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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.47
আচার্য কহে, ইহাকে কেনে দিলে দরশন ।
দুই প্রকারেতে করে মোরে বিড়ম্বন ॥ ৪৭ ॥
ācārya kahe, ihāke kene dile daraśana
dui prakārete kare more viḍambana
Advaita Ācārya then said to Caitanya Mahāprabhu, “Why have You called back this man and allowed him to see You? He has cheated Me in two ways.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Advaita Ācārya asked Caitanya Mahāprabhu why He had called the man back.
He also asked why the Lord had allowed the man to see Him.
Advaita Ācārya said that the man had cheated Him in two ways. This translation does not yet explain those two ways.
Loyalty and discernment. The narrative distinguishes fidelity to the ācārya from deviation.
The mood of Ādi 12 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
In his early life Gopāla fainted during the cleansing of the Guṇḍicā-mandira at Jagannātha Purī and thus became a recipient of the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The story of Kamalākānta Viśvāsa concerns his borrowing three hundred rupees from Pratāparudra Mahārāja to clear a debt of Advaita Ācārya’s, for which Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chastised him when He came to know of it.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 12
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I notice what this exchange leaves unexplained without rushing to supply an answer?
Write down Advaita Ācārya’s question and leave the two ways of cheating unexplained until the text explains them.
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