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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.158
“কালিকার বটুয়া জগা ঐছে গর্বী হৈল ।
তোমা-সবারেহ উপদেশ করিতে লাগিল ॥ ১৫৮ ॥
“kālikāra baṭuyā jagā aiche garvī haila
tomā-sabāreha upadeśa karite lāgila
“Jagā [Jagadānanda Paṇḍita] is only a new boy, but he has become so proud that he thinks himself competent to advise a person like you.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes Jagā, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita, as only a new boy.
The Lord says that pride has made him think himself competent to advise Sanātana Gosvāmī.
The correction concerns the gap between Jagadānanda’s experience and the standing of the person he advises.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I sometimes mistake confidence for the competence to advise others?
In one conversation today, listen carefully instead of immediately offering advice.
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