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Ocean Of Jewels
BY KALIYA DAMANA DASA
USA, Oct 12 (VNN) — Tridandi Goswami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja, June 1999 - Alachua, Florida, USA.
The ocean is Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and His mercy is the vapor, like the essence. And no one at that time saw how this ocean became a cloud. They saw a cloud, Raya Ramananda. But who is Raya Ramananda? A general person cannot imagine his mercy.
“But who is Raya Ramananda? A general person cannot imagine his mercy.”
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samsara-davanala-lidha-loka
tranaya karunya-ghanaghanatvam
Karuna, mercy, condensed (ghana)...So he's the condensed karuna and condensed rasa of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Now Caitanya Mahaprabhu has come in the form of a cloud. But one thing is there. That cloud gives showers of sweet water. How? If any forest is there, or any high mountain or hills are there, then when the clouds touch them it showers. Here again that ocean takes the shape of a mountain or forest, like Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself, and He asked questions. When these clouds were meeting with the mountain and forest, they were melted in the form of a shower. So here, by touching Mahaprabhu again, like a mountain or forest, that cloud was melted and showers were coming. Like that rain that falls during the special star constellation, the svati naksatra. When that rain falls onto different receptacles, according to the nature of the receptacle, different things are produced. So in the same way, when the auspicious meeting of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Raya Ramananda came, this rain fell on the ocean, then the ocean of rasa, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, became ratnakara, an ocean of jewels.
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