Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura's kicking [ 2009-05-20 ]
Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura wrote (in Caitanya-bhagavata 1.9.225), eta parihare o ye papi ninda kare/ tabe lathi maron ta'ra sirera upare: "I kick on the head any sinful person who disregards the glories of Lord Nityananda and dares criticize Him."

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, in his commentaries on Sri Caitanya-bhagavata 1.17.154-58 and 1.9.225, discussed such seemingly unsaintly statements of Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura:

The community of arrogant persons will take millions and millions of births to understand Vrndavana dasa Thakura's causeless mercy. Until their offenses are exhausted they will never have the opportunity to receive a kick on the head from the sanctified all-auspicious feet of a pure Vaisnava. Even the genuine desire for receiving the non-duplicitious mercy of a pure Vaisnava is a rare commodity for ignorant or sinful persons, pious fruitive workers, or mental speculators. Jivas who are averse to Hari-guru-Vaisnavas have not accumulated sufficient piety in previous lifetimes, nor have thousands of their forefathers accumulated sufficient piety, to qualify to receive all-auspicious kicks from the ultimate-benefit-awarding, pure, extramundane lotus feet of Thakura Vrndavana. Should dust from a pure Vaisnava's lotus feet fall on the head of a sinful person, at that very moment he will be freed from all material contamination and deceit and thus become a proprietor of the bonanza of bhakti.

While Srila Thakura Vrndavana, who is a Vaisnava acarya, the direct avatar of Vyasa and servant of Sri Nityananda, enacts his pastime of transcendentally kicking offenders, if even one particle of dust falls on the head of a fortunate blasphemer he will positively achieve auspiciousness, in other words, his anartha-nivrtti is guaranteed. The exhibition of such great compassion by Sri Visnu or Vaisnavas is beyond the imagination or intelligence of foolish nondevotees, who cannot discriminate between what is favorable or unfavorable for their own welfare. The all-auspicious endeavors and behavior of preachers and practitioners of suddha-bhakti to Gaura-Krsna who follow in the footsteps of Thakura Sri Vrndavana, the direct avatar of Sri Vyasa, display, on one hand, gross punishment of the fallen averse living entities, and on the other, subtle unlimited compassion for them.

(Tomorrow, 21 May, in Navadvipa-dhama, the appearance place of Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura, is his appearance anniversary)