-Ganga got more significance due to Mahaprabhu’s Lila.
-Srivas Thakur leaves Srihatta district & comes to Navadvipa to hear from Advaita Acharya.
-Advaita Acharya’s, avatar of Maha Vishnu & Sada Shiva moved Krishna by offering Tulasi with Ganga jal.
-Srila Narayana Goswami Maharaj used to watch Mahaprabhu lila drama & Rasa Lila drama.
-Malini devi used to serve Saci Mata. Srivas Pandit used to discuss Krishna Katha Lila with Jagannatha Mishra.
-Nityananda Prabhu- an avadhuta.
-Lila of Nityananda Prabhu asking the crow to get back the ghee container of Malini devi.
-Reason for studying sastras is to have Krishna bhakti.
-Mahaprabhu goes to Gaya & becomes bhavuk.
-Mahaprabhu showing chatur bhuja Vishnu form to Srivas Thakur.
-Mahaprabhu’s with Srivasa Thakur’s daughter Narayani & Her service.
-Lila of Mahaprabhu saying what is the need for tapasya if Lord Vishnu is worshipped to a vairagya hiding in secrecy to see Naam sankirtan in Srivas Thakur’s house.
-Bhakti has to be svabhavik. Hari Bhajan is our main purpose.
-Vyasa Puja in Srivas Thakur’s house.
-5 places where Mahaprabhu always stays.
-Raghava Pandit & Damayanthi when they go to Jagannatha Puri used to take all ingredients required for 1 year to Mahaprabhu
TRANSCRIPT
So the Vyasa-avatarа of gaura-lila is Vrindavana dasa Thakura. Vrindavana das Thakura, who is the Vyasa-avatarа of gaura-lila he told the glories of Srivasa Pandita in his book Chaitanya-bhagavata. So someone bathes in Nirdaya-ghata in Navadvipa who can tell the glories of this person? The Ganges is everywhere isn’t it? But Navadvipa-dhama has a speciality. Especially in Navadvipa where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu performed His pastimes with His friends, with His associates in the Ganges. Everyone bathes in the Yamuna, this is true. But before, that by bathing in special places of the Yamuna, who can describe the glory of bathing the Yamuna and also the Ganges, especially in Navadvipa?
Srivasa started to live in Navadvipa, before they used to live in Srihatta in Bengal, another part of Bengal. But then Navadvipa, sorry Srivasa came to Navadvipa and started to live on the banks of the Ganges in Navadvipa-dhama. So Srivasa Thakura would come to listen hari-katha from Advaita Acharya, bhagavata-katha. So Advaita Acharya left East Bengal and came in Navadvipa and stayed in Navadvipa. Advaita Acharya was not an ordinary person. He was the avatara of Mahavishnu and Sadashiva avatara also. Advaita Acharya Mahavishnu and Sadashiva.
And Advaita Acharya understood that very quickly, Krishna would appear in Navadvipa-dhama as Mahaprabhu. Who made Mahaprabhu appear in this world? Advaita Acharya. Mahaprabhu Himself also said…
sutiya acchinu kṣīra-sagara-bhitare
mora nidrā bhanileka nadara huṅkāre
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 22.16)
[Lying within an ocean of milk, My transcendental slumber broke, as I awoke to hear the loud cries of my devotee.]Nadara means someone who shakes you and wakes you up. And Advaita Acharya offered waters of the Ganges and tulasi and in this way he made Mahaprabhu appear. This is true, Mahaprabhu would come, but when who knows? But Advaita Acharya, “Oh you came…”
Advaita Acharya he offered water of the Ganges and tulasi. And woke up Krishna, oh sorry not woke up, brought Krishna to this world. So Advaita Acharya, he would perform nama-sankirtana and read Bhagavatam also. The wife of Srivasa was called Malini-devi and she was very friends with Saci-devi and used to serve her. So, seeing this bad condition of Kali-yuga, Srivasa prayed to Bhagavan. Sometimes, the devotees become very upset, but Srivasa Thakura, he used to pacify everyone. Who knows when Bhagavan will come? But Srivasa Thakura, he said, “No. Krishna very quickly will appear.”
