Volume 7 - Prabhupada

80 Sri Caitanya-caritam!'fa [Madhya-lila, Ch. 17SYNONYMSbhari bojha-heavy load; /ana-bearing; ai/ar'la-1 came; kemane-how; lanayaba-shalll take it back; a/pa-svalpa-malya-a fraction of the real price; paileifI get; ethai -here; veciba-1 shall sell.TRANSLATION"I have brought a heavy load to sell in this city. To take it back again is avery difficult job; therefore if I get but a fraction of the price, I shall sell it herein this city of Kasi."PURPORTSri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was selling the transcendental holy name of the Lord.However, Kasi was a city of Mayavadis (impersonalists), and such people willnever chant the holy names of the Hare Krl)a maha-mantra. Consequently SriCaitanya Mahaprabhu was feeling disappointed. How could He teach theMayavadis the importance of chanting the Hare Krl)a maha-mantra? The attractionfor chanting the holy name of the Lord belongs absolutely to pure devotees,and there was no possibility of finding pure devotees at Kasi. Consequently SriCaitanya Mahaprabhu's commodity was certainly very heavy. The Lord thereforesuggested that even though there were no pure devotees in Kasi, if someone wasa little inclined to chant the Hare Krl)a mantra, He would deliver this big load, althoughthe proper price was not paid.Actually we experienced this when we came to preach the Hare Krl)a movementin the West. When we came to New York in 1965, we never expected thatthe Hare Krl)a maha-mantra would be accepted in this country. Nonetheless, weinvited people to our storefront to join in chanting the Hare Krl)a mantra, and theLord's holy name is so attractive that simply by coming to our storefront in NewYork, fortunate young people became Krl)a conscious. Although this mission wasstarted with insignificant capital, it is now going nicely. The spreading of the HareKrl)a maha-mantra in the West has become successful because the young peoplewere not offenders. The youths who joined this movement were not very advancedas far as purity was concerned, nor were they very well educated in Vedicknowledge, but because they were not offenders, they could accept the importanceof the Hare Krl)a movement. We are now very happy to see that thismovement is advancing more and more in the Western countries. We thereforeconclude that the so-called m/ecchas and yavanas of the Western countries aremore purified than offensive Mayavadis or atheistic impersonalists.TEXT 146t.fli! !if' r; 111l'ftQf ' I ' 'llt_1 fii'li ,)fir II 8 II