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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.194
তবে সুবুদ্ধি-রায় সেই ‘ছদ্ম’ পাঞা ।
বারাণসী আইলা, সব বিষয় ছাড়িয়া ॥ ১৯৪ ॥
tabe subuddhi-rāya sei ‘chadma’ pāñā
vārāṇasī āilā, saba viṣaya chāḍiyā
Taking the Nawab’s sprinkling water upon him as an opportunity, Subuddhi Rāya left his family and business affairs and went to Vārāṇasī.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Subuddhi Rāya was a respectable landholder who was already planning to give up material life. He took the incident of the sprinkled water as an opportunity to leave for Vārāṇasī.
The purport calls the belief that this sprinkling made him a Muslim a social misconception. It describes his opportunity to renounce as the grace of Kṛṣṇa.
The four divisions of life are brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. The purport presents varṇāśrama-dharma as a system that guides one toward retirement from family life and prescribes sannyāsa at fifty.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Reconciliation and broad mercy. Opponents turn toward bhakti; the Lord returns to Purī and embraces devotees.
The mood of Madhya 25 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:
Kavirāja Gosvāmī then describes something about Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī and Subuddhi Rāya. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to Jagannātha Purī through the great forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa (Jharkhand) in central India.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 25
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