CC Madhya 18.47 (1975)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 47
- mleccha-bhaye āilā gopāla mathurā-nagare
- eka-māsa rahila viṭhṭhaleśvara-ghare
SYNONYMS
mleccha-bhaye—because of fear of the Muslims; āilā—came; gopāla—the Deity Gopāla; mathurā-nagare—to the city of Mathurā; eka-māsa—one month; rahila—stayed; viṭhṭhaleśvara-ghare—in the temple of Viṭhṭhaleśvara.
TRANSLATION
Due to fear of the Mohammedans, Gopāla went to Mathurā, where He remained in the temple of Viṭhṭhaleśvara for one full month.
PURPORT
When the two brothers Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī went to Vṛndāvana, they decided to live there. Following Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's example, they did not climb the hill because they considered it nondifferent from Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. On some pretext, the Gopāla Deity granted Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu an audience beneath the hill, and Gopāla similarly favored Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī. During his ripe old age, when Rūpa Gosvāmī could not go to Govardhana Hill because of invalidity, Gopāla kindly went to Mathurā and remained at the temple of Viṭhṭhaleśvara for one month. It was then that Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī could see Gopāla's beauty to his heart's content.