Cmp 17. Nimai Finding Faults Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU

Nimai was finding faults
Often in others' writings,
But he said something else
In Ishvara Puri's case.

Ishvara Puri said, "You're,
No doubt, a great scholar,
Please go thru' my book
On Krishna for any mistake."

Nimai explained, "A pure
Devotee is a good writer
And can never write
Anything other than fact."

"The Lord equally accepts
The prayers of scholars
As well as ignorant persons
Without finding mistakes."

"Whatever you've written
It's your own expression
Of love for the Lord,
To find fault, it's no good."

He found faults with others,
Later he said, it was an offence
To find any kind of mistakes
In the writings of devotees.

One person said, "He makes
All kind of tricky questions
To defeat me and for this reason
On seeing him, far away I run."

Another said, "One cannot
Escape when he is caught.
But still an authority he is
On several difficult subjects."

One asked him, "Why do you
Waste time and pursue
This material knowledge
And not spiritual knowledge."

"The aim of education is
To do devotional service
And to worship the Lord,
As its goal in the end."

Nimai simply laughed
As He Himself the Lord
They knew not this,
But taught Him lessons.