CC Antya 6.276 (1975)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Below is the 1996 edition text, ready to be substituted with the 1975 one using the compile form.
TEXT 276
- uparodhe prabhu mora mānena nimantraṇa
- nā mānile duḥkhī ha-ibeka mūrkha jana
SYNONYMS
uparodhe—by my request; prabhu—Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; mora—my; mānena—accepts; nimantraṇa—invitation; nā mānile—if He does not accept; duḥkhī—unhappy; ha-ibeka—will become; mūrkha jana—foolish person.
TRANSLATION
“‘At my request Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepts the invitations because He knows that a foolish person like me would be unhappy if He did not accept them.’
PURPORT
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura says that people who are advanced in learning but attached to material enjoyment, who are puffed up by material possessions, by birth in an elevated aristocratic family or by education, may offer showbottle devotional service to the Deity and also offer prasādam to Vaiṣṇavas. Because of their ignorance, however, they cannot understand that since their minds are materially polluted, neither the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, nor the Vaiṣṇavas accept their offerings. If one accepts money from such materialistic persons to offer food to the Deity and Vaiṣṇavas, a pure Vaiṣṇava does not accept it. This causes unhappiness for the materialists because they are fully absorbed in the bodily conception of life. Therefore they sometimes turn against the Vaiṣṇavas.