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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.117
মধ্যাহ্ন-ভিক্ষাকালে সনাতনে বোলাইল ।
প্রভু বোলাইলা, তাঁর আনন্দ বাড়িল ॥ ১১৭ ॥
madhyāhna-bhikṣā-kāle sanātane bolāila
prabhu bolāilā, tāṅra ānanda bāḍila
At noon, when it was time for lunch, the Lord called for Sanātana Gosvāmī, whose happiness increased because of the call.
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At noon, when it was time for lunch, the Lord called for Sanātana Gosvāmī.
Sanātana Gosvāmī’s happiness increased because the Lord had called him.
His response was joyful eagerness to come to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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:
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Sanātana Gosvāmī which way he had come, Sanātana replied, “Many servitors of Lord Jagannātha come and go on the path by the Siṁha-dvāra gate of the Jagannātha temple. Therefore, I did not go by that path, but instead went by the beach.”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.
How might I approach an opportunity for devotional service with greater happiness?
Before one small devotional activity today, pause and approach it with gratitude rather than haste.
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