Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
CC - Antya 4.79 - When Sanatana Gosvami was diseased and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu would embrace him, Sanatana would feel very guilty that his diseased body, which was wet due to infected sores, was touched by the Lord. So he decided to end his life by throwing himself under lord Jagannatha's cart during the Ratha-yatra. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, being the omniscient Lord, rebuked Sanatana, who said,
"I am lowborn. Indeed, I am the lowest. I am condemned, for I have all the characteristics of a sinful man. If You keep me alive, what will be the profit?"
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Your body is My property. You have already surrendered unto Me. Therefore you no longer have any claim to your body. Why should you want to destroy another's property? Can't you consider what is right and wrong? Your body is My principal instrument for executing many necessary functions. By your body I shall carry out many tasks. You shall have to ascertain the basic principles of a devotee, devotional service, love of Godhead, Vaisnava duties, and Vaisnava characteristics. You will also have to explain Krsna's devotional service, establish centers for cultivation of love of Krsna, excavate lost places of pilgrimage, and teach people how to adopt the renounced order.
"Mathura-Vrndavana is My own very dear abode. I want to do many things there to preach Krsna consciousness. By the order of My mother I am sitting here in Jagannatha Puri; therefore, I cannot go to Mathura-Vrndavana to teach people how to live there according to religious principles. I have to do all this work through your body, but you want to give it up. How can I tolerate this?"
At that time Sanatana Gosvami said to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, "I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. No one can understand the deep ideas You plan within Your heart. A wooden doll chants and dances according to the direction of a magician but does not know how he is dancing and singing. My dear Lord, as You cause one to dance, he dances accordingly, but how he dances and who is causing him to dance he does not know."
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu then said to Haridasa Thakura, "My dear Haridasa, please hear Me. This gentleman wants to destroy another's property. One who is entrusted with another's property does not distribute it or use it for his own purposes. Therefore, tell him not to do such an unlawful thing."
Haridasa Thakura replied, "We are falsely proud of our capabilities. Actually we cannot understand Your deep intentions. Unless You inform us, we cannot understand what Your purpose is or what You want to do through whom. My dear Sir, since You, a great personality, have accepted Sanatana Gosvami, he is greatly fortunate; no one can be as fortunate as he."
Thus Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu embraced both Haridasa Thakura and Sanatana Gosvami and then got up and left to perform His noon duties.
Note:
Mahaprabhu is driving the point that once we surrender then our body becomes Lords Property and therefore we have no claim over it. Mahaprabhu says " Your body is My principal instrument for executing many necessary functions. By your body I shall carry out many tasks".
I have to do all this work through your body, but you want to give it up. How can I tolerate this?"
Mahaprabhu said Haridas Thakura "My dear Haridasa, please hear Me. This gentleman wants to destroy another's property. One who is entrusted with another's property does not distribute it or use it for his own purposes. Therefore, tell him not to do such an unlawful thing."
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