Text 83] The Advent of Lord Caitanya 97
yahan tahén sarva-loka karaye samména
ghare pathdiya deya dhana, vastra, dhana
SYNONYMS

yahan—wherever; tahdA—anywhere; sarva-loka—all people; karaye—show;
sammadna—respect; ghare—at home; pathd/yd—sending; deya—give; dhana—riches;
vas tra—cloth; dhdna—paddy.

TRANSLATION

“Anywhere and everywhere | go, ail people offer me respect. Even without my

asking, they voluntarily give me riches, clothing and paddy.”’
PURPORT

A bra@hmana does not become anyone's servant. To render service to someone
else is the business of the sidras. A brdhmana is aiways independent because he is a
teacher, spiritual master and advisor to society. The members of society provide
him with ail the necessities for life. |!n Bhagavad-gitd the Lord has divided society
into four divisions—brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and suédra. A society cannot run
smoothly without this scientific division. A réhmana should give good advice to all
the members of the society, a ksatriya should look after the administration, law and
order of the society, vafSyas should produce and trade in all the needs of the
society, whereas sidras shouid render service to the higher sections of society (the
bréhmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas).

Jagannatha Misra was a brdhmana. Therefore people would send him all bodily
necessities—money, cloth, grain and so on. While Lord Caitanya was in the womb of
Sacimata, Jagannatha Misra received all these necessities of life without asking for
them. Because of the presence of the Lord in his family, everyone offered him due
respect as a brGhmana. |n other words, if a br@hmana or Vaisnava sticks to his posi-
tion as an eternal servant of the Lord and executes the will of the Lord, there is no
question of scarcity for his personal maintenance or the needs of his family.

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saci Rahe,— muni dekhon akasa-upare
divya-murti loka saba yena stuti kare
SYNONYMS

$aci_ kahe—mother Sacidevi replied; mufi—|; dekhon—see; Gkdsa-upare—in outer
space; d/vya-murti—brilliant forms; /oka—people; saba—all; yena—as if; stuti—prayers;
kare—offering.
