“Be patient and return home. Don’t be a crazy fellow. By and by you will be able to cross the ocean of material existence. You should not make yourself a showbottle devotee and become a false renunciant. For the time being, enjoy the material world in a befitting way and do not become attached to it. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued: “Within your heart, you should keep yourself very faithful, but externally you may behave like an ordinary man. Thus Kṛṣṇa will soon be very pleased and deliver you from the clutches of māyā.” (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta: Madhya-lila Chapter 16, Text 237-239)
I have always liked this verse, it is sage advise for anyone practicing spiritual life (self-realization), in this age. “Within your heart, you should keep yourself very faithful, but externally you may behave like an ordinary man.” It is not that everyone who is interested in practicing Krishna Consciousness must artificially renounce the world, shave their head, put on robes, become a nun or monk, and live in a temple. No the instruction is here; “enjoy the material world in a befitting way and do not become attached to it.”
The peace and happiness for which we are all hankering for life after life, moment after moment, we will get when our desires become purified, and dovetailed with the Lord. One who desires sense gratification, the enjoyment of material satisfaction, will never be happy. That is not possible. If you want peace, if you want happiness, if you want perfection in your life, then just begin to dovetail your desires, activities, and potentials with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then you will see what real happiness is, and can tell who is really crazy.
Full Text and purports
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta 1975 Edition
By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Madhya-lila Chapter 16, Text 237-239
TEXT 237
“sthira hañā ghare yāo, nā hao vātula
krame krame pāya loka bhava-sindhu-kūlaSYNONYMS
sthira hañā—being patient; ghare yāo—go back home; nā—do not; hao—become; vātula—crazy; krame krame—gradually; pāya—gets; loka—a person; bhava-sindhu-kūla—the far shore of the ocean of material existence.
TRANSLATION
“Be patient and return home. Don’t be a crazy fellow. By and by you will be able to cross the ocean of material existence.”
PURPORT
As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.14.58):
samāśritā ye pada-pallava-plavaṁ
mahat-padaṁ puṇya-yaśo-murāreḥ
bhavāmbudhir vatsa-padaṁ paraṁ padaṁ
padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ na teṣāmThis material world is just like a big ocean. It begins with Brahmaloka and extends to Pātālaloka, and there are many planets, or islands, in this ocean. Not knowing about devotional service, the living entity wanders about this ocean, just as a man tries to swim to reach the shore. Our struggle for existence is similar to this. Everyone is trying to get out of the ocean of material existence. One cannot immediately reach the coast, but if one endeavors, he can cross the ocean by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy. One may be very eager to cross this ocean, but he cannot attain success by acting like a madman. He must swim over the ocean very patiently and intelligently under the instructions of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu or His representative. Then, one day, he will reach the shore and return home, back to Godhead.
TEXT 238
markaṭa-vairāgya nā kara loka dekhāñā
yathā-yogya viṣaya bhuñja’ anāsakta hañāSYNONYMS
markaṭa-vairāgya—monkey renunciation; nā kara—do not do; loka—to the people; dekhāñā—showing off; yathā-yogya—as it is befitting; viṣaya—material things; bhuñja’-enjoy; anāsakta—without attachment; hañā—being.
TRANSLATION
“You should not make yourself a showbottle devotee and become a false renunciant. For the time being, enjoy the material world in a befitting way and do not become attached to it.”
PURPORT
The word markaṭa-vairāgya, indicating false renunciation, is very important in this verse. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, in commenting on this word, points out that monkeys make an external show of renunciation by not accepting clothing and by living naked in the forest. In this way they consider themselves renunciants, but actually they are very busy enjoying sense gratification with dozens of female monkeys. Such renunciation is called markaṭa-vairāgye-the renunciation of a monkey. One cannot be really renounced until one actually becomes disgusted with material activity and sees it as a stumbling block to spiritual advancement. Renunciation should not be phalgu, temporary, but should exist throughout one’s life. Temporary renunciation, or monkey renunciation, is like the renunciation one feels at a cremation ground. When a man takes a dead body to the crematorium, he sometimes thinks, “This is the final end of the body. Why am I working so hard day and night?” Such sentiments naturally arise in the mind of any man who goes to a crematorial ghāṭa. However, as soon as he returns from the cremation grounds, he again engages in material activity for sense enjoyment. This is called śmaśāna-vairāgya, or markaṭa-vairāgya.
In order to render service to the Lord, one may accept necessary things. If one lives in this way, he may actually become renounced. In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.108), it is said:
yāvatā syāt sva-nirvāhaḥ
svīkuryāt tāvad arthavit
ādhikye nyūnatāyāṁ ca
cyavate paramārthataḥ“The bare necessities of life must be accepted, but one should not superfluously increase his necessities. Nor should they be unnecessarily decreased. One should simply accept what is necessary to help one advance spiritually.”
