The young girls of Nawadwip came to mother Sachi and complained about little Nimai’s transcendental mischief pastimes. (Nimai is one of the many childhood names of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu; his other names include Vishwambhar, Gauranga, Sachinandan, and Jagganath suta)
They first bowed to mother Sachi and said, “Oh worshippable mother, please hear about the activities of your son Nimai at the banks of Ganges. We go to Ganga and he steals our clothes and insults us. He splashes water on us, spits on us and picks quarrels with us. We take fruits and flowers to worship the supreme lord, and he steals them and that disturbs our worship. When we come out of the Ganga after bath, he throws sand all over us. Sometimes he sneaks behind us quietly and when we least expect, he shouts in our ears.”
Another girl said, “He spits Ganges water on me. Recently he took the itchy okada seeds and put it all on my hair.” Yet another girl complained, “He told me he wants to marry me.”
Other girls began to explain that when they worship lord Vishnu, Nimai comes up and sits on the throne of Vishnu and declares that he is their worshipable lord and hence deserves all the offerings. “Actually we are worshipping the lord to get a good husband,” said the girls, “and those of us who give our offerings to him, he smiles and declares that we will get a handsome husband with lots of money and he will take nice care of us. And those girls who run away with their offerings, he curses them, ‘you’ll have an old and ugly husband with four other co-wives. We have to then run back and give back all our offerings to him. He does these things whole day, every day.”
When Sachi mata heard these complaints, she smiled and embraced each of the girls. She told them, “You please go home and please be kind on my Nimai. I will instruct him properly.”
Meanwhile Jagannath Mishra, considering that it is his duty to discipline his child so that he is well behaved, went to the Ganges, fuming with anger and with a stick in hand.
To be continued…
