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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.246
শিবানন্দ-সেন তাঁরে কহেন বিবরণ ।
তোমা লৈতে তোমার পিতা পাঠাইল দশ জন ॥ ২৪৬ ॥
śivānanda-sena tāṅre kahena vivaraṇa
tomā laite tomāra pitā pāṭhāila daśa jana
He also met Śivānanda Sena, who informed him, “Your father sent ten men to take you away.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Raghunātha dāsa also met Śivānanda Sena.
Śivānanda Sena told him that his father had sent ten men to take him away.
This news brought his father’s efforts to bring him back into the account of his meetings with the devotees.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I notice the family situation described here without assuming motives the text does not give?
Read Śivānanda Sena’s words again and identify exactly what he reports.
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