Volume 3 - Prabhupada Books

100 Sri Caitanya-caritam!1a [Madhya-lila, Ch. 8
TRANSLATION
"You have come here specifically to deliver me. You are so merciful that You
alone can deliver all fallen souls.
PURPORT
Srila Narottama dasa Thakura sings in his Prarthana (40):
sri-k[$f)a-caitanya-prabhu daya kara more,
toma vina ke dayalu jagat sarhsare
patita-pavana-hetu tava avatara,
mo-sama patita prabhu na paibe ara
"My dear Lord, please be merciful to me. Who can be more merciful than Your
Lordship within these three worlds? You appear as an incarnation just to reclaim
the conditioned, fallen souls, but I assure You that You will not find a soul more
fallen than me."
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's specific mission is to deliver fallen souls. Of course,
in this age of Kali there is hardly anyone who is not fallen according to the calcula­
tions of Vedic behavior. In His instructions to ROpa Gosvami, Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu described the so-called followers of Vedic religion in this way
(Madhya 19.146):
veda-ni$tha-madhye ardheka veda 'mukhe' mane
veda-ni$iddha papa kare, dharma nahi gaf)e
So-called followers of Vedic principles simply accept the Vedas formally, but
they act against Vedic principles. This is symptomatic of this age of Kali. People
claim to follow a certain type of religion, saying formally, "I am Hindu, I am
Muslim, I am Christian, I am this or that;' but actually no one follows the principles
enunciated in religious scriptures. This is the disease of this age. However, the
merciful Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has simply advised us to chant the Hare Kr�l)a
maha-mantra: harer nama harer nama harer nama eva keva/am. The Lord can
deliver anyone afld everyone, even though one may have fallen from the injunc­
tions of revealed scriptures. This is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's special mercy. Con­
sequently He is known as patita-pavana, the deliverer of all fallen souls.
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