210 Sri Caitanya-caritameta [Adi-lila, Ch. 16
SYNONYMS
prabhura—Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's; oftarkyoa-lila—inconceivable pastimes;
bujhite—to understand; n@—not; pari—able; sva-sariga—personal association; chadana
—avoiding; Rene—why ; pafhdya—sends; kdsipuri—to Benares.
TRANSLATION
I cannot understand the inconceivable pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
for although Tapana Misra wanted to live with Him in Navadvipa, the Lord advised
him to go to Varanast.
PURPORT
When Tapana Misra met Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Caitanya was living in house-
hold life, and there was no indication that in the future He would accept the
sannyasa order. But by asking Tapana Miéra to go to Varanasi He indicated that in
the future He would accept sannydsa and that when He would teach Sanatana
Gosvami, Tapana Misra would take advantage of the opportunity to learn the
object of life and the real process of attaining it.
TEXT 19
GF TS ACMA CHCrA CHT el (RS |
aw frat SH CHa, Ain! fas ut s9 1
ei mata bangera lokera kaila mahd hita
‘nama’ diyG@ bhakta kaila, padand pagdita
SYNONYMS
ei mata—in this way; barigera—of East Bengal; /okera—of the people; kaifa—con-
tributed; maha—great; hita—benefit; n@ma—the holy name of the Lord; diva—giving
them; bhakta—devotees; kaila—made them; padafia—by educating them; pandita—
learned scholars.
TRANSLATION
In this way Sit Caitanya Mahaprabhu contributed the greatest benefit to the
people of East Bengal by initiating them into hari-nama, the chanting of the Hare
Krsna maha-mantra, and making them learned scholars by educating them.
PURPORT
Following in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Krsna conscious-
ness movement is distributing the Hare Ktsna mahd-mantra and inducing people all
over the world to chant. We are giving people an immense treasury of transcendental
literature, translated into all the important languages of the world, and by the grace
of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu this literature is selling profusely, and people are
