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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 4.47
দুর্দৈবে সেবক যদি যায় অন্য স্থানে ।
সেই ঠাকুর ধন্য তারে চুলে ধরি’ আনে ॥ ৪৭ ॥
durdaive sevaka yadi yāya anya sthāne
sei ṭhākura dhanya tāre cule dhari’ āne
“If by chance a servant falls down and goes somewhere else, glorious is that master who captures him and brings him back by the hair.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
A servant may by chance fall down and go somewhere else.
The glorious master does not leave the servant there but captures him and brings him back.
The vivid words “by the hair” emphasize how firmly the master brings his servant back.
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:
One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said to Sanātana Gosvāmī, “Your decision to commit suicide is the result of the mode of ignorance. One cannot get love of God simply by committing suicide.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.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “servant”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this picture of the Lord bringing His servant back give me hope when I stray?
Return today to one small act of devotional service you have neglected.
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