Adi-ltla, Chapter 7 27
TRANSLATION
Thus the students, infidels, fruitive workers and critics all came to surrender unto
the lotus feet of the Lord.
TEXT 37
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aparadha ksamaila, dubila prema-jale
keba edaibe prabhura prema-mahajale
SYNONYMS
aparadha—offense; Rsamaila—excused; dubila—merged into; prema-jale—in the
ocean of love of Godhead; keba—who else; edaibe—will go away; prabhura—the
Lord’s; prema—loving; maha-jale—network.
TRANSLATION
Lord Caitanya excused them all, and they merged into the ocean of devo-
tional service, for no one can escape the unique loving network of Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu.
PURPORT
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was an ideal acarya. An acarya is an ideal teacher who
knows the purpose of the revealed scriptures, behaves exactly according to their
injunctions and teaches his students to adopt these principles also. As an ideal
acarya, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu devised ways to capture all kinds of atheists and
materialists. Every acarya has a specific means of propagating his spiritual move-
ment with the aim of bringing men to Krsna consciousness. Therefore, the method
of one acarya may be different from that of another, but the ultimate goal is never
neglected. Srila Rapa Gosvami recommends:
yena tena prakarena manah krsne nivesayet
sarve vidhi-nisedha syur etayor eva kinkarah
An acarya should devise a means by which people may somehow or other come to
Krsna consciousness. First they should become Krsna conscious, and all the pre-
scribed rules and regulations may later gradually be introduced. In our Krsna con-
sciousness movement we follow this policy of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. For
example, since boys and girls in the Western countries freely intermingle, special
concessions regarding their customs and habits are necessary to bring them to Krsna
consciousness. The acarya must devise a means to bring them to devotional service.
Therefore, although | am a sannyasi | sometimes take part in getting boys and girls
