128 Si Caitanya-caritamrta (Adi-lila, Ch. 13
TRANSLATiSON

Taking on my head as my own property the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
Nityananda Prabhu, Acarya Advaitacandra, SvarGpa Damodara, Ripa Gosvami and
Raghunatha dasa Gosvamif, I, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, have thus described the
advent of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

PURPORT

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Nityananda, Advaita Prabhu, Svaripa Damodara,
Rupa Gosvami, Raghunatha dasa and their followers are all accepted by Krsnadasa
Kaviraja Gosvam?. Anyone who follows in the footsteps of Kaviraja Gosvami also
accepts the lotus feet of the above-mentioned lords as his personal property. For a
materialistic person, material wealth and opulence are only illusory. Actually they
are not possessions but entanglements because by enjoying the material world a
conditioned sou! becomes more and more entangled by incurring debts for his
present enjoyment. Unfortunately, a conditioned soul considers property for which
he is in debt to be his own, and he is very busy acquiring such property. But a
devotee considers such property not real property but simply an entanglement in
the material world. If Lord Krsna is very much pleased with a devotee, He takes
away his material property, as stated in the Srimad-Bhagovatam {10.88,8), where
Lord Krsna says, yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanaim Sanaih: ‘To show special
favor to a devotee, | take away all his material property.’’ Similarly, Narottama
dasa Thakura says:

dhana mora nitydnanda,

radhakrsna-sricarana

sei mora pranadhana
“My real riches are Nityananda Prabhu and the lotus feet of Sri Radha and Krsna."”
He further prays, “‘O Lord, kindly give me this opulence. | do not want anything
but Your lotus feet as my property."’ Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has sung in
many places that his real property is the lotus feet of Radha and Krsna. Unfor-
tunately we are interested in unreal property and are neglecting our real property
(adhane yatana kari’ dhana teydaginu).

Sometimes smdrtas consider Raghunatha dasa Gosvami a S@dra. But Kyrsnadasa
Kaviraja Gosvami here especially mentions svordpa-riipa-raghundthadasa. Therefore
one who considers the lotus feet of Raghunatha dasa to be transcendental to ail
divisions of the caste system enjoys the riches of actual spiritual bliss.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Sri Caitanya-caritamsta, Adi-lita,
Thirteenth Chapter, describing the advent of Lord Sr7 Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
