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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 Antya 16.43
গোবিন্দেরে মহাপ্রভু কৈরাছে নিয়ম ।
‘মোর পাদজল যেন না লয় কোন জন’ ॥ ৪৩ ॥
govindere mahāprabhu kairāche niyama
‘mora pāda-jala yena nā laya kona jana’
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ordered His personal servant Govinda that no one should take the water that had washed His feet.
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Govinda was Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s personal servant.
The Lord ordered Govinda not to let anyone take the water that had washed His feet.
The following verse shows that this was a strict order.
Sweetness amidst longing. Jagannātha’s prasādam awakens intense awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
The mood of Antya 16 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:
When the Bengali devotees of the Lord returned to Jagannātha Purī, a gentleman named Kālidāsa, who was an uncle of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, went with them to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kālidāsa had tasted the remnants of food of all the Vaiṣṇavas in Bengal, even Jhaḍu Ṭhākura.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “servant”, “washed”
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How carefully do you attend to a clear instruction when carrying out a service?
Choose one instruction connected with a service you do today, and follow it attentively.
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