Et tu, Chandidas?

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Poet Chandidas’s best friend Nakul Thakur, who was also a brahmin, tried his best to make Chandidas see reason.  He said –

“shuno chandidas bhai,

kutumber dol oti mohabol sakal sabhate chai.

tomar barike jodi keho gelo se jodi na khallo ghore,

tobe she bishom hoilo kemon kutumbe gonjaaiya mare.

je jono onchito se jodi beshtito kutumbo lokete bhoje,

tahar byabhar sakaler ghore se jon lokete puje.

tumi eno jon sakale uttam dwijo kule upadan,

kutumbo sakale bigna mate bole bidyate abhiram.

ami se tomar tumi se amar kriya bidya marge hoi,

e ghor samsare bolibe amare apona koriya loi.

sri guru charan jaar dridha mon pireeti hoilo taay,

nakul sangete chandidas sathe dujone bichar jaay.”

Meaning – “Listen brother Chandidas, our community is very strong.  If soemone goes to your house and does not eat there, then it will spell doom on you. That person is blessed who is surrounded by his friends and family. He is truly happy. If you keep good connection with everybody you will be worshiped.

As it is, you are the best of brahmins and an exemplary member of our community. Everybody eulogises you and says that you are the most delightful of all scholars.

Look Chandidas, I am telling you all this because I love you, and I do not discriminate between you and me. Both of us are soulmates in this path of education.  In this terrible world, I am your very own well-wisher. How on earth, can one whose heart is firmly fixed on the lotus-feet of his spiritual master, ever fall in love?  Yes, how indeed? This is exactly what Chandidas would like to discuss with his friend Nakul.”

13 thoughts on “Et tu, Chandidas?”

  1. I am LUUVING this blog! 😆 wish there was a little red heart to paste here.
  3. Radhe Radhe! That’s nice! But…I couldn’t get this point:
    How on earth, can one whose heart is firmly fixed on the lotus-feet of his spiritual master, ever fall in love?
    Does this refer to worldly “love”…?
    As it is, you are the best of brahmins and an exemplary member of our community. Everybody eulogises you and says that you are the most delightful of all scholars.
    The reason for this is… 😀
    If you keep good connection with everybody you will be worshiped.
    Not just “politically” but in true sense too…love brings in success…all around without doubt…even for artificial practitioners, people call him a “developed personality” these days!
  4. Radhe Radhe. Vijeet, Nakul Thakur is refering to Chandidas’s love for Raamini or Raami, the launderess. BTW, both were extremely devoted to Radha-Krishna. :mrgreen: Wish…………….. 😉 🙂
  5. There’s a lot of doublespeak going on here. Whatever happened to “vaishnavas are simple”. ??? OR… “As is on the inside, so is on the outside”??? I think I’ve stumbled upon a sanga of kapatis…….or dhobi-wallis. Perhaps both? You chalakees continue with your “jugal-upasana”. As a sattvic brahmacharini I’m going to stick with my worship of a single female deity – -Sri Baanshuli Devi. She keeps us “eka-eka” and on the straight and narrow path. 😎
  6. Radhe Radhe! No, Chandidasji’s worship of Baanshuli devi doesn’t make him kapati in any way. It is his wish to keep maintaining his love for everyone & Her too. And moreover, simply mentioning this, that doesn’t make us kapati either. We’re one-pointed…and mentioning this doesn’t really mean worshipping—for ur clarification. Chandidasji’s love for Radha Krishna…goes to the standard of capability of his songs to please (cooldown…) Gourhari…at the time when he was in SOOOO emotionally ecstatic state.
  7. Radhe Radhe!
    Wish…………….. 😉 🙂
    I won’t explore into that realm…Kripaluji calls him sahajiya…whatever he is, Mahaprabhu’s relish of his poems…does make him exalted more than just to be called vaishnava for sure.
  8. Radhe Radhe. We want to clarify why Chandidas worshiped Baanshuli devi. His anscestors were kept as priests in this village-mandir. So to be a pujari for Baanshuli devi was his anscestral profession handed down to him by his father. In fact this is also the reason why his parents maned him ‘Chandidas’. They were so much devoted to her, since she gave them every material benefit. Now, we all know what happens when we worship devis and devatas in a ‘nishkaam’ manner. Since Chandidas worshiped the goddess without any material desire whatsoever, she, being a top level Vaishnavi, granted him Sri Krishna-rati. So he served her along with Radha-Krishna, like a Vaishnav child serves her parents, elders etc. She always gave him good advice, and blest him with poetic inspiration about Yugal-preet. In fact, he even writes in a poem how she explained the entire bhakti sadhana to him, from yogic point of view. That is, by drawing paralel with yogic stuff and various stages of prem. One poem even mentions her telling him to chant Kaam-gayatri, kaam-beej. So she was his Guru as well. Radhe Radhe.
  9. Radhe Radhe, whosoever calls Chandidas a sahajiyaa is not only the biggest fool on earth, but also a mahad-aparaadhi. Had Chandidas been a sahajiyaa, Goursundar would not have relished him, since there were many such composers in the aaul, baaul, and sahajiya sampradays, who wrote very good poetry, but Goursundar chose only Chandidas, Vidyapati, Leelashuk and Roy over even Srimad Bhagavatam during the last passionate years.
  10. Radhe Radhe!
    She always gave him good advice, and blest him with poetic inspiration about Yugal-preet. In fact, he even writes in a poem how she explained the entire bhakti sadhana to him, from yogic point of view. That is, by drawing paralel with yogic stuff and various stages of prem. One poem even mentions her telling him to chant Kaam-gayatri, kaam-beej. So she was his Guru as well.
    That’s pretty fascinating! I’ve seen one mahatma at Maihar devoted to “Sharda devi” & although he even mentally serves Her 24 hrs (& She didn’t let him sleep for 9 days when I met him),…when I met him, he amazed me with the degree of rati he had for the gopis…!!! And he too says his maai has taught him all…& he to writes only whatever She says. I’m not going to deal with the tattvik conceptions he had…but rati matters a lot!
  11. “Now, we all know what happens when we worship devis and devatas in a ‘nishkaam’ manner. ” Oh yes I do know! Those devis and devatas (vaishnavas) will make us very sakami by giving us kama beej for that Kamadeva. And then we will move our residence to Kama (piriti) Nagar. 😉
  12. “………..And then we will move our residence to Kama (piriti) Nagar.” Will this sweet resident from the great ‘Piriti nagar’ pl get us the visa and passport to her city ? i m dying to get there and becom a permanent citizen, please take pity on this homeless orphan………………….
  13. I myself am an applicant. Although real estate prices have lowered in the recent crash, gated communities have become even more exclusive and the wait lists are long. I plan to take out a mortgage. That way, I can gain access without have to risk everything at once. 😆

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