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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 9.26
‘আমার ঘোড়া গ্রীবা না ফিরায় ঊর্ধ্বে নাহি চায় ।
তাতে ঘোড়ার মূল্য ঘাটি করিতে না যুয়ায় ।।’ ২৬ ॥ ২৬ ॥
‘āmāra ghoḍā grīvā nā phirāya ūrdhve nāhi cāya
tāte ghoḍāra mūlya ghāṭi karite nā yuyāya’
“Gopīnātha Paṭṭanāyaka said, ‘My horses never turn their necks or look upward. Therefore the price for them should not be reduced.’
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Gopīnātha Paṭṭanāyaka said that his horses never turned their necks or looked upward.
He argued that their price should therefore not be reduced.
In this exchange, his words were criticism of the prince, who responded with anger.
Fear turned to relief. A threatened execution ends in rescue and restored possibility.
The mood of Antya 9 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
The ninth chapter is summarized as follows. Gopīnātha Paṭṭanāyaka, the son of Bhavānanda Rāya, was engaged in the service of the government, but he misappropriated some funds from the treasury. Therefore the baḍa-jānā, the eldest son of King Pratāparudra, ordered that he be punished by death. Thus Gopīnātha Paṭṭanāyaka was raised on the cāṅga to be killed, but by the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu he was delivered. Moreover, he was even promoted to a higher post.Back to this verse in Antya 9
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīnātha”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I defend what I think is fair without making a personal criticism?
In one disagreement today, state the practical issue without commenting on the other person.
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