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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 8: Rāmacandra Purī Criticizes the Lord
Antya 8.66Antya 8.69

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Antya 8.67-68

নাত্যশ্নতোঽপি যোগোঽস্তি ন চৈকান্তমনশ্নতঃ ।

ন চাতিস্বপ্নশীলস্য জাগ্রতো নৈব চার্জুন ॥ ৬৭ ॥

nāty-aśnato ’pi yogo ’sti

na caikāntam anaśnataḥ

na cāti-svapna-śīlasya

jāgrato naiva cārjuna

Translation

“[Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] ‘My dear Arjuna, one cannot perform mystic yoga if he eats more than necessary or needlessly fasts, sleeps and dreams too much or does not sleep enough. One should eat and enjoy his senses as much as necessary, one should properly endeavor to execute his duties, and one should regulate his sleep and wakefulness. Thus one can become freed from material pains by executing mystic yoga.’”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Regulate Eating, Duties, and Sleep

  1. 1

    Lord Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna that neither overeating nor needless fasting supports mystic yoga. Sleeping too much or too little also prevents its proper practice.

  2. 2

    One should eat and enjoy the senses only as much as necessary. Duties, sleep, and wakefulness should be properly regulated.

  3. 3

    Through such regulation, one can become freed from material pains by executing mystic yoga. The purport identifies this teaching as a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā.

Key points from the purport
  • This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (6.16-17).

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Antya 8.67-68 quotesBG 6.16

This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (6.16-17).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 8: Rāmacandra Purī Criticizes the Lord

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
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. nanot
  2. ati-aśnataḥof one who eats too much
  3. apicertainly
  4. yogaḥlinking with the Supreme
  5. astithere is
  6. nanot
  7. caalso
  8. ekāntamsolely
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which part of my daily routine most needs regulation: eating, duties, or sleep?

Practice

Choose a reasonable bedtime for tonight that allows enough sleep without oversleeping.

Live this todayRegulate Eating, Duties, and SleepThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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