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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.271
এইমত নিমন্ত্রণ বর্ষ দুই কৈলা ।
পাছে রঘুনাথ নিমন্ত্রণ ছাড়ি’ দিলা ॥ ২৭১ ॥
ei-mata nimantraṇa varṣa dui kailā
pāche raghunātha nimantraṇa chāḍi’ dilā
Raghunātha dāsa continued to invite Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in this way for two years, but at the end of the second year he stopped.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Raghunātha dāsa continued inviting Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in this way for two years.
At the end of the second year, he stopped.
This verse records the change without explaining his reason.
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:
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. Thereafter, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī used to eat rejected food that he had collected and washed.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.
Can you notice a change in someone’s service without assuming you know the reason?
When reflecting on a change in someone’s routine today, separate what you know from what you are assuming.
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