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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.156
জগদানন্দ-পণ্ডিতে আমি যুক্তি পুছিল ।
বৃন্দাবন যাইতে তেঁহ উপদেশ দিল ।।” ১৫৬ ।। ॥ ১৫৬ ॥
jagadānanda-paṇḍite āmi yukti puchila
vṛndāvana yāite teṅha upadeśa dila”
“I have consulted Jagadānanda Paṇḍita for his opinion, and he has also advised me to return to Vṛndāvana.”
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Sanātana Gosvāmī tells Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu that he has consulted Jagadānanda Paṇḍita.
Jagadānanda Paṇḍita has advised him to return to Vṛndāvana.
The Lord’s response brings attention to whether Jagadānanda is qualified to advise someone of Sanātana’s standing.
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:
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. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu informed Sanātana Gosvāmī that because Sanātana was a pure devotee, the Lord was never inconvenienced by his bodily condition.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.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do I consider someone’s qualifications when seeking spiritual advice?
Before acting on one piece of advice today, pause to consider the adviser’s experience.
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