Some devotees they were angry, sometimes the devotees they are angry and make some lila of being angry and say, “Oh, you are a spy. You are saying, ‘Bhagavan will come, will come…’ But, when will He come?” Have you seen this lila I think like drama. Lila of Mahaprabhu, Nadir Nimai very beautiful, so beautiful. In Dampyar they made one presentation, so beautiful. Srila Gurudeva, every day early in the morning, he used to go there for this like drama presentation. You know, like a play theater. From 7 to 10 am, they would present here these lilas. In that museum, in that place behind the museum, I remember they were performing such beautiful lilas of Mahaprabhu. And at that time, for one month they were presenting the play of Mahaprabhu’s pastime. And then during the day, they were performing Mahaprabhu’s lila, and in the evening time, the rasa-lila of Krishna.
So, it’s very nice. So very nice, also like a play and everything was very nice and well made, the quality. The players, like the actors were also very good. Later that group divided, they finished that theater group, that party of theater, but they were very good. I think 30 years ago or 35 years ago. So I remember how so beautiful that Srivasa Thakura play, that Srivasa Thakura actor. Look just like we were in Navadvipa in front of Mahaprabhu. After the hari-katha, everybody used to cry so much, completely absorbed in bhava.
So the wife of Srivasa, Malini-devi, she used to serve Sacimata. Ah yea, the wife of Srivasa was with Sacimata and they had a very beautiful intimate relationship, strong relationship. So when we speak about, like when Nityananda came, He was staying in the house of Nandana Acharya, Mahaprabhu brought Him to His own House. But Nityananda Prabhu, He was always absorbed in bhava, always. Sometimes He couldn’t even, He was not wearing clothes properly.
Then He said, “Nitai..” Mahaprabhu told, “How possible stay like this? You have to follow the rules of society.” And Nitai was like only laughing, “Ha, ha, ha.” Like this. Then after that…So, Malini, wife of Srivasa, was taking care of Nityananda Prabhu, just like a son. Once, Malini, she had one pot with ghee and a crow came and took that pot of ghee and throw away. Then Nityananda Prabhu told to the crow, “Bring back this pot of ghee.” And immediately, immediately the crow came bringing that pot of ghee back to Malini-devi, the wife of Srivasa. Because Nityananda Prabhu is directly chaitya-guru, he is guru-tattva, nondifferent than guru-tattva. Nityananda told the crow to come back and immediately the crow came back.
So then Vrindavana dasa Thakura he explains very well, very nicely and the lilas of Mahaprabhu are so amazing also. Like we heard yesterday, how He was studying in Navadvipa, vidya-vilasa, His pastimes of knowledge and study and also He was very restless and He was defeating big panditas. Yesterday Maharaja was saying. So He used to manifest one logic, what is the name of the logic? Navya-nyaya. So with this navya-nyaya, new logic, Mahaprabhu defeated many great panditas, many great panditas. At that time, Navadvipa was a gigantic place of knowledge. Like Mithila also was a place of learning. Many great panditas used to come to, used to come here and study. Like when we go to Vidyanagara, that place in Navadvipa, we listened, we hear from the Vaishnavas how Navadvipa was a place that they would discuss the shastras. So Vidyanagara, that place in Navadvipa, is like the origin, not origin, but is like the place where like the knowledge was coming new, like a lot of knowledge coming from that.
But, what is the real knowledge? The fruit of knowledge is to have your mind in Krishna.
sei se vidyāra phala jāniha niścaya
kṛṣṇa-pāda-padme yadi citta-vṛtti raya
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Adi-khanda 13.178)
[The perfect result of an education is the fixing of one’s mind on the lotus feet of Krishna.]You cannot get establish anything by only logic.
Why the people study, study the scriptures and everything? To attain krishna-bhakti, if you don’t attain krishna-bhakti, if you don’t have bhagavad-bhakti, so what is the meaning of vidya, knowledge? Sometimes, Srivasa Thakura, he used to say these things to Mahaprabhu.
paḍe kene loka – kṛṣṇa-bhakti jānibāre
se yadi nahila, tabe vidyāya ki kare
eteke sarvadā vyartha na gonao kala
paḍilā ta’, ebe kṛṣṇa bhajaha sakala
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Adi-khanda 12.53)
[Why do people study? Education is only for understanding devotional service of Lord Krishna. Therefore don’t uselessly waste Your time any longer. You’ve studied enough. Now You should worship Krishna.]Mahaprabhu said, “One day, I will become a great devotee. Brahma, Shiva will come, they will, they will bow their head at My feet.” In this way, Mahaprabhu is actually indicating He was Svayam Bhagavan. So yesterday, we already heard this, so I am not coming on this subject. When Srivasa told all of this to Mahaprabhu, Mahaprabhu smiled and He said, “One day, I will become a great devotee. Everyone, they will come and they will bow their heads at My feet.”
