Lord Caitanya Play Told to Tamala Krishna

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Lord Caitanya Play Told to Tamāla Kṛṣṇa — August 4, 1969, Los Angeles 690804LC-LOS ANGELES [90:05 Minutes] Lord Caitanya Play_690804LC-LOS ANGELES Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The first thing about this... Can you tell me something about Lord Caitanya's birth, when He was born, what happened, what was it like, all about it? Prabhupāda: When He was...? Description of His birth? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, we will have a scene showing the people chanting by the... Prabhupāda: Oh. One scene you have to show that in the Ganges water people are taking bath, and there is on the sky beginning of the moon eclipse, lunar eclipse.

And they are all chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and taking bath. And exactly at that time Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared. This is one scene. And the appearance of Caitanya Mahāprabhu should be underneath a tree. Under this scene, this scene, one...

Advaita Prabhu's wife, Śrīvāsa's wife, they were elderly, and all other women of the village, they immediately came with presentation. And some of the demigods, they also came, I mean to say, disguising themselves as ordinary men, with presentation. And His father got so many valuable presentations. And then again, some of the professional dancers, they came, so he distributed charity to them.

In this way, that function... Try to... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Was Nārada there? Did Nārada Muni come?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Nārada Muni also came. You can show that. Yes.

All the devatas, all the demigods came: Nārada Muni, Brahmā, Śiva. They came in disguise, and their wife, Savitri, and then Umā. Umā is the wife of Lord Śiva. In that way you can show so many demigods and their wives coming.

Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All the women, when Lord Caitanya was a baby, how did they feel about Him? Prabhupāda: The baby was on the lap of His mother, and they looked little far-off, just to glance over the baby, not touching. Because newly born baby. So they saw from little distant. That's all.

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