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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.12
ভিক্ষা করি’ কহে পুরী, — “শুন, জগদানন্দ ।
অবশেষ প্রসাদ তুমি করহ ভক্ষণ ।।” ১২ ।। ॥ ১২ ॥
bhikṣā kari’ kahe purī, — “śuna, jagadānanda
avaśeṣa prasāda tumi karaha bhakṣaṇa”
After finishing the meal, Rāmacandra Purī requested, “My dear Jagadānanda, please listen. You eat the food that is left.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
After finishing his meal, Rāmacandra Purī addressed Jagadānanda.
He asked Jagadānanda to eat the food that was left.
The surrounding verses place this request within his desire to find faults. He would encourage Jagadānanda to eat and then criticize him.
Discomfort and vigilance. Fault-finding disrupts devotional life, exposing the emotional cost of criticism.
The mood of Antya 8 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:
This chapter describes the history of the Lord’s dealings with Rāmacandra Purī. Although Rāmacandra Purī was one of the disciples of Mādhavendra Purī, he was influenced by dry Māyāvādīs, and therefore he criticized Mādhavendra Purī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 8
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Are my requests meant to help others, or to give me grounds to judge them?
Before making one request today, pause and check that you are not setting someone up for criticism.
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