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"nica jati, nica-sangi, patita adhama
kuvisaya-kupe padi’ gonainu janama!
SYNONYMS
nica jati—born of a low family; nica-sangi—associated with low men; patita—fallen; adhama—the lowest; ku-visaya-kupe—in a well of material enjoyment; padi’-having fallen down; gonainu—I have passed; janama—my life.
Sanatana Gosvami said, "I was born in a low family, and my associates are all low-class men.
I myself am fallen and am the lowest of men.
Indeed, I have passed my whole life fallen in the well of sinful materialism.
PURPORT
Actually Sri Sanatana Gosvami belonged to a brahmana family because he belonged to the Sarasvata division of the brahmanas and was well cultured and well educated.
Somehow or other he accepted a ministership in the Muslim government; therefore he had to associate with meat-eaters, drunkards and gross materialists.
Sanatana Gosvami considered himself fallen, for in the association of such men, he also fell victim to material enjoyment.
Having passed his life in that way, he considered that he had wasted his valuable time.
This statement about how one can become fallen in this material world is made by the greatest authority in the Gaudiya Vaisnava-sampradaya.
Actually the whole world is presently fallen into material existence.
Everyone is a meat-eater, drunkard, woman hunter, gambler and whatnot.
People are enjoying material life by committing the four basic sins.
Although they are fallen, if they simply submit themselves at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, they will be saved from sinful reactions.