362 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [ Adi-lila, Ch. 17

eta Suni’ ta’-sabhare ghare pathaila
hena-kale pdsandi hindu parica-sata Gita

SYNONYMS

eta Suni’—after hearing all this; td@’-sabhare—all of them; ghare—back home;
pathaila—sent; hena-kdle—at that time; pasengi—nonbeliever; hindu—Hindus; pdjca-
sdta—five or seven; difa—came.

TRANSLATION

“After hearing all this, i sent all the mlecchas back to their homes. Five or
seven nonbeliving Hindus then approached me.

PURPORT

The word pdsang7 refers to nonbelievers engaged in fruitive activities and idola-
trous worshipers of many demigods. Pdasangis do not believe in one God, the
Supreme Personality, Lord Visnu; they think that all the demigods have the same
potency as Him. The definition of a pdsanq7 is given in the tantra-sastra:

yas tu néraéyanarm devam brahma-rudrdadi-daivataih
samatvenaiva vikseta sa pasandi bhaved dhruvam

‘A pasangi is one who considers the great demigods such as Lord Brahma and Lord
Siva equal to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana.” (Hari-bhakti-
vilasa, 1.73)

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is asamaurdhva, in other words, no one
can be equal to or greater than Him. But pdsardis do not believe this. They worship
any kind of demigod, thinking it all right to accept whomever they please as the
Supreme Lord. The pdsandis were against the Hare Krsna movement of Lord Sri
Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and now we see practically that they also do not like
our humble attempts to spread Krsna consciousness all over the world. On the
contrary, these pdsandis say that we are spoiling the Hindu religion because
people all over the world are accepting Lord Krsna as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead according to the version of Bhagavad-gita As It fs. The pdsarrdis condemn
this movement, and sometimes they accuse Vaisnavas from foreign countries of
being not bona fide. Even so-called Vaisnavas or followers of the Vaisnava cult do
not agree with our activities in making Vaisnavas in the western countries. Such
pasandis existed even during the time of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and they
still continue to exist. Despite all the activities of these pdsanais, however, the
prediction of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu will triumph: prthivite dche yata nagarddi
grama/ sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama. ‘'\n every town and village, the chanting of
My name will be heard.”’ No one can check the spread of the Krsna consciousness
movement because upon this movement is the benediction of the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
