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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.184
তোমারে ‘লাল্য’, আপনাকে ‘লালক’ অভিমান ।
লালকের লাল্যে নহে দোষ-পরিজ্ঞান ॥ ১৮৪ ॥
tomāre ‘lālya’, āpanāke ‘lālaka’ abhimāna
lālakera lālye nahe doṣa-parijñāna
“My dear Haridāsa and Sanātana, I think of you as My little boys, to be maintained by Me. The maintainer never takes seriously any faults of the maintained.
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The Lord regards Haridāsa and Sanātana as His little boys, to be maintained by Him.
A father who maintains his child does not take the child’s faults seriously.
The purport explains that even when the faults are real, the father does not mind them.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
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.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.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “haridāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might fatherly affection change the way I respond to someone’s faults?
Respond patiently to one small fault in someone you care for today.
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