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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 12.15
শিবানন্দ-সেন করে ঘাটী-সমাধান ।
সবারে পালন করি’ সুখে লঞা যান ॥ ১৫ ॥
śivānanda-sena kare ghāṭī-samādhāna
sabāre pālana kari’ sukhe lañā yāna
Śivānanda Sena managed the payment of tolls at different places. Maintaining everyone, he guided all the devotees in great happiness.
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Śivānanda Sena managed the payment of tolls, maintained everyone and guided the devotees in great happiness.
Ghāṭī refers to the toll booths where zamindars collected taxes in each state. These taxes were generally used to maintain the roads under their care.
The devotees traveling from Bengal to Jagannātha Purī had to pass through many toll booths. Śivānanda Sena was responsible for paying the tolls.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
As usual, the leader was Śivānanda Sena, who traveled with his wife and children. Because arrangements were delayed en route and Lord Nityānanda did not have a suitable place to reside, He became somewhat disturbed.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 12
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What practical responsibility could you take on to ease others’ participation in devotional activities?
Offer to handle one small travel expense or planning task for a devotional outing.
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