174 Sr7-Caitanya-caritamrta

The two brothers Jagai and Madhai epitomize the sinful population of this age of
Kali. They were most disturbing elements in society because they were meat eaters,
drunkards, women hunters, rogues and thieves. Yet Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu de-
livered them, to say nothing of others who were sober, pious, devoted and con-
scientious. Bhagavad-gita also confirms (kit punar brahmanah punya bhakta rajar-
sayas tatha) that to say nothing of the brahminically qualified devotees and rajarsis,
anyone who by the association of a pure devotee comes to Krsna consciousness
becomes eligible to go back home, back to Godhead. In Bhagavad-gita the Lord
declares:

mam hi partha vyapasritya
ye ‘pi syuh papa-yonayah

striyo vaisyas tatha sudras
te ‘pi yanti param gatim

“O son of Prtha, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth—
women, vaisyas [merchants], as well as Sudras [workers] —can approach the supreme
destination.” (Bg. 9.32)

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu delivered the two fallen brothers Jagai and Madhai,
but the entire world is presently full of Jagais and Madhais, or, in other words,
women hunters, meat eaters, gamblers, thieves and other rogues, who create all
kinds of disturbance in society. The activities of such persons have now become
common practices. It is no longer considered abominable to be a drunkard, woman
hunter, meat eater, thief or rogue, for these elements have been assimilated by
human society. That does not mean, however, that the abominable qualities of such
persons will help free human society from the clutches of maya. Rather, they will
entangle humanity more and more in the reactions of the stringent laws of material
nature. One’s activities are all performed under the influence of the modes of
material nature (prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah). Because people
are now associating with the modes of ignorance (tamo-guna) and, to some extent,
passion (rajo-guna), with no trace of goodness (sattva-guna), they are becoming
increasingly greedy and lusty, for that is the effect of associating with these modes.
Tada rajas-tamo-bhavah kama-lobhadayas ca ye: “‘By associating with the two
lower qualities of material nature, one becomes lusty and greedy.” (Bhag. 1.2.19)
Actually, in modern human society, everyone is greedy and lusty, and therefore
the only means for deliverance is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s sankirtana movement,
which can promote all the Jagais and Madhais to the topmost position of sattva-
guna, or brahminical culture.

Srimad-Bhagavatam states:

nasta-prayesv abhadresu
nityam bhagavata-sevaya

bhagavaty uttama-sloke
bhaktir bhavati naisthiki
