CHAPTER 15

The Lord Accepts Prasada
at the House of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya

The following summary of this chapter is given by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in
his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya. After the Ratha-yatra festival, Sri Advaita Acarya
Prabhu worshiped Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with flowers and tulasi. Sri Caitanya
Mahdprabhu, in return, worshiped Advaita Acarya with the flowers and tulasi that
remained on the offered plate and said a mantra, yo 'si so ‘si (“What You are, You
are”). Then Advaita Acarya Prabhu invited Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu for prasada.
When Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His devotees performed the Nandot-
sava ceremony, the Lord personally dressed Himself as a cowherd boy. Thus the
ceremony was very jubilant. Then the Lord and His devotees observed Vijaya-
dasami, the day of victory when Lord Ramacandra conquered Lanka. The devo-
tees all became soldiers of Lord Rimacandra, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, in the
ecstasy of Hanuman, manifested various transcendentally blissful activities.
Thereafter, the Lord and His devotees observed various other ceremonies.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu then asked all the devotees to return to Bengal. Lord
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu sent Nityananda Prabhu to Bengal for preaching and
also sent Ramadasa, Gadadhara dasa and several other devotees with Him. Then
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, with great humility, sent some Jagannatha prasdda and
a cloth from Lord Jagannatha to His mother through Srivasa Thakura. When the
Lord bade farewell to Raghava Pandita, Vasudeva Datta, the residents of Kulina-
grama and other devotees, He praised them for their transcendental qualities.
Ramananda Vasu and Satyaraja Khan asked some questions, and Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu instructed them that all householder devotees must engage them-
selves in the service of Vaisnavas exclusively devoted to chanting the holy name
of the Lord. He also directed the Vaisnavas from Khanda, instructed Sarvabhauma
Bhattacarya and Vidya-vacaspati, and praised Murari Gupta for his firm faith in the
lotus feet of Lord Ramacandra. Considering the humble prayer of Vasudeva Datta,
He established that Lord Sri Krsna is qualified to deliver all the conditioned souls.

Thereafter, when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was accepting prasdda at the house
of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, Sarvabhauma’s son-in-law, Amogha, created trouble
in the family with his criticisms. The following morning, he was attacked by the
disease of visticika (cholera). Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu very kindly saved him
from death and enlivened him in chanting the holy name of Lord Krsna.
