{"id":37319,"date":"2020-02-09T01:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=37319"},"modified":"2022-02-09T01:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T06:44:58","slug":"teachings-of-lord-caitanya-chapter-nine-the-opulences-of-k%e1%b9%9b%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%87a-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/teachings-of-lord-caitanya-chapter-nine-the-opulences-of-k%e1%b9%9b%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%87a-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachings of Lord Caitanya: CHAPTER NINE The Opulences of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mm-0\" class=\"mm-page mm-slideout\">\n<div class=\"container first-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12 breadcrumb\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"row\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<div id=\"bb4977\" class=\"r r-title-small r-chapter\">\n<h1>CHAPTER NINE<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6413\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-chapter-title r-title\">\n<h1>The Opulences of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6414\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph selected\">\n<p>Since Lord Caitanya is especially merciful to innocent, unsophisticated persons, His name is also Patita-p\u0101vana, the deliverer of the most fallen conditioned souls. Although a conditioned soul may be fallen to the lowest position, such a lowly state will not prevent him from advancing in the spiritual science, provided he is innocent. San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b was considered fallen in society because he was in the service of the Muslim government and had thus been excommunicated from brahminical society. But because he was a sincere soul, Lord Caitanya showed him special favor by granting him a wealth of spiritual information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6415\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>The Lord next explained to San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b how the different spiritual planets are situated in the spiritual sky. The spiritual planets are also known as Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets. The planets of the material creation have a limited length and breadth, but as far as the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets are concerned, because they are spiritual there is no limit to their dimensions. Lord Caitanya informed San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b that the length and breadth of every Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planet is thousands of billions of miles \u2013 in other words, no one can measure any Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planet\u2019s actual extent. Each of these planets is unlimitedly expanded, and in each of them the residents are full in all six opulences \u2013 wealth, strength, knowledge, beauty, fame and renunciation. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is present in every Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planet. Indeed, in each Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planet an expansion of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a has His eternal abode, and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Himself has His original eternal abode, called K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47aloka or Goloka V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6416\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>In this universe even the largest planet lies in one corner of outer space. For example, although the sun is a million times larger than the earth, it still lies in one corner of outer space. Similarly, each of the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets, although unlimited in length and breadth, lies in a corner of the spiritual sky, known as the <i>brahmajyoti<\/i>. In the <i>Brahma<\/i>&#8211;<i>sa\u1e41hit\u0101<\/i> (5.40) the <i>brahmajyoti<\/i> is described as <i>ni\u1e63kalam anantam a\u015be\u1e63a-bh\u016btam,<\/i> or undivided and unlimited and without a trace of the material modes of nature. All the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets are like petals of a lotus flower, and the principal part of that lotus, the center of all the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dhas, is called K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47aloka or Goloka V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6417\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>Thus the expansions of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a in various forms, as described herein, as well as His various abodes on the spiritual planets in the spiritual sky, are unlimited. Even demigods like Brahm\u0101 and \u015aiva cannot see the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets or even estimate their number or vast extent. This is confirmed in <a href=\"https:\/\/vedabase.io\/en\/library\/sb\/10\/14\/21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i>\u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam<\/i> (10.14.21)<\/a>: \u201cNo one can estimate the length and breadth of all the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets.\u201d Elsewhere in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vedabase.io\/en\/library\/sb\/2\/7\/41\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Bh\u0101gavatam<\/i> (2.7.41)<\/a> it is stated that not only are demigods like Brahm\u0101 and \u015aiva unable to make such an estimate, but even Ananta, the incarnation of the Lord\u2019s opulence of strength, cannot ascertain any limit to the Lord\u2019s potency or to the area of the different Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6418\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>Again, <a href=\"https:\/\/vedabase.io\/en\/library\/sb\/10\/14\/21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i>\u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam<\/i> 10.14.21<\/a>, one of the prayers of Brahm\u0101, is very convincing in this connection: \u201cO my dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Supersoul, O master of all mystic powers, no one can know or explain the extent of Your Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets or how You expand Your <i>yogam\u0101y\u0101<\/i> energy throughout the three worlds.