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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.98
অন্ন–জল ত্যাগ কৈল অন্য–কথন ।
পল দুই–তিন মাঠা করেন ভক্ষণ ॥ ৯৮ ॥
anna-jala tyāga kaila anya-kathana
pala dui-tina māṭhā karena bhakṣaṇa
Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī gradually gave up all food and drink but a few drops of buttermilk.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī gradually gave up food and drink.
This change was gradual, rather than sudden.
Only a few drops of buttermilk remained as his intake.
Belonging and gratitude. Many devotees become branches of one living network of devotion.
The mood of Ādi 10 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
This chapter describes the branches of the tree named Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Back to this verse in Ādi 10
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What strikes you about the extent of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī’s renunciation?
Read the translation slowly and write one observation about his renunciation, without changing your own food or drink intake.
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