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The Gosvāmīs, ideal. They left their comfortable position as ministers, went to Vṛndāvana, and became a mendicant.
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[[Vanisource:710220 - Lecture SB 06.03.27-28 - Gorakhpur|710220 - Lecture SB 06.03.27-28 - Gorakhpur]]:
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Only the ''bhagavat-prapannāḥ sādhus'', not others. ''Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 9.30 (1972)|BG 9.30]]). ''Api cet sudurācāraḥ''. ''Sādhu'', there is a word, ''sādhu'', means pious man. So pious man is he who is surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, ''bhagavat-prapannāḥ''. They are ''sādhavaḥ''. ''Sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇāḥ''. ''Sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇāḥ''. ''Ajāta-śatravaḥ'' . . .

''Suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām'', ''titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 3.25.21|SB 3.25.21]]). These are the symptoms of ''sādhavaḥ'', ''sādhus''. The first symptom is ''titikṣavaḥ'', very tolerant. In any condition they'll go on thinking of Kṛṣṇa, never mind what is happening externally. There may be so many dangerous things coming and going, but they cannot give up thinking of Kṛṣṇa. ''Titikṣavaḥ''. And ''kāruṇikāḥ''. ''Kāruṇikāḥ'' means very compassionate. Just like Gosvāmīs. ''Nānā-śāstra-vicāraṇaika-nipuṇau sad-dharma-saṁsthāpakau lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau'' (''Śrī Ṣaḍ Gosvāmy Aṣṭaka 3'').

The devotee's business is he's always thinking of how to do good to the people in general, how they will accept Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Simply twenty-four hours thinking, making plan. Therefore ''kāruṇikāḥ''. Although personally they are in so many inconveniences—tolerating. But that planning, Kṛṣṇa planning, is going on, ''kāruṇikāḥ'', how the people of the world will be happy. Titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ. Why they are planning like . . .? ''Suhṛdam sarva-bhūtānāṁ''. They are not selfish, "Now I have become Kṛṣṇa devotee, that's all right. Let others go to hell." No. They want to see that everyone becomes a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore they are real friend. That is, he is real friend.

''Lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau''. The Gosvāmīs, ideal. They left their comfortable position as ministers, went to Vṛndāvana and became a mendicant. ''Kaupīna-kanthāśritau''. ''Tyaktvā tūrṇam aśeṣa-maṇḍala-pati-śreṇīṁ sadā tucchavat''. Because they were ministers, their associates, their friends, their companions were all rich men, aristocratic. ''Tyaktvā tūrṇam aśeṣa-maṇḍala-pati''.

''Maṇḍala-pati'' means great leaders of aristocratic family. He gave up. Gosvāmīs, Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī, they gave up this association of big aristocratic families. ''Tyaktvā tūrṇam aśeṣa-maṇḍala-pati-śreṇīṁ sadā tucchavat''. ''Tucchavat'' means "There is no necessity. It is most insignificant. We don't want it." ''Tyaktvā tūrṇam aśeṣa'' . . .

(aside) Why you are standing? Huh?

Haṁsadūta: This just came off the wall.

Prabhupāda: ''Tyaktvā tūrṇam aśeṣa-maṇḍala-pati-śreṇīṁ sadā tucchavat''. Just like you have got a piece of scrap paper, you throw it away, similarly, they gave up the association of aristocratic family just like, "Oh, what is this? No need. Throw it away." ''Tucchavat''.

:''tyaktvā tūrṇam aśeṣa-maṇḍala-pati-śreṇīṁ sadā tucchavat''
:''bhūtvā dīna-gaṇeśakau karuṇayā kaupīna-kanthāśritau''

Being compassionate with the poor souls. Poor souls . . . who are poor souls? Anyone who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, he's a poor soul. He may be outwardly very rich, but he's a poor soul. ''Dīna-gaṇeśakau karuṇayā kaupīna-kanthāśritau''.

''Tyaktvā tūrṇam aśeṣa-maṇḍala-pati-śreṇīṁ sadā tucchavat bhūtvā dīna-gaṇeśakau karuṇayā kaupīna-kanthāśritau'', ''gopī-bhāva-rasāmṛtābdhi-laharī-kallola-magnau sadāḥ''. And how they were living? Always thinking of the pastimes of the ''gopīs'' with Kṛṣṇa. That was their life substance: how Kṛṣṇa . . . ''gopī-jana-vallabha''. They are thinking of Kṛṣṇa as ''gopī-jana-vallabha''. That is Kṛṣṇa's business. ''Rādhā-mādhava gopī-jana-vallabha''. So how ''gopī-jana-vallabha'' was dealing, they were always thinking. In that ecstasy they were getting life.

Otherwise, they had no comforts of the body. They gave up everything, living underneath a tree, and became a mendi . . . ''kaupīna-kanthāśritau''. ''Kaupīna'' means simply the two pieces of underwear, that's all. No gorgeous clothing, nothing of the sort. But they were rich in understanding the ''gopī-jana-vallabha''.

They understood what is ''gopī-jana-vallabha''. ''Gopī-bhāva-rasa''. That is just like ocean. ''Rasāmṛtābdhi''. There is a ''rasa'', mellow, which they were tasting twenty-four hours, and therefore they didn't care whether they were living underneath a tree or there was no cloth, no food. That doesn't matter.