Devotee:<\/strong> I have read an article wherein the deviation of K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa is stated as factual and inescapable evidence that the j\u012bva<\/em> soul falls down from the eternal l\u012bl\u0101<\/em> of the Supreme Lord. Is this possible?<\/p>\nNarasi\u1e45gha Mah\u0101r\u0101ja:<\/strong> To fall from the Lord\u2019s eternal l\u012bl\u0101<\/em> is not possible. \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu rejected K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa from His personal service due to K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa having been allured by gypsies in the region of Mallara-de\u015ba (the area around northern Kerala and southern Karnataka).<\/p>\nK\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa was a simple and gentle br\u0101hma\u1e47a<\/em> yet his intelligence became polluted in the association of the gypsies and he became attracted to women. \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu, being the ideal sanny\u0101s\u012b,<\/em> cannot keep the company of persons who are attracted by women and thus when He returned to Jagann\u0101tha Pur\u012b He lodged a complaint about the character of K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa before S\u0101rvabhauma Bha\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101c\u0101rya and rejected him.<\/p>\nThe first lesson that \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu is teaching us in this incident is that as long as one is in this material world one should never deviate from the strict principles of pure devotional service. M\u0101y\u0101 is very strong and the only safety for a devotee in this world is to constantly stick to the lotus feet of \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu.<\/p>\n
K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa was a br\u0101hma\u1e47a<\/em> who was being given the chance to associate personally with \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu during His earthly pastimes. We do not find mention anywhere in Gaura-ga\u1e47ode\u015ba-d\u012bpik\u0101<\/em> by Kavi Kar\u1e47apura, that K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa was an eternal associate of the Lord who had descended from Goloka V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana to assist the Lord in His pastimes. Thus it can be understood that K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa was not an eternally liberated soul who fell down from the Lord\u2019s association, but rather he was a candidate from this material world and thus he was still susceptible to m\u0101y\u0101\u2019s<\/em> influence. In any case, had K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa been an eternal associate of the Lord his fall down could only have taken place due to yogam\u0101y\u0101, <\/em>not mah\u0101m\u0101y\u0101<\/em>.<\/p>\nEven if one has the personal association of \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu, or has become a liberated soul, as long as one still has a material body and is in this material world, one should not consider oneself liberated and thus independent of the regulative principles of devotional service. This is the first lesson.<\/p>\n
The second lesson is that \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu always protects His devotees. Mah\u0101prabhu went immediately to the camp of the gypsies to reclaim K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa. When this happened the gypsies tried to hurt Mah\u0101prabhu with various weapons. But the weapons that the gypsies tried to use against the Lord turned against them and began to cut them to pieces. Their arms, legs and heads were severed from their bodies. There were loud cries of pain and agony amidst which \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu grabbed His servant, K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa, by the hair and took him away to safety.<\/p>\n
Once having taken shelter of the Lord\u2019s lotus feet, the Lord always protects His devotees. Even if there is some accidental fall down on the part of a sincere devotee the Lord rectifies that immediately.<\/p>\n
api cet su-dur\u0101c\u0101ro bhajate m\u0101m ananya-bh\u0101k
\n<\/em>s\u0101dhur eva sa mantavya\u1e25 samyag vyavasito hi sa\u1e25
\n<\/em>k\u1e63ipra\u1e41 bhavati dharm\u0101tm\u0101 \u015ba\u015bvac-ch\u0101ntim nigacchati
\n<\/em>kaunteya pratij\u0101n\u012bhi na me bhakta\u1e25 pra\u1e47a\u015byati <\/em><\/p>\n\u201cEven if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination. He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kunt\u012b, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.\u201d (Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 9.30-31<\/em>)<\/p>\n\u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu went immediately to the camp of the gypsies to save K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa from m\u0101y\u0101<\/em>. In effect \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu did not allow K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa to give up His association even though he had been bewildered by m\u0101y\u0101<\/em>. After that it was almost one year before Mah\u0101prabhu and K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa returned to Jagann\u0101tha Pur\u012b. During that time K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa continued to serve \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu both day and night. After returning to Pur\u012b, only then did the Lord reject K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa from His personal association. The Lord did this in keeping with His high standards as a sanny\u0101s\u012b<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe third lesson to learn in this incident is that the Lord\u2019s devotees are even more merciful than the Lord Himself. When K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa was seemingly rejected by \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu he soon received the mercy of four great devotees, namely; Nity\u0101nanda Prabhu, Jagad\u0101nanda Pa\u1e47\u1e0dita, Mukunda, and D\u0101modara.<\/p>\n
