning ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu’s pastimes. In the opinion of BhaktisiddhÄnta SarasvatÄ« ṬhÄkura, such worship is a product of the imagination. Many other methods of worshiping Caitanya MahÄprabhu have also been introduced, but they have all been rejected by stalwart devotees like Bhaktivinoda ṬhÄkura. The groups practicing such unauthorized worship have been listed by ÅšrÄ«la Bhaktivinoda ṬhÄkura:
Äula, bÄula, kartÄbhajÄ, neá¸Ä, daraveÅ›a, sÄá¹…i,
sahajiyÄ, sakhÄ«bhekÄ«, smÄrta, jÄta-gosÄñi,
ativÄá¸Ä«, cÅ«á¸ÄdhÄrÄ«, gaurÄá¹…ga-nÄgarÄ«
SvarÅ«pa DÄmodara GosvÄmÄ« and RaghunÄtha dÄsa GosvÄmÄ« witnessed Caitanya MahÄprabhu’s activities firsthand and recorded them in two notebooks. Therefore, without reference to these notebooks one cannot understand the activities of ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu. Anyone inventing some new method for worshiping ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu is certainly unable to understand the Lord’s pastimes, for he is bereft of the real process of approaching the Lord.
