290 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 6

tomara bapa-jyetha —visaya-vistha-gartera kidd
sukha kari’ mane visaya-visera mahd-pida

SYNONYMS

tomara—your; bapa—father; jyethd—his elder brother; visaya—of material en-
joyment; vistha—stool; gartera—of the ditch; kidi—worms; sukha kari’—as hap-
piness; mane—they consider; visaya—of material enjoyment; visera—of the
poison; mahd-pida—the great disease.

TRANSLATION

“My dear Raghunatha dasa, your father and his elder brother are just like
worms in stool in the ditch of material enjoyment, for the great disease of the
poison of material enjoyment is what they consider happiness.

PURPORT

When a man is attached to material enjoyment, he is attached to many misera-
ble conditions, but nevertheless he accepts his condemned position as one of
happiness. Sense enjoyment is so strong for such a person that he cannot give it
up, exactly as a worm in stool cannot give up the stool. From the spiritual point of
view, when a person is too absorbed in material enjoyment, he is exactly like a
worm in stool. Although such a position is utterly miserable to the eyes of liber-
ated souls, the materialistic enjoyer is greatly attached to it.

TEXT 198

Bolt Sats Seq SAA HSA |
‘qGCTHS’ ACK, ACA CANTAT UW hi Soe |

yadyadi brahmanya kare brahmanera sahaya
‘suddha-vaisnava’ nahe, haye ‘vaisnavera praya’

SYNONYMS
yadyapi—although; brahmanya kare—give charity to the brahmanas;
brahmanera sahaya—great helpers to the brahmanas; suddha-vaisnava—pure
Vaisnavas; nahe—not; haye—they are; vaisnavera praya—almost like Vaisnavas.

TRANSLATION

“Although your father and uncle are charitable to brahmanas and greatly
help them, they are nevertheless not pure Vaisnavas. However, they are
almost like Vaisnavas.
