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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.81
যাহাঁ গুণ শত আছে, তাহা না করে গ্রহণ ।
গুণমধ্যে ছলে করে দোষ-আরোপণ ॥ ৮১ ॥
yāhāṅ guṇa śata āche, tāhā nā kare grahaṇa
guṇa-madhye chale kare doṣa-āropaṇa
“Even where there are hundreds of good qualities, a critic does not consider them. Rather, he attempts by some trick to point out a fault in those attributes.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
A critic may overlook hundreds of good qualities.
Rather than considering those qualities, the critic searches for a fault.
The verse describes how a critic may use some trick to point out a fault even in those good attributes.
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:
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. Hearing his criticisms, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu reduced His eating, but after Rāmacandra Purī left Jagannātha Purī, the Lord resumed His usual behavior.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.
Have I tried to turn someone’s good quality into a reason to criticize them?
Bring to mind one person you tend to criticize and recognize one good quality without explaining it away.
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