What is the meaning of bhakti? When Mahaprabhu went to Gaya, He met Ishvara Puripada, so then at this moment, the life of Mahaprabhu changed completely. Before He was Uddhata Nimai, restless, restless, but after going Gaya, He became so emotional you know very emotional. So sometimes Mahaprabhu used to tell Srivasa, “Srivasa, you worship to whom? How do you get money? Look that person you worship is actually is already with you. Srivasa to whom do you worship to?” So in this way, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, there was the altar of Vishnu in the house of Srivasa. Mahaprabhu used to sit on the altar, and then Srivasa would see the form, like Mahaprabhu would show him the form of four arms— of shankha, chakra, gada, padma. And give darshana to Srivasa, with four arms.
Then at that moment, Srivasa Thakura started to chant holy names, began to chant holy names. So Advaita Acharya thought, “Oh, the causeless mercy of Mahaprabhu slowly, slowly will manifest.”
viśvambhara-caraṇe āmāra namaskāra
nava-ghana varṇa, pīta vasana yāṅhāra
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.272)
[I offer my respectful obeisances at the lotus feet of Vishvambhara, whose bodily complexion is the colour of a newly formed cloud and who is dressed in yellow garments.]śacīra nandana-pāye mora namaskāra
nava-guñjāśikhi-puccha bhuṣaṇa yāṅhāra
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.273)
[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Saci’s son, whose head is decorated with strands of fresh gunja and a peacock feather.]gaṅgādāsa-śiṣya-pāye mora namaskāra
vana-mālā, kare dadhi-odana yāṅhāra
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.274)
[I offer my respectful obeisances at the feet of Gangadasa Pandita’s student, who wears a forest flower garland and holds yoghurt rice in His hand.]jagannātha-putra-pāye mora namaskāra
koṭi-candra yini rūpa vadana yāṅhāra
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.275)
[I offer my respectful obeisances at the feet of Jagannatha Mishra’s son, whose attractive form defeats the beauty of millions of moons.]śṛṅga, vetra, veṇu—cihna-bhuṣaṇa yāṅhāra
sei tumi, tomāra caraṇe namaskāra
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.276)
[I offer my obeisances unto You, who are adorned with horn, stick, and flute.]cāri-vede yāṅre ghoṣe’ ‘nandera kumāra’
sei tumi, tomāra caraṇe namaskāra
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.277)
[You are that person who is addressed by the four Vedas as the son of Maharaja Nanda. I offer my obeisances unto You.]So in this way, Srivasa and the devotees they were praying to the Mahaprabhu:
āji mora janma-karma—sakala saphala
āji mora udaya—sakala sumaṅgala
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.289)
[Today my life and activities have become successful. Today all good fortune has awakened for me.]āji mora pitṛ-kula haila uddhāra
āji se vasati dhanya haila āmāra
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.290)
[Today my forefathers have been delivered. Today my home is truly blessed.]āji mora nayana-bhāgyera nāhi sīmātāṅre
dekhi—yāṅra śrī-caraṇa seve ramā”
Chaitanya-bhagavata (Madhya-khanda 2.291)
[Today there is no limit to the good fortune of my eyes, for I am seeing He whose lotus feet are served by Rama, the goddess of fortune.]In this way, Srivasa Thakura was praying to Mahaprabhu. And the niece of Srivasa is Narayani. When she was, when Narayani was very young. Mahaprabhu used to give so much affection to her. He used to give His own remnants to her and tell her, “Dance, dance.” And she was a very small girl, so she used to be so absorbed dancing, absorbed in bhava she would faint. Every day she used to fetch the water of the Ganges for Mahaprabhu. So actually because of the, so because of the remnants of Mahaprabhu, she got pregnant with Vrindavana dasa Thakura, Vrindavana dasa Thakura appeared in her womb.
