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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.151
“হিত লাগি’ আইনু মুঞি, হৈল বিপরীত ।
সেবাযোগ্য নহি, অপরাধ করোঁ নিতি নিতি ॥ ১৫১ ॥
“hita lāgi’ āinu muñi, haila viparīta
sevā-yogya nahi, aparādha karoṅ niti niti
“I came here for my benefit,” he said, “but I see that I am getting just the opposite. I am unfit to render service. I simply commit offenses day after day.
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Sanātana Gosvāmī said that he had come for his own benefit.
He felt that he was receiving the opposite of what he had hoped for.
He described himself as unfit to render service and as committing offenses day after day.
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:
This made Sanātana Gosvāmī very unhappy, and therefore he consulted Jagadānanda Paṇḍita about what he should do. Jagadānanda advised him to return to Vṛndāvana after the car festival of Jagannātha, but when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard about this instruction, He chastised Jagadānanda Paṇḍita and reminded him that Sanātana Gosvāmī was senior to him and also more learned.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: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When you reflect on your service, can you honestly acknowledge where greater care is needed?
Identify one part of your service in which you can act more carefully today.
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