Nityananda Caritamrta
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ÇRÉ NITYÄNANDA CARITÄMÅTA<br />
tabe äbilasve tumi gauòadeça yäo<br />
murkha néca patita duùkhiya yata jana<br />
bhakti diyä kara giyä saväre mocana<br />
Lord Caitanya said, “Listen, magnanimous Nityänanda.<br />
Go immediately to Navadvépa. I had promised<br />
that I would drown everyone, including fools, fallen,<br />
and sinful people, in the ocean of kåñëa-prema. If You<br />
remain here with Me as an ascetic, keeping a vow of<br />
silence and concealing Your enthusiasm, then who will<br />
deliver the fallen souls of this world? You are the bestower<br />
of love and devotion. Please tell Me, if You always<br />
restrain Yourself, then what is the use of Your<br />
incarnation? If You want to make My words prove true,<br />
go to Bengal at once. Deliver everyone by giving premabhakti<br />
to all the foolish, fallen, low-class and distressed<br />
people.”<br />
Instructed thus by Lord Caitanya, Nityänanda Prabhu<br />
promptly left for Bengal, along with His own associates. Rämadäsa,<br />
Gadädhara däsa, and Raghunätha Vaidya, Kåñëadäsa<br />
Paëòita, Parameçvara däsa, and the most blissful Purandara<br />
Paëòita went with Nityänanda Svarüpa to Bengal. As He began<br />
His journey, He first induced His associates to become greatly<br />
ecstatic so that they practically forgot themselves. There was no<br />
end to the ecstatic symptoms that arose in their bodies.<br />
The mood of Çré Gopäla manifested in the body of Rämadäsa,<br />
the foremost among all the Vaiñëavas. On the way to Bengal,<br />
Rämadäsa transformed into a threefold bending form and<br />
remained unconscious for nine hours. Gadädhara däsa, absorbed<br />
in the mood of Rädhikä, suddenly began to laugh loudly while<br />
saying, “Who will buy yogurt?” Greatly magnanimous Raghunätha<br />
Vaidya Upädhyäya displayed the mood of Revaté. Both<br />
Kåñëadäsa and Parameçvara däsa constantly made mischief in<br />
the mood of cowherd boys. Purandara Paëòita climbed up a tree<br />
and then jumped down, saying, “I am the great Aìgada.”<br />
Nityänanda Prabhu, the origin of Çré Ananta, inspired everyone<br />
to revive his original constitutional mood. The devo-<br />
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