46 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 1

his dormant Krsna consciousness and ultimately become a pure devotee of Lord
Krsna.

Unfortunately at the present moment the bodily constitutions of the leaders of
society, especially the governmental leaders, are polluted. As described in Srimad-
Bhagavatam (12.1.42):

asarnskrtah kriya-hinad
rajasa tamasavrtah

prajas te bhaksayisyanti
mleccha rajany arGpinah

Such leaders have no chance to purify their eating. Politicians meet together and
exchange good wishes by drinking liquor, which is so polluted and sinful that
naturally drunkards and meateaters develop a degraded mentality in the mode of
ignorance. The processes of eating in different modes are explained in Bhagavad-
gita, wherein it is stated that those who eat rice, wheat, vegetables, milk products,
fruit and sugar are situated in the elevated quality of goodness. Therefore if we
want a happy and tranquil political situation, we must select leaders who eat
Krsna prasada Otherwise the leaders will eat meat and drink wine, and thus they
will be asamskrtah, unreformed, and kriyd-hinah, devoid of spiritual behavior. In
other words, they will be mlecchas and yavanas, or men who are unclean in their
habits. Through taxation, such men exploit the citizens as much as possible, and in
this way they devour the citizens of the state instead of benefiting them. We
therefore cannot expect a government to be efficient if it is headed by such
unclean mlecchas and yavanas.

TEXT 93

pigity ae cacy cease vier |
HA-catatios Weteiga Dace Afeeti ne I

caturmasya rahi’ gaude vaisnava calild
rapa-gosafhi mahaprabhura carane rahila

SYNONYMS
caturmasya rahi’—remaining four months for Caturmasya; gaude—to Bengal;
vaisnava—all the devotees; calila—returned; rapa-gosani—Srila Rapa Gosvami;
mahaprabhura—of $ri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; carane—at the shelter of His lotus
feet; rahila—remained.

TRANSLATION

After the four months of Caturmasya [Sravana, Bhadra, Aésvina and Karttikal,
all the Vaisnavas of Bengal returned to their homes, but Srila Rapa Gosvami