In this way, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, slowly, slowly started to manifest His bhava every day in the house of Srivasa, performing nama-sankirtana. Nityananda Prabhu, Advaita Acharya also would join and Haridasa Thakura also and Gadadhara all of them, they were there and they used to do nama-sankirtana. Once, a payopahari, meaning someone who only drinks milk he used to, he used to just drink some milk because of renunciation, he wouldn’t drink anything. So, the more you are renounced in this world, people see this renunciation and become impressed, “Oh, this a great sadhu.” If someone like really renounced, isn’t it?
Otherwise, if the person also enjoying, you are thinking, “Oh, I am enjoying, he are also enjoying, what is the difference between us?” That is why renounced people, they attract the attention of people. So this, payopahari was the person who was everyday only taking a little bit of milk, and he used to sit down quietly and.. So Srivasa Thakura was at his house one day and this payopahari baba, this sadhu that only drank milk came and said, “Oh, I want to see the pastimes of the nama-sankirtana of Mahaprabhu.” But actually, at that time, no one could enter the nama-sankirtana without the acceptance of Mahaprabhu.
Mahaprabhu he used to do nama-sankirtana with His door shut so only His associates could enter. But this payopahari babaji, who was only drinking milk… Because people used to say, “Oh Mahaprabhu is absorbed in bhava, and then He faints because of bhava, dancing, so jumping.” So hearing this, this Baba also thought, “Oh, I want to see this.” And he insisted to Srivasa, and Srivasa allowed this person to stay in one corner in the house, but like covered. So he can only see and he would see the nama-sankirtana started again and after sometime Mahaprabhu said, “You know today, I am not feeling so much happiness in the nama-sankirtana. Surely, there is some stranger here.”
But everyone said, “Mahaprabhu, we are the same of everyday, there is no one, a stranger outside of here.” Then Mahaprabhu said, “There is someone sitting in the corner of the house.” Then Srivasa caught the feet of Mahaprabhu and said, “Oh Prabhu, this payopahari baba who drinks the milk, he was insisting to see Your nama-sankirtana like this.” So Mahaprabhu called this baba and gave beautiful instruction to him. What did He say?
ārādhito yadi haris tapasā tataḥ kiṁ
nārādhito yadi haris tapasā tataḥ kim
antar bahir yadi haris tapasā tataḥ kiṁ
nāntar bahir yadi haris tapasā tataḥ kim
Narada-pancharatra
[If one is worshiping the Lord properly, what is the use of severe penances? And if one is not properly worshiping the Lord, what is the use of severe penances? If Sri Krishna is realised within and without everything that exists, what is the use of severe penances? And if Sri Krishna is not seen within and without everything, then what is the use of severe penances?]This verse is very simple. Who worships Bhagavan, then, what is the result of his renunciation? If you are too much renunciation your heart will be dry. Like the jnanis that do too much austerities, and because of the austerities, their heart become so dry. Because of the too much renunciation their heart become dry, and there is no bhakti. But if you don’t worship Hari, then what is fruit of doing hard austerities? And if you singing outside and only say, “Hari,” then also, what is the fruit of the austerities?
If inside and outside Hari is not there, then also what is the fruit of the austerity? Tapasya means to give hardships to body, your own body. Is there any benefit? So that is the teaching of Mahaprabhu. “Hey payopahari, the renunciated baba who drinks only milk. In Kali-yuga, these austerities, hard renunciation, you cannot attain God by these renunciation and hard austerities. To attain Bhagavan what is the way? A very simple way, you do nama-sankirtana.” But Chaitanya-bhagavata also says Mahaprabhu is very happy to see the renunciation of His devotees. Like seeing the renunciation of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Mahaprabhu was so pleased also.
But in this verse, Mahaprabhu is saying this about the renunciation. There is no fruit in the austerities, bhakti is something that comes naturally and simple. If you do too much renunciation, your heart will be dry. Another point, actually, your lust and anger will increase even more. So if you don’t follow bhakti, don’t practice bhakti, but only do these renunciations. Or only this jnana for example, knowledge, for example, you will be full of ahankara, ego and your lust, anger will increase instead.
