348 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 3

TEXT 212

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SPACE SlrACS SolTY MHeote, SFT 1 Ad2 UI

nirapeksa hafia prabhu sighra calila
kandite kandite acarya pascat calila

SYNONYMS

nirapeksa—indifferent; hafid—becoming; prabhu—the Lord; sighra—very
quickly; calili—went; kandite kandite—crying and crying; acarya—Advaita
Acarya; pascat—behind; calila—went.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was unaffected. He left swiftly, and Advaita
Acarya followed Him weeping.

PURPORT

As Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains, the word nirapeksa
means not being affected by anything material and remaining fixed in the ser-
vice of the Lord. Sti Caitanya Mahaprabhu did not very much care for the
roaring tumult and cry at the house of Advaita Acarya, which He heard when
starting for Jagannatha Puri. Worldly moralists may criticize Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu for being very cruel, but the Lord did not care for such criticism.
As the world teacher of this Krsna consciousness movement, He actually
showed that a person seriously engaged in Krsna consciousness should not
be affected by worldly affection. The best course is to engage in rendering
service to the Lord and to become callous to material objectives. Externally
everyone is attached to material things, but if one becomes entangled in such
things, he cannot make progress in Krsna consciousness. Therefore those who
are engaged in Krsna consciousness should not care for the so-called morality
of the material world if that morality opposes the service of the Lord. As Lord
Caitanya Mahaprabhu has personally shown, one cannot properly execute
Krsna consciousness without being neutral.

TEXT 213

FS ee fate ay FHT CAG AIS |
wipes eicaly ace fag FP 1S 1 ave H
