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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.13
কিছু ভয় নাহি, আমি এ-দেশে না রব ।
দরবেশ হঞা আমি মক্কাকে যাইব ॥” ১৩ ॥
kichu bhaya nāhi, āmi e-deśe nā raba
daraveśa hañā āmi makkāke yāiba”
“There is no reason for you to be afraid, for I shall not remain in this country. I shall become a mendicant and go to the holy city of Mecca.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana told the jailkeeper that there was no reason to be afraid.
He assured him that he would not remain in the country.
He said that he would become a mendicant and go to the holy city of Mecca.
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:
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How was Sanātana’s promise to leave meant to reassure the jailkeeper?
Write one sentence explaining how Sanātana connected his departure with the jailkeeper’s fear.
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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