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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.166
“জগদানন্দ প্রিয় আমার নহে তোমা হৈতে ।
মর্যাদা-লঙ্ঘন আমি না পারোঁ সহিতে ॥ ১৬৬ ॥
‘jagadānanda priya āmāra nahe tomā haite
maryādā-laṅghana āmi nā pāroṅ sahite
“My dear Sanātana, please do not think that Jagadānanda is more dear to Me than you. However, I cannot tolerate transgressions of the standard etiquette.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asks Sanātana not to think that Jagadānanda is more dear to Him.
He distinguishes His affection for His devotees from His insistence on standard etiquette.
He states that He cannot tolerate transgressions of that etiquette.
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.
Can I distinguish correction of behavior from a lack of affection?
In one interaction today, show affection while also observing respectful etiquette.
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