Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

Lord Caitanya’s Promise

Sri Caitanya-candrodaya by Kavi Karnapur
Chapter 10, Texts 279-284

Advaita: What more may You do to please Me? Lord, You have revealed the most confidential pastimes of Lord Krishna. You have crushed the age of Kali, and You have described the secret meaning of devotional service in pure love of Krishna. You have brought all auspiciousness to the devotees expert at relishing the mellows of transcendental pastimes. You have openly revealed the ecstatic, pure devotional love felt by Sri Radha, the crest jewel of all the gopis.

I have one request, I think material piety, economic development and sense-gratification worthless and insignificant. I don’t want impersonal liberation. I only want that in the next life I may have the association of Your devotees.

Sri Caitanya: So be it. I will go to Vrndavana and there I will accept you as My associates and with My sweet pastimes I will fill your hearts with bliss. To you who have faith in Vrndavana I will give splendid spiritual forms like My own. That is what I will do for you.

Those of you whose hearts are bound to Me in this form of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, even if your rasas are friendship or servitude to Sri Sri Radha-Madhava or Lord Dvarakadhisa, or if your rasas are friendship or servitude to any of My other incarnations, I will make into My eternally liberated associates in Goloka Vrndavana.

Advaita: So be it. By Your desire may You give us all different eternal forms and different eternal residences. We will eternally remember Your wonderful transcendental pastimes.

I pray that until the end of the kalpa poets may write books about Your transcendental pastimes, actors may act in plays narrating Your pastimes. May the saintly devotees see and hear these plays. When the wicked see and hear these plays may they become free of envy and filled with happiness, and when the kings of this world see and hear them may they become filled with devotion for Your lotus feet and inspired to always protect their subjects.

The Lord: So be it.