Nityananda Caritamrta
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The Deliverance of Jagäi and Mädhäi<br />
house. If they are saintly persons, then why are they acting like<br />
this? If they come again, we will take them to the authorities.”<br />
Hearing such things, Nityänanda Prabhu and Haridäsa<br />
Öhäkura would simply laugh. They were not in the least afraid,<br />
because of the strength of Lord Caitanya’s order. Both of them<br />
thus regularly visited every house to preach. In the evening, they<br />
would return to Viçvambhara and report their days’ activities.<br />
One day, while preaching the message of Mahäprabhu,<br />
Nityänanda Prabhu and Haridäsa came across two drunkards<br />
that were brothers. They were plunderers and murderers, and<br />
addicted to wine and women. There was no end to their misdeeds.<br />
There was no sin they had not committed. Despite being<br />
born in a brähmaëa family, they regularly ate beef and drank<br />
wine. They plundered people’s wealth and set fire to their houses.<br />
Perpetually intoxicated, they roamed the streets of Navadvipa<br />
and severely beat whomever they caught. People watched<br />
them from a distance, not daring to come close.<br />
Nityänanda Prabhu and Haridäsa thus arrived where these<br />
two brothers were attracting a crowd in a drunken state. They<br />
were sometimes very friendly towards each other and at other<br />
times, they would pull each other’s hair in anger and abuse one<br />
another with filthy words.<br />
“We’ll degrade the caste of the brähmaëas of Nadia!” they<br />
exclaimed, fully intoxicated from drinking wine. Their bodies<br />
were reservoirs of innumerable sins.<br />
However, the sin of blaspheming Vaiñëavas was not yet<br />
committed by them. Since they spent their days and nights in<br />
the company of other drunkards, there was no opportunity for<br />
them to commit an offense against Vaiñëavas.<br />
ye sabhäya vaiñëava nindä mätra haya<br />
sarva dharma thäkileo tära haya kñaya<br />
sannyäsé sabhäya yadi haya nindyä karsma<br />
madyapera sabhä éte se sabhä adharsma<br />
madyapera niñkåti ächaye kona käle<br />
paracacrccakara pati kabhu nähi bhäle<br />
çästra paòiyäo käro käro buddhinäça<br />
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