Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita (Nārada Muni)
Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita was an incarnation of Nārada Muni, and thus Śrīvāsa’s younger brother, Śrīrāma Paṇḍita, is accepted as an incarnation of Parvata Muni, Nārada Muni’s most intimate friend.
(CC Adi 12.65)
The devotees headed by Śrīvāsa are His smaller limbs. They are like His hands, face and eyes and His disc and other weapons.
(CC Adi 6.38)
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then told Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura, “My dear Śrīvāsa, your nature is exactly like that of Nārada Muni. The Supreme Personality of Godhead’s opulence is having a direct influence upon you.
(CC Madhya 14.216)
There are innumerable devotees of the Lord, of whom Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura is the foremost. I offer my respectful obeisances thousands of times unto their lotus feet.
(CC Adi 1.38)
Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Lord, and Nityānanda Prabhu and Advaita Prabhu are manifestations of the Supreme Lord. All of Them are viṣṇu-tattva, the Supreme, and are therefore worshipable by the living entities. Although the other two tattvas within the category of Pañca-tattva—namely, śakti-tattva and jīva-tattva, represented by Gadādhara and Śrīvāsa—are worshipers of the Supreme Lord, they are in the same category because they eternally engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
(CC Adi 7.15 purport)
Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita’s wife, Mālinī, is celebrated as an incarnation of the nurse Ambikā, who fed Lord Kṛṣṇa with her breast milk, and as already noted, his niece Nārāyaṇī, the mother of Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana dāsa, the author of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, was the sister of Ambikā in kṛṣṇa-līlā. We also understand from the description of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata that after Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s acceptance of the sannyāsa order, Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita left Navadvīpa, possibly because of feelings of separation, and domiciled at Kumārahaṭṭa.
(CC Adi 10.8 purport)
There is no counting the subbranches of these two branches. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu held congregational chanting daily at the house of Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita.
(CC Adi 10.10)
Jiva was agitated with love as he remembered the Lord’s Pastimes, and he rolled on the ground in Srivasa’s courtyard. Then just as Jiva was getting up, he saw Gauranga dancing wonderfully amidst his intimate associates in sankirtana. Advaita, Nityananda, Gadadhara, and haridasa were dancing and singing. And they were joined by Suklambara and hundreds of others. Seeing this, Jiva became unconscious with ecstatic love.
(Sri Navadvipa-Dhama-Mahatmya, Chapter 5)
I long to take the Lord back to Mayapur where, shining in the dress of a young boy with long curly hair and dhoti folded thrice. He performs pastimes with His young friends in Īsodyāna.
Of course this sannyasi is also my Lord, and I am His servant. These different appearances that the Lord assumes are just part of His unlimited pastimes. But still my heart desires to take the Lord back to Srīvāsa Pandita's temple on the bank of Prthu-kunda!
(Sri Navadvipa Bhava-taranga)
Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita, Śrīrāma Paṇḍita, and Śrī Candraśekhara are worshiped throughout the three worlds.
COMMENTARY
Śrīvāsa and Śrīrāma are described in Śrī Kavi-karṇapūra’s Gauragaṇoddeśa- dīpikā (90) as follows: “The most intelligent Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita is nondifferent from Śrī Nārada Muni. Śrī Parvata Muni, who was very dear to Nārada Muni, has now appeared as Śrīrāma Paṇḍita, the younger brother of Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita.” After the Lord took sannyāsa, Śrīvāsa and Śrīrāma left Navadvīpa and resided at Kumārahaṭṭa. (See Antya-khaṇḍa, Chapter 5.)
(Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Ādi-khaṇḍa 2.34)
(1) When the great soul Narada Muni plays his stringed vina, the holy name of Radhika-ramana descends and immediately appears amidst the kirtana of the Lord’s devotees.
(Song - Narada Muni Bajay Vina)