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10 Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu

“Worship Me, and I shall give you good husbands.
Goddesses Gaìgä and Durgä are My maidservants.
What to speak of other demigods, even Lord Çiva
is My servant.” Nimäi warned the girls that if
they did not comply He would curse them to get
old husbands who already had several wives. In
feigned anger the girls would scold Nimäi, but
actually they relished His teasing them.

While walking by the Gaìgä one day, Nimäi
saw a young maiden named Lakñmépriyä. She
was actually an avatar of Lakñmé. As Lakñmé
is the eternal consort of Kåñëa, her expansion
Lakñmépriyä is the eternal consort of Lord
Caitanya, who is directly Kåñëa. Upon seeing
each other, the eternal affection between Lord
Caitanya and Lakñmépriyä reawakened. She had
brought garlands, sweets, and other paraphernalia
for worshiping Lord Viñëu, but upon seeing Nimäi
she immediately offered them to Him.
One day Çacédevé found Nimäi atop a heap of
discarded clay cooking pots and admonished Him
for sitting in a contaminated place. Nimäi retorted
with a complex explanation of the nature of purity
and impurity: “Mother, that this is pure and that is
impure is surely a worldly sentiment with no basis
in fact. In these pots you have cooked food for