The devotees of the Lord are more merciful than the Lord Himself. Sometimes the Lord is very hard or strict, whereas the devotees are more inclined to show mercy. It is said,<\/p>\n
vajr\u0101d api ka\u1e6dhor\u0101\u1e47i m\u1e5bd\u016bni kusum\u0101d api
\n<\/em>lokott\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u0101\u1e41 cet\u0101\u1e41si ko nu vij\u00f1\u0101tum \u012b\u015bvara\u1e25 <\/em><\/p>\n\u201cThe hearts of those above common behavior are sometimes harder than a thunder-bolt and sometimes softer than a flower. How can one accommodate such contradictions in great personalities?\u201d<\/p>\n
In some instances \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu showed His harder than a thunderbolt heart. However, \u015ar\u012b Nity\u0101nanda Prabhu was there to show supreme mercy. Such was the case with K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa who not only received the mercy of Nity\u0101nanda Prabhu, but also that of many other eternal associates of the Lord.<\/p>\n
At that time Nity\u0101nanda Prabhu, Jagad\u0101nanda Pa\u1e47\u1e0dita, Mukunda, and D\u0101modara devised a plan and after taking \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu\u2019s permission K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa was sent to Bengal to inform all the devotees that the Lord had returned from South India. First K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa went to the home of Mother \u015aac\u012b and then to the house of \u015ar\u012b Advaita.<\/p>\n
K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa informed all the devotees about the Lord\u2019s return from South India and related in great detail all about the Lord\u2019s travels. K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa brought great pleasure to all the Vai\u1e63\u1e47avas and a great festival was held at \u015ar\u012b Advaita\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
In this way, by the mercy of the devotees, K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa continued to engage in the service of \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu. It should be remembered also that due to the continued services of K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa the narrations about the Lord\u2019s tour of South India were available for recording in the \u015ar\u012b Caitanya-carit\u0101m\u1e5bta<\/em>; even the narration of how the Lord delivered K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa from the gypsies. Those narrations continue to enliven the devotees even up to the present day. Thus the service of K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa continues.<\/p>\nWe have mentioned three beneficial lessons for the devotees of \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu to follow in regard to the Lord rejecting K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa. However, the idea that the incident of K\u0101l\u0101 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ad\u0101sa supports the misconception that the j\u012bva<\/em> falls from Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha or Goloka V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana is not acceptable.<\/p>\nWe should not think that the Lord has any hatred toward His devotee. On the contrary, even if there is some defect in the devotee, the Lord does not take that into consideration. All that exists between the Lord and His pure devotees are mutual feelings of love.<\/p>\n
It is not possible for the pure devotee to envy the Lord nor is it possible for K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a to reject His pure devotee. Whenever such dealings do appear to take place it should be understood to be the workings of yogam\u0101y\u0101,<\/em> not mah\u0101m\u0101y\u0101<\/em>.<\/p>\nNothing is dearer to a devotee than K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and nothing is dearer to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a than His devotee (na me bhakta priya jana\u1e25<\/em>). What more need we say than this?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPr\u0101k\u1e5bta-rasa \u0100ra\u1e47ya Chedin\u012b \u2013 Cutting the Jungle of Misconception\u201d is a compilation of twenty-one articles written in the later 90\u2019s and early 2000s by \u015ar\u012bla B.G. Narasi\u1e45gha Mah\u0101r\u0101ja. This book exposes various philosophical misconceptions that are prevalent within the Gau\u1e0d\u012bya Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava world at present, and establishes the proper understanding according to guru, s\u0101dhu and \u015b\u0101stra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[206,217],"krishna_talk_article":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"krishna_talk_article","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/krishna_talk_article?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}