Text 42] Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya Offers Prasada to the Lord 21

sional men recite Srimad-Bhagavatam and discuss krsna-bhakti for an exchange of
money. They cannot distribute such exalted transcendental property to everyone
and anyone. Only pure devotees who have no motive other than serving Krsna
can give such transcendentally valuable benedictions out of charity.

TEXT 42

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nityanande aja dila, —‘yaha gauda-dese
anargala prema-bhakti kariha prakase

SYNONYMS

nityanande—unto Nityananda Prabhu; -ayna dila—Llord Sri Caitanya
Mahdaprabhu ordered; yaha gauda-dese—go to Gauda-deSa (Bengal); anargala—
without restriction; prema-bhakti—devotional service in love of Godhead; kariha
prakase —manifest.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered Nitydnanda Prabhu, ‘Go to Bengal and,
without restriction, manifest devotional service to the Lord, Krsna conscious-
ness.”’

PURPORT

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu thus ordered Nityananda Prabhu to deliver all the
Bengalis to devotional service. In Bhagavad-gita (9.32) it is said:

mam hi partha vyapasritya
ye ‘pi syuh papa-yonayah

striyo vaisyas tatha stidras
te ‘pi yanti param gatim

“O son of Prtha, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth—
women, vaisyas [merchants], as well as sGdras [workers]—can approach the
supreme destination.” Whoever takes to Krsna consciousness and follows the
regulative principles can return home, back to Godhead.

In his Anubhasya, Stila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes: “There is a
class of so-called devotees called prakrta-sahajiyas who think that Nityananda
Prabhu is an ordinary human being. They have spread the news that Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu ordered Nityananda Prabhu to return to Bengal from Orissa just to
