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to do with women and money. He must always refrain from such intimate
relations. The King was, however, favored by the Lord by the expert
arrangement of the devotees. This means that the beloved devotee of the
Lord can favor a neophyte more liberally than the Lord. Pure devotees,
therefore, never commit an offense at the feet of another pure devotee.
An offense at the lotus feet of the Lord is sometimes excused by the
merciful Lord, but an offense at the feet of a devotee is very dangerous
for one who actually wants to make progress in devotional service.

As long as the Lord remained at Pur, thousands of His devotees used to
come#to see Him during the Ratha-yatra car festival of Lord Jagannatha.
And during the car festival, the washing of the Gundica temple under the
direct supervision of the Lord was an important function. The Lord’s
congregational sankirtana movement at Pur was a unique exhibition for
the mass of people. That is the way to turn the mass mind towards spiritual
realization. The Lord inaugurated this system of mass sankirtana, and
leaders of all countries can take advantage of this spiritual movement in
order to keep the mass of people in a pure state of peace and friendship
with one another. This is now the demand of the present human society
all over the world.

After some time the Lord again started on his tour towards Northern
India, and He decided to visit Vrndavana and its neighboring places. He
passed through the jungles of Jharikhanda (Madhya Bharat), and all the
wild animals also joined His sankirtana movement. The wild tigers, ele-
phants, bears and deer all together accompanied the Lord, and the Lord
accompanied them in sankirtana. By this He proved that by the propaga-
tion of the sankirtana movement (congregational chanting and glorifying
the name of the Lord) even the wild animals can live in peace and friend-
ship, and what to speak of men who are supposed to be civilized. No man
in the world will refuse to join the sankirtana movement. Nor is the Lord’s
sankirtana movement restricted to any caste, creed, color or species. Here
is direct evidence of His great mission: He allowed even the wild animals to
partake in His great movement.

On His way back from Vrndavana He first came to Prayag, where He met
Ripa Gosvami along with his younger brother Anupama. Then He came
down to Benares. For two months, He instructed Sm Sanatana Gosvami in
the transcendental science. The instruction to Sanatana Gosvami is in itself
a long narration, and full presentation of the instruction will not be
possible here. The main ideas are given as follows.

Sanatana Gosvami (formerly known as Dabir Khas) was in the cabinet
service of the Bengal Government under the regime of Nawab Husain Shah.
He decided to join with the Lord and thus retired from the service. On His
