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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 9.68
সন্ন্যাসী বিরক্ত তোমার কা-সনে সম্বন্ধ ? ব্যবহার লাগি’ তোমা ভজে, সেই জ্ঞান-অন্ধ ॥ ৬৮ ॥
sannyāsī virakta tomāra kā-sane sambandha?
vyavahāra lāgi’ tomā bhaje, sei jñāna-andha
“You are a renounced sannyāsī. What connections do You have? One who worships You for some material purpose is blind to all knowledge.”
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Kāśī Miśra reminds the Lord that He is a renounced sannyāsī, without connections to these material affairs.
Becoming a devotee to serve material purposes is a great mistake. The purport rejects making a show of devotion for material profit.
Keeping Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as a means of livelihood is not approved. Worship aimed at material gain is described as blindness to knowledge.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “serve”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I approaching the Lord to serve Him, or mainly to obtain something material?
Offer one prayer today without asking for material profit.
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