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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.44
‘সন্ন্যাসী হঞা করে মিষ্টান্ন ভক্ষণ ।
এই ভোগে হয় কৈছে ইন্দ্রিয়-বারণ’? ॥ ৪৪ ॥
‘sannyāsī hañā kare miṣṭānna bhakṣaṇa
ei bhoge haya kaiche indriya-vāraṇa’?
At last he found a fault. “How can a person in the renounced order eat so many sweetmeats?” he said. “If one eats sweets, controlling the senses is very difficult.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmacandra Purī finally claimed to find a fault in the Lord’s eating sweetmeats.
He questioned how a person in the renounced order could eat so many sweets, saying that sweets made controlling the senses very difficult.
The surrounding verses present this accusation as part of his fault-finding and blasphemy, not as an actual failing of the Lord.
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:
Therefore Mādhavendra Purī accused him of being an offender and rejected him. Because Rāmacandra Purī had been rejected by his spiritual master, he became concerned only with finding faults in others and advising them according to dry Māyāvāda philosophy.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.
Do I sometimes turn a concern about self-control into an accusation against someone else?
When a critical thought arises today, distinguish what you actually observed from what you assumed.
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