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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.49
প্রভু কহে,—বাউলিয়া, ঐছে কাহে কর ।
আচার্যের লজ্জা–ধর্ম–হানি সে আচর ॥ ৪৯ ॥
prabhu kahe — bāuliyā, aiche kāhe kara
ācāryera lajjā-dharma-hāni se ācara
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu instructed Kamalākānta, “You are a bāuliyā, one who does not know things as they are. Why do you act in this way? Why do you invade the privacy of Advaita Ācārya and damage His religious principles?
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kamalākānta Viśvāsa asked Mahārāja Pratāparudra to pay Advaita Ācārya’s three-hundred-rupee debt while also declaring Him an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The purport calls this contradictory: an incarnation of the Supreme Godhead cannot be indebted to anyone in this material world.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu is never satisfied by such a contradiction, called rasābhāsa, or overlapping of one humor with another. He rebuked Kamalākānta for invading Advaita Ācārya’s privacy and damaging His religious principles.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
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. Kamalākānta Viśvāsa was then purified by the request of Śrī Advaita Ācārya.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 12
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In this verse: “rasābhāsa”
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Reread the contradiction identified in the purport and write one sentence explaining why it is a contradiction.
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