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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.162
আপনার ‘অসৌভাগ্য’ আজি হৈল জ্ঞান ।
জগতে নাহি জগদানন্দ-সম ভাগ্যবান্ ॥ ১৬২ ॥
āpanāra ‘asaubhāgya’ āji haila jñāna
jagate nāhi jagadānanda-sama bhāgyavān
“I can also understand my misfortune. No one in this world is as fortunate as Jagadānanda.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana Gosvāmī speaks of his own misfortune.
He declares that no one in the world is as fortunate as Jagadānanda.
His next words explain this comparison: he treasures the affectionate relationship expressed in the Lord’s chastisement.
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.
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In this verse: “relationship”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do Sanātana’s words reveal about the kind of fortune he values?
Take a moment today to appreciate someone else’s good fortune without turning attention to your own merits.
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