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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.164
আজিহ নহিল মোরে আত্মীয়তা-জ্ঞান ! মোর অভাগ্য, তুমি — স্বতন্ত্র ভগবান্ !” ১৬৪ ।। ॥ ১৬৪ ॥
ājiha nahila more ātmīyatā-jñāna!
mora abhāgya, tumi — svatantra bhagavān!”
“It is my misfortune that You have not accepted me as one of Your intimate relations. But You are the completely independent Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana Gosvāmī feels unfortunate because he thinks the Lord has not accepted him as an intimate relation.
He openly expresses his longing for a close relationship with the Lord.
At the same time, he acknowledges that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the completely independent Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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:
In this way he completely retired and returned to Vṛndāvana to meet Sanātana Gosvāmī. After narrating these incidents, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has given a list of the main books of Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Jīva Gosvāmī.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.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “relationship”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “longing”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I express my longing for the Lord while honoring His complete independence?
Offer a brief prayer expressing your desire for closeness to the Lord without making a demand.
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