Text 71] Instructions for Civilized Human Beings
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become unfortunate ( manda-bhāgyāḥ ), and furthermore they are always disturbed by various circumstances.
TEXT 71
एकदा देवसत्रे तु गन्धर्वाप्सरसां गणाः । उपहृता विश्वस्तुभिर्हरिगाथोपगायने ॥७१॥
ekadā deva-satre tu gandharvāpsarasām gaṇāḥ upahūtā viśva-sṛgbhir hari-gāthopagāyane
ekadā —once upon a time;  deva-satre —in an assembly of the demigods;  tu —indeed;  gandharva —of the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka;  apsarasām —and the inhabitants of Apsaroloka;  gaṇāḥ —all;  upahūtāḥ —were invited;  viśva-sṛgbhiḥ —by the great demigods known as the  prajāpatis ;  hari-gātha-upagāyane —on an occasion of  kīrtana  for glorifying the Supreme Lord.
TRANSLATION
Once there was a saṅkīrtana festival to glorify the Supreme Lord in an assembly of the demigods, and the Gandharvas and Apsarās were invited by the prajāpatis to take part in it.
PURPORT
Saṅkīrtana  means chanting of the holy name of the Lord. The Hare Kṛṣṇa movement is not a new movement as people sometimes mistakenly think. The Hare Kṛṣṇa movement is present in every millennium of Lord Brahmā's life, and the holy name is chanted in all the higher planetary systems, including Brahmaloka and Candraloka, not to speak of Gandharvaloka and Apsaroloka. The  saṅkīrtana  movement that was started in this world five hundred years ago by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is therefore not a new movement. Sometimes, because of our bad luck, this movement is stopped, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His servants again start the movement for the benefit of the entire word or, indeed, the entire universe.