Life and teachings of Lord Chaitanya - 16

Mahaprakash Lila(aka Saat-Prahria-Lila)

1. Bathing ceremony of Lord Chaitanya.

2. “Dukhi” turned into “Sikhi”.

3. Decorating the Lord after bathing & offering prayers by devotees.

4. Worshipping the Lord.

5. Offering Bhoga to Lord.

6. Lord Chaitanya’s benedicting devotees:

a. Revealing to Srivas Thakur regarding giving him

ecstasy when offended by Devanand Pandit.

b. Curing a devotee from fever.

c. Saving Gangadas pandit from muslim soldiers attack.

7. Evening approaching & devotees lighting up the lamps and offering lamps as Arati to Lord’s Lotus Feet.

8. Glories to Sridhar Kolavecha:

a. Lord showing Shyamsundar form to Sridhar

Kolavecha.

b. Prayers by Sridhar to Lord on devotees defeating Lord

by strength of devotion, e.g.: Bhisma defeating

Krishna, Yashoda binding Krishna, Satyabhama could

sell Krishna, carrying Sridhama and other cowherd

boys on shoulder.

9. Glorification of Murari Gupta: boon asked by Murari “I may sing your glories birth after birth”, and Lord revealing the meaning of Murari Gupta.

10. Pastimes with Haridas Thakur:

a. Saving Haridas Thakur from muslim tormentors and

Lord’s inability to punish the tormentors, and

protecting Haridas with His own body.

b. Prayers by Haridas on remembering Lord and

condemning himself for inability to remember Lord,

Draupadi remembering Lord, Parvati saved from

witches, Prahlad troubled by his father, Pandava’s

while Durvas muni’s visit, Ajamila.

c. Boon by Haridas “Remnants of devotees birth of birth

and birth in the house of a devotee as a dog.”

11. Mercy to Advaita Acharya:

a. In dream Lord Chaitanya revealing the meaning of verse from Bhagavad-Gita except one (13.14 –

sarvatah pāni-pādam tat | sarvato 'ksi-śiro-mukham |sarvatah

śrutimal loke | sarvam āvrtya tisthati ) and that verse

explained by Lord to Advaita.

12. Boons to everyone: pastime of Mukunda

a. Prayers of Mukunda on seeing Lord without

devotion, leading to destruction, e.g.: Duryodhana &

his family seeing Virat Rupa, Kings in Vidarba

seeing Krishna riding on Garuda, Hiranyaksha seeing

Lord Varaha with Earth, Hiranyakashipu seeing form

of Lord Nrsimha.

b. Prayers on not seeing but having devotion, e.g.: Kubja, Yajna-patnis, Ladies of Palace in Mathura, the garland maker Sudhama.

c. But Kamsa saw and killed by Lord, therefore power of devotion.

d. Prayers on power of devotion, e.g.: Ananta Sesha holding whole material creation on his hoods, although Himself without support, Lord Shiva becoming the husband of Durga (mahamaya), Vyasdeva not satisfied by compiling all the Vedic text but not happy, but later instructed by Narada and compiling Srimad Bhagavatam (devotional literature) and becoming fully satisfied.

e. Lord confirming the statements of Mukunda, e.g.: Kamsa’s washer man killed by Krishna.

13. No way to receive blessings of Lord Chaitanya other than humble devotional mood, and finally Narayani receiving the remnants of Lord Chaitanya – End of Mahaprakash Lila.