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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.147
দূর হৈতে দণ্ড-পরণাম করে সনাতন ।
প্রভু বোলায় বার বার করিতে আলিঙ্গন ॥ ১৪৭ ॥
dūra haite daṇḍa-paraṇāma kare sanātana
prabhu bolāya bāra bāra karite āliṅgana
Sanātana Gosvāmī offered his obeisances and daṇḍavats from a distant place, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu called him again and again to embrace him.
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Sanātana Gosvāmī offers obeisances and daṇḍavats from a distant place.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu calls him again and again.
The Lord wants to embrace Sanātana Gosvāmī, even as Sanātana offers respect from a distance.
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:
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. This made Sanātana Gosvāmī very unhappy, and therefore he consulted Jagadānanda Paṇḍita about what he should do.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “offered”
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What touches me about the Lord repeatedly calling Sanātana Gosvāmī to embrace him?
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