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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.177
বিদ্যাবিনয়সম্পন্নে ব্রাহ্মণে গবি হস্তিনি ।
শুনি চৈব শ্বপাকে চ পণ্ডিতাঃ সমদর্শিনঃ ॥ ১৭৭ ॥
vidyā-vinaya-sampanne
brāhmaṇe gavi hastini
śuni caiva śva-pāke ca
paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ
“ ‘The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater.’
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Humble sages see with equal vision because they possess true knowledge.
Their equal vision includes a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa and a dog-eater.
They also see a cow, an elephant and a dog with equal vision.
The purport of CC Antya 4.177 quotesBG 5.18
This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (5.18).
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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:
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “humble”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which differences in learning, social position or bodily form most affect how I regard others?
When you encounter a person or animal today, pause and recall the humble sages’ equal vision.
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