chapter 10 of Antya lila of Caitanya Bhagavata summary and my commentaries

[Paramananda das]

Subject: Antya lila chapter 10 Pundarika Vidhyanidhi lila varnana

PAMHO

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 This last chapter of the Caitanya Bhagavata , is very amazing .First it starts of with an amazing conversation with Advaita Acarya and Lord Caitanya about circumbulating Lord Jagannatha. The Caitanya Bhagavata was a favorite of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada that order devotees to read it over and over again.Gadadhara Pandit requests Lord Caitanya for giving him his Istadeva mantra again and Lord Caitanya tells him that soon his diksa Guru Pundarika Vidyanidhi will arrive in Jagannatha Puri and then he can take the mantra from him again.Pundarika is non different from Vrsabhanu Maharaja and Gadadhara Pandit is Radha Herself.So then it describes how Lord Caitanya in His love of Krsna, falls into  a well that bewilders even Advaita Acarya that is non different from MahaVisnu.That well fills up with butter the instant Lord Caitanya fell into it.Lord Caitanya would daily hear Bhagavatam from Gadadhara Pandit and especially about Dhruva Maharaja and Prahlada Maharaja .Then Vrindavana das Thakura the incarnation of Srila Vyasadeva tells the pastime when Pundarika Vidyanidhi got slapped by Krsna and Balarama for finding faults in Lord Jagannathas servants  .It is such an amazing lila, but Pundarika Vidyanidhi was not happy out of love that Krsna and Balarama would be dressed in unwashed garments.And Krsna and Balarama slapped Pundarika Vidyanidhi even with rings on Their lotushands leaving marks on his cheeks. Then the glories of the Lords chastisement is given. There is a nice audio recording also on line of the entire Caitanya Bhagavata https://archive.org/details/chaitanya-bhagavata.One attains the lotusfeet of Krsna by hearing this pastimes of Lord Caitanya with Pundarika Vidyanidhi.Lord Caitanya used to call Pundarika Vidyanidhi father.But at the same time as Lord Jagannatha and Lord Baladeva They slapped him, no one can understand the Lords pastimes/

  all glories to Lord Caitanya and His eternal associates may they bless us all with pure bhakti.

your servant

Paramananda das