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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.123
প্রভু কহে, — “তপ্ত-বালুকাতে কেমনে আইলা ? সিংহদ্বারের পথ — শীতল, কেনে না আইলা ? ১২৩ ।। ॥ ১২৩ ॥
prabhu kahe, — “tapta-vālukāte kemane āilā?
siṁha-dvārera patha — śītala, kene nā āilā?
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “How did you come along the beach, where the sand is so hot? Why didn’t you come by the path in front of the Siṁha-dvāra gate? It is very cool.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked why Sanātana had walked along the beach, where the sand was so hot.
He pointed out that the path in front of the Siṁha-dvāra gate was very cool.
Siṁha-dvāra is the main gate on the eastern side of the Jagannātha temple.
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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 can I show care when someone has had a difficult journey?
Ask someone arriving today whether they need a rest.
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