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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 4: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī
Antya 4.128Antya 4.131

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Antya 4.129-130

“যদ্যপিও তুমি হও জগৎপাবন ।

তোমা-স্পর্শে পবিত্র হয় দেব-মুনিগণ ॥ ১২৯ ॥

“yadyapio tumi hao jagat-pāvana

tomā-sparśe pavitra haya deva-muni-gaṇa

Translation

“My dear Sanātana, although you are the deliverer of the entire universe and although even the demigods and great saints are purified by touching you, it is the characteristic of a devotee to observe and protect the Vaiṣṇava etiquette. Maintenance of the Vaiṣṇava etiquette is the ornament of a devotee.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Vaiṣṇava Etiquette Is a Devotee’s Ornament

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu called Sanātana the deliverer of the entire universe.

  2. 2

    He said that even demigods and great saints were purified by touching Sanātana.

  3. 3

    Despite this exalted position, a devotee observes and protects Vaiṣṇava etiquette. Maintaining this etiquette is the ornament of a devotee.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 4: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu informed Sanātana Gosvāmī that because Sanātana was a pure devotee, the Lord was never inconvenienced by his bodily condition. Because the Lord was a sannyāsī, He did not consider one body better than another.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. yadyapioalthough
  2. tumiyou
  3. haoare
  4. jagat-pāvanathe deliverer of the entire universe
  5. tomāyou
  6. sparśeby touching
  7. pavitrapurified
  8. hayabecomes
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life

    Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “deliverer”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Do I treat devotional etiquette as something valuable, rather than something beneath me?

Practice

Choose one Vaiṣṇava etiquette practice you have learned and observe it carefully today.

Live this todayVaiṣṇava Etiquette Is a Devotee’s OrnamentThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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