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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.276

উপরোধে প্রভু মোর মানেন নিমন্ত্রণ ।

না মানিলে দুঃখী হইবেক মূর্খ জন ॥ ২৭৬ ॥

uparodhe prabhu mora mānena nimantraṇa

nā mānile duḥkhī ha-ibeka mūrkha jana

Translation

“ ‘At my request Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepts the invitations because He knows that a foolish person like me would be unhappy if He did not accept them.’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Outward Display Is Not Pure Service

  1. 1

    The speaker understands that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepts his requests because refusing them would make him unhappy.

  2. 2

    Learning, possessions, elevated birth and education can become sources of pride. Those attached to material enjoyment may offer devotional service only for outward display.

  3. 3

    Materially polluted minds prevent such people from understanding that Lord Kṛṣṇa and the Vaiṣṇavas do not accept their offerings. When a pure Vaiṣṇava refuses, their unhappiness may turn into opposition.

Key points from the purport
  • Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura says that people who are advanced in learning but attached to material enjoyment, who are puffed up by material possessions, by birth in an elevated aristocratic family or by education, may offer showbottle devotional service to the Deity and also offer prasādam to Vaiṣṇavas.
  • Because of their ignorance, however, they cannot understand that since their minds are materially polluted, neither the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, nor the Vaiṣṇavas accept their offerings.
  • If one accepts money from such materialistic persons to offer food to the Deity and Vaiṣṇavas, a pure Vaiṣṇava does not accept it.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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:

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. uparodheby my request
  2. prabhuLord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  3. moramy
  4. mānenaaccepts
  5. nimantraṇainvitation
  6. nā mānileif He does not accept
  7. duḥkhīunhappy
  8. ha-ibekawill become
  9. mūrkha janafoolish person
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Sevā · Love translated into service

    Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “service”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How do I respond when an offering or service of mine is not accepted?

Practice

Examine one planned offering today for a desire to display your learning, possessions or status.

Live this todayOutward Display Is Not Pure ServiceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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