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ADVAITA PRABHU'S DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE WORLD
Advaita Prabhu remained manifest on earth for anoth¬er 25 years
after Mahaprabhu's disappearance, feeling great separation from His Nimai and
Nitai, constantly remembering Them. One day Prabhu called out 'Where is
Nimai?!' in the ecstasy of mate bteva. After a long time He regained external
consciousness and called together His sons, telling them: "Listen, My
boys: Wicked people blaspheme My Gaurahga. My heart cannot tolerate this, and
as an atonement I will cer¬tainly give up My body. Now go and bring all of Sri
Gaurahga's beloved devotees here on My order.After saying this, Advaita Prabhu
became stunned. Sri Acyuta quickly sent news to everyone. Vlracandra Prabhu
came from Khardaha, Gauridasa Pandita came from Ambika Kalna, Narahari Sarakara
Thakura came from Khanda, and Prabhu Sltanatha's leading disciples
Yadunandanacarya, Syama dasa, Visnu dasa and others all came to Santipura and
offered prayers and obeisances at His lotus feet. The great scholar Kavi
Karnapura, a disciple of Advaita Prabhu's disci¬ple Srinatha Cakravarti, also
came.Advaita Prabhu told them: "You are all most dear to Me. Please follow
this one order of Mine: Preach the religion and attributes of Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu as much as you can. You must certainly give up the association of
any atheist and heretic who is hostile to Sri Gaurahga. Now all of you per¬form
gaura sanklrtana and thus fulfill My long-standing wish.Hearing this, all the
devotees felt great love and they commenced a sahklrtana of Gaura's names and
attributes. Seven devotees — Sri Acyuta, Krsna Misra, Gopala Thakura, Prabhu
Vlracandra, Narahari Sarakara, who is like a flood of rasa, Gauri dasa Pandita
and Damodara Pandita began a great¬ly captivating dance. When Prabhu heard the
glorifications of Gaura His prema surged and He began to dance. Gradually the
waves on the ocean of sahklrtana began to billow and Sri Advaita,. who entered
the stage of maha bhdva, drowned in them. Prabhu wore all kinds of ecstatic
jewels like inertia on His body as He began to weep: "Where is the Lord of
My life?" Ordinary living beings cannot develop such wonderful ecstatic
symptoms as Advaita Prabhu. The devotees all wept as they surrounded Advaita
Prabhu, when He suddenly cried out: "I have attained Gauranga!" His
entire body was studded with goosepimples the size of Kadamba-blossoms as He
suddenly stormed into the deity room of Sri-Sri Radha-Madana Gopala, never
again to return. This was the disappearance-pastime of Sri Advaita Prabhu in
Santipura in 1559.The devotees ran here and there looking for Prabhu, and when
they could not find Him anymore they wept and rolled in the dust. Sri Acyuta
understood that His father Advaita had disappeared from the manifest world and,
weep¬ing, he told all the devotees of Gaura: "One branch of the
wish-yielding tree of love for Gaura had remained manifest after Gaura's
disappearance. Today Gaura's pastimes have ended completely.
Hearing this, all the devotees wept unceasingly — 'ha gauranga! ha
gauranga! ha. nityananda! haya bhakta avatara sri advaita candraVThey could say
nothing else but this. That day and night they spent weeping in this way,
oblivious of everything external and causing even stones to melt. The other day
they all went for a bath in the Gahga and Sri Acyuta arranged for a grand
festival in Advaita Prabhu's memory. After taking maha prasada everyone went to
their own homes.Thus Advaita Prabhu was manifest on earth for 125 years, just
like Sri Krsna, performing innumerable pastimes, that are like a boundless
ocean of nectar of which even the boundless Lord Ananta cannot find the end.
According to biographer Sri Haricarana dasa Advaita Prabhu's manifest pas¬times
are divided into five phases. As in Sri Krsna's lila, Advaita's lila had the
three fases kaumara (childhood), pau-ganda (boyhood) and kaisora (adolescence),
but there were also the fourth and fifth stage of yauvana (adulthood) and
varddhakya (or transcendental old age).Apart from the abovementioned riddle,
Sri Advaita Prabhu wrote a stava describing the beauty and love of Sri Gauranga
in 41 anustup slokas, named 'Sri Gauranga Pratyahga Varnanakhya Stavaraja
Jaya Prabhu Sitanatha !