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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.64
“সন্ন্যাসীর ধর্ম নহে ‘ইন্দ্রিয়-তর্পণ’ ।
যৈছে তৈছে করে মাত্র উদর ভরণ ॥ ৬৪ ॥
“sannyāsīra dharma nahe ‘indriya-tarpaṇa’
yaiche taiche kare mātra udara bharaṇa
Rāmacandra Purī advised, “It is not the business of a sannyāsī to gratify his senses. He should fill his belly some way or other.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmacandra Purī said that gratifying the senses is not the business of a sannyāsī.
He also said that a sannyāsī should fill his belly some way or other.
His advice distinguished eating to meet bodily needs from eating for sense gratification.
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:
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. 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.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.
How can I approach eating as meeting a real need rather than merely seeking gratification?
Choose a simple, adequate meal today without making sensory enjoyment your main concern.
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