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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.9
তবে সেই যবন কহে, — “শুন, মহাশয় ।
তোমারে ছাড়িব, কিন্তু করি রাজভয় ॥” ৯ ॥
tabe sei yavana kahe, — “śuna, mahāśaya
tomāre chāḍiba, kintu kari rāja-bhaya”
In this way Sanātana Gosvāmī convinced the jailkeeper, who replied, “Please hear me, my dear sir. I am willing to release you, but I am afraid of the government.”
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Sanātana Gosvāmī convinced the jailkeeper to consider releasing him.
The jailkeeper respectfully asked Sanātana Gosvāmī to hear him.
He was willing to release Sanātana Gosvāmī, but he feared the government.
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
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