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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.75
সন্ন্যাসীকে এত খাওয়াঞা কর ধর্ম নাশ ! অতএব জানিনু, — তোমার কিছু নাহি ভাস’ ॥ ৭৫ ॥
sannyāsīke eta khāoyāñā kara dharma nāśa!
ataeva jāninu, — tomāra kichu nāhi bhāsa’
“ ‘Also, by inducing sannyāsīs to eat so much, you spoil their religious principles. Therefore I can understand that you have no advancement.’
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The quoted accusation claims that inducing sannyāsīs to eat too much spoils their religious principles.
The critic then concludes that the person encouraging them has no spiritual advancement.
In context, this accusation illustrates Rāmacandra Purī’s habit of examining others’ eating and finding fault.
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:
Therefore Mādhavendra Purī accused him of being an offender and rejected him. 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.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.
Do I use someone’s eating habits to judge their spiritual advancement?
Today, refrain from making a judgment about someone’s spiritual progress based on how they eat.
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