As he was speaking to me about boils he shared a verse with me which he said was a very important part of his spiritual life during the time that he suffered from boils.
vaigunya-kita-kalitah
paisunya-vrana-piditah
dainyarnave nimagno ‘ham
caitanya-vaidyam asraye
I am infected by the germs of material activity and am suffering from the boils of envy. Therefore, falling in an ocean of humility, I take shelter of the great physician Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Caitanya Caritamrita, Antya Lila 5.1
There is no doubt that I am diseased, and here is the remedy. Falling in an ocean of humility I have to surrender to the great physician Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and accept the medicine.
What is the medicine?
In one song Bhaktivinode Thakur describes how Lord Caitanya is calling out to the fallen souls "I have brought the medicine to destroy your illusion, now just accept this Harinam Mahamantra."
The Hare Krishna mantra is certainly the medicine for destroying our illusion and material contamination.
In addition to chanting the names of Krishna, hearing and chanting about Krishna's pastimes are the especially powerful formula for curing the material disease of the heart.
The entire Bhagavatam is aimed at curing the disease of the heart, and the ultimate solution recommended by Srimad Bhagavatam is to hear the descriptions of Krishna's transcendental pastimes, especially his pastimes with the gopis, and especially the Rasa Lila.
This is explained further in Sri Caitanya Caritamrta, in the fifth chapter of the Antya Lila, verses 45-50.
When one hears or describes with great faith the pastimes of Lord Krishna, such as His rasa dance with the gopis, the disease of lusty desires in his heart and the agitation caused by the three modes of material nature are immediately nullified, and he becomes sober and silent.
A transcendentally sober person who, with faith and love, continually hears from a realized soul about the activities of Lord Krishna in His rasa dance with the gopis, or one who describes such activities, can attain full transcendental devotional service at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus lusty material desires, which are the heart disease of all materialistic persons, are for him quickly and completely vanquished.’
If a transcendentally situated person, following in the footsteps of Srila Rupa Goswami, hears and speaks about the rasa-lila dance of Krishna and is always absorbed in thoughts of Krishna while serving the Lord day and night within his mind, what shall I say about the result? It is so spiritually exalted that it cannot be expressed in words. Such a person is an eternally liberated associate of the Lord, and his body is completely spiritualized. Although he is visible to material eyes, he is spiritually situated, and all his activities are spiritual. By the will of Krishna, such a devotee is understood to possess a spiritual body.
I pray that with the proper faith I may surrender unto Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu who is the great physician that bestows this most powerful medicine of Lord Krishna's transcendental pastimes with the gopis and thus be cured of the germs of material activity and the boils of envy.
"May the pastimes of Sri Krishna reduce the miseries existing in the material world and nullify all unwanted desires. The pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are like Sikharini, a blend of yogurt and sugar candy. They overpower the pride of even the nectar produced on the moon, for they distribute the sweet fragrance of the concentrated loving affairs of Srimati Radharani and the gopis."
-Caitanya Caritamrita, Antya Lila 1.128
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