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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.19
সনাতনে আলিঙ্গিতে প্রভু আগু হৈলা ।
পাছে ভাগে সনাতন কহিতে লাগিলা ॥ ১৯ ॥
sanātane āliṅgite prabhu āgu hailā
pāche bhāge sanātana kahite lāgilā
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came forward to embrace him, Sanātana backed away and spoke as follows.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came forward to embrace Sanātana Gosvāmī.
Sanātana backed away rather than accepting the embrace immediately.
His words in the following verse explain his hesitation: he considered himself lowly and had infections on his body.
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:
The fourth chapter is summarized by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya as follows. Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī came alone from Mathurā to Jagannātha Purī to see Lord Caitanya.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.
What does this meeting show me about the Lord’s affection toward Sanātana?
Reread the verse slowly, noticing that the Lord Himself came forward to embrace Sanātana.
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