Śāntipurera Baṛā Mālī Baikuṇṭha Bāgāna Khāli

The great gardener of Śāntipura brought a young sapling from Vaikuṇṭha and gave it to Nitāi. Nitāi took the sapling from His hand. Nār3ā carefully planted it.

In the most glorious place of Nadīyā He made a garden. There the gardener planted the Caitanya tree. Day after day the tree grew. Its branches and leaves were beyond number. The gardener watered it, and it grew.

Watered with the waters of bhakti (devotional service), that beautiful tree bore two kinds of fruits: nāma (the holy name) and prema (ecstatic spiritual love). The birds that are the invidual spirit souls yearn to taste those two fruits. There is always an uproar.

The gardener Nitāi joyfully picked these two kinds of fruits, placed them in a basket, and carried that basket on His head. Those fruits He distributed to everyone without considering caste or birth. Anyone who tasted these fruits found all his sufferings and troubles came to an end.

Saying, "Please take. Take. Take.", the gardener Nitāi gave those fruits to everyone, even down to the caṇḍālas. Whoever wished those fruits at ocne received them. The persons who did not wish those fruits received them anyway. Even the yavanas relished those fruits.

Because of my past misdeeds I did not see that tree. I did not see that merciful gardener. Placing a blade of straw between my teeth, I, wicked-hearted Kṛṣṇa dāsa, say: Alas! Alas! A flaming calamity has fallen on my head!