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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.198
যদ্যপি ব্রহ্মণ্য করে ব্রাহ্মণের সহায় ।
‘শুদ্ধবৈষ্ণব’ নহে, হয়ে ‘বৈষ্ণবের প্রায়’ ॥ ১৯৮ ॥
yadyapi brahmaṇya kare brāhmaṇera sahāya
‘śuddha-vaiṣṇava’ nahe, haye ‘vaiṣṇavera prāya’
“Although your father and uncle are charitable to brāhmaṇas and greatly help them, they are nevertheless not pure Vaiṣṇavas. However, they are almost like Vaiṣṇavas.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Charity to brāhmaṇas, Deity worship, and outward Vaiṣṇava dress do not by themselves make someone a pure Vaiṣṇava.
The basic qualification of a pure Vaiṣṇava is having no desire for material enjoyment. Outward piety may still conceal a desire for a higher standard of material life.
Raghunātha dāsa’s father and uncle were charitable and pious, but were considered almost Vaiṣṇavas, not pure Vaiṣṇavas. Nevertheless, they were not blind materialistic enjoyers.
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:
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 6
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When I worship or give charity, am I seeking pure devotion or improved material enjoyment?
Before one act of worship or charity today, examine your motive and aim to act without seeking material gain.
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