So we should have, this bhakti should natural. So, you accept whatever is favorable for your bhakti and its ok. And if also, if you take too much also there is not benefit and if you take too little or too less then also there is no benefit as well. There is a shloka in the Bhagavatam explaining this. So Mahaprabhu told this payopahari sadhu, that sadhu that was drinking the milk, actually Mahaprabhu was teaching all of the jivas, “Our main goal is to perform hari-bhajana.” Do you understand?
So in this way, there are so many beautiful kathas in the house of Srivasa Thakura. Especially Mahaprabhu, now is coming the Guru-purnima, the day of Vyasadeva, Asari-purnima, the full moon of this month now. I don’t know if other temples are celebrating this or not, but we.. actually our Gurudeva manifested this year. Do you understand? Especially, Gurudeva, before there was not, they wouldn’t celebrate this date here. Like in our temple, Gaudiya Matha. I remember that Ramaprakashaji and Srinivasaji, these devotees from Mathura, they come and told, “Maharaja, if you don’t do this Guru-purnima festival, everybody will go to impersonalism in Mathura, this will be good for your preaching.” That’s why Gurudeva started performing this festival of Guru-purnima festival here in Mathura. So in the time, in the beginning there were not so many people. But after one or two years, this hall was full of the day of Guru-purnima.
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It was very beautiful, so Mahaprabhu actually teaching the jivas of this world, who is the original Vyasa. So Mahaprabhu Himself, He told, “Nityananda, let’s celebrate the Vyasa-puja tomorrow…” Vrindavana dasa Thakura explains in Caitanaya-bhagavata, time is up only take 5 minutes okay. So Mahaprabhu told, “Nityananda, tomorrow is Vyasa-puja, Asari-purnima, so we should celebrate it nicely.” Then, Nityananda Prabhu, NItyananda Prabhu just said, “Oh, tomorrow You will celebrate the Vyasa-puja in the house of Srivasa, in the house of Srivasa.” Mahaprabhu, to teach the jivas of this world said, “But Srivasa is like a poor brahmana, he doesn’t have anything in his house, not even a rat,” like means he doesn’t even have a grain of rice in his house, “And to make a big festival like this for Vyasa-puja, so many people will come.”
So in a festival, you have to arrange food and drinks for everyone right? Like food and beverage. So Srivasa took hold of the feet of Mahaprabhu, caught hold of His feet and said, “Prabhu where are You, where You are Lakshmi is also there, so Prabhu just mercifully, just instruct me to do that and everything will be arranged.” Mahaprabhu smiled and left and said, “Srivasa, how you will be able to do that? Early in the morning all the devotees will come, will have to arrange everything for the devotees, especially the prasada. Especiality the prasada.” So this is the speciality of the lila of Mahaprabhu. Maybe there is not so much kirtana or not so much reading of the scriptures, maybe not so much hari-katha or kirtana, but the prasada must be there right. Isn’t it? Like even maybe no one will appear in the time of kirtana, hari-katha, but in time of prasada, so many people they just show up, like out of nowhere. I have seen this, have you seen also?
From morning, from 7 am until 10 pm, when Gurudeva was here especially, from… until 10 pm so many people coming, coming, coming, didn’t finish, I mean they never end, so many people coming all the time, whole day. You were also here? No? But then, slowly, slowly, Gurudeva started celebrating Guru-purnima in other places also like in Ananda-dhama in Vrindavana. Then Gurudeva, maybe in the same day he was going to here, Vrindavana daily, Govardhana. Like in one day in Guru-purnima, Gurudeva was going many places. Still, the crowd here is like too much, like so many people coming here to see Gurudeva.
So what I am saying is that Srivasa, Mahaprabhu asked, “Srivasa, how will you be able to manage this great festival?” Then Srivasa said, “Prabhu, by Your mercy, everything is possible.” Mahaprabhu said, “Okay.” Early in the morning people were already bringing so much rice, dal, and so many things. House of Srivasa became like a supermarket, like because like so many bhoga, so many donations. The rich man also came. Sethji brought, the rich man brought and Babaji Maharaja cooked.
Like Gurudeva is now mentioning something in Mathura, like how Premananda Prabhu also used to arrange here in our Mathura temple. Really Premananda, we cannot pay our debts with Premananda Prabhu, he works so hard. This is true. Until nowadays I haven’t seen, but I heard that every day in Vrindavana, he is feeding 500-600 people every day. Now, every day he is feeding 500-600 people in Vrindavana, those that go there tell me. And in Chaturmasya also they are doing many things. So many arrangements, have you seen? And also, he used to arrange.
