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Can we preach with such love and conviction? In any case, what other hope

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"This country is mainly occupied by Muslims. At any place someone can create

a disturbance, and although Your companion Balabhadra Bhattacarya is a

learned scholar, he does not know how to speak the local language."

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Madhya 18.217

 

 

 

Madhya 18.186

The heart of that saintly person softened upon seeing Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. He wanted to talk to Him and establish impersonal Brahman on the

basis of his own scripture, the Koran.

Madhya 18.187

 

When that person tried to establish the impersonal Brahman conception of the

Absolute Truth on the basis of the Koran, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu refuted

his argument.

Madhya 18.188

 

TRANSLATION

Whatever arguments he put forward, the Lord refuted them all. Finally the

person became stunned and could not speak.

Madhya 18.189

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "The Koran certainly establishes

impersonalism, but at the end it refutes that impersonalism and establishes

the personal God.

Madhya 18.190

"The Koran accepts the fact that ultimately there is only one God. He is

full of opulence, and His bodily complexion is blackish.

PURPORT

The revealed scripture of the Muslims is the Koran. There is one Muslim

sampradaya known as the Sufis. The Sufis accept impersonalism, believing in

the oneness of the living entity with the Absolute Truth. Their supreme

slogan is "analahak." The Sufi sampradaya was certainly derived from

Sankaracarya's impersonalists.

Madhya 18.191

"According to the Koran, the Lord has a supreme, blissful, transcendental

body. He is the Absolute Truth, the all-pervading, omniscient and eternal

being. He is the origin of everything.

Madhya 18.192

"Creation, maintenance and dissolution come from Him. He is the original

shelter of all gross and subtle cosmic manifestations.

Madhya 18.193

"The Lord is the Supreme Truth, worshipable by everyone. He is the cause of

all causes. By engaging in His devotional service, the living entity is

relieved from material existence.

Madhya 18.194

TEXT 194

"No conditioned soul can get out of material bondage without serving the

Supreme Personality of Godhead. Love at His lotus feet is the ultimate goal

of life.

PURPORT

According to the Muslim scripture, without evadat, offering prayers at a

mosque or elsewhere five times daily (namaz), one cannot be successful in

life. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu pointed out that in the revealed scripture of

the Muslims, love of Godhead is the ultimate goal. Karma-yoga and jnana-yoga

are certainly described in the Koran, but ultimately the Koran states that

the ultimate goal is the offering of prayers to the Supreme Person (evadat).

Madhya 18.195

"The happiness of liberation, whereby one merges into the Lord's existence,

cannot even be compared to a fragment of the transcendental bliss obtained

by service unto the Lord's lotus feet.

Madhya 18.196

TEXT 196

"In the Koran there are descriptions of fruitive activity, speculative

knowledge, mystic power and union with the Supreme, but ultimately all this

is refuted and the Lord's personal feature established, along with His

devotional service.

Madhya 18.197

"The scholars of the Koran are not very advanced in knowledge. Although

there are many methods prescribed, they do not know that the ultimate

conclusion should be considered the most powerful.

Madhya 18.198

"Seeing your own Koran and deliberating over what is written there, what is

your conclusion?"

Madhya 18.199

TEXT 199

The saintly Muslim replied, "All that You have said is true. This has

certainly been written in the Koran, but our scholars can neither understand

nor accept it.

Madhya 18.200

"Usually they describe the Lord's impersonal aspect, but they hardly know

that the Lord's personal feature is worshipable. They are undoubtedly

lacking this knowledge.

PURPORT

The saintly Muslim admitted that those who were supposedly conversant in the

teachings of the Koran could not ultimately understand the essence of the

Koran. Because of this, they accepted only the Lord's impersonal feature.

Generally they recite and explain this portion only. Although the

transcendental body of the Lord is worshipable, most of them are unaware of

this.

Madhya 18.201

"Since You are that very same Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, please

be merciful upon me. I am fallen and unfit.

Madhya 18.202

"I have studied the Muslim scripture very extensively, but from it I cannot

conclusively decide what the ultimate goal of life is or how I can approach

it.

Madhya 18.203

"Now that I have seen You, my tongue is chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra.

The false prestige I felt from being a learned scholar is now gone."

Madhya 18.204

Saying this, the saintly Muslim fell at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu and requested Him to speak of life's ultimate goal and the

process by which it could be obtained.

Madhya 18.205

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Please get up. You have chanted the holy name

of Krsna; therefore the sinful reactions you have accrued for many millions

of lives are now gone. You are now pure."

Madhya 18.206

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu then told all the Muslims there, "Chant the holy

name of Krsna! Chant the holy name of Krsna!" As they all began to chant,

they were overwhelmed by ecstatic love.

Madhya 18.207

In this way Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu directly initiated the saintly Muslim by

advising him to chant the holy name of Krsna. The Muslim's name was changed

to Ramadasa. Another Pathana Muslim present there was named Vijuli Khan.

PURPORT

After being initiated, the devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement

change their names. Whenever a person in the Western world becomes

interested in this Krsna consciousness movement, he is initiated by this

process. In India we are falsely accused of converting mlecchas and yavanas

to the Hindu religion. In India there are many Mayavadi sannyasis known as

jagad-guru, although they have hardly visited the whole world. Some are not

even sufficiently educated, yet they make accusations against our movement

and accuse us of destroying the principles of the Hindu religion by

accepting Muslims and yavanas as Vaisnavas. Such people are simply envious.

We are not spoiling the Hindu system of religion but are simply following in

the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu by traveling all over the world and

accepting those who are interested in understanding Krsna as Krsnadasa or

Ramadasa. By the process of a bona fide initiation, their names are changed.

Madhya 18.208

Vijuli Khan was very young, and he was the son of the king. All the other

Muslims, or Pathanas, headed by Ramadasa, were his servants.

Madhya 18.209

Vijuli Khan also fell down at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and

the Lord placed His foot on his head.

Madhya 18.210

After bestowing His mercy upon them in this way, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

left. All those Pathana Muslims then became mendicants.

Madhya 18.211

Later these very Pathanas became celebrated as the Pathana Vaisnavas. They

toured all over the country and chanted the glorious activities of Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Madhya 18.212

Vijuli Khan became a greatly advanced devotee, and his importance was

celebrated at every holy place of pilgrimage.

Madhya 18.213

In this way Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu performed His pastimes. Coming to

the western part of India, He bestowed good fortune upon the yavanas and

mlecchas.

 

 

 

"This country is mainly occupied by Muslims. At any place someone can create

a disturbance, and although Your companion Balabhadra Bhattacarya is a

learned scholar, he does not know how to speak the local language."

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Madhya 18.217

 

 

 

 

The pastimes and methods of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are uncommon.

Unfortunate is he who cannot believe even after hearing all these things.

Madhya 18.226

TRANSLATION

>From beginning to end the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are uncommon.

Just hear them with faith and accept them as true and correct.

Madhya 18.227

Whoever argues about this is a great fool. He intentionally and personally

brings a thunderbolt down upon his head.

Madhya 18.228

The pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are an ocean of nectar. Even a drop

of this ocean can inundate the whole world with transcendental bliss.

Madhya 18.229

Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, always desiring

their mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, following in

their footsteps.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila,

Eighteenth Chapter, describing the Lord's visit to Sri Vrndavana and His

conversion of the Muslim soldiers on the way to Prayaga.

Madhya 19: Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Instructs Srila Rupa Gosvami

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Madhya 19: Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Instructs Srila

Rupa Gosvami