Re: Why are devotees, gurus and pure devotee seen to suffer

Dear Devotees,

       Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! From Chaitanya Charitamrta :

CC Antya 4.172: [The Lord to Sanatana Gosvami when his body was affected by skin sores] "You consider your body dangerous and awful, but I think that your body is like nectar.

CC Antya 4.173: "Actually your body is transcendental, never material. You are thinking of it, however, in terms of a material conception.

CC Antya 4.195: "Kṛṣṇa somehow or other manifested these itching sores on the body of Sanātana Gosvāmī and sent him here to test Me.

CC Antya 4.196: "If I had hated Sanātana Gosvāmī and had not embraced him, I would certainly have been chastised for offenses to Kṛṣṇa.

CC Antya 4.197: "Sanātana Gosvāmī is one of the associates of Kṛṣṇa. There could not be any bad odor from his body. On the first day I embraced him, I smelled the aroma of catuḥsama [a mixture of sandalwood pulp, camphor, aguru and musk]."

CC Antya 4.198: In fact, however, when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu embraced the body of Sanātana Gosvāmī, by the Lord's touch alone there was manifested a fragrance exactly like that of sandalwood pulp.

CC Antya 4.199: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, "My dear Sanātana, do not be aggrieved, for when I embrace you I actually get great pleasure.

CC Antya 4.200: "Stay with Me at Jagannātha Purī for one year, and after that I shall send you to Vṛndāvana."

CC Antya 4.201: After saying this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again embraced Sanātana Gosvāmī. Thus immediately Sanātana's sores disappeared, and his entire body resembled the color of gold.

CC Antya 4.202: Seeing the change, Haridāsa Ṭhākura, greatly astonished, told the Lord, "This is Your pastime.

CC Antya 4.203: "My dear Lord, You made Sanātana Gosvāmī drink the water of Jhārikhaṇḍa, and You actually generated the consequent itching sores on his body.

CC Antya 4.204: "After thus causing these itching sores, You examined Sanātana Gosvāmī. No one can understand Your transcendental pastimes."

CC Antya 4.205: After embracing both Haridāsa Ṭhākura and Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to His residence. Then Haridāsa Ṭhākura and Sanātana Gosvāmī, in great ecstatic love, began to describe the Lord's transcendental attributes.

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Daaso'smi,
Srinath

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