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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.140
হিত-নিমিত্ত আইলাঙ আমি, হৈল বিপরীতে ।
কি করিলে হিত হয় নারি নির্ধারিতে ।।” ১৪০ ।। ॥ ১৪০ ॥
hita-nimitta āilāṅa āmi, haila viparīte
ki karile hita haya nāri nirdhārite”
“I came here for my benefit, but now I see that I am getting just the opposite. I do not know, nor can I ascertain, how there will be benefit for me.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana Gosvāmī had come hoping for his own benefit.
He now feels that he is receiving the opposite of what he hoped for.
He openly admits that he cannot see how benefit will come to him.
Despair met with care. Sanātana’s wish to die is interrupted by the Lord’s protective insistence on his future service.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was pleased to hear about Sanātana Gosvāmī’s great respect for the temple of Lord Śrī Jagannātha. Because his disease produced wet sores on his body, Sanātana Gosvāmī used to avoid embracing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, but nevertheless the Lord would embrace him by force.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
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Can I honestly acknowledge when I do not understand what will benefit me?
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