Volume 7 - Prabhupada

78 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 17change in both body and mind, even though they were attached to impersonalBrahman understanding.'PURPORTThis is a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.15.43). Vidura and Maitreya discussedthe pregnancy of Diti. Diti's pregnancy caused the demigods to be verymuch afraid, and the demigods went to see Lord Brahma. Lord Brahma explainedthe original incident involving the cursing of Jaya and Vijaya by the CatusanaKumaras. Sometimes the Catusana Kumaras went to Vaikut:ha to visit Narayat:Ja,the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and once they were stopped from enteringthe palace at the seventh gate by two doorkeepers named jaya and Vijaya. Dueto their jealousy, jaya and Vijaya would not allow the Kumaras entry, and consequentlythe Kumaras became angry and cursed jaya and Vijaya, condemningthem to take birth in a family of asuras in the material world. The omniscient Personalityof Godhead could immediately understand the incident,.and He camewith His eternal consort the goddess of fortune. The Catusana Kumaras immediatelyoffered their obeisances unto the Lord. Simply by seeing the Lord andsmelling the aroma of tulasi and saffron from His lotus feet, the Kumaras becamedevotees and abandoned their long-cherished impersonalism. Thus the fourKumaras were turned into Vait:avas simply by smelling the aromatic tulasi mixedwith saffron. Those who are actually on the platform of Brahman realization andwho have not offended the lotus feet of Krt:a can immediately become 1Vait:avas simply by smelling the aroma of the Lord's lotus feet. However, thosewho are offenders or demons are never attracted to the Lord's personal feature,even though they may visit the Lord's temple many times. In Vrndavana we haveseen many MayavadT sannyasis who do not even come to the temple of GovindajT,GopTnatha or Madana-mohana because they think that such temples aremaya. Therefore they are called MayavadTs. SrT Krt:a Caitanya Mahaprabhutherefore said that the MayavadTs are the greatest offenders.TEXT 143i!