Text 204] Ripa Gosvami’s Meeting with the Lord 115

from all material possessions, is always absorbed in emotional love of Godhead.
He is reluctant to perform any kind of sense gratification. In other words, such a
devotee is free from all material bondage, but he engages in Krsna conscious ac-
tivities. Such expert devotional service is performed without hypocrisy. Humility,
renunciation and learned scholarship were combined in Sanatana Gosvami, the
ideal pure devotee, who was on the same level of understanding as Srila Rama-
nanda Raya. Like Ramananda Raya, Sandtana Gosvami was a fully cognizant ex-
pert in the conclusions of devotional service and was therefore able to describe
such transcendental knowledge.

TEXT 203

Aa BCS, —“erta SF ca DTS BATS |
BCA YAY Oa atts ABLVTS i ow 1

raya kahe, —“isvara tumi ye caha karite
kasthera putali tumi para nacaite

SYNONYMS

raya kahe—Srila Rimnanda Raya says; ifvara tumi—You are the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead; ye—whatever; caha—You want; karite—to do; kasthera—
of wood; putali—a doll; tumi—You; para—are able; nacdite—to make dance.

TRANSLATION

Srila Raimananda Raya replied to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, “My Lord, You
are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If You like, You can cause even a
wooden doll to dance.

TEXT 204

CAA FX CA Ha FA SHAM eiptace |
Cae aH cafe os Sata farce 208 I

mora mukhe ye saba rasa karila pracdrane
sei rasa dekhi ei ihara likhane

SYNONYMS

mora mukhe—through my mouth; ye—whatever; saba rasa—all such tran-
scendental mellows; karila—You did; pracdrane—preaching; sei rasa—those
same transcendental mellows; dekhi—| see; ei—this; ihara likhane—in the writ-
ing of Srila Rapa Gosvami.
