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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.128
‘তুমি কেনে দুঃখী, তোমার আছে পিতৃধন ।
তোমারে না কহিল, অন্যত্র ছাড়িল জীবন ॥” ১২৮ ॥
‘tumi kene duḥkhī, tomāra āche pitṛ-dhana
tomāre nā kahila, anyatra chāḍila jīvana”
“The astrologer asked, ‘Why are you unhappy? Your father was very wealthy, but he did not disclose his wealth to you because he died elsewhere.’
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The astrologer asks the man why he is unhappy.
He tells the man that his father was very wealthy.
The father died elsewhere without disclosing his wealth to his son. The man had not been told about that wealth.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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:
Sanātana Gosvāmī, however, asked his servant how much money he had, and taking seven of the gold coins, Sanātana offered them to the hotel owner. Thus the owner helped them cross the hilly tract and proceed toward Vārāṇasī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What difference might learning about his father’s wealth make to the unhappy man?
Reread the astrologer’s words and write one sentence contrasting the man’s unhappiness with his father’s wealth.
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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