TEXTS 31-32
taha dekhi' mahaprabhu karena cintana
jagat dubaite ami karilun yatana
keha keha edaila, pratijna ha-ila bhanga
ta-saba dubaite patiba kichu ranga
SYNONYMS
taha dekhi'-observing this advancement; mahaprabhuLord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; karenadoes; cintanathinking; jagatthe whole world; dubaiteto drown; amiI; karilunendeavored; yatanaattempts; keha kehasome of them; edailaescaped; pratijnapromise; ha-ilabecame; bhangabroken; ta-sabaall of them; dubaiteto make them drown; patibashall devise; kichusome; rangatrick.
TRANSLATION
Seeing that the Mayavadis 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 Mahaprabhu wanted to invent a way to capture the Mayavadis and others who did not take interest in the Krsna consciousness movement. This is the symptom of an acarya. An acarya 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 Krsna consciousness may be spread. Sometimes jealous persons criticize the Krsna 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 Krsna consciousness for intermingling. But these rascals should consider that one cannot suddenly change a community's social customs. However, since both the boys and girls are being trained to become preachers, those girls are not ordinary girls but are as good as their brothers who are preaching Krsna consciousness. Therefore, to engage both boys and girls in fully transcendental activities is a policy intended to spread the Krsna 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 Krsna consciousness by adopting ways and means that are favorable for this purpose. Their stereotyped methods will never help spread Krsna consciousness. Therefore, what we are doing is perfect by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for it is He who proposed to invent a way to capture those who strayed from Krsna consciousness.

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