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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.76
কে কৈছে ব্যবহারে, কেবা কৈছে খায় ।
এই অনুসন্ধান তেঁহো করয় সদায় ॥ ৭৬ ॥
ke kaiche vyavahāre, kebā kaiche khāya
ei anusandhāna teṅho karaya sadāya
“It is Rāmacandra Purī’s business to inquire always about how others are eating and conducting their daily affairs.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmacandra Purī constantly inquires about how others are eating.
His inquiries also extend to how others conduct their daily affairs.
The surrounding verses connect this habit with criticism, rather than consideration of others’ good qualities.
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.
When I inquire about others’ daily habits, am I looking for faults?
Leave one unnecessary question about another person’s eating or daily habits unasked today.
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