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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.15
“শুনি, চৈতন্যগণ করে বহুত ভক্ষণ ।
‘সত্য’ সেই বাক্য, — সাক্ষাৎ দেখিলুঁ এখন ॥ ১৫ ॥
“śuni, caitanya-gaṇa kare bahuta bhakṣaṇa
‘satya’ sei vākya, — sākṣāt dekhiluṅ ekhana
“I have heard,” he said, “that the followers of Caitanya Mahāprabhu eat more than necessary. Now I have directly seen that this is true.
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Rāmacandra Purī said he had heard that Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s followers ate more than necessary.
He claimed that he had now directly seen proof of this. This was his accusation, not an impartial account of the meal.
The preceding verse shows that he had repeatedly encouraged Jagadānanda to eat. Yet he used that meal to make a claim about Mahāprabhu’s followers.
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
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In this verse: “followers”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I looking fairly at what happened, or only for confirmation of what I already heard?
When a negative report comes to mind today, pause before treating one incident as proof about a whole group.
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