In his Durgama-saṅgamanī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī comments that the word sva-nirvāhaḥ actually means sva-sva-bhakti-nirvāhaḥ. The experienced devotee will accept only those material things that will help him render service to the Lord. In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.256), markaṭa-vairāgya, or phalgu-vairāgya, is explained as follows:
prāpañcikatayā buddhyā
hari-sambandhi-vastunaḥ
mumukṣubhiḥ parityāgo
vairāgyaṁ phalgu kathyate“Whatever is favorable for the rendering of service to the Lord should be accepted and should not be rejected as a material thing.” Yukta-vairāgya, or befitting renunciation, is thus explained:
anāsaktasya viṣayān
yathārham upayuñjataḥ
nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe
yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate“Things should be accepted for the Lord’s service and not for one’s personal sense gratification. If one accepts something without attachment and accepts it because it is related to Kṛṣṇa, one’s renunciation is called yukta-vairāgya.” Since Kṛṣṇa is the Absolute Truth, whatever is accepted for His service is also the Absolute Truth.
The word markaṭa-vairāgya is used by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to indicate so-called Vaiṣṇavas who dress themselves in loincloths trying to imitate Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Such people carry a beadbag and chant, but at heart they are always thinking about getting women and money. Unknown to others, these markaṭa-vairāgīs maintain women but externally present themselves as renunciants. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very much opposed to these markaṭa-vairāgīs, or pseudo-Vaiṣṇavas.
TEXT 239
antare niṣṭhā kara, bāhye loka-vyavahāra
acirāt kṛṣṇa tomāya karibe uddhāraSYNONYMS
antare—within the heart; niṣṭhā kara—keep strong faith; bāhye—externally; loka-vyavahāra—behavior like ordinary men; acirāt—very soon; kṛṣṇa—Lord Kṛṣṇa; tomāya—unto you; karibe—will do; uddhāra—liberation
TRANSLATION
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued: “Within your heart, you should keep yourself very faithful, but externally you may behave like an ordinary man. Thus Kṛṣṇa will soon be very pleased and deliver you from the clutches of māyā.
pamho agtACBSP, CATURDASI KI JAI, my markata vairagya started in 1977 that’s the first time i filled my lips with the SRI HARINAM SAMKIRTAN from where i left the life before. After a little while i got the bad news about the nasty departure of our beloved acharya HDG ACBSP, i say my phalguni vairagya weak renunciation because we already got cheated by getting the desire to enjoy the acceptance of a unwanting yantrarudhani mayaya body machine,and this cheating is keeping going on through the smasana vairagya by accepting another material body,therefore one life is not enough to get the real happiness bahunam janmanam ante b.g 7.19, yesam tv anta gatam papam b.g.7.28, tesam jnani yukta b.g 7.17 ,udarah sarva evaite b.g.7.18.
After passing through all these stages our yukta vairagya get the perfection by gaura sakti svarupaya rupanuga varayate te by strictly follow the gosvamis headed by SRILA RUPA we can find out our gaura sakti in svarupaya original spiritual Body, as we can see all the guru hoaxers are against this teaching i mean their hearts are not filled with the pure business of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA and they never act like ordinary men but to get pratistha positione fame etc..i saw the monkey to do that in holy land of SRI VRINDAVAN DHAM VARSANA RADHA KUNDA etc.. i mean they do sex almost constantly without caring for the outsider neither for the holy place and the monkey keeping always stealing also therefore the sadhu vrija basis called the westerners devotees bandhar it means monkey because the western countries are very famous for stealing and for illicit sex like the monkey are still doing nowadays.
Maybe we are not demigods, vrija basi, yogis sadhu paramahamsa etc. in this life but our real fortune is SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU because HE never considered our position outside Krsna consciousness because for HIM everything is pure brahman ,actually HE is the Supreme Patita Pavana for all the out of caste devotees called candala pulinda yavana meleccha etc., without HIS mercy it would not be possible to achieve all the benefits of the satya yuga age by chanting hare krsna and the planet earth were already all rocks at this time in the previous kali yugas because of not yajna sacrifice through the SRI HARINAM SANKIRTAN. Therefore when the chanting of the holy name will finish to be spread on this planet everything will become rock again, including the heart of all the barberians uncivilized citizens who keeps to transmigate from a rotten body machine to another until they get the complete degradate as a barberian citizen.
Maybe we are still fake renunciants at the present Moment, that means we need to be cheated a little a bit more until we get the perfect realization that we got cheated then we can become pukka sannyasi within our hearts, without caring for the position fame, but to act as ordinary living entities as this article mentioned is the perfection because Lord SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU gets pleased therefore we get pleased too para sukha sukhi para dukha dukhi, nowaday everyone enjoys to see other to suffer and one suffers to see other to enjoy, but when we suffer to see other to suffer and enjoy to see other to enjoy we become free from this markata vairagya the most important thing is how to become a genuine friend of SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU then all our troubles problems calamities diseases will stop automatically in a fraction of a second through sada hari beyond sukhe dukhe grhe vane etc…agtSP ys haribol