Sri Navadvipa Sataka
by Srila Prabhodananda Sarasvati
(Translation by Kusakratha Dasa)
Text 1: By hearing of Him, meditating on Him, and performing many other activities, let us worship Lord Kṛṣṇa who, His complexion now splendid as gold, overcome with ecstatic love, intently engaged in kīrtana, surrounded by His associates playing mṛdaṅgas and other musical instruments, worshiped by all, removing the contamination of Kali-yuga, and giving happiness to the devotees, has now appeared in Navadvīpa.
Text 2: I offer my respectful obeisances to Navadvīpa, the blissful spiritual abode the Chāndogya Upaniṣad says is a spiritual city, the Smṛti-śāstra says is the abode of Lord Viṣṇu, others say is Śvetadvīpa, a devotee expert at tasting transcendental nectar is the forest of Vraja.
Text 3: When, as I wander in Navadvīpa’s forests, will I fall unconscious as I suddenly see wonderful, youthful Lord Gaura jubilantly dancing with His associates?
Text 4: May scriptures where the very wonderful glory of Lord Gaurāṅga’s city is not heard never enter my ears. May wretched people who do not become joyful when Māyāpura’s glory enters their ears never come to speak to me or even enter the path of my eyes.
Text 5: Enough! Enough with the happiness of staying among women she-asses! Enough! Enough with wealth, children, scholarship, and fame! Enough! Enough with the troubles of many kinds of spiritual practice! Take shelter of Antardvīpa and become fortunate!
Text 6: The home of Lord Gaura’s youthful pastimes, Śrī Māyāpura, where the ground is soft, there is a great splendor of many jewels, there are wonderful sounds of many birds and animals, and there are wonderful trees and vines with many flowers, is my life and soul.
Text 7 (Godrumadvīpa): Millions on millions of cintāmaṇi jewels may meet together in some other place. Lord Hari may personally appear in some other place before everyone’s eyes. Still, my body darkened with Godruma’s dust will never go to any other place.
Text 8 (Madhyadvīpa): May the Lord’s wonderful pastimes in Madhyadvīpa be kind to me. May Brahma-kuṇḍa and the other sacred places there be kind to me, a fool. May the kalpa-vallī vine of the kindness of He who is everyone’s friend and who plays in Madhyadvīpa at midday, bear its fruits.
Text 9 (Koladvīpa): All glories, all glories to Koladvīpa’s forests, which stand by the Ganges’ shore, which are worshiped by the leaders of the demigods and which are filled with the wonderful opulences of many birds, beasts, trees, vines, groves, lakes, ponds, open land, hills, and flowing streams!
Text 10 (Rudradvīpa and Modadrumadvīpa): O feet, please walk in Rudradvīpa! O eyes, please gaze at Modadrumadvīpa’s beauty! O tongue, please chant what the ears have heard of the glories of Lord Gaura’s sacred places! O tongue, please smell the sweet fragrance of Lord Gaura’s forest! O limbs, your hairs erect in ecstatic joy, please roll on the ground in the places of Lord Gaura’s transcendental pastimes!
Text 11: May my heart cling to the wonderfully sweet ocean of nectar in Navadvīpa forest, the path to which the Vedas together cannot find, and the slightest scent of which cannot be found even by wandering again and again through the length and breadth of the universe.
Text 12: May the Gauḍa forest, which is Lord Hari’s supreme abode, which is filled with surging currents from the ocean of splendid and passionate transcendental love, which is filled with the bliss of Lord Rādhikāramaṇa’s sweet pastimes, and which was sweetly founded by Śrī Rādhā, who is worshiped by all the worlds, shine in my heart.
Text 13 (Jahnudvīpa): I pray that birth after birth I may be a clump of grass in the land of Jahnudvīpa, which is worshiped even by the king of the demigods. That would be my joy.
Text 14 (Sīmantadvīpa): They who are ardently devoted to the flower-petal feet of Śrī Rādhā’s beloved, whose entire lives are spent in carefully following transcendental religious principles, who always serve the dust of the Vaiṣṇavas’ feet, who touch the highest point of renunciation, and whose hearts are plunged in the nectar of divine love, find very far away Śrī Rādhā’s merciful glance, which is very quickly and easily found at Sīmantadvīpa.
