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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 4: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī
Antya 4.169Antya 4.171

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.170

বহিরঙ্গ-জ্ঞানে তোমারে না করি স্তবন ।

তোমার গুণে স্তুতি করায় যৈছে তোমার গুণ ॥ ১৭০ ॥

bahiraṅga-jñāne tomāre nā kari stavana

tomāra guṇe stuti karāya yaiche tomāra guṇa

Translation

“I offer you praise not because I think of you as being outside an intimate relationship with Me but because you are actually so qualified that one is forced to praise your qualities.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Praise Can Express Genuine Intimacy

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explains that His praise does not place Sanātana outside an intimate relationship with Him.

  2. 2

    He praises Sanātana because Sanātana is genuinely qualified.

  3. 3

    Sanātana’s qualities are so worthy that one is compelled to praise them.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 4: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu informed Sanātana Gosvāmī that because Sanātana was a pure devotee, the Lord was never inconvenienced by his bodily condition. Because the Lord was a sannyāsī, He did not consider one body better than another.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. bahiraṅga-jñānethinking outside My intimate relationship
  2. tomāreunto you
  3. nā kariI do not
  4. stavanaoffer praise
  5. tomārayour
  6. guṇeby qualifications
  7. stuti karāyaone is induced to offer prayers
  8. yaicheas
  9. tomārayour
  10. guṇaattributes
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Key ideas in this verse

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”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Can I receive sincere praise without mistaking it for emotional distance?

Practice

Offer someone close to you sincere praise for one specific, genuine quality.

Live this todayPraise Can Express Genuine IntimacyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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