80 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 17

SYNONYMS
bhari bojha—heavy load; lafid—bearing; ailana—|l came; kemane—how,; lafid
yadba—shall | take it back; alpa-svalpa-mtlya—a fraction of the real price; paile—
if | get; ethai—here; veciba—| shall sell.

TRANSLATION

“41 have brought a heavy load to sell in this city. To take it back again is a
very difficult job; therefore if | get but a fraction of the price, | shall sell it here
in this city of Kasi.”

PURPORT

$ri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was selling the transcendental holy name of the Lord.
However, Kasi was a city of Mayavadis (impersonalists), and such people will
never chant the holy names of the Hare Krsna mahd-mantra. Consequently Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu was feeling disappointed. How could He teach the
Mayavadis the importance of chanting the Hare Krsna mahd-mantra? The attrac-
tion for chanting the holy name of the Lord belongs absolutely to pure devotees,
and there was no possibility of finding pure devotees at Kasi. Consequently Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu's commodity was certainly very heavy. The Lord therefore
suggested that even though there were no pure devotees in Kasi, if someone was
a little inclined to chant the Hare Krsna mantra, He would deliver this big load, al-
though the proper price was not paid.

Actually we experienced this when we came to preach the Hare Krsna move-
ment in the West. When we came to New York in 1965, we never expected that
the Hare Krsna mahd-mantra would be accepted in this country. Nonetheless, we
invited people to our storefront to join in chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, and the
Lord's holy name is so attractive that simply by coming to our storefront in New
York, fortunate young people became Krsna conscious. Although this mission was
started with insignificant capital, it is now going nicely. The spreading of the Hare
Krsna mahd-mantra in the West has become successful because the young people
were not offenders. The youths who joined this movement were not very ad-
vanced as far as purity was concerned, nor were they very well educated in Vedic
knowledge, but because they were not offenders, they could accept the impor-
tance of the Hare Krsna movement. We are now very happy to see that this
movement is advancing more and more in the Western countries. We therefore
conclude that the so-called mlecchas and yavanas of the Western countries are
more purified than offensive Mayavadis or atheistic impersonalists.

TEXT 146

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