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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.92
তিন মুদ্রার ভোট গায়, মাধুকরী গ্রাস ।
ধর্মহানি হয়, লোক করে উপহাস ॥” ৯২ ॥
tina mudrāra bhoṭa gāya, mādhukarī grāsa
dharma-hāni haya, loka kare upahāsa”
“It is contradictory to practice mādhukarī and at the same time wear a valuable blanket. One loses his spiritual strength by doing this, and one will also become an object of jokes.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Practicing mādhukarī while wearing a valuable blanket is contradictory.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu warns that this contradiction causes a loss of spiritual strength.
Such conduct also makes one an object of jokes.
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:
Later, he exchanged his valuable blanket for a torn quilt. At this time Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very pleased with him, and thus Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī received knowledge of the Absolute Truth from the Lord Himself.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.
Do any of my possessions contradict the simplicity I seek in spiritual practice?
Review one costly possession and consider whether keeping it fits your spiritual practice.
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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