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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]

vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya- nityāndandau sahoditau gauḍodaye puṣpavantau citrau śandau tamo-nudau

[Cc. Ādi 1.2]

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"I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda, who are like the sun and moon. They …

Prabhupāda:

vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya- nityāndandau sahoditau gauḍodaye puṣpavantau citrau śandau tamo-nudau

[Cc. Ādi 1.2]

So yesterday we discussed the first verse,

gurūn īśa-bhaktān īśam īśāvatārakān tat-prakāśāṁś ca tac-chaktiḥ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-saṁjñakam

[Cc. Ādi 1.1]

Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, He has got manyfold expansion. The first expansion is prakāśa, svayaṁ-prakāśa, Balarāma. And Nityānanda is …

[people talking in background] [aside:] Ask them to stop.

So Nityānanda means prakāśa, svayaṁ-prakāśa, Balarāma. Balarāma is, I mean to say, presenting Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Balarāma is guru-tattva. Guru is …

So how one can exhibit Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, that is... By His personal example Nityānanda Prabhu has given us …

So here Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Nityānanda, Their identification is Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. Now, in the Kṛṣṇa incarnation, these two …

Now these same two brothers have again descended, as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya-Nityānanda. Sahoditau: simultaneously They have appeared. Not that one …

So Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Nityānanda, They came, descended again, being merciful, same Kṛṣṇa. Vrajendra-nandana yei, śacī-sūta hoilo sei. Same …

[aside:] You can sit down there. You are sleeping. Don't sleep. Don't show that sleeping.

Devotee: Stand up.