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aparadha ksamaila, dubila prema-jale
keba edaibe prabhura prema-mahajale
SYNONYMS
aparadha—offense; ksamaila—excused; dubila—merged into; prema-jale—in the ocean of love of Godhead; keba—who else; edaibe—will go away; prabhura—the Lord’s; prema—loving; maha-jale—network.
Lord Caitanya excused them all, and they merged into the ocean of devotional service, for no one can escape the unique loving network of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
PURPORT
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was an ideal acarya.
An acarya is an ideal teacher who knows the purpose of the revealed scriptures, behaves exactly according to their injunctions and teaches his students to adopt these principles also.
As an ideal acarya, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu devised ways to capture all kinds of atheists and materialists.
Every acarya has a specific means of propagating his spiritual movement with the aim of bringing men to Krsna consciousness.
Therefore, the method of one acarya may be different from that of another, but the ultimate goal is never neglected.
Srila Rupa Gosvami recommends:
tasmat kenapy upayena
manah krsne nivesayet
sarve vidhi-nisedha syur
etayor eva kinkarah An acarya should devise a means by which people may somehow or other come to Krsna consciousness.
First they should become Krsna conscious, and all the prescribed rules and regulations may later gradually be introduced.
In our Krsna consciousness movement we follow this policy of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
For example, since boys and girls in the Western countries freely intermingle, special concessions regarding their customs and habits are necessary to bring them to Krsna consciousness.
The acarya must devise a means to bring them to devotional service.
Therefore, although I am a sannyasi I sometimes take part in getting boys and girls married, although in the history of sannyasa no sannyasi has personally taken part in marrying his disciples.