\u201d And a few verses earlier (<a href=\"https:\/\/vedabase.io\/en\/library\/sb\/10\/14\/7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i>\u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam<\/i> 10.14.7)<\/a> Brahm\u0101 prays:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6419\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-verse-text\"><em>gu\u1e47\u0101tmanas te \u2019pi gu\u1e47\u0101n vim\u0101tu\u1e41<br \/>\n<span class=\"hide\">\u2003\u2003<\/span>hit\u0101vat\u012br\u1e47asya ka \u012b\u015bire \u2019sya<br \/>\nk\u0101lena yair v\u0101 vimit\u0101\u1e25 su-kalpair<br \/>\n<span class=\"hide\">\u2003\u2003<\/span>bh\u016b-p\u0101\u1e41\u015bava\u1e25 khe mihik\u0101 dyu-bh\u0101sa\u1e25<\/em><\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6420\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cScientists and learned men cannot even measure the atomic constitution of a single planet. Even if they could count the molecules of snow in the sky or the number of stars in space, they could not understand how You descend to this earth or in this universe with Your innumerable transcendental potencies and qualities.\u201d In <a href=\"https:\/\/vedabase.io\/en\/library\/sb\/2\/7\/41\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i>\u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam<\/i>(2.7.41)<\/a> Lord Brahm\u0101 informs N\u0101rada that none of the great sages born before N\u0101rada, including Brahm\u0101 himself, can measure the extent of the Supreme Lord\u2019s potencies. Indeed, Brahm\u0101 declared that even Ananta, with His thousands of tongues, fails when He tries to fully describe the Lord\u2019s energies. Similarly, in <a href=\"https:\/\/vedabase.io\/en\/library\/sb\/10\/87\/41\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i>\u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam<\/i> (10.87.41)<\/a> the personified <i>Vedas<\/i> pray:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6421\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-verse-text\"><em>dyu-pataya eva te na yayur antam anantatay\u0101<br \/>\n<span class=\"hide\">\u2003\u2003<\/span>tvam api yad-antar\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da-nicay\u0101 nanu s\u0101vara\u1e47\u0101\u1e25<br \/>\nkha iva raj\u0101\u1e41si v\u0101nti vayas\u0101 saha yac chrutayas<br \/>\n<span class=\"hide\">\u2003\u2003<\/span>tvayi hi phalanty atan-nirasanena bhavan-nidhan\u0101\u1e25<\/em><\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6422\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cMy Lord, You are unlimited, and therefore no one can measure the extent of Your potencies. I think that even You do not know the range of Your energies. An unlimited number of planets float in the sky just like atoms, and great Ved\u0101ntists, who are engaged in research to find You, discover that everything is different from You. At last they conclude that You are everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6423\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>When Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was within this universe, Brahm\u0101 played a trick on Him in order to confirm that the special cowherd boy in V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana was actually K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Himself. By his mystic power Brahm\u0101 stole all the cows, calves and cowherd friends of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and hid them. But when Brahm\u0101 returned to see what K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was doing alone, he saw that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was still playing with the same cows, calves and cowherd boys. By His Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha potency Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a had expanded all the stolen cows, calves and friends. Indeed, Brahm\u0101 saw millions and billions of them, and he also saw millions and billions of herding sticks and fruits, lotus flowers and horns. All the cowherd boys were wearing different clothes and ornaments, and no one could count their vast numbers. Then Brahm\u0101 saw each of the cowherd boys become a four-handed N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47a, and he also saw innumerable Brahm\u0101s from different universes offering obeisances to the Lord. He saw that all these personalities were emanating from the body of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and, after a second, entering into His body. Lord Brahm\u0101 became struck with wonder by this extraordinary feat of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s, and in a prayer he stated that although anyone and everyone could say they knew all about K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, as far as he was concerned, he did not know anything about Him. \u201cMy dear Lord,\u201d he said, \u201cthe potencies and opulences You have exhibited just now are beyond the ability of my mind to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6424\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>Lord Caitanya further explained that not only is the potency of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47aloka limitless, but so also is that of V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s abode on this planet. From one point of view, V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana is about thirty-two square miles in area, yet in one part of this V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana all the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dhas exist. The area of present-day V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana contains twelve forests and covers about eighty-four <i>kro\u015bas,<\/i> or 168 miles in area, and V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana City is