Volume 3 - Prabhupada Books

292 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 9
sei saba tirtha sparsi' maha-tirtha kaila
sei chale sei desera /aka nistarila
SYNONYMS
sei saba-all those; tirtha-holy places; sparsi'-touching; maha-tirtha-into
great places of pilgrimage; kaila-made them; sei chale-under that plea; sei
desera-of those countries; /aka-the people; nistarila-He delivered.
TRANSLATION
When the Lord visited all those holy places, He converted many thousands
of residents. Thus many people were delivered. Simply by touching the holy
places, He made them into great places of pilgrimage.
PURPORT
It is said: tirthi-kurvanti tirthani. A tirtha, or holy place, is a place where great
saintly personalities visit or reside. Although the holy places were already places
of pilgrimage, they. were all purified by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's visit. Many
people go to these holy places and leave their sinful activities there, thus becom­
ing free from contamination. When these contaminations pile up, they are coun­
teracted by the visit of great personalities like Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His
strict followers. Many kinds of patients come to a hospital, which may be infected
by many types of disease. Actually the hospital is always infected, but the expert
physician keeps the hospital sterilized by his expert presence and management.
Similarly, places of pilgrimage are always infected by the sins left by the sinners
who go there, but when a personality like Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu visits such a
place, all contaminations vanish.
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sei saba tirthera krama kahite na pari
dak?iQa-vame tirtha-gamana haya pherapheri
SYNONYMS
sei saba-all those; tirthera-of holy places; krama-the chronological order;
kahite-to tell of; na pari-1 am unable; dak?ioa-vame-left and right; tirtha­
gamana-visiting the holy places; haya-is; pherapheri-going and coming back.