CC Adi 7.31-32
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXTS 31-32
- tāhā dekhi’ mahāprabhu karena cintana
- jagat ḍubāite āmi kariluṅ yatana
- keha keha eḍāila, pratijñā ha-ila bhaṅga
- tā-sabā ḍubaite pātiba kichu raṅga
SYNONYMS
tāhā dekhi’ — observing this advancement; mahāprabhu — Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; karena — does; cintana — thinking; jagat — the whole world; ḍubāite — to drown; āmi — I; kariluṅ — endeavored; yatana — attempts; keha keha — some of them; eḍāila — escaped; pratijñā — promise; ha-ila — became; bhaṅga — broken; tā-sabā — all of them; ḍubāite — to make them drown; pātiba — shall devise; kichu — some; raṅga — trick.
TRANSLATION
Seeing that the Māyāvādīs and others were fleeing, Lord Caitanya thought, “I wanted everyone to be immersed in this inundation of love of Godhead, but some of them have escaped. Therefore I shall devise a trick to drown them also.”
PURPORT
Here is an important point. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to invent a way to capture the Māyāvādīs and others who did not take interest in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. This is the symptom of an ācārya. An ācārya who comes for the service of the Lord cannot be expected to conform to a stereotype, for he must find the ways and means by which Kṛṣṇa consciousness may be spread. Sometimes jealous persons criticize the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement because it engages equally both boys and girls in distributing love of Godhead. Not knowing that boys and girls in countries like Europe and America mix very freely, these fools and rascals criticize the boys and girls in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for intermingling. But these rascals should consider that one cannot suddenly change a community’s social customs. However, since both the boys and the girls are being trained to become preachers, those girls are not ordinary girls but are as good as their brothers who are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore, to engage both boys and girls in fully transcendental activities is a policy intended to spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. These jealous fools who criticize the intermingling of boys and girls will simply have to be satisfied with their own foolishness because they cannot think of how to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness by adopting ways and means that are favorable for this purpose. Their stereotyped methods will never help spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore, what we are doing is perfect by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for it is He who proposed to invent a way to capture those who strayed from Kṛṣṇa consciousness.