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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 20.12
অনেক দেখিল, তার লাগ্ না পাইল ।
দাড়ুকা-সহিত ডুবি কাহাঁ বহি’ গেল ॥ ১২ ॥
aneka dekhila, tāra lāg nā pāila
dāḍukā-sahita ḍubi kāhāṅ vahi’ gela
“Tell him, ‘I looked for him a long time, but I could not find any trace of him. He jumped in with his shackles, and therefore he was drowned and washed away by the waves.’
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Sanātana instructed the jailkeeper to say that he had searched for him a long time.
The jailkeeper was to report that he could find no trace of Sanātana.
The proposed explanation was that Sanātana had jumped in with his shackles, drowned, and been washed away by the waves.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
When Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī was imprisoned by Nawab Hussain Shah, he received news from Rūpa Gosvāmī that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had gone to Mathurā. Sanātana Gosvāmī thereafter satisfied the superintendent of the jail by sweet solicitations and bribery.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
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In this verse: “washed”
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Can I distinguish the account Sanātana proposed from an event actually reported here?
Read the verse again, noting that it gives words the jailkeeper was to say.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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