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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 12: The Cleansing of the Guṇḍicā Temple
Madhya 12.47Madhya 12.49

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.48

রাজার মিলনে ভিক্ষুকের দুই লোক নাশ ।

পরলোক রহু, লোকে করে উপহাস ॥ ৪৮ ॥

rājāra milane bhikṣukera dui loka nāśa

paraloka rahu, loke kare upahāsa

Translation

“If a mendicant meets a king, this world and the next world are both destroyed for the mendicant. Indeed, what is there to say of the next world? In this world, people will joke if a sannyāsī meets a king.”

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Guarding a Mendicant’s Spiritual Standing

  1. 1

    The Lord warned that if a mendicant meets a king, both this world and the next world are destroyed for the mendicant.

  2. 2

    His warning included consequences beyond this present life.

  3. 3

    He also emphasized an immediate consequence: people in this world would joke if a sannyāsī met a king.

How it feels

Purification through joyful service. Collective cleansing becomes a visible devotional act before Ratha-yātrā.

The mood of Madhya 12 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 12: The Cleansing of the Guṇḍicā Temple

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

The next day, when Rāmānanda Rāya again entreated Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to see the King, the Lord, denying the request, asked Rāmānanda Rāya to bring the King’s son before Him. The prince visited the Lord dressed like a Vaiṣṇava, and this awakened remembrance of Kṛṣṇa.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. rājāra milaneby meeting with a king
  2. bhikṣukeraof the mendicant
  3. dui lokain two worlds
  4. nāśadestruction
  5. para-lokaspiritual world
  6. rahulet alone
  7. lokein this material world
  8. karedo
  9. upahāsajoking
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this warning deepen my understanding of the care required in a mendicant’s conduct?

Practice

Write down the two kinds of consequences the Lord names: those in this world and those in the next.

Live this todayGuarding a Mendicant’s Spiritual StandingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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