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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.74
খাওয়াঞা পুনঃ তারে করয়ে নিন্দন ।
‘এত অন্ন খাও, — তোমার কত আছে ধন? ॥ ৭৪ ॥
khāoyāñā punaḥ tāre karaye nindana
‘eta anna khāo, — tomāra kata āche dhana?
“In this way he induces one to eat more than necessary, and then he directly criticizes him, saying, ‘You eat so much. How much money do you have in your treasury?
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmacandra Purī induces a person to eat more than necessary. He then directly criticizes that person for eating so much.
His criticism includes a question about how much money the person has in his treasury.
He faults the person for the very excess he encouraged. Paramānanda Purī describes this contradiction as part of his criticism of Rāmacandra Purī's conduct.
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
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Have I ever criticized someone for doing what I encouraged them to do?
Before criticizing someone's choice today, check whether your own words helped lead them to it.
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