21. If everyone sat down together and carefully considered,
Then what nice preaching there could be.
Then what nice preaching there could be.
22. After all, that is Prabhupada's command—for all to join together
To do this preaching work, merged in your instructions.
To do this preaching work, merged in your instructions.
23. If you simply imitate, there will be the opposite result,
For as long as you try like that, there will be failure.
For as long as you try like that, there will be failure.
24. Now all of you are returning here on his order to worship him on his Vyäsa-püjä day
All together you are engaged in His worship.
All together you are engaged in His worship.
25. But a festival of flowers and fruits is not the real worship:
One who serves the guru's message really worships him.
One who serves the guru's message really worships him.
26. The service of the message is the real transcendental vibration.
Don't be falsely proud, brother; come back to that.
Don't be falsely proud, brother; come back to that.
27. Kalidäsa Nag, that Master Masay,
One day said in the public assembly,
One day said in the public assembly,
28. That Kali-yuga's mission was killing the whole world
And Lord Caitanya's message is locked in a cage.
And Lord Caitanya's message is locked in a cage.
29. Oh shame! Brother, aren't you at all embarrassed
Behaving like businessmen to increase your followers?
Behaving like businessmen to increase your followers?
30. Our master has said to preach;
Let the neophytes go in the temples to do nothing but ring bells.
Let the neophytes go in the temples to do nothing but ring bells.
Alternate Translation
21. If everyone simply sat down together and considered these things what nice preaching there could be.
22. What is your order also, that everyone, coming together, should merge in your message and preach it to the world.
23. If everyone just initiates then there will only be a contradictory result. As long as it goes on, there will be only failure.
24. Now even, my God brothers, you return here to the order of our master, and together we engage in his puja.
25. But simply a festival of flowers and fruits does not constitute worship. The one who serves the message of the guru really worships him.
26. The service of the message is the real meaning of the Vedas. Don't be proud, brothers, Come back to this.
27. Kalidas nag (a learned man who was defeated by Srila Saraswati Thakura and later became his disciple), that master said in public forum one day.
28. That Kali's mission was to kill the entire world while the essential meaning of Lord Chaitanya's message was kept locked up in a cage.
29. O shame! My dear brothers aren't you embarrassed? In the manner of businessmen you increase your disciples.
30. Our master said to preach. Let the neophytes stay in the temples and ring the bells.