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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 3.87
যে পাঞাছ মুষ্ট্যেক অন্ন, তাহা খাঞা উঠ ।
পাগলামি না করিহ, না ছড়াইও ঝুঠ ॥” ৮৭ ॥
ye pāñācha muṣṭy-eka anna, tāhā khāñā uṭha
pāgalāmi nā kariha, nā chaḍāio jhuṭha”
“Whatever You have, though it be a palmful of rice, please eat it and get up. Don’t show Your madness and strew the remnants of food here and there.”
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The speaker asks His guest to eat whatever He has, even if it is only a palmful of rice.
He asks His guest to finish eating and get up.
He also asks Him not to show madness by strewing food remnants here and there.
Reunion and heartbreaking parting. After sannyāsa, mother Śacī and the devotees reunite with Him before consenting to separation.
The mood of Madhya 3 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:
Advaita Prabhu asked Him to take His bath in the Ganges and took Him to His (Advaita’s) house. There all the Navadvīpa devotees, along with mother Śacīdevī, came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 3
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “madness”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How carefully do I handle the food and remnants at my meals?
At your next meal, keep food remnants together rather than scattering them.
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