150 THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION

dasa Goswami. There are three meanings of go. Go means ‘“‘land,”” go
means ‘‘cow,”’and go means “‘senses.’” And swami means ‘‘master.”’ So
goswami means that they were masters of the senses. When one becomes
master of the senses, or goswami, he can make progress in spiritual life.
That is the real meaning of swami. Swami means that one is not servant
of the senses, but master of them.

One of these six Goswamis, Ripa Goswami, was the head, and he
compiled a nice verse in honor of Lord Caitanya Mahdaprabhu. He says:

anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirnah kalau
samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam sva-bhakti-sriyam
harih purata-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandipitah
sada hrdaya-kandare sphuratu vah Saci-nandanah
[Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi 1.4)

Kalau means this age, this age of Kali, the Iron Age, which is very much
contaminated, an age of quarrel and disagreement. Rapa Goswami says
that in this age of Kali, when everything is disagreement and quarrel,
‘*You have descended to offer the highest love of God.’ Samarpayitum
unnatojjvala-rasam: and not only the topmost, but a very brilliant rasa, or
transcendental humor. Purata-sundara-dyuti: Your complexion is just like
gold, like the luster of gold. ‘‘You are so kind that I bless everyone [the
Goswamis can bless because they are masters of the senses] that this
form of the Lord, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, may always remain danc-
ing in everyone’s heart.”’

When Ripa Goswami first met Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Prayaga,
Lord Caitanya was chanting and dancing in the street, ‘“‘Hare Krsna, Hare
Krsna.’’ At that time also Ripa Goswami offered one prayer. Namo
maha-vadanyaya krsna-prema-pradaya te: ‘‘Oh, You are the most munifi-
cent of all incarnations because You are distributing love of Godhead.”’
Krsna-prema-pradaya tel krsndya krsna-caitanya-nadmne gaura-tvise
namah: ‘‘You are Krsna Himself because if You were not Krsna You
could not distribute krsna-prema, or love of God, for love of Krsna is not
so easily acquired. But You are distributing this love freely to everyone.”

In this way the savikirtana movement was inaugurated in Bengal, India,
in Navadvipa. In this sense, the Bengalis are very fortunate that in
their country this movement was inaugurated by Lord Caitanya, who
predicted:

prthivite ache yata nagardadi grama
sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama
