Srila Prabhupada explains a song by Srila Locana Dasa Thakura

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

Parama koruna, pahu dui jana, nitai gauracandra. This is a song sung by Locana
dasa Thakura, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya, almost contemporary. He wrote
one book, Caitanya-mangala, depicting the activities of Lord Caitanya. That is
a very famous book, Caitanya-mangala. And he has composed many songs.
Practically all Vaisnavas, they are transcendentally poetic. That is one of the
twenty-six qualifications of the Vaisnava.

So he says that "These two Lords," nitai gauracandra, "Lord Nityananda and Lord
Gauranga, or Lord Caitanya, They are very merciful incarnations.'' Saba
avatara-sara siromani: "They are essence of all incarnations.'' The incarnation
is stated in the Bhagavad-gita that whenever there is discrepancies in the
prosecution of religiosities and there is prominence of impious activities, at
that time the Lord incarnates, or He descends on this material world, for
protecting the pious and annihilating the impious. That is the mission of
incarnation.

Every incarnation you'll find two things. Lord Krsna, He's so beautiful, so
kind, but He is very dangerous to the demons. The demons were seeing Him as
thunderbolt, and the gopis were seeing Him as the most beautiful Cupid. So in
the Bhagavad-gita also it is stated, ye yatha mam prapadyante [Bg 4.11].

The God is realized in proportion to one's freedom from the demoniac
propensities. So in this age... Of course, the last incarnation, Kalki, will
simply kill. Long, long after, He will come. But here Lord Caitanya, His
mission is no killing, simply favoring. That is the specific characteristic of
Lord Caitanya. Because in this age, of course, there is very much prominence of
irreligiosity. But if Lord Caitanya wanted to kill them, then there was no
question of their salvation. They would be...

Of course, anyone who is killed by incarnation, he also gets salvation. But not
to the spiritual planets, but they merge into the Brahman effulgence as the
impersonalists desire. In other words, the impersonalist's goal of salvation is
as good as the goal of salvation of the enemies of God. That is not a very
difficult job.

So Lord Caitanya is very merciful because He is embracing everyone by bestowing
love of Krsna. Rupa Gosvami has described Lord Caitanya as the most munificent
of all the incarnations because He is giving Krsna to everyone, without any
qualification. So Locana dasa Thakura says that parama koruna, pahu dui jana,
nitai gauracandra, that They are essence of all incarnation. Kevala
ananda-kanda.

And Their preaching process is very pleasing. Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommends,
"You chant Hare Krsna, dance nicely, and when you feel tired, just take rest
and eat krsna-prasadam." So His formula is very pleasing. Kevala ananda-kanda.

While He was present in Jagannatha Puri, every day in the evening, dancing
was..., chanting and dancing continued. And after dancing is finished, He used
to distribute sumptuously prasadam of Jagannatha. So many thousands of people
used to assemble every night. So simply transcendentally pleasing, this
movement. Kevala ananda-kanda.

Then he recommends, bhajo bhajo bhai, caitanya nitai: "My dear brother, just
try to worship these two Lords, Caitanya and Nityananda," sudrdha visvasa
kori', "with faith and conviction." One should have faith in the words of Lord
Caitanya. Lord Caitanya says that "Go on chanting. Simply by chanting, one will
get all perfection of life."

So this is a fact. Unless we take to chanting, we cannot realize it. But those
who are chanting, they are realizing that they're getting all desired
perfection of life very quickly. So we should chant this mantra with faith and
conviction.

But the only qualification required in this connection, he says, visaya
chadiya, se rase majiya, mukhe bolo hari hari. We have to chant with faith and
conviction; at the same time we should take care, we should be guarding against
sense enjoyment. Visaya chadiya. Visaya means sense enjoyment. And chadiya
means give up.

