sanÄtana kahe, — "bhÄla kailÄ upadeÅ›a
tÄhÄá¹… yÄba, sei mora 'prabhu-datta deÅ›a'"

 sanÄtana kahe - SanÄtana GosvÄmÄ« replied; bhÄla kailÄ upadeÅ›a - you have given good advice; tÄhÄá¹… yÄba - I shall go there; sei - that; mora - my; prabhu-datta - given by the Lord; deÅ›a - residential country.


Text

SanÄtana GosvÄmÄ« replied, “You have given me very good advice. I shall certainly go there, for that is the place the Lord has given me for my residence.â€

Purport

The words prabhu-datta deÅ›a are very significant. ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu’s devotional cult teaches one not to sit down in one place but to spread the devotional cult all over the world. The Lord dispatched SanÄtana GosvÄmÄ« and RÅ«pa GosvÄmÄ« to Vá¹›ndÄvana to excavate and renovate the holy places and from there establish the cult of bhakti. Therefore Vá¹›ndÄvana was given to SanÄtana GosvÄmÄ« and RÅ«pa GosvÄmÄ« as their place of residence. Similarly, everyone in the line of ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu’s devotional cult should accept the words of the spiritual master and thus spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. They should go everywhere, to all parts of the world, accepting those places as their prabhu-datta deÅ›a, the places of residence given by the spiritual master or Lord Kṛṣṇa. The spiritual master is the representative of Lord Kṛṣṇa; therefore one who has carried out the orders of the spiritual master is understood to have carried out the orders of Kṛṣṇa or ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu. ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu wanted to spread the bhakti cult all over the world (pá¹›thivÄ«te Äche yata nagarÄdi grÄma). Therefore devotees in the line of Kṛṣṇa consciousness must go to different parts of the world and preach, as ordered by the spiritual master. That will satisfy ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu.