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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.9
তোমার সেবা ছাড়ি’ আমি করিলুঁ সন্ন্যাস ।
‘বাউল’ হঞা আমি কৈলুঁ ধর্মনাশ ॥ ৯ ॥
tomāra sevā chāḍi’ āmi kariluṅ sannyāsa
‘bāula’ hañā āmi kailuṅ dharma-nāśa
“ ‘I have given up service to you and have accepted the vow of sannyāsa. I have thus become mad and have destroyed the principles of religion.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that He has given up service to His mother by accepting the vow of sannyāsa.
He speaks of Himself as having become mad and destroyed the principles of religion.
In this message to His mother, His words express deep regret over leaving her service.
Longing beyond ordinary categories. Extreme separation alternates with moments of visionary encounter.
The mood of Antya 19 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 following summary of chapter nineteen is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Every year, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Jagadānanda Paṇḍita to visit His mother in Navadvīpa with gifts of cloth and prasādam.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 19
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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: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How seriously do I take the service I owe to those who care for me?
Identify one neglected act of care for your mother or someone who has cared for you, and do it today.
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