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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.237
এই ত’ কহিলুঁ পুনঃ সনাতন-সঙ্গমে ।
প্রভুর আশয় জানি যাহার শ্রবণে ॥ ২৩৭ ॥
ei ta’ kahiluṅ punaḥ sanātana-saṅgame
prabhura āśaya jāni yāhāra śravaṇe
Thus I have described how the Lord again met with Sanātana Gosvāmī. By hearing this I can understand the Lord’s desire.
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The author concludes his description of how the Lord again met with Sanātana Gosvāmī.
He connects hearing this account with understanding the Lord’s desire.
The account invites attentive hearing, with an interest in what the Lord desires.
Despair met with care. Sanātana’s wish to die is interrupted by the Lord’s protective insistence on his future service.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
In this way he completely retired and returned to Vṛndāvana to meet Sanātana Gosvāmī. After narrating these incidents, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has given a list of the main books of Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Jīva Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
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