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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 15.275
‘মাৎসর্য’-চণ্ডাল কেনে ইহাঁ বসাইলে ।
পরম পবিত্র স্থান অপবিত্র কৈলে ॥ ২৭৫ ॥
‘mātsarya’-caṇḍāla kene ihāṅ vasāile
parama pavitra sthāna apavitra kaile
“Why have you allowed the caṇḍāla of jealousy to sit here also? In this way you have contaminated a most purified place, your heart.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord asks why the caṇḍāla of jealousy has been allowed to sit in the heart.
His question draws attention to allowing jealousy a place within oneself.
Jealousy has contaminated the heart, which the Lord calls a most purified place.
Festive affection and reconciliation. Festivals, reciprocal hospitality, and the deliverance of Amogha show affectionate grace.
The mood of Madhya 15 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:
Thereafter, when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was accepting prasādam at the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Sārvabhauma’s son-in-law, Amogha, created trouble in the family with his criticisms. The following morning, he was attacked by the disease of visūcikā (cholera).Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 15
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Where have I allowed jealousy to occupy my heart?
Notice one jealous thought today and pause rather than dwell on it, remembering that jealousy contaminates the heart.
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