Text 118] Ripa Gosvami’s Meeting with the Lord 59

TRANSLATION

“Had you not previously bestowed Your mercy on him,” they said, ‘it
would not have been possible for him to express Your internal feelings.”

PURPORT

Devotees acknowledge Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s special mercy upon Srila
Ripa Gosvami in the following words:

sri-caitanya-mano ‘bhistam
sthapitarn yena bhi-tale

svayam rdpah kadé mahyam
dadati sva-padantikam

“When will Srila Ripa Gosvamt Prabhupada, who has established within this ma-
terial world the mission to fulfill the desire of Lord Caitanya, give me shelter under
his lotus feet?”

The special function of Srila Rapa Gosvami is to establish the feelings of Sri
Caitanya Mahdaprabhu. These feelings are His desires that His special mercy be
spread throughout the world in this Kali-yuga.

prthivite ache yata nagaradi-grama
sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama

His desire is that all over the world everyone, in every village and every town,
know of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His sankirtana movement. These are the in-
ner feelings of $ri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Rapa Gosvami committed to writing
all these feelings of the Lord. Now again, by the mercy of $ri Caitanya
Mahdaprabhu, the same feelings are being spread all over the world by the ser-
vants of the Gosvamis, and devotees who are pure and simple will appreciate this
attempt. As concluded by Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, however, those who
are on the level of hogs and dogs will never appreciate such a great attempt. Yet
this does not matter to the preachers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s cult, for all
over the world they will continue to perform this responsible work, even though
persons who are like cats and dogs do not appreciate them.

TEXT 118

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CU CANS OHA CTSA BWA BACH W Sse

prabhu kahe, — “kaha rdpa, natakera sloka
ye sloka sunile lokera yaya duhkha-soka
