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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.55
সকল বৈষ্ণবে গোবিন্দ কহে এই বাত্ ।
শুনি’ সবার মাথে যৈছে হৈল বজ্রাঘাত ॥ ৫৫ ॥
sakala vaiṣṇave govinda kahe ei bāt
śuni’ sabāra māthe yaiche haila vajrāghāta
Govinda relayed this message to all the devotees. When they heard it, they felt as if their heads had been struck by thunderbolts.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Govinda relayed Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s message to all the devotees.
Hearing it, they felt as though thunderbolts had struck their heads.
Their response shows how deeply distressed they were by His strict restriction and warning.
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.
What does the devotees’ distress reveal about their concern for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
Reread the devotees’ reaction slowly and spend a moment reflecting on their concern for the Lord.
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