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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.74
ভট্টাচার্য কহে, — ‘ইঁহার প্রৌঢ় যৌবন ।
কেমতে সন্ন্যাস-ধর্ম হইবে রক্ষণ ॥ ৭৪ ॥
bhaṭṭācārya kahe, — ‘iṅhāra prauḍha yauvana
kemate sannyāsa-dharma ha-ibe rakṣaṇa
The Bhaṭṭācārya inquired, “Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is in His full-fledged youthful life. How can He keep the principles of sannyāsa?
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The Bhaṭṭācārya observes that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is in His full-fledged youthful life.
He asks how Mahāprabhu can keep the principles of sannyāsa.
His question connects Mahāprabhu’s youth with concern about maintaining those principles. It expresses a doubt, not a failure on Mahāprabhu’s part.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
The mood of Madhya 6 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:
Meanwhile, Gopīnātha Ācārya, the brother-in-law of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, met Mukunda Datta and talked to him about Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s acceptance of sannyāsa and His journey to Jagannātha Purī. After hearing about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s fainting and His being carried to the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, people crowded there to see the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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