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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.62
এইরূপ মহাদুঃখে দিন কত গেল ।
শুনি’ রামচন্দ্রপুরী প্রভু-পাশ আইল ॥ ৬২ ॥
ei-rūpa mahā-duḥkhe dina kata gela
śuni’ rāmacandra-purī prabhu-pāśa āila
In this way, some days passed in great unhappiness. Hearing of all this, Rāmacandra Purī went to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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The situation continued for some days in great unhappiness.
In the surrounding verses, the Lord and Govinda were eating too little, and the other devotees had stopped eating.
Rāmacandra Purī heard about this situation and went to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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:
For this reason he was not very respectful to the Vaiṣṇavas, and later he became so fallen that he began criticizing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for His eating. Hearing his criticisms, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu reduced His eating, but after Rāmacandra Purī left Jagannātha Purī, the Lord resumed His usual behavior.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 8
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When I hear that someone has been struggling for several days, do I take time to check on them?
Contact someone whose recent difficulty you have heard about and ask how they are doing.
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