Nityananda Caritamrta
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Mädhäi’s Prayers to Nityänanda Prabhu and His Devotional Service<br />
fortune do you need than this? Humbly offer obeisances to everyone.<br />
Then all your offenses will be forgiven.”<br />
Being advised in this way by Lord Nityänanda, Mädhäi circumambulated<br />
Him and departed. When Mädhäi chanted the<br />
holy names, “Kåñëa, Kåñëa,” tears flowed from his eyes. People<br />
were astonished to see how Mädhäi cleansed and decorated the<br />
bathing ghäöas at the Ganges. They considered him a wonderful<br />
person. He offered humble obeisances in return and appealed<br />
to everyone: “Please forgive all the offenses I have knowingly or<br />
unknowingly committed, and bestow your mercy upon me.”<br />
Seeing Mädhäi crying, everyone else began to cry. While<br />
looking at him, they remembered Lord Govinda. When the<br />
people of Nadia heard this, they understood that Nimäi<br />
Paëòita had transformed Jagäi and Mädhäi into glorious<br />
Vaiñëavas. Hearing this, people were highly astonished, concluding<br />
that Nimäi Paëòita could not be an ordinary human<br />
being.<br />
“Many sinful people criticize Nimäi Paëòita without understanding<br />
His real identity,” they said. “He performs wonderul<br />
kértana, being truly Kåñëa’s servant. Anyone who ridicules Him<br />
is doomed. Anyone who can rectify the most degraded persons,<br />
Jagäi and Mädhäi, must be God Himself, or at least empowered<br />
by God. Anyway, Nimäi Paëòita is not an ordinary mortal being.<br />
Now His actual glories have been revealed.”<br />
The people of Nadia spoke like this among themselves and<br />
gave up indulging in needless criticism of Lord Caitanya. Mädhäi<br />
performed severe austerities and he soon became celebrated<br />
in Nadia as a brahmacäré, or celibate person. Living by the shore<br />
of the Ganges, he always saw her flowing waves. He personally<br />
dug the earth with a shovel to build a bathing ghäöa. By<br />
the mercy of Lord Caitanya, even today, one can see the ruins<br />
of his ghäöa, which was popularly known as Mädhäira-ghäöa.<br />
The causeless mercy of Lord Caitanya and Prabhu Nityänanda<br />
transformed both plunderers into pure devotees.<br />
The topics of Madhya-khaëòa are like drops of nectar describing<br />
the salvation of formidable atheists. The principle cause<br />
of all these wonders is Mahäprabhu Gauracandra. Anyone who<br />
feels distress while hearing these narrations is certainly a cheater.<br />
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