Text 145] Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord 69
TEXT 144
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sanatana kahe, ——“bhdla kaila upadesa
tahan yadba, sei mora ‘prabhu-datta desa’”’
SYNONYMS
sanatana kahe—Sanatana Gosvami replied; bhdala kaila upadesa—you have
given good advice; tahar yaba—| shall go there; sei—that; mora—my; prabhu-
datta—given by the Lord; desa—residential country.
TRANSLATION
Sanatana Gosvami replied, ‘You have given me very good advice. | shall
certainly go there, for that is the place the Lord has given me for my resi-
dence.”
PURPORT
The words prabhu-datta desa are very significant. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s
devotional cult teaches one not to sit down in one place but to spread the devo-
tional cult all over the world. The Lord dispatched Sanatana Gosvami and Rapa
Gosvami to Vrndavana to excavate and renovate the holy places and from there
establish the cult of bhakti. Therefore Vrndavana was given to Sanatana Gosvami
and Rapa Gosvamias their place of residence. Similarly, everyone in the line of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s devotional cult should accept the words of the spiritual
master and thus spread the Krsna consciousness movement. They should go
everywhere, to all parts of the world, accepting those places as prabhu-datta desa,
the places of residence given by the spiritual master or Lord Krsna. The spiritual
master is the representative of Lord Krsna; therefore one who has carried out the
orders of the spiritual master is understood to have carried out the orders of Krsna
or Sri Caitanya Mahdaprabhu. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to spread the
bhakti cult all over the world (prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama). Therefore
devotees in the line of Krsna consciousness must go to different parts of the world
and preach, as ordered by the spiritual master. That will satisfy Sri Caitanya
Mahdprabhu.
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