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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.172
তোমার দেহ তুমি কর বীভৎস-জ্ঞান ।
তোমার দেহ আমারে লাগে অমৃত-সমান ॥ ১৭২ ॥
tomāra deha tumi kara bībhatsa-jñāna
tomāra deha āmāre lāge amṛta-samāna
“You consider your body dangerous and awful, but I think that your body is like nectar.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana Gosvāmī considers his body dangerous and awful, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu sees it very differently.
The Lord describes his body as being like nectar, not something to neglect.
The surrounding verses explain that this body is transcendental and suitable for service to the Lord.
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:
Because the Lord was a sannyāsī, He did not consider one body better than another. The Lord also informed him that He was maintaining Sanātana and the other devotees just like a father.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.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might the Lord’s view of a devotee’s body challenge judgments based only on bodily appearance?
Today, use your body for one small act of service to the Lord rather than dwelling on its appearance.
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