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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.19

বার লক্ষ দেয় রাজায়, সাধে বিশ লক্ষ ।

সে ‘তুরুক্’ কিছু না পাঞা হৈল প্রতিপক্ষ ॥ ১৯ ॥

bāra lakṣa deya rājāya, sādhe biśa lakṣa

se ‘turuk’ kichu nā pāñā haila pratipakṣa

Translation

Hiraṇya dāsa was collecting 2,000,000 coins and therefore should have delivered 1,500,000 to the government. Instead, he was giving only 1,200,000, thus making an extra profit of 300,000 coins. Seeing this, the Muslim caudhurī, who was a Turk, became his rival.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Withheld Taxes Deepen the Rivalry

  1. 1

    Hiraṇya dāsa collected 2,000,000 coins and should have delivered 1,500,000 to the government.

  2. 2

    Instead, he delivered only 1,200,000, keeping an extra profit of 300,000 coins.

  3. 3

    Seeing this, the Muslim caudhurī, who was a Turk, became his rival.

How it feels

Longing fulfilled. Raghunātha’s sustained desire for the Lord culminates in arrival, shelter, and renunciation.

The mood of Antya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

In the meantime, however, a Muslim official became envious of Hiraṇya dāsa, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī’s uncle, and induced some big official court minister to have him arrested. Thus Hiraṇya dāsa left his home, but by the intelligence of Raghunātha dāsa the misunderstanding was mitigated.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. bāra lakṣa1,200,000 coins
  2. deyadelivers
  3. rājāyaunto the Muslim government
  4. sādhecollects
  5. biśa lakṣa2,000,000 coins
  6. se turukthat Turk
  7. kichuanything
  8. nā pāñānot getting
  9. haila pratipakṣabecame his rival
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life

    Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “delivered”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I careful to distinguish what belongs to me from what I owe to others?

Practice

Check one payment or shared expense today to make sure you have accounted for what is owed.

Live this todayWithheld Taxes Deepen the RivalryThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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