estimated to be about sixteen <i>kro\u015bas,<\/i> or thirty-two square miles. How all the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dhas can exist there is beyond material calculation. Thus Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu concluded that the potencies and opulences of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a are unlimited. Whatever He told San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b was only partial, but by such a partial presentation one can try to imagine the whole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6425\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>While Lord Caitanya was speaking to San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b about the opulences of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, He became deeply immersed in ecstasy, and in that transcendental state He recited a verse from <a href=\"https:\/\/vedabase.io\/en\/library\/sb\/3\/2\/21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i>\u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam<\/i> (3.2.21)<\/a> in which Uddhava, after the disappearance of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, told Vidura:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6426\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-verse-text\"><em>svaya\u1e41 tv as\u0101my\u0101ti\u015bayas try-adh\u012b\u015ba\u1e25<br \/>\n<span class=\"hide\">\u2003\u2003<\/span>sv\u0101r\u0101jya-lak\u1e63my-\u0101pta-samasta-k\u0101ma\u1e25<br \/>\nbali\u1e41 haradbhi\u015b cira-loka-p\u0101lai\u1e25<br \/>\n<span class=\"hide\">\u2003\u2003<\/span>kir\u012b\u1e6da-ko\u1e6d\u012b\u1e0dita-p\u0101da-p\u012b\u1e6dha\u1e25<\/em><\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6427\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cK\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the master of all demigods, including Lord Brahm\u0101, Lord \u015aiva and the expansion of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u within this universe. Therefore no one is equal to or greater than Him, and He is full in six opulences. All the demigods engaged in the administration of each universe offer their respectful obeisances unto Him. Indeed, the helmets on their heads are beautiful because they are decorated with the imprints of the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord.\u201d It is similarly stated in the <i>Brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101<\/i> (5.1) that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and no one can be equal to or greater than Him. That is Brahm\u0101\u2019s conclusion. Although the universal rulers \u2013 Brahm\u0101, \u015aiva and Vi\u1e63\u1e47u \u2013 are masters of each and every universe, they too are servants of the Supreme Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6428\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>As the cause of all causes, Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is also the cause of Mah\u0101-vi\u1e63\u1e47u, the first of the incarnations who control this material creation. From Mah\u0101-vi\u1e63\u1e47u come Garbhodaka-\u015b\u0101y\u012b Vi\u1e63\u1e47u and K\u1e63\u012brodaka-\u015b\u0101y\u012b Vi\u1e63\u1e47u. Thus K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the master of Garbhodaka-\u015b\u0101y\u012b Vi\u1e63\u1e47u and K\u1e63\u012brodaka-\u015b\u0101y\u012b Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, and He is also the Supersoul within every living entity in the universe. The <i>Brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101<\/i> (5.48) states: By Mah\u0101-vi\u1e63\u1e47u\u2019s breathing innumerable universes are produced. In each universe there are innumerable <i>vi\u1e63\u1e47u-tattvas,<\/i> but it should be understood that Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the master of them all and that they are but His partial plenary expansions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6429\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>From the revealed scriptures it is understood that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a lives in three transcendental places. His most confidential residence is Goloka V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana. It is there that He stays with His father, mother and friends, exhibits His transcendental relationships and bestows His mercy upon His eternal entourage. There Yogam\u0101y\u0101 acts as His maidservant in the <i>r\u0101sa-l\u012bl\u0101<\/i> dance. The residents of Vrajabh\u016bmi think, \u201cThe Lord is glorified by particles of His transcendental mercy and affection, and due to His merciful existence we, the residents of V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, have not the slightest anxiety.\u201d As stated in the <i>Brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101<\/i> (5.43), in the spiritual sky all the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets (which make up Vi\u1e63\u1e47uloka) are below the planet known as K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47aloka, Goloka V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana. On that supreme planet the Lord enjoys His transcendental bliss in multiple forms, and all the opulences of the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dhas are fully displayed on that one planet. Like K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, His associates are also full with six opulences. In the <i>Padma<\/i> <i>Pur\u0101\u1e47a<\/i> (<i>Uttara-kha\u1e47\u1e0da<\/i> 255.57) it is stated that the material energy and the spiritual energy are separated by the Viraj\u0101 River. That river flows from the perspiration of the first <i>puru\u1e63a<\/i> incarnation. On the far bank of the Viraj\u0101 is the eternal nature, unlimited and all-blissful, called the spiritual sky, the spiritual kingdom, or the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6430\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>The spiritual planets are called Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dhas because there is no lamentation or fear there and everything is eternal. The spiritual