Adi-lila, Chapter 7 17

TRANSLATION

Sri Pafica-tattva themselves danced again and again and thus made it easier to
drink nectarean love of Godhead. They danced, cried, laughed and chanted like
madmen, and in this way they distributed love of Godhead.

PURPORT

People generally cannot understand the actual meaning of chanting and dancing.
Describing the Gosvamis, Srt Srinivasa Acarya stated, krsnotkirtana-gana-nartana-
parau: not only did Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates demonstrate this
chanting and dancing, but the six Gosvamis also followed in the next generation.
The present Krsna consciousness movement follows the same principle, and there-
fore simply by chanting and dancing we have received good responses all over the
world. It is to be understood, however, that this chanting and dancing do not belong
to this material world. They are actually transcendental activities, for the more one
engages in chanting and dancing, the more he can taste the nectar of transcendental
love of Godhead.

TEXT 23

tetra fapta anif&, anf wteroata |
CS Stel athe, Stel sca caiamta 1 Vo |

patrapatra-vicara nahi, nahi sthanasthana
yei yanha paya, tanha kare prema-dana

SYNONYMS

patra—recipient; apatra—not a recipient; vicara—consideration; nahi—there is
none; nahi—there is none; sthana—favorable place; asthana—unfavorable place; yei—
anyone; yanha—wherever; paya—gets the opportunity; tanha—there only; kare—
does; prema-dana—distribution of love of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

In distributing love of Godhead, Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates did not
consider who was a fit candidate and who was not, nor where such distribution
should or should not take place. They made no conditions. Wherever they got the
opportunity the members of the Parica-tattva distributed love of Godhead.

PURPORT

There are some rascals who dare to speak against the mission of Lord Caitanya by
criticizing the Krsna consciousness movement for accepting Europeans and Ameri-
cans as brahmanas and offering them sannyasa. But here is an authoritative state-
ment that in distributing love of Godhead one should not consider whether the
recipients are Europeans, Americans, Hindus, Muslims, etc. The Krsna consciousness
