Adi-lila, Chapter 9 233
TRANSLATION
“It would certainly be a very laborious task to pick the fruits and distribute them
alone, and still | suspect that some would receive them and others would not.
TEXT 36
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BIAS VAY teal a watstcs |
U1) Sti cerqey CHR’ ACA SICH WOU HN
ataeva ami ajfia dilun sabakare
yahan tahan prema-phala deha’ yare tare
SYNONYMS
ataeva—therefore; ami—\; ajna—order; dilun—give; sabakare—to everyone; yahan—
wherever; tahan—everywhere; prema-phala—the fruit of love of Godhead; deha’—
distribute; yare—anyone; tare—everyone.
TRANSLATION
“Therefore | order every man within this universe to accept this Krsna conscious-
ness movement and distribute it everywhere.
PURPORT
In this connection there is a song sung by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura:
enechi ausadhi maya nasibara lagi’
harinama-mahamantra lao tumi magi’
bhakativinoda prabhu-carane padiya
sei harinama-mantra la-ila magiya
The sankirtana movement has been introduced by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu just
to dispell the illusion of maya, by which everyone in this material world thinks
himself to be a product of matter and therefore to have many duties pertaining to
the body. Actually, the living entity is not his material body; he is a spirit soul. He
has a spiritual need to be eternally blissful and full of knowledge, but unfortunately
he identifies himself with the body, sometimes as a human being, sometimes as an
animal, sometimes a tree, sometimes an aquatic, sometimes a demigod, and so on.
Thus with each change of body he develops a different type of consciousness with
different types of activities and thus becomes increasingly entangled in material
existence, transmigrating perpetually from one body to another. Under the spell of
maya, or illusion, he does not consider the past or future but is simply satisfied with
the short life span that he has gotten for the present. To eradicate this illusion, Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu has brought the sankirtana movement, and He requests every-
one to accept and distribute it. A person who is actually a follower of Sri Bhakti-