Text 15: In the sweet nectar ocean of pure, undivided love, on an island of the Lord who is Śacī’s son, Vṛndāvana is manifest. There, tossed by pure love for each other, the sweet divine couple enjoys transcendental pastimes day and night. One who stays there enters a condition of life that is full of nectar.
Text 16 (Godrumadvīpa): I do not know whether I shall be able to meditate on Lord Mādhava’s two lotus feet. Am I qualified to follow the path of Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Śrī Nārada Muni, and the other great saints? Still, whether I meet good or ill, the beautiful forest of Godruma, where Śrīmatī Rādhā enjoys transcendental pastimes, is my life and soul.
Text 17: Will I attain Lord Rādhāpati’s sweet abode named Navadvīpa? Its boundary the Vedas cannot touch. It is a secret festival of the greatest transcendental bliss. Śiva, Brahmā, and the other demigods do not know even a single drop of its nectar.
Text 18 (Godrumadvīpa): If my body is torn to pieces, or if hosts of terrible calamities fall on me, Oh! Oh! Oh! Still I will never thirst to leave Śrī Godruma and go to those other, insignificant places.
Text 19: When, hungrily eating naturally fallen leaves as if they were ambrosia, thirstily drinking handsfull of the Ganges’ pure water, and my heart plunged in nectar as I gaze at the place where sweet Lord Rādhikāramaṇa enjoyed the pastime of the rāsa dance, will I reside in Lord Gaura’s forest?
Text 20: One who is firmly determined to stay in Navadvīpa until the end of his body, has already performed all kinds of devotional service. The greatest and most wonderful of all goals of life rests in his hand. His feet are on everyone’s head. Brahmā and the demigods bow down before him.
Text 21: Offer your respectful obeisances to the forest of Navadvīpa which, by giving them the sweet nectar of wild spiritual love, delights its birds, beasts, trees, and vines.
Text 22: A devotee may be proud to become successful by practicing pure devotional service in some other place. We do not think he is successful. We shall always take shelter of Vṛndāvana, which is very dear to Śrī Śrī Rādhikā-Mādhava.
Text 23: Now that I, who am a reservoir of faults, who have not the slightest virtue, and who am the lowest of all but who still hankers for what is very difficult to attain, have come to Lord Gaura’s forest, the seed from which the most splendid devotional service grows, will I become successful?
Text 24: Lord Gaurāṅga’s forest, where the name “Rādhā”, the sweetest part of shoreless nectar ocean of pure and splendid divine love, shines, is the only goal of my life.
Text 25: One who never performs any spiritual activities, but who has wholeheartedly taken shelter of Navadvīpa, will attain the great festival of the nectar of pure love for Śrī Rādhā’s beloved.
Text 27 — She is not my mother, he is not my father, he is not my relative, he is not my friend, he is not my well-wisher, and he is not my guru, who does not wish me to reside in Śrīmatī Rādhā’s forest of Navadvīpa.
Text 28 (Godrumadvīpa) — For sinful me what is as auspicious as staying in the land of Godruma until this body ends? Will I then touch the flood of splendor flowing from the feet of the beautiful divine couple that enjoys newer and newer transcendental pastimes?
Text 29 — When, manifesting a spiritual body, will I reside in Lord Gaurāṅga’s city, where all the moving and stationary living entities eternally shine with the splendor of intensely blissful spiritual forms, and which they, whose eyes are blinded by māyā, misunderstand with a host of faulty ideas?
Text 30 — Take shelter of Lord Gaurāṅga’s city where, unseen by the unintelligent, all living entities and even all things are blissful, eternal, spiritual, and full of knowledge.
Text 31 — They who attribute faults to the blissful moving and stationary living entities in Navadvīpa are offenders. How can they attain Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava?
Text 32 — They who relish blaspheming the residents of Lord Gaura’s sacred place, they who will not glorify Māyāpura, and the fools that somehow think Godruma like other places, cannot attain eternal, blissful spiritual forms in Modadruma. I pray that even in dreams I may never come near these sinful people, the lowest of men.
Text 33 — He who, rejecting others’ wealth, others’ wives, hatred, envy, greed, dishonesty, cruelty, violence, and lying words, becomes devoted to the holy abode of Navadvīpa, will not be frustrated in his desire to stay in Vṛndāvana.
