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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 12.114
পথে যাইতে তৈলগন্ধ মোর যেই পাবে ।
‘দারী সন্ন্যাসী’ করি’ আমারে কহিবে ॥ ১১৪ ॥
pathe yāite taila-gandha mora yei pābe
‘dārī sannyāsī’ kari’ āmāre kahibe
“If someone passing on the road smelled this oil on My head, he would think Me a dārī sannyāsī, a tantric sannyāsī who keeps women.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that someone passing on the road might smell the oil on His head.
That person might mistake Him for a dārī sannyāsī, a tantric sannyāsī who keeps women.
His objection concerned how using the oil would appear in relation to His renounced order.
Loving anger and reconciliation. Jagadānanda’s hurt over rejected oil is healed through personal service and prasāda.
The mood of Antya 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:
This year he returned to Purī with a big pot of floral-scented sandalwood oil to massage the Lord’s head. The Lord, however, would not accept the oil, and because of His refusal, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita broke the pot in front of Him and began to fast.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 12
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