They got intoxicated by the power of Nimai’s chanting of holy names; they too began to jump and dance; they cried in deep love for the supreme lord. At this time some grave, elderly pilgrims who were walking by the Ganges saw this, and they too were pulled into the kirtan. They also began to jump and dance and loudly chanted ‘hari hari.’ Nimai was making everyone mad by his chanting of the holy names of Krishna .
The playful but resounding kirtan was so loud that mother Sachi rushed to Ganga. When she saw the grown up and highly respected men of nawadwip jump and dance like small children, she was shocked. She shouted at them, “What are you doing? You should be ashamed of yourself. You are making my child and all other children mad by your irresponsible behaviour. How can you dance and sing like children? What have you done to my son?” Angrily, she picked Nimai from the crowd, and dragged him home, giving a mouthful to the learned brahmanas of nawadwip. As she left, having chastised the elderly scholars, she had inadvertently broken them from their state of spiritual trance. The pandits woke up and sat bewildered, wondering what had just taken over them; they couldn’t make any sense of their inexplicable behaviour. “Who are we and what have we just done” they asked each other, and it took them a while to come back to external consciousness. Meanwhile Nimai smiled as he went home with his mother.
Lord Chaitanya was very mischievous. Whenever Sachi mata instructed him not to do some specific mischief, he’d do twice as many childish pranks. Jagannath Mishra and mother Sachi however were very grateful and happy to have such a beautiful, lovable child.
Although Nimai was very naughty, his older brother Vishwarupa was grave and sober. Vishwarupa was also a young boy, still he had serious devotional attitude and he couldn’t tolerate seeing the faces of materialistic people. He had nothing to do with those whose mouths were not decorated with the holy names of Krishna or whose hearts were not dressed with a desire to serve Krishna. To avoid the puffed up non-devotees, Vishwarupa would go early morning to Ganges to take bath alone. He’d then go to advaita acharya’s house where many vaishnavas gathered for Krishna katha.
To be continued…