Text 34 — Do everything that opposes religious principles, reject all religious duties, and abandon your guru in order to reside in Gauḍāraṇya. That is your supreme religious duty. That is devotion to your guru. Your sins are whatever stops you from residing in Gauḍāraṇya.
Text 35 — When his body ends, he who stays in Gauḍāraṇya’s abode of Navadvīpa, which is filled with wonderful, limitless mercy, will attain perfection.Text 36 — Fools, the paths of the world and the Vedas will bring you only trouble! Give up everything and make yourself a leaf-hut in Śrī Godruma in Gauḍa-deśa!
Text 37 — Let the scriptures talk, let the people accept whatever they wish, let the foolish establish whatever theories they like—our hearts will never leave the forest where Lord Kṛṣṇa, in the form of the nectar of splendid and pure love, enjoyed pastimes of Śrī Rādhā.
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Text 39 — I praise sweet Māyāpura, where a dabbler who walks down many paths at once, a fool, one who has rejected his proper religious duty, an independent person who will not follow the rules of the scriptures, a person who has not the slightest scent of the touch of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and who lives there only out of lust and greed, all attain the supreme destination.
Text 40 — A bewildered fool cannot understand Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma, which is hidden from all the Vedas, and which is the place where one may attain the ultimate happiness of devotional service, the highest of all happinesses in this world.
Text 41 —To demigod-worshipers, to those rapt in the imperishable impersonal Brahman, and even to animal-like persons intent only on enjoying their senses, by its own inconceivable powers the forest of Koladvīpa gives the rare and secret nectar of love for Śrī Śrī Rādhikā-Mādhava.
Text 42 —When, taking shelter of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s feet, will I see Śrī Godruma’s wonderful form, a millionth part of which the Vedas cannot touch, the yogīs cannot understand, the great souls headed by Lakṣmī, Śiva, Brahmā, Śukadeva, Arjuna, and Uddhava cannot see and, what to speak of others, even the Vrajavāsīs cannot see?
Text 43 —O Gaura, O Lord who enjoys pastimes with Śrī Rādhā in Rādhāvana, please forcibly drag my heart, now tightly bound with hundreds of ropes of wicked desires, to Your lotus feet.
Text 44 —I cannot subdue my senses at all. I have no virtues. A host of faults always enters me. Where shall I go? What shall I do? Alas! Alas! No mercy is shown to me! O Lord, please give me residence in Navadvīpa, my only home.
Text 45 —My noble birth, wealth, and even my life-breath, may all perish. My good reputation may wither and die. My religious principles may run to destruction. Everyone may always mistreat me. My body may wither away with hundreds of incurable diseases. Still, my heart will never leave Lord Gaurāṅga’s city.
Text 46 —I bow down to offer my respects to they who know that within or without the material world there is nothing as sweet as Lord Gaura’s forest.
Text 47 —All glories to Lord Gaura’s Gauḍa-deśa forest which, splendid with tilaka decorations, clothed in white garments of the Ganges’ waters, splendid with the glory of blossoming campaka flowers, glorious with many kinds of nectar, and charming with the sweet nectar of pure love for Lord Kṛṣṇa, is very dear to Śrī Jagannātha-miśra’s son!
Text 48 —Who will not take shelter of wonderful, blissful Navadvīpa, where millions of glorious kalpavṛkṣa trees are embraced by the sweet vines of pure bhakti that are their wives, and where Brahmapura and all other holy places shine with great splendor?
Text 49 —As much as they speak ill of residing in Navadvīpa, to that extent they will not understand the secret of pure spontaneous love for Lord Govinda’s lotus feet in Vṛndāvana, the root from which the Lord’s pastimes of love sprout.
Text 50 —Again and again remembering the person dark as a new monsoon cloud who is embraced by Śrī Rādhā, Her transcendental form like a vine splendid as millions of lightning flashes, a certain saintly devotee, his mouth fill with loud, urgent, very sweet prayers, and pure devotional love rising within him, wanders in Lord Gaura’s sacred places.
Text 52 — The secret of pure devotional service rests in they who take shelter of Lord Gaura’s sacred place, where my Lord Hari, His transcendental form filled with the nectar of splendid divine love, assumes the role of Śrī Rādhā.