world has been calculated to comprise three fourths of the energies of the Supreme Lord, and the material world comprises one fourth. But no one can understand what that three fourths is, since even this material universe cannot be described. Trying to convey to San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b something of the extent of this display of one fourth of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s energy, Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu next cited an incident from the scriptures in which Brahm\u0101, the lord of this universe, came to see K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a at Dv\u0101rak\u0101. When Brahm\u0101, the first created being in the universe, approached K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the doorman informed K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a that Brahm\u0101 had arrived to see Him. Upon hearing this, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a inquired as to which Brahm\u0101 had come, and the doorman returned to Brahm\u0101 and asked, \u201cWhich Brahm\u0101 are you? K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a has asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6431\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>Brahm\u0101 was struck with wonder. Why did K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a ask such a question? Brahm\u0101 informed the doorman, \u201cPlease tell Him that the Brahm\u0101 who is the father of the four Kum\u0101ras and who has four heads has come to see Him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6432\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>The doorman informed K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and then asked Brahm\u0101 to come inside. Brahm\u0101 offered his obeisances unto the lotus feet of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, and after K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a had received him with all honor, the Lord asked him why he had come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6433\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cI shall tell You of my purpose in coming here,\u201d Lord Brahm\u0101 replied, \u201cbut first I ask You to kindly remove a doubt I have. Your doorman told me that You asked which Brahm\u0101 had come to see You. May I inquire if there are other Brahm\u0101s besides me?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6434\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>Upon hearing this, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a smiled and at once called for many Brahm\u0101s from many other universes. The four-headed Brahm\u0101 then saw many other Brahm\u0101s coming to see K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and offer their respects. Some of them had ten heads, some had twenty, some had a hundred, and some even had a million heads. Indeed, the four-headed Brahm\u0101 could not even count the Brahm\u0101s who came to offer their obeisances to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a then called many other demigods from various universes, and they all came to offer their respects to the Lord. Upon seeing this wonderful exhibition by K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the four-headed Brahm\u0101 became nervous and began to think he was just like a mosquito in the midst of many elephants. Since so many demigods were offering obeisances unto the lotus feet of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Brahm\u0101 concluded that no one can measure K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s unlimited potency. All the helmets of the various demigods and Brahm\u0101s shone brightly in the assembly, and when the helmets struck one another as the demigods offered obeisances, the helmets seemed to make a great sound of prayer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6435\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cDear Lord,\u201d the demigods said, \u201cit is Your great mercy upon us that You have called us to see You. Is there any particular order? If so, we will carry it out at once.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6436\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing especially required of you,\u201d Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a replied. \u201cI only wanted to see you all together at one time. I offer My blessings to you. Don\u2019t be afraid of the demons.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6437\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cBy Your mercy, everything is all right,\u201d they all replied. \u201cThere are no disturbances at present, for by appearing on the earth You have vanquished everything inauspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6438\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>As each Brahm\u0101 saw K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, each thought that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was only within his universe. After this incident, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a wished all the Brahm\u0101s farewell, and after offering respects to Him they returned to their respective universes. Upon seeing this, the four-headed Brahm\u0101 at once fell down at the feet of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and said, \u201cWhat I thought about You before was all nonsense. People may say they know You perfectly, but as far as I am concerned, I cannot begin to conceive how great You are. You are beyond my understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6439\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a then informed him, \u201cThis particular universe is only four thousand million miles across, but there are many millions and billions of universes which are far, far greater than this one. Some of these are many trillions of miles across, and all these universes require strong Brahm\u0101s with many more than four heads.