84 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
PURPORT

The celebrated ancient capital of the Sena dynasty, which was known as
Gaudade$a or Gauda, was situated in what is now the modern district of Maldah.
Later this capital was transferred to the ninth or central island on the western side
of the Ganges at Navadvipa, which is now known as Mayapur and was then called
Gaudapura. Lord Caitanya appeared there, and Lord Nityananda came there and
joined Him from the district of Birbhum. They appeared on the horizon of
GaudadeSa to spread the science of Krsna consciousness, and it is predicted that as
the sun and moon gradually move west, the movement They began five hundred
years ago will come to the western civilizations by Their mercy.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu drive away the five kinds of ignor-
ance of the conditioned souls. In the Mahdbharata, Udyoga-parva, Forty-third
Chapter, these five kinds of ignorance are described. They are (1) accepting the body
to be the self, (2) making material sense gratification one’s standard of enjoyment,
(3) being anxious due to material identification, (4) lamenting and (5) thinking that
there is anything beyond the Absolute Truth. The teachings of Lord Caitanya
eradicate these five kinds of ignorance. Whatever one sees or otherwise experiences.
one should know to be simply an exhibition of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead’s energy. Everything is a manifestation of Krsna.

TEXT 103
CAS GB otya SF bad. THA |
Hel Acs fanart BSTeAAd ti yo 1
sei dui prabhura kari carana vandana
yanhd ha-ite vighna-nasa abhista-piirana
SYNONYMS

sei—these; dui—two; prabhura—of the Lords; kari—| do; carana—feet; vandana—
obeisance; yanha ha-ite—from which; vighna-ndsa—destruction of obstacles; abhista-
purana—fulfillment of desires.

TRANSLATION
Let us therefore worship the holy feet of these two Lords. Thus one can be rid of
all difficulties on the path of self-realization.
TEXT 104
GR GS ACS CHA TIN-BHA |
HSia carcsa wef wa AAA 58 |
ei dui Sloke kaila mafhgala-vandana
trtiya Slokera artha suna sarva-jana