Text 53 — If the people speak unbearable insults to me as if I were a caṇḍāla or a dog or an ass, then I do not feel unhappy as I stay in the nine islands of Navadvīpa, where the nine processes of loving devotional service, beginning with hearing about Lord Kṛṣṇa and culminating in surrendering one’s life and heart to Him, shine with great glory.
Text 54 — O brother, give up all your spiritual practices and take shelter of Lord Gaura’s sacred place. As you desire, so your body, words, and heart will act.
Text 55 — With a bowl in hand we go begging even on the paths to the houses of the dogeaters in beautiful Navadvīpa. We pray that we will never take this body, attained by many past pious deeds, to any other place.
Text 56 — When, wearing a kaupīna and one old cloth, day and night singing of the waves of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Madhupati’s confidential pastimes, and at the end of the day eating a fruit or a root, will I spend this lifetime in the forest of Navadvīpa?
Text 57 — Above the material nature, in the ocean of happiness that is the Supreme Brahman splendor, is the Spiritual Sky, the Supreme Abode glorified in the Vedas. Within the Spiritual Sky the circle of Gauḍa-bhūmi is glorious with all splendor. There gaze on the forest of Vṛndāvana.
Text 58 — Even though staying there himself, he who commits the offense of thinking that the residents of Gaura-sthala do not have spiritual forms of eternity, bliss, and knowledge, will not attain the supreme abode.
Text 59 — When one understands that the moving and unmoving residents of Navadvīpa have forms of eternal spiritual nectar, then he becomes a genuine servant of Śrī Rādhā’s beloved.
Text 60 — Wandering in Navadvīpa is the best of all opulences, the best of all religious principles, the best of all kinds of worship, the best of all perfections, the best of all glories, and the best of all oceans of sweetness.
Text 61 — When, singing, dancing, laughing, rolling about on the ground, running, crying, or falling down unconscious, will I, blind with intoxication by drinking the nectar of great spiritual love, and oblivious to the world, wander in Navadvīpa?
Text 62 — When, oblivious to the world, religious duties, home, body, insults, praise, pleasure, and pain, and intoxicated with the nectar of pure spiritual love, will I become like a madman in Lord Gaura’s sacred abode?
Text 63 — When, chanting the siddha-mantra of very wonderful names beginning “Hare, Kṛṣṇa, and Rāma,” will I, serving Vraja’s divine couple day and night in Lord Gaura’s sacred abode, attain the success of my life?
Text 64 — I meditate on wonderful Gaura-sthala splendid with gold, crystal, and rubies, with great sapphire trees, with courtyards made of many kinds of jewels, with buzzing bees, with blossoming vines, with wonderful parrots, peacocks, cuckoos, and other birds, and with lakes filled with lotuses and other flowers.
Text 65 (Madhyadvīpa) — When, wandering day and night through the valleys of Madhyadvīpa, on the pathways through the various pastime forest-groves, through groves of newly-blossoming kadamba trees, and through the beautiful places of the rāsa-dance pastimes, will I become fortunate, intimate spiritual love for the divine couple shining within me?
Text 66 — What is the use of a beautiful young wife, children, and wealth, which give only temporary happiness? I offer my respectful obeisances to the beauty of Vaikuṇṭha. I pray that birth after birth I may be devoted to the forest where Vrajendra’s son, who has now assumed the complexion of Śrī Rādhikā, enjoys splendid transcendental pastimes.
Text 67 (Godrumadvīpa) — With my head I bow down before Godruma. With my words I speak about Godruma. With my intelligence I remember Godruma. I do not know anything but Śrī Godruma.
Text 68 — I long for the pollen of the lotus feet of they whose life and soul is Śrī Gaura-sthala, the root that sprouts love for Lord Rādhāpati.
Text 69 — O beloved, when will I meditate on You in Gaura-sthala, which is filled with many pastime forest pavilions, delightful with many lakes and ponds, beautiful with trees, vines, and bushes everywhere and with many kinds of joyful birds and beasts, and is glorious with many splendid pastime-places?
Text 70 — When, with a faltering voice, will I glorify Lord Mādhava’s holy names? When will I muddy the ground under a tree with streams of tears flowing from my eyes? When, excited at heart, will I take shelter of the two golden and sapphire splendors that have become one before my eyes in Gaura-sthala?
Text 71 — I will not talk of anything else. I will not hear of anything else. I will not meditate on anything else. I will not go anywhere else. I will not worship anything else. I will not take shelter of anything else. In dream or awake I will not see anything but the forest where He who accepted Śrī Rādhikā’s splendor enjoyed pastimes.