\u201d K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a further informed Brahm\u0101, \u201cThis material creation is only one quarter of My creative potency. Three quarters is in the spiritual kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6440\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>The four-headed Brahm\u0101 then offered obeisances to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and departed, now understanding the meaning of the Lord\u2019s \u201cthree-quarters energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6441\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>The Lord is known as Tryadh\u012b\u015bvara, a name indicating His principal abodes \u2013 Gokula, Mathur\u0101 and Dv\u0101rak\u0101. These three abodes are full of opulences, and Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the master of them all, situated as He is in His transcendental potency. Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the master of all transcendental energies, is thus full with six opulences, and because He is the master of all opulences, all the Vedic literatures acclaim Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6442\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>Lord Caitanya then sang a nice song to San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b about the opulences of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a: \u201cAll the pastimes of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a are exactly like the activities of human beings. Therefore it is to be understood that His form is like that of a human being. Indeed, the human form is an imitation of His form. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is dressed just like a cowherd boy. He has a flute in His hand, and He seems to be just like a newly grown youth. He is always playful, and He plays just like an ordinary boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6443\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>Thus Lord Caitanya begin telling San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b about the beautiful aspects of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. The Lord said that anyone who understands these beautiful qualities is dipped into an ocean of nectar. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s <i>yogam\u0101y\u0101<\/i> potency is transcendental, beyond the material energy, but the Lord exhibits His transcendental potency even within this material world just to satisfy His confidential devotees. In other words, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a appears in the material world to satisfy His devotees. His qualities are so attractive that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Himself becomes eager to understand Himself. When He is fully decorated and stands with His body curved in three ways, with His eyebrows always moving and His eyes so attractive, the <i>gop\u012bs<\/i> become enchanted. His special abode is at the top of the spiritual sky, and He resides there with His associates \u2013 the cowherd boys, the <i>gop\u012bs<\/i> and all the goddesses of fortune. It is there that He is known as Madana-mohana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6444\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>There are many different pastimes of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, such as His pastimes in the forms of V\u0101sudeva and Sa\u1e45kar\u1e63a\u1e47a. In the material sky He performs pastimes as the first <i>puru\u1e63a<\/i> incarnation, the creator of the material world. There are also pastimes in which He incarnates as a fish or a tortoise or takes the forms of Lord Brahm\u0101 and Lord \u015aiva, incarnations of the material qualities. In His pastimes as an empowered incarnation, He takes the form of King P\u1e5bthu, and He also performs pastimes as the Supersoul in everyone\u2019s heart and as the impersonal Brahman as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6445\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>Among K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s innumerable pastimes, however, the most important are His humanlike activities \u2013 frolicking in V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, dancing with the <i>gop\u012bs,<\/i> playing with the P\u0101\u1e47\u1e0davas on the Battlefield of Kuruk\u1e63etra and playing in Mathur\u0101 and Dv\u0101rak\u0101. And His most important pastimes in the human form are those in which He appears as a cowherd boy, a newly grown youth who plays a flute. Just a partial manifestation of His pastimes in Goloka \u2013 in Gokula, Mathur\u0101 and Dv\u0101r\u0101vat\u012b, or Dv\u0101rak\u0101 \u2013 can overflood the whole universe with love of Godhead. Everyone can be attracted by the beautiful qualities of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bb6446\" class=\"r r-lang-en r-paragraph\">\n<p>The manifestation of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s internal potency (<i>yogam\u0101y\u0101<\/i>) is not exhibited in the part of the kingdom of God comprising the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets, but K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a does exhibit that internal potency within the universe when He descends from His personal abode out of His inconceivable mercy. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is so wonderful and attractive that He Himself becomes attracted by His own beauty, and this is proof that He is full of all inconceivable potencies. As far as the ornaments decorating K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s body are concerned, it appears that they do not beautify Him but that they themselves become beautiful simply by being on His body. Always standing in a three-curved way, He attracts all living entities, including the demigods. Indeed, He even attracts the N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47a form who presides in every Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 CHAPTER NINE The Opulences of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Since Lord Caitanya is especially merciful to innocent, unsophisticated persons, His name is also Patita-p\u0101vana, the deliverer of the most fallen conditioned souls. 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