Text 99] Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord 49

TRANSLATION

“My body could not be used in the service of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Therefore although it took birth in the land of India, this body has been use-
less.”

PURPORT

For a further explanation of the importance of Bharata-bhimi, one may refer to
the Adi-lild (9.41) and also Srimad-Bhagavatam (5.19.19-27). The special feature
of a birth in India is that a person born in India becomes automatically God con-
scious. In every part of India, and especially in the holy places of pilgrimage, even
an ordinary uneducated man is inclined toward Krsna consciousness, and as soon
as he sees a Krsna conscious person, he offers obeisances. India has many sacred
rivers like the Ganges, Yamuna, Narmada, Kaveri and Krsna, and simply by bathing
in these rivers people are liberated and become Krsna conscious. Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu therefore says:

bhdrata-bhamite haila manusya-janma yara
janma sarthaka kari’ kara para-upakara

One who has taken birth in the land of Bharata-bhGmi, India, should take full ad-
vantage of his birth. He should become completely well versed in the knowledge
of the Vedas and spiritual culture and should distribute the experience of Krsna
consciousness all over the world. People all over the world are madly engaging in
sense gratification and in this way spoiling their human lives, with the risk that in
the next life they may become animals or less. Human society should be saved
from such a risky civilization and the danger of animalism by awakening to God
consciousness, Krsma consciousness. The Krsna consciousness movement has
been started for this purpose. Therefore unbiased men of the highest echelon
should study the principles of the Krsna consciousness movement and fully
cooperate with this movement to save human society.

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sanatana kahe, ——“tomd-sama keba ache dna
mahaprabhura gane tumi——mahd-bhdagyavan!

SYNONYMS

sanatana kahe—Sanatana Gosvami said; tomd-sama—like you; kebé—who;
dche—is there; ana—another; mahaprabhura—of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu;
