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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.24
কুশলবার্তা মহাপ্রভু পুছেন সনাতনে ।
তেঁহ কহেন, — ‘পরম মঙ্গল দেখিনু চরণে ।।’ ২৪ ।। ॥ ২৪ ॥
kuśala-vārtā mahāprabhu puchena sanātane
teṅha kahena, — ‘parama maṅgala dekhinu caraṇe’
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu inquired from Sanātana about news of his well-being. Sanātana replied, “Everything is auspicious because I have seen Your lotus feet.”
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Sanātana about his well-being.
Sanātana replied that everything was auspicious because he had seen the Lord’s lotus feet.
Although the preceding verses describe his bodily infections, Sanātana’s answer centered on the blessing of seeing the Lord.
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 Lord informed Sanātana Gosvāmī about the death of his younger brother Anupama, who had great faith in the lotus feet of Lord Rāmacandra. One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said to Sanātana Gosvāmī, “Your decision to commit suicide is the result of the mode of ignorance.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.
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Turning toward Kṛṣṇa through shelter, surrender, dependence on guru, and unconditional devotional fidelity. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “lotus feet”
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Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “blessing”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What can I learn from Sanātana’s gratitude amid bodily difficulty?
Offer one sentence of gratitude for the opportunity to remember Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu today.
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