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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 17.6
কেহ যদি সঙ্গ লইতে পাছে উঠি’ ধায় ।
সবারে রাখিবা, যেন কেহ নাহি যায় ॥ ৬ ॥
keha yadi saṅga la-ite pāche uṭhi’ dhāya
sabāre rākhibā, yena keha nāhi yāya
“If someone wants to follow Me, please stop him. I don’t want anyone to go with Me.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord spoke about the possibility that someone might want to follow Him.
He asked that anyone who tried to follow be stopped.
He clearly stated that He did not want anyone to go with Him.
Wonder and contagious joy. Even forest animals chant; nature seems drawn into the saṅkīrtana movement.
The mood of Madhya 17 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:
The following summary of the seventeenth chapter is given by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. After attending the Ratha-yātrā ceremony of Śrī Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu decided to start for Vṛndāvana.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 17
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How would you respond to the Lord’s request when you wished to accompany Him?
Pause over the words “I don’t want anyone to go with Me” and reflect on respecting His expressed wish.
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