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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.197
তোমার বাপ-জ্যেঠা — বিষয়বিষ্ঠা-গর্তের কীড়া ।
সুখ করি’ মানে বিষয়-বিষের মহাপীড়া ॥ ১৯৭ ॥
tomāra bāpa-jyeṭhā — viṣaya-viṣṭhā-gartera kīḍā
sukha kari’ māne viṣaya-viṣera mahā-pīḍā
“My dear Raghunātha dāsa, your father and his elder brother are just like worms in stool in the ditch of material enjoyment, for the great disease of the poison of material enjoyment is what they consider happiness.
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A person attached to material enjoyment may accept many miserable conditions as happiness.
The purport compares this attachment to a worm unable to leave stool. The comparison shows how strongly sense enjoyment can hold a person.
What seems enjoyable to a deeply attached person appears utterly miserable to liberated souls.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
When Raghunātha’s father received news of this, he sent some men and money, but Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī refused to accept the money. Understanding that Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was living by begging from the chatras, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu presented him with His own guñjā-mālā and a stone from Govardhana Hill.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 6
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “worms”, “worm”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Is there an enjoyment I cling to even though it repeatedly brings distress?
Identify one pleasure that brings recurring distress, and pause before pursuing it today.
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