CC Madhya 2.93
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 93
- choṭa baḍa bhakta-gaṇa, vandoṅ sabāra śrī-caraṇa,
- sabe more karaha santoṣa
- svarūpa-gosāñira mata, rūpa-raghunātha jāne yata,
- tāi likhi’ nāhi mora doṣa
SYNONYMS
choṭa — small; baḍa — great; bhakta-gaṇa — devotees; vandoṅ — I worship; sabāra — all of them; śrī-caraṇa — the lotus feet; sabe — all of you; more — unto me; karaha — please do; santoṣa — satisfaction; svarūpa-gosāñira mata — the view of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī; rūpa-raghunātha — Rūpa and Raghunātha; jāne — know; yata — all; tāi — that; likhi’ — writing; nāhi — there is not; mora — my; doṣa — fault.
TRANSLATION
I worship herewith the lotus feet of all kinds of devotees, both advanced and neophyte. I request all of them to be satisfied with me. I am faultless because I have written herein whatever I have understood from Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rūpa and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmīs. I have neither added to nor subtracted from their version.
PURPORT
According to Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, there are three kinds of devotees, known as bhajana-vijña (experts in devotional service), bhajana-śīla (devotees engaged in devotional service), and kṛṣṇa-nāme dīkṣita kṛṣṇa-nāma-kārī (initiated devotees engaged in chanting). The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta begs the mercy of all these devotees and asks them to be pleased with him. He says, “Let the neophyte devotees—the devotees who are very expert in arguing though they have no sense of advanced devotional service, who think themselves very advanced because they imitate some smārta-brāhmaṇa—let such devotees not be displeased with me, thinking that I have committed errors in this regard. I beg their pardon with great humility, but I am submitting that I personally have no desire to add or subtract anything. I have only written what I have heard in the disciplic succession because I am dedicated to the lotus feet of previous ācāryas like Svarūpa Dāmodara, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī and Rūpa Gosvāmī. I have only written what I have learned from them.”