288 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu next inquired from Ramananda Roy: “Who
is the most worshippable deity?”

And Ramananda Roy immediately replied that the transcendental couple,
Sri Radha and Krishna, is the ultimate Object of worship. There are different
kinds of worshippable objects, just as the impersonalists worship the imper-
sonal Brahmajyoti. But the result of such worship is that one becomes bereft
of his living activities, and becomes just like the tree and other unmoving enti-
ties. Those who are worshippers of the Void also attain such a result. And
those who are Bhukti, who are after material enjoyment, worship demigods
and achieve the planets of the demigods, and in that body they enjoy
material happiness.

Lord Chaitanya inquired about those who are after material happiness,
and liberation from this material bondage. Where do they ultimately go?
Ramananda Roy replied that ultimately, some of them become as good as
the standing tree, and some of them achieve the heavenly planets to enjoy
material happiness.

Ramananda Roy went on to say that those who have no taste for Krishna
Consciousness or spiritual life are just like crows who take pleasure in eating
the bitter margosa fruit, while the poetic cuckoo eats the seeds of the mango.
Similarly, the unfortunate transcendentalists are simply speculating on dry
philosophy, whereas the transcendentalists who are in love with Radha Krishna
enjoy, just like the cuckoo. Therefore, those who are devotees of Radha and
Krishna are the most fortunate persons in the world. Ramananda Roy com-
pared mental speculation with the bitter margosa fruit, which is not at all
edible; simply full of dry speculation, and so fit for the crowlike philosophers;
however, mango seeds are very relishable, and those who are in the devotional
service of Krishna and Radha are like those mango-tasting cuckoos.

Thus Ramananda Roy and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu talked together for the
whole night, sometimes dancing, sometimes singing, sometimes crying.
In this way the night was passed, and at dawn Ramananda Roy went to
his own place, and again in the evening he came back to see Chaitanya Maha-
prabhu. The next day, after talking and discussing Krishna for some time,
Ramananda Roy fell at the feet of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and began to sub-
mit: “My dear Lord, You are so kind upon me that You have spoken to me
about the science of Krishna, about the science of Radharani and Their loving
affairs, and Their affairs of the Rasa Dance, and Their Pastimes—I never
thought that I should be able to speak on this subject matter. So have You
taught me, as You formerly taught Brahma the Vedas.”
