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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.120
ক্ষুদ্রজীব সব মর্কট-বৈরাগ্য করিয়া ।
ইন্দ্রিয় চরাঞা বুলে ‘প্রকৃতি’ সম্ভাষিয়া ।।” ১২০ ।। ॥ ১২০ ॥
kṣudra-jīva saba markaṭa-vairāgya kariyā
indriya carāñā bule ‘prakṛti’ sambhāṣiyā”
“There are many persons with little in their possession who accept the renounced order of life like monkeys. They go here and there engaging in sense gratification and speaking intimately with women.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Spiritual progress requires following the regulative principles: no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no intoxication and no gambling.
Markaṭa-vairāgya means renunciation like that of a monkey: outward simplicity while remaining attached to sense gratification. An unfit person should not sentimentally accept the renounced order.
Accepting the dress of a sannyāsī or bābājī for praise, while retaining sensual desires, does not bring spiritual advancement. Imitating those who have attained an elevated stage of renunciation is a serious misunderstanding.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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:
Later, when Junior Haridāsa, following the order of Bhagavān Ācārya, went to collect alms from Mādhavīdevī, he committed an offense by talking intimately with a woman although he was in the renounced order. Because of this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejected Junior Haridāsa, and despite all the requests of the Lord’s stalwart devotees, the Lord did not accept him again.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I more concerned with appearing renounced or with actually giving up sense gratification?
Review the four regulative principles and identify one concrete way to follow them more carefully today.
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