17.49
loka saba uddharite tomara avatara
muni bada dukhi, more karaha uddhara
SYNONYMS
loka—people; saba—all; uddharite—to deliver; tomara—Your; avatara—incarnation; muni—I (am); bada—very; dukhi—unhappy; more—unto me; karaha—please do; uddhara—deliverance “As an incarnation of God, You are delivering so many fallen souls.
I am also a greatly unhappy fallen soul.
Kindly deliver me by Your mercy.”
PURPORT
It appears that although Gopala Capala was sinful, talkative and insulting, he nevertheless had the qualification of simplicity.
Thus he believed Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who had come to deliver all fallen souls, and he appealed for his own deliverance, seeking the mercy of the Lord.
He did not know, however, that the deliverance of the fallen does not consist of curing their bodily diseases, although it is also a fact that when a man is delivered from the material clutches his material bodily diseases are automatically cured.
Gopala Capala simply wanted to be delivered from the bodily sufferings of leprosy, but Sri Caitanya, although accepting his sincere appeal, wanted to inform him of the real cause of suffering.