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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.165
এই চারি বাটোয়ার ধুতুরা খাওয়াঞা ।
মারি’ ডারিয়াছে, যতির সব ধন লঞা ॥ ১৬৫ ॥
ei cāri bāṭoyāra dhuturā khāoyāñā
māri’ ḍāriyāche, yatira saba dhana lañā
“These four rogues here must have taken away that sannyāsī’s riches after killing Him by making Him take the poison dhuturā.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The soldiers called the four persons rogues.
They assumed these persons had taken the sannyāsī’s riches.
They accused the four of killing Him by making Him take the poison dhuturā. These were the soldiers’ accusations.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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:
Some Pāṭhāna soldiers who were passing through saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and falsely concluded that the Lord’s associates, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya and others, had killed the Lord with a poison named dhuturā and were taking His wealth. Thus the soldiers arrested them.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can a suspicion lead me to accuse someone without knowing what happened?
Before repeating a negative claim about someone today, check whether it is known or merely assumed.
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