8.20
hena prema sri-caitanya dila yatha tatha
jagai madhai paryanta--anyera ka katha
SYNONYMS
hena—such; prema—love of Godhead; sri-caitanya—Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; dila—has given; yatha—anywhere; tatha—everywhere; jagai—of the name Jagai; madhai—of the name Madhai; paryanta—up to them; anyera—of others; ka—what to speak; katha—words.
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has freely given this love of Krsna everywhere and anywhere, even to the most fallen, such as Jagai and Madhai.
What then to speak of those who are already pious and elevated?
PURPORT
The distinction between Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s gift to human society and the gifts of others is that whereas so-called philanthropic and humanitarian workers have given some relief to human society as far as the body is concerned, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu offers the best facilities for going back home, back to Godhead, with love of Godhead.
If one seriously makes a comparative study of the two gifts, certainly if he is at all sober he will give the greatest credit to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
It was with this purpose that Kaviraja Gosvami said:
sri-krsna-caitanya-daya karaha vicara
vicara karile citte pabe camatkara “If you are indeed interested in logic and argument, kindly apply it to the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
If you do so, you will find it to be strikingly wonderful.” (Cc.Adi 8.15) Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says:
ta’ra saksi jagai madhai The two brothers Jagai and Madhai epitomize the sinful population of this Age of Kali.
They were most disturbing elements in society because they were meat-eaters, drunkards, woman-hunters, rogues and thieves.
Yet Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu delivered them, to say nothing of others who were sober, pious, devoted and conscientious.
The Bhagavad-gita confirms that to say nothing of the brahminically qualified devotees and rajarsis (kim punar brahmanah punya bhakta rajarsayas tatha), anyone who by the association of a pure devotee comes to Krsna consciousness becomes eligible to go back home, back to Godhead.
In the Bhagavad-gita (9.32) the Lord thus declares:
mam hi partha vyapasritya
ye ’pi syuh papa-yonayah
striyo vaisyas tatha sudras
te ’pi yanti param gatim “O son of Prtha, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth-women, vaisyas (merchants), as well as sudras (workers)-can approach the supreme destination.” Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu delivered the two fallen brothers Jagai and Madhai, but the entire world is presently full of Jagais and Madhais, or, in other words, woman-hunters, meat-eaters, gamblers, thieves and other rogues, who create all kinds of disturbance in society.
The activities of such persons have now become common practices.
It is no longer considered abominable to be a drunkard, woman-hunter, meat-eater, thief or rogue, for these elements have been assimilated by human society.
That does not mean, however, that the abominable qualities of such persons will help free human society from the clutches of maya.
Rather, they will entangle humanity more and more in the reactions of the stringent laws of material nature.
One’s activities are all performed under the influence of the modes of material nature (prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah).
Because people are now associating with the modes of ignorance (tamo-guna) and, to some extent, passion (rajo-guna), with no trace of goodness (sattva-guna), they are becoming increasingly greedy and lusty, for that is the effect of associating with these modes.
Tada rajas-tamo-bhavah kama-lobhadayas ca ye: “By associating with the two lower qualities of material nature, one becomes lusty and greedy.” (Bhag.1.2.19) Actually, in modern human society, everyone is greedy and lusty, and therefore the only means for deliverance is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s sankirtana movement, which can promote all the Jagais and Madhais to the topmost position of sattva-guna, or brahminical culture.
Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.2.18-19) states:
nasta-prayesv abhadresu
nityam bhagavata-sevaya
bhagavaty uttama-sloke
bhaktir bhavati naisthiki
tada rajas-tamo-bhavah
kama-lobhadayas ca ye
ceta etair anaviddham
sthitam sattve prasidati Considering the chaotic condition of human society, if one actually wants peace and tranquillity, one must take to the Krsna consciousness movement and engage always in bhagavata-dharma.
Engagement in bhagavata-dharma dissipates all ignorance and passion, and when ignorance and passion are dissipated one is freed from greed and lust.
When freed from greed and lust, one becomes brahminically qualified, and when a brahminically qualified person makes further advancement, he becomes situated on the Vaisnava platform.
It is only on this Vaisnava platform that it is possible to awaken one’s dormant love of Godhead, and as soon as one does so, his life is successful.
At present, human society is specifically cultivating the mode of ignorance (tamo-guna), although there may also be some symptoms of passion (rajo-guna).
Full of kama and lobha, lust and greed, the entire population of the world consists mostly of sudras and a few vaisyas, and gradually it is coming about that there are sudras only.
Communism is a movement of sudras, and capitalism is meant for vaisyas.
In the fighting between these two factions, the sudras and vaisyas, gradually, due to the abominable condition of society, the communists will emerge triumphant, and as soon as this takes place, whatever is left of society will be ruined.
The only possible remedy that can counteract the tendency toward communism is the Krsna consciousness movement, which can give even communists the real idea of communist society.
According to the doctrine of communism, the state should be the proprietor of everything.
But the Krsna consciousness movement, expanding this same idea, accepts God as the proprietor of everything.
People can’t understand this because they have no sense of God, but the Krsna consciousness movement can help them to understand God and to understand that everything belongs to God.
Since everything is the property of God, and all living entities-not only human beings but even animals, birds, plants and so on-are children of God, everyone has the right to live at the cost of God with God consciousness.
This is the sum and substance of the Krsna consciousness movement.