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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.68
তপনমিশ্র তবে তাঁরে কৈলা নিমন্ত্রণ ।
প্রভু কহে, — ‘ক্ষৌর করাহ, যাহ, সনাতন ॥’ ৬৮ ॥
tapana-miśra tabe tāṅre kailā nimantraṇa
prabhu kahe, — ‘kṣaura karāha, yāha, sanātana’
Tapana Miśra then extended an invitation to Sanātana, and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Sanātana to go get a shave.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Tapana Miśra extended an invitation to Sanātana.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Sanātana to get a shave.
The verse places a welcoming invitation alongside a practical instruction.
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:
For his garment, he used an old cloth of Tapana Miśra’s. Later, he exchanged his valuable blanket for a torn quilt.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 readily do you receive practical guidance?
Attend to one simple grooming task today.
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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