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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.29
তেঁহো কহে, — যাবে তুমি দেবতায় দুঃখ দিতে ।
মোর শক্তি নাহি, তোমার সঙ্গে যাইতে ॥ ২৯ ॥
teṅho kahe, — yābe tumi devatāya duḥkha dite
mora śakti nāhi, tomāra saṅge yāite
Sanātana Gosvāmī replied, “You are going to Orissa to give pain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For this reason I am powerless to go with you.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana Gosvāmī said that the journey to Orissa would give pain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
For this reason, he said he was powerless to accompany the Nawab.
His reply made his concern for the Supreme Personality of Godhead the reason for not going.
Empowerment and hope. The seed of bhakti is received, planted, and watered; intimate realization becomes transmissible.
The mood of Madhya 19 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:
He was informed that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was going to Vṛndāvana from Jagannātha Purī through the forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa (Jharkhand); therefore he sent two people to Jagannātha Purī to find out when the Lord would leave for Vṛndāvana. In this way Rūpa Gosvāmī retired, but Sanātana Gosvāmī told the Nawab that he was sick and could not attend to his work.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Does my concern for the Supreme Personality of Godhead guide what I agree to do?
Review one choice before you today and ask whether taking part would conflict with your wish to serve the Lord.
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