So early in the morning, the devotees came, Mahaprabhu sat down and they started performing nama-sankirtana, others devotees, some devotees were cooking prasada. So they also did the puja according to all of the rules and regulations. The puja of vyasa-panchaka, like when Srila Bhakti Prajnana Keshava Gosvami Maharaja, he explained us how to do this vyasa-panchaka puja, there are many rules of how to do this worship of Vyasa-puja. In the book, Sat-kriya-sara-dipika also explains how to worship, this vyasa-pachaka on the day of Vyasa-puja.
So, later, when was the time for pushpanjali, who was that most senior devotee nearby? Nityananda Prabhu, is the disciple of Lakshmipati Tirtha, so He was the most senior devotee. So Mahaprabhu told, “Sripada,” Mahaprabhu used to call Him Sripada, “Sripada, give pushpanjali.” So Nityananda is avadhuta, he took the garland and maybe 5-10 minutes, maybe standing up, but not offering the garland. And Nityananda was like, “Okay, okay so now give the garland.” And then Srivasa Thakura, put the garland and put on the neck of Mahaprabhu. So they garland of Vyasadeva went to Mahaprabhu. In this way, Nityananda proved the main Vyasa is, the main Vyasa actually the original Krishna is Mahaprabhu. The original of the guru–parampara like we sing Krishna Hoite Chaturmukha.
So in this way, the speciality of the celebration of Vyasa-puja at the house of Srivasa Thakura, there are many other stories of Srivasa Thakura. Now Maharaja will speak also, time is going by. So I will just finish my speech, how Srivasa was very dear to Mahaprabhu. We heard yesterday how Mahaprabhu Himself said, when Mahaprabhu indicated that He would take sannyasa, the devotees started to suffer in separation. But at that moment, Mahaprabhu Himself said, “Actually I will be in five places always, forever,” which places? “One, I will always be in the house of Sacimata. Second, I will always be in the kirtana of Nitayananda also, like Nityananda would dance, also will be there. And in the house of Srivasa also,” Mahaprabhu said Himself. “And in the call of Advaita Acharya, also I will always be there, in his call. Five, fifth, in the house of Raghava Pandita.”
Raghava Pandita was so, they associate of Mahaprabhu. So he has a sister called Damayanti, Raghava Pandita, and both of them, brother and sister used to serve Mahaprabhu. Chaitanya-bhagavata describes so when they used to go to Jagannatha Puri, they used to bring maybe 10 or 12 big baskets, rāghavera jhāli, means like a basket of Raghava Pandita. They used to bring so many things for Mahaprabhu, that Mahaprabhu would use for a whole year. So they used to pay some carriers to bring that on their heads from Bengal, in Panihati on to Jagannatha Puri. At that time, there was no bus, they used to ride, walk by foot. So they brought even the most ordinary and normal things that Mahaprabhu would use. Like for example, like for Mahaprabhu to clean, wash His hands, they used to bring very nice soil, and they used to dry this earth, soil, like mud. So they used to like make it a powder and bring to Mahaprabhu. Mahaprabhu had to wash His hands with this clay, like mud. You know like soap, but using this to clean Himself.
So have heard also Mahaprabhu to have in His stomach on disease, the even brought jute leaves, they don’t know, jute, jute, jute leaves, there is a tree, big tree that comes the origin of the jute. So they dry this leaf of the tree, I think you know like jute, this kind of like material they make potato sacks, this. So they take the leaf from this tree, especially in the month of Kartika, this kind of disease or something comes in the stomach or some this arrangement of the dasha or something and then, so they used to bring these leaves to Mahaprabhu for His health.
So many things for Mahaprabhu they used to bring. And every day, when for four months they used to stay in Puri also, they used to ask Govinda every day, “Did you give this to Mahaprabhu or not? Mahaprabhu took or not?” They were asking all of the time, they had so much affection for Mahaprabhu. They used to bring so many things for Mahaprabhu. Mahaprabhu is the desire tree, so He used to accept all the offerings. So Mahaprabhu Himself said, “I’ll also stay always in the house of Raghava Pandita.” So in five places, Mahaprabhu always stays.
Bolo Vrindavana Bihari lala ki jaya!
