1 · Learn4 of 6 · 5 min
Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.65
তোমারে ক্ষীণ দেখি, শুনি, — কর অর্ধাশন ।
এই ‘শুষ্ক-বৈরাগ্য’ নহে সন্ন্যাসীর ‘ধর্ম’ ॥ ৬৫ ॥
tomāre kṣīṇa dekhi, śuni, — kara ardhāśana
ei ‘śuṣka-vairāgya’ nahe sannyāsīra ‘dharma’
“I have heard that You have cut Your eating in half. Indeed, I see that You are skinny. Such dry renunciation is also not the religion of a sannyāsī.
Read this verse on Vedabase.ioThis verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.
Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmacandra Purī said he had heard that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had cut His eating in half.
He also said that he could see the Lord had become skinny.
He described this as dry renunciation and said it was not the religion of a sannyāsī. Together with his preceding words, his advice rejected both sense gratification and excessive restriction.
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “together”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I ever mistake neglecting bodily needs for meaningful renunciation?
At your next meal, take enough to meet your needs rather than deliberately eating too little as an austerity.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
Ask Caitanya CaritamrtaHave a question about CC Antya 8.65? Get an answer from the verses themselves.