Ataeva Tāṇra Nahe ‘nirjana Bhajana’
ataeva tāṇra nahe ‘nirjana-bhajana’
kaniṣṭha-adhikāra ei jagat-vañcana
ataeva-therefore; tāṅra-his; nahe-is not; nirjana-bhajana-worship soley for ones own benefit; kaniṣṭha-adhikāra-the first stage service only; ei-this; jagat-vañcana-cheating the whole universe.
Therefore the real devotees of the Lord do not perform the so-called solitary worship of the Lord but always stay active in the saṅkīrtan movement of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. It is a cheating process of the kaniṣṭha adhikāri - the neophte or materialistic devotees of the Lord - to fool the world into believing that they are exalted devotees of the Lord.
baḍa baḍa nāmajādā vaiṣṇava-sajjāya
pādrī sāheb āsi’ mile saba tāya
baḍa baḍa-very big; nāmajāda-famous; vaiṣṇava-sajjāya-in the dress of the devotee; pādri-Christian priest; sāheb-gentleman; āsi-coming; mile-joined; saba-all; tāya-with them.
They present themselves as great famous devotees of the Lord and decorate themselves with all the neccessary trappings and paraphernalia to look like a big devotee. But what do they do when the “Father” Christian missionary comes to the land of Kṛṣṇa and visits with all the people…
puchila śrī kṛṣṇalīlā vṛndāvana-mājha
nā bhujāla tā’re tattva vaiṣṇava-samāja
puchila-asked; śrī kṛṣṇalīlā-about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa; vṛndāvana-mājha-within vṛndāvana; nā-did not; bhujāla-let understand; tāre-to him; tattva-the actual truth; vaiṣṇava-samāja-the society of vaiṣṇavas.
…and asks what are the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa performed in the sacred land of vṛndāvana? Because the society of neophytes did not explain the real nature of Lord Kṛṣṇa to this “Father”, he gets the wrong understanding due to his poor fund of knowledge, and thus engages in blasphemy to the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
kaniṣṭha-adhikārī saba śāstra nāhi bhujhe
nirjane bhajanae śudhu ruti-cānā khuṅje
kaniṣṭha-adhikāri-neophte; saba-all; śāstra-scripture; nāhi bhujhe-do not understand; nirjane bhajanae-worship in a lonely place; śudhu-only; ruti-cānā-capatis and chick peas; khuṅje-look for.
Actually these neophyte kaniṣṭha adhikāri devotees of the Lord don’t understand the conclusions of the revealed scriptures at all. For one engaged in their so-called renunciation, to perform some “advanced private worship”, all their activities reveal is a day today struggle for finding some capatis and dhal (bread and soup), and nothing more.
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