310. Sr1-Caitanya-caritamrta

TRANSLATION

The fruits of love of Godhead which fructified on these two branches were
distributed in abundance. Tasting these fruits, everyone became mad after them.

TEXT 89

*faecaa cls AA PP BAST |
Biel aot ia chica SlS-AWIGIT Wd ti

pascimera loka saba mudha andacara
tahan pracarila donhe bhakti-sadacara

SYNONYMS

pascimera—on the western side; /oka—people in general; saba—all; midha-—less
intelligent; andcara—not well behaved; tahaf—there; pracarila—preached; dofhe—
Srila RGpa and Sanatana Gosvami; bhakti—devotional service; saddcGra—good
behavior.

TRANSLATION

The people in general on the western side of India were neither intelligent nor
well behaved, but by the influence of Srila Ripa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami
they were trained in devotional service and good behavior.

PURPORT

Although it is not only in western India that people were contaminated by
association with Mohammedans, it is a fact that the farther west one goes in India
the more he will find the people to be fallen from the Vedic culture. Even until
5,000 years ago, when the entire planet was under the control of Maharaja Pariksit,
the Vedic culture was current everywhere. Gradually, however, people were influ-
enced by non-Vedic culture, and they lost sight of how to behave in connection
with devotional service. Srila Ripa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami very kindly
preached the bhakti cult in western India, and following in their footsteps the
propagators of the Caitanya cult in the western countries are spreading the
sankirtana movement and inculcating the principles of Vaisnava behavior, thus
purifying and reforming many persons who were previously accustomed to the
culture of mlecchas and yavanas, All of our devotees in the western countries give
up their old habits of illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling. Of course,
500 years ago these practices were unknown at least in eastern India, but unfor-
tunately at present all of India has been victimized by these non-Vedic principles,
which are sometimes even supported by the government.

TEXT 90

mreyTe) Caer astceda Cais |
saraca Cam GafS-crats eibta tae
