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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.174
‘প্রাকৃত’ হৈলেহ তোমার বপু নারি উপেক্ষিতে ।
ভদ্রাভদ্র-বস্তুজ্ঞান নাহিক ‘প্রাকৃতে’ ॥ ১৭৪ ॥
‘prākṛta’ haile ha tomāra vapu nāri upekṣite
bhadrābhadra-vastu-jñāna nāhika ‘prākṛte’
“Even if your body were material, I still could not neglect it, for the material body should be considered neither good nor bad.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu tells Sanātana Gosvāmī that, as a Vaiṣṇava, his body is spiritual rather than material.
Sanātana Gosvāmī should not judge that body in terms of superior or inferior material qualities.
Even if the body were material, the Lord would not neglect it. A sannyāsī should see no distinction between a good body and a bad body.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Quoted in the purport ofCC Madhya 15.83
As explained in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya-līlā 4.174), bhadrābhadra-vastu-jñāna nāhika ‘prākṛte.’
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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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do bodily judgments ever lead me to neglect someone who deserves care?
Offer one small act of care today without judging the recipient’s bodily appearance.
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