Text 71] —_‘ Instructions for Civilized Human Beings 283
become unfortunate (manda-bhdgyah), and furthermore they are al-
ways disturbed by various circumstances.
TEXT 71
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STEN fame treferarTT Ty Mo?
ekada deva-satre tu
gandharvapsarasam ganah
upahiita visva-srgbhir
hari-gathopagayane

ekadd—once upon a time; deva-satre—in an assembly of the
demigods; tu—indeed; gandharva—of the inhabitants of Gandharva-
loka; apsarasim—and the inhabitants of Apsaroloka; gandh—all;
upahitah —were invited; visva-srgbhih—by the great demigods known
as the prajapatis; hari-gdtha-upagdyane—on an occasion of kirtana for
glorifying the Supreme Lord.

TRANSLATION

Once there was a sankirtana festival to glorify the Supreme Lord
in an assembly of the demigods, and the Gandharvas and Apsaras
were invited by the prajapatis to take part in it.

PURPORT

Saikirtana means chanting of the holy name of the Lord. The Hare
Krsna movement is not a new movement as people sometimes mistakenly
think. The Hare Krsna movement is present in every millennium of Lord
Brahma’s life, and the holy name is chanted in all the higher planetary
systems, including Brahmaloka and Candraloka, not to speak of
Gandharvaloka and Apsaroloka. The sarkirtana movement that was
started in this world five hundred years ago by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
is therefore not a new movement. Sometimes, because of our bad luck,
this movement is stopped, but Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His servants
again start the movement for the benefit of the entire word or, indeed,
the entire universe.