Text 72 — My heart does not yearn to become a Lord Brahmā on Satyaloka, nor does it seek the body of an associate of Lord Viṣṇu in Vaikuṇṭha, but it does think very highly of any birth, even as a tiny insect, in the home of the fortunate souls that enjoy festivals of sweet nectar in the pure realm of Navadvīpa.
Text 73 — I think any birth where, even from a distance, I may gaze at Navadvīpa, touch it, and fall down on the ground to offer respects to it, is very fortunate. Will the fortunate day that I take such a birth ever come?
Text 74 — Although I have not the slightest fragrance of faith in the exalted glory of Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma, and although I do not sincerely yearn to live there, nevertheless words like that flow from me.
Text 75 — This mostly unconscious world and even they who think they know everything cannot know the truth about Navadvīpa. When carefully concealed Lord Hari appears, then His concealed abode also appears. Only a sincere devotee, by his guru’s mercy, can know the truth of Navadvīpa.
Text 76 — When, as I wander in Navadvīpa’s forests, will I fall unconscious, suddenly seeing Lord Gaura chanting Hari! Rāma! Hari! in a kīrtana in a sandy courtyard?
Text 77 — When, eating ripe fruits fallen to the ground and drinking the delicious river-water, will I wander in the forests by the Ganges’ shore?
Text 78 — If you worship Navadvīpa, then you also worship the forest of Vraja. If you don’t worship Navadvīpa, then the forest of Vraja is far away. If you worship Lord Caitanya, then you also worship the hero of Vraja. If you don’t worship Lord Caitanya, then you cannot worship Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Text 79 — Navadvīpa is Vṛndāvana manifested in the land of Bengal. Lord Caitanya, the son of Śacī, is Lord Kṛṣṇa, the greatest hero, the son of Vraja’s king. His complexion now golden with Rādhā’s splendor, He performs in Navadvīpa pastimes that even Vṛndāvana cannot attain.
Text 80 — They who chant “Hari! Hari! Hari!” in Vṛndāvana become free from all offenses and attain Vraja’s divine couple. In Navadvīpa, Lord Gaura forgives multitudes of sins and freely gives the sweet nectar of the bliss of Vraja.
Text 81 — One who lives in Navadvīpa holds Vraja in his hand. In any other place Vṛndāvana is like a far-away mirage.
Text 82 — To make Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes perfect, Navadvīpa embraces to its chest all of beautiful Vṛndāvana’s forests and gardens.
Text 83 — I offer my respectful obeisances to the pastimes of Lord Godrumacandra. I offer my respectful obeisances to the spiritual opulences of Gaura-sthala. I offer my respectful obeisances to they who have taken shelter of Lord Gaurāṅga’s feet. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Gaura, the incarnation of mercy.
Text 84 — O Lord Viśvambhara, O sweet Lord, O ocean of the treasure of divine love, O Nityānanda, O son of Padmāvatī, O Lord whose heart melts with compassion, O best friend of the fallen, O Advaita, O husband of Sītā, O master of all living entities moving and inert, O Lord who made Lord Gaura descend to this world, O Lord worshiped by Śrīvāsa and Gadādhara, You are the goal of my life! You are the goal of my life!
Text 85 — Let us glorify the boundlessly merciful Supreme Personality of Godhead, the prince of Vraja. To taste the intoxicating sweet waves of the nectar of transcendental love for Kṛṣṇa, as well as to give that nectar to others, He has now appeared in the transcendental abode of Navadvīpa as Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Text 86 — What is the use of studying many scriptures? What is the use of going on pilgrimage to holy places? Fear women who are like tigers! Spit on the opulences of Svargaloka! Know that all material benefits are as worthless as a handful of straw! Instead of chasing after them please take shelter of Lord Gaurānga, who is dressed in the garments of a sannyāsī, and who, intoxicated by tasting the nectar of Kṛṣṇa-prema, dances on the Ganges’ shore.
Text 87 — If your heart is set on crossing beyond the ocean of repeated birth and death, if your heart relishes the sweet nectar of Kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, and if your heart yearns to swim and sport in the ocean of pure love of Kṛṣṇa, then please reside in Māyāpura City.
