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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.38
“পুত্র ‘বাতুল’ হইল, ইহায় রাখহ বান্ধিয়া” ।
তাঁর পিতা কহে তারে নির্বিণ্ণ হঞা ॥ ৩৮ ॥
“putra ‘bātula’ ha-ila, ihāya rākhaha bāndhiyā”
tāṅra pitā kahe tāre nirviṇṇa hañā
“Our son has become mad,” she said. “Just keep him by binding him with ropes.” His father, being very unhappy, replied to her as follows.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Raghunātha dāsa’s mother describes her son as having become mad.
She proposes keeping him home by binding him with ropes.
His father is very unhappy and responds to her proposal in the following verses.
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 Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had gone to Śāntipura on His way to Vṛndāvana, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī had offered to dedicate his life at the Lord’s lotus feet. 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.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 someone acts in ways I do not understand, do I rush to label or control them?
In a difficult interaction today, pause before labeling the other person and listen to what they are saying.
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