| "One devotee, he requested Caitanya Mahāprabhu, 'My Lord, You have come. Please liberate all the people of this universe, and if they are sinful, so all their sins I may take, but they may be delivered'. This is Vaiṣṇava philosophy. 'Others may be delivered by the grace of the Lord; I may rot in the hell. That doesn't matter'. Not that 'First of all I go to the heaven, and others may rot'. This is not Vaiṣṇava philosophy. Vaiṣṇava philosophy is, 'I may rot in the hell, but others may be delivered'. Patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ (Maṇgalācaraṇa 9). Vaiṣṇava is meant for delivering all the fallen souls."
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