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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 4.10
তাতে যদি এই দেহ, ভাল-স্থানে দিয়ে ।
দুঃখ-শান্তি হয় আর সদ্গতি পাইয়ে ॥ ১০ ॥
tāte yadi ei deha bhāla-sthāne diye
duḥkha-śānti haya āra sad-gati pāiye
“Therefore if I sacrifice this body in a good place, my unhappiness will be mitigated and I shall attain an exalted destination.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana Gosvāmī thinks that giving up his body in a good place will relieve his unhappiness.
He also believes that doing so will bring him an exalted destination.
These words describe his personal reasoning in distress, rather than an instruction for the reader to follow.
Despair met with care. Sanātana’s wish to die is interrupted by the Lord’s protective insistence on his future service.
The mood of Antya 4 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:
Because of bathing in bad water and not getting enough food every day while traveling on the path through Jhārikhaṇḍa (Jharkhand) Forest, he developed a disease that made his body itch. Suffering greatly from this itching, he resolved that in the presence of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu he would throw himself under the wheel of Jagannātha’s car and in this way commit suicide.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What unhappiness and hope can I recognize in Sanātana Gosvāmī’s words?
Write one sentence identifying the relief he seeks, keeping his hope distinct from his proposed action.
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