Text 88 — The fortunate town of Navadvīpa remains on the earth. The Ganges remains. The same people still live here. The saintly devotees who have taken shelter of Lord Gaurāṅga’s feet remain. Alas! Alas! I do not see anywhere the same kind of festival of pure love for Lord Hari. O Lord Caitanya, O ocean of mercy, will I ever see Your transcendental glory again?
Text 89 — Let me offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Gaura’s transcendental abode which, whether seen, touched, glorified, remembered, bowed down to from afar, or worshiped, gives the nectar of pure love for Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Text 90 — They who follow the rules of varṇāśrama-dharma, worship the Deities, visit holy pilgrimage places, and study the Vedas, but do not reside in Lord Gaura’s dear abode, cannot understand the abode of Vṛndāvana, which is beyond the reach of the four Vedas.
Text 91 — Humbly thinking oneself lower than a blade of grass, natural gentleness and charm, speaking words sweet as nectar, spitting at the insignificant sense-gratification of this world, disinterest in the affairs of this world, and overwhelming love for Lord Hari are the transcendental virtues obtained by worshiping Lord Gaura’s transcendental abode in this world.
Text 92 — Worship millions of the most exalted spiritual masters if you wish! Study millions of Vedic scriptures if you wish! But know that it is they who yearn to reside in Lord Caitanyacandra’s transcendental city who will understand the great secret that is pure love for Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Text 93 — Now it is the age of Kali. My enemies, the senses, have become very strong. The splendid path of pure devotional service is blocked by millions of brambles. I am weak and agitated. Alas! Alas! Where can I go? O abode of Lord Caitanya, if now you will not give me your mercy, what shall I do?
Text 94 — I am tightly bound by chains of limitless horrible desires. I am addicted to millions of sins. My mind is filled with pain. Millions of wicked men mislead me. They are not my friends. Except for the holy abode of Gauḍa-maṇḍala, who is my friend in this world?
Text 95 — Alas! Alas! How will the desire creeper of pure devotional service sprout in the desert of my heart? In my heart there is only one hope. I shall reside in Lord Gaurāṅga’s holy abode. Then I shall never again lament.
Text 96 — I am chained by sinful desires. I have fallen into the painful ocean of repeated birth and death. The sharks and crocodiles of lust and anger are devouring me alive. I have no shelter. O holy abode of Lord Gaurāṅga, please be merciful to me.
Text 97 — His complexion as fair as molten gold, and His form filled with the splendid and blissful nectar of pure transcendental love, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has mercifully appeared in the town of Navadvīpa. In Navadvīpa every home celebrates great festivals in honor of Bhakti-devī, the goddess of devotion. Navadvīpa is sweeter than Vaikuṇṭha. My heart finds its happiness in the transcendental abode of Navadvīpa.
Text 98 — When, residing somewhere in Navadvīpa, my heart peaceful, filled with ecstatic love for the son of Śacī, meditating moment after moment on the transcendental pastimes of the divine couple in Vrajavana, and happy with the devotional service proper for me, will I see sweet Vṛndāvana forest everywhere?
Text 99 — When, wandering on the splendid Ganges’ shore, will I suddenly see the peerless, splendid, blissful, eternal, spiritual, beautiful, rare home of Jagannātha Miśra, Lord Śacīsūnu’s abode?
Text 100 — If I may reside in Godruma and the other places of Navadvīpa, and for this reason I consider the impersonalists of Vārāṇasī to be very unimportant, then why should I go on a pilgrimage ot Gayā to offer piṇḍā to the anscestors? If I live in Navadvīpa, and my personal liberation does not weigh even as heavily as a fraction of an ounce to me, then why should I be interested in material piety, economic development, and sense gratification? If I live in Navadvīpa and I have not the slightest fear of hell, then why should I be filled with anxiety over the well-being of my wife, children, friends, and relatives?
Text 101 — O foolish people, please seek the path of pure hari-bhakti, which even the great sages in ancient times could not find after long searching. If in your heart there is no faith, and if you think it is too difficult to attain, then please abandon all these misconceptions and take shelter of Lord Gaura’s city.
Text 102 — Because the two abodes (Navadvīpa and Vṛndāvana) are not different, in some of these 100 verses I have said that they are the same place. Still, in other verses I have specifically described the glories of Lord Gaurāṅga’s transcendental abode.