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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.108
চতুর্থে — শ্রীসনাতনের দ্বিতীয়-মিলন ।
দেহত্যাগ হৈতে তাঁর করিলা রক্ষণ ॥ ১০৮ ॥
caturthe — śrī-sanātanera dvitīya-milana
deha-tyāga haite tāṅra karilā rakṣaṇa
The fourth chapter describes Sanātana Gosvāmī’s second visit with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and how the Lord saved him from committing suicide.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The fourth chapter describes Sanātana Gosvāmī’s second visit with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
During this visit, the Lord saved him from committing suicide.
This summary highlights the Lord’s saving intervention without giving the circumstances behind it.
Unconditional devotion. Eight prayers move from cleansing the heart to love that endures even without reciprocation.
The mood of Antya 20 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:
For the twelve years Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lived at Jagannātha Purī, He relished the taste of reciting such transcendental verses. Altogether the Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-eight years.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What gratitude arises in me when I reflect on the Lord saving Sanātana Gosvāmī’s life?
Pause today to offer a brief prayer of gratitude for the Lord’s care shown in this account.
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