Nityananda Caritamrta
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ÇRÉ NITYÄNANDA CARITÄMÅTA<br />
of Your begging, anyone refuses to accept Your offer, I<br />
will come with a cakra to kill him.”<br />
Hearing this command of Lord Caitanya, all Vaiñëavas<br />
smiled. No one has the power to disobey the Lord’s order. Ordered<br />
by the Lord, Lord Nityänanda and Haridäsa departed.<br />
Nityänanda Prabhu eternally carries the Lord’s orders on His<br />
head. Anyone who doubts this is certainly a fool.<br />
Following the order of Lord Caitanya, Nityänanda Prabhu<br />
and Haridäsa went to each house in Nadia. They requested everyone<br />
to chant and sing the holy names of the Lord and worship<br />
Kåñëa. They instructed that Kåñëa is the life, soul, and wealth of<br />
everyone. They said, “Dear brothers, attentively chant the holy<br />
names of Lord Kåñëa.”<br />
Dressed as sannyäsés, they wandered all over Nadia, preaching<br />
Mahäprabhu’s message to everyone. Whoever met them<br />
would immediately offer respects and invite them for lunch.<br />
Nityänanda Prabhu and Haridäsa Öhäkura would beg only<br />
one thing: “Chant Kåñëa, worship Kåñëa, and learn the topics<br />
of Kåñëa.”<br />
After pleading with people in this way, the two would leave<br />
that place. All saintly persons were pleased by their requests.<br />
Hearing the wonderful topics from the mouths of these two<br />
lords, people would happily respond to it in their own way.<br />
Someone thought, “I will certainly follow their order.”<br />
Another person considered, “These two have become mad<br />
due to their fault of chanting mantras.”<br />
There were people who had been forbidden to enter<br />
Çréväsa Paëòita’s house while Lord Caitanya danced with His<br />
followers. As soon as Nityänanda Prabhu and Haridäsa Öhäkura<br />
approached those people’s houses, they would charge at them,<br />
shouting, “Beat them! Beat them!”<br />
“You have become crazy due to bad association,” those people<br />
would admonish, “and now you have come here to make us<br />
crazy. Respected, civilized people have become crazy because of<br />
Nimäi Paëòita.”<br />
“It seems that these two are spies of a thief,” some of them<br />
would say. “In the guise of preaching, they are surveying each<br />
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