Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 22.91

varaḿ huta-vaha-jvālā-

pañjarāntar-vyavasthitiḥ

na śauri-cintā-vimukha-

jana-saḿvāsa-vaiśasam

SYNONYMS

varam — better; huta-vaha — of fire; jvālā — in the flames; pañjara-antaḥ — inside a cage; vyavasthitiḥ — abiding; na — not; śauri-cintā — of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or thought of Kṛṣṇa; vimukha — bereft; jana — of persons; saḿvāsa — of the association; vaiśasam — the calamity.

TRANSLATION

"'It is better to accept the miseries of being encaged within bars and surrounded by burning flames than to associate with those bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Such association is a very great hardship.'

PURPORT

This is a quotation from the Kātyāyana-saḿhitā.

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