ká¹›pÄ kara, prabhu, more, yÄá¹… tomÄ-saá¹…ge
sahite nÄ pÄri duḥkha viá¹£aya-taraá¹…ge'

 ká¹›pÄ kara - kindly show favor; prabhu - O my Lord; more - unto me; yÄá¹… - I go; tomÄ-saá¹…ge - with You; sahite nÄ pÄri - I cannot tolerate; duḥkha - the troubles; viá¹£aya-taraá¹…ge - in the waves of materialistic life.


Text

The brÄhmaṇa begged Lord Caitanya MahÄprabhu, “My dear Lord, kindly show me favor and let me go with You. I can no longer tolerate the waves of misery caused by materialistic life.â€

Purport

This statement is applicable for everyone, regardless of how rich or prosperous one may be. Narottama dÄsa ṬhÄkura has confirmed this statement: saá¹sÄra-viá¹£Änale, divÄ-niÅ›i hiyÄ jvale. He states that the materialistic way of life causes a burning in the heart. One cannot make any provisions for the troublesome life of the material world. It is a fact that one may be very happy as far as riches are concerned and one may be very opulent in every respect, yet one has to manage the viá¹£ayas to meet the demands of the body and of so many family members and subordinates. One has to take so much trouble to minister to others. Narottama dÄsa ṬhÄkura therefore prays: viá¹£aya chÄá¸iyÄ kabe Å›uddha ha’be mana. Thus one must become freed from the materialistic way of life. One has to merge himself in the ocean of transcendental bliss. In other words, one cannot relish transcendental bliss without being freed from the materialistic way of life. It appears that the brÄhmaṇa named KÅ«rma was materially very happy, for he expressed his family tradition as janma-kula-dhana. Now, being glorious, he wanted to leave all these material opulences. He wanted to travel with ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu. According to the Vedic way of civilization, one should leave his family after attaining fifty years of age and go to the forest of Vá¹›ndÄvana to devote the rest of his life to the service of the Lord.