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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.77
শাস্ত্রে যেই দুই ধর্ম কৈরাছে বর্জন ।
সেই কর্ম নিরন্তর ইঁহার করণ ॥ ৭৭ ॥
śāstre yei dui dharma kairāche varjana
sei karma nirantara iṅhāra karaṇa
“The two kinds of activities rejected in the revealed scriptures constitute his daily affairs.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The verse says that two activities rejected in the revealed scriptures constitute Rāmacandra Purī’s daily affairs.
The following quotation names praising and criticizing others’ characteristics or activities as the two activities to avoid.
The later explanation gives greater importance to avoiding criticism and shows how Rāmacandra Purī neglects that rule.
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.
Has finding fault become part of my everyday conversation?
Notice one moment when criticism feels habitual, and leave the fault-finding remark unsaid.
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