One should give up sense enjoyment. Of course, in this materialistic life we
have got our senses and we are practiced to use them. We cannot stop it. But
there is no question of stopping, but regulating it. Just like we want to eat.
Visaya means eating, sleeping, mating and defending. So these things are not
forbidden altogether, but they're adjusted just to make it favorable for
executing my Krsna consciousness.

So we should not take... Just like eating. We should not eat just to satisfy
the taste. We should eat only just to keep ourself fit for executing Krsna
consciousness. So eating is not stopped, but it is regulated favorably.
Similarly, mating. Mating is also not stopped. But the regulative principle is
that you should marry and you should have sex life only for begetting children
Krsna conscious.

Otherwise don't do it. So everything is regulated. There is no question of
stopping defense also. Arjuna was fighting, defending, under the order of
Krsna. So everything is there. Nothing stop. Simply it is adjusted for
executing our Krsna consciousness.

Visaya chadiya. We should not accept these visaya, these four principles of
bodily demands, namely eating, sleeping, mating and defending, for sense
gratification. No. The politicians, they fight for sense gratification. They do
not see to the good of the people. For their political aggrandizement they
fight. That fight is forbidden. But when fight is necessity for defending
people, that fighting should be taken. So we have to give up this principle of
sense gratification, or sense gratificatory process.

Dekho dekho bhai tri-bhuvane nai. Then he says, "Just see that there is nobody
else so merciful.'' Pasu pakhi jhure, pasana vidare. By His mercy even the
birds and beasts, they are also maintained. Actually, when Caitanya Mahaprabhu
passed through the forest known as Jharikhanda in central India, He was only
accompanied by his personal attendant, and He was alone. And when He was
passing through the forest He touched one tiger.

He was sleeping, and the tiger answered roaring. The company, Caitanya
Mahaprabhu's attendant, he thought, "Now we are gone.'' But actually, Caitanya
Mahaprabhu asked the tiger, "Why you are sleeping? Just stand up. Chant Hare
Krsna.'' And the tiger began to dance. So actually, this happened. When
Caitanya Mahaprabhu preached this Hare Krsna movement, the tigers, the deers,
the... Everyone joined.

So of course, we are not so powerful. But it is possible that... At least, we
have seen the dogs are dancing in sankirtana. So it is possible also to take...
But we may not attempt such great risk. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu could induce
tigers to dance; we can at least induce every human being to dance. This is
such a nice movement.

So pasu pakhi jhure, pasana vidare. Pasana means stone. So even the
stone-hearted man, he also melts by chanting Hare Krsna. That we have
experienced, seen. Pasana vidare, suni' jara guna-gatha. Simply by hearing the
transcendental pastimes and characteristics of Lord Caitanya, even hard-hearted
men, they also melted. There were many instances. Jagai Madhai. Many fallen
souls, they became elevated to the highest spiritual platform.

Then Locana dasa Thakura says that visaya majiya, rohili poriya:
"Unfortunately, I am so much entrapped in these demands of the body or the
senses that I have forgotten the lotus feet of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.'' Visaya
majiya, rohili poriya, se pade nahilo asa. "I could not desire to be attached
to the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya.''

So why it is so? So he's lamenting that apana karama, bhunjaye samana, that "I
am suffering the sequence of my past misdeeds, that I could not be attracted by
the Krsna consciousness movement. It is a punishment on me by the Yamaraja, the
superintendent of death.''

Actually, this Krsna consciousness movement, sankirtana movement, is so nice
and attractive, every simple, I mean to say, unsophisticated person shall be
attracted. But if one is not attracted, it is to be understood that he is being
punished by the laws of the superintendent of death.

Anyway, if we stick to this principle of chanting, then even Yamaraja, the
superintendent of death, he'll also fail to punish. That is the verdict of
Brahma-samhita. Brahma-samhita says one who takes to this devotional life, his
reaction of past deeds are adjusted immediately.

So every one of us should take part in this movement of Krsna consciousness by
chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
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Purport to Parama Koruna - January 16, 1969, Los Angeles