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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 9.78
এথা তুমি বসি’ রহ, কেনে যাবে আলালনাথ ? কেহ তোমা না শুনাবে বিষয়ীর বাত্ ॥ ৭৮ ॥
ethā tumi vasi’ raha, kene yābe ālālanātha?
keha tomā nā śunābe viṣayīra bāt
“Kindly stay here at Jagannātha Purī. Why should You go to Ālālanātha? Henceforward, no one will approach You about material affairs.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is requested to remain at Jagannātha Purī.
The appeal asks why He should go to Ālālanātha.
The request includes a promise that no one will approach Him about material affairs.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How much of my prayer is occupied with material affairs?
Devote one prayer today entirely to service, without asking for a material outcome.
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