Nityananda Caritamrta
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Lord Nityänanda’s Departure for Néläcala and His Glorification by Lord Caitanya<br />
dental ecstasy. After Caitanya and Nityänanda regained Their<br />
composure, They sat down together in a secluded flower garden.<br />
The talks between the Controller and the Supreme Controller<br />
in that garden are known only to the Vedas.<br />
Whenever Lord Nityänanda and Lord Caitanya met each<br />
other like this, They would do so without any associates. By the<br />
supreme will of Çré Caitanya, not a single person heard the blissful<br />
talks that the two Lords enjoyed. Knowing the Lord’s mind,<br />
Nityänanda Svarüpa purposely met Him alone.<br />
Nityänanda Prabhu always tried to conceal Himself, because<br />
the Lord did not wish for Him to manifest Himself to everyone.<br />
The heart of the Supreme Lord is most soft and mysterious.<br />
This is the opinion of the Vedas, as well as authorities like Lord<br />
Brahmä. No one knows Him in truth and yet, as far as they are<br />
able, they attempt to glorify Him. This is the verdict of Goddess<br />
Lakñmé: The Lord’s wonderful qualities are such that everyone<br />
thinks that He loves them the most.<br />
<strong>Nityananda</strong> Prabhu often spoke very confidentially to Çré<br />
Caitanya. He once said, “I would like to live the life of an ascetic<br />
and worship Kåñëa wholeheartedly. I do not know why He<br />
had me give up that life to carry a stick, flute, books, peacock<br />
feathers, guïjä-mälä, and ropes. It is understood that of all the<br />
devotees of the Lord, the cowherd boys and girls are the best.<br />
The devotional service performed by the cowherd boys and girls<br />
of Våndävana is the result of their severe austerities. Exalted<br />
personalities, such as Lord Brahmä and Lord Çiva, also desire to<br />
attain this mood. Only a recipient of the Lord’s mercy is qualified<br />
to receive vraja-bhakti.<br />
That Çré Uddhava desires this devotional mood of Vraja is<br />
found in Çrémad-Bhägavatam 10.47.63.<br />
vande nanda-vraja-stréëäà päda-reëum abhékñëaçaù<br />
yäsäà hari-kathodgétaà punäti bhuvana-trayam<br />
“I repeatedly offer my respects to the dust from the<br />
feet of the women of Nanda Mahäräja’s cowherd village.<br />
When these gopés loudly chant the glories of Çré<br />
Kåñëa, the vibration purifies the three worlds.”<br />
173<br />
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