sabe eka doá¹£a tÄra, haya pÄpÄcÄra
pÄpa-rÄÅ›i dahe nÄmÄbhÄsei tomÄra

 sabe - in all; eka - one only; doá¹£a - fault; tÄra - of them; haya - they are; pÄpa-ÄcÄra - attached to sinful activities; pÄpa-rÄÅ›i - volumes of sinful activities; dahe - become burned; nÄma-ÄbhÄsei - simply by the dim reflection of chanting the holy name; tomÄra - of Your Lordship.


Text

“JagÄi and MÄdhÄi had but one fault — they were addicted to sinful activity. However, volumes of sinful activity can be burned to ashes simply by a dim reflection of the chanting of Your holy name.

Purport

ÅšrÄ«la RÅ«pa GosvÄmÄ« and SanÄtana GosvÄmÄ« presented themselves as being lower than the two brothers JagÄi and MÄdhÄi, who were delivered by ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu. When RÅ«pa and SanÄtana compared themselves to JagÄi and MÄdhÄi, they found themselves inferior because the Lord had no trouble in delivering two drunken brothers. This was so because, despite the fact that they were addicted to sinful activity, in other ways their life was brilliant. They belonged to the brÄhmaṇa caste of NavadvÄ«pa, and such brÄhmaṇas were pious by nature. Although they had been addicted to some sinful activities due to bad association, those unwanted things could vanish simply because of the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. Another point for JagÄi and MÄdhÄi was that, as members of a brÄhmaṇa family, they did not accept service under anyone. The Å›Ästras strictly forbid a brÄhmaṇa to accept service under anyone. The idea is that by accepting a master, one accepts the occupation of a dog. In other words, a dog cannot thrive without having a master, and for the sake of pleasing the master, dogs offend many people. They bark at innocent people just to please the master. Similarly, when one is a servant, he has to perform abominable activities according to the orders of the master. Therefore, when Dabira KhÄsa and SÄkara Mallika compared their position to that of JagÄi and MÄdhÄi, they found JagÄi’s and MÄdhÄi’s position far better. JagÄi and MÄdhÄi never accepted the position of serving a low-class person, nor were they forced to execute abominable activities under the order of a low-class master. JagÄi and MÄdhÄi chanted the name of ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu by way of blasphemy, but because they simply chanted His name, they immediately became free from the reactions of sinful activities. Thus later they were saved.