PLATE SEVEN

“On the pretext of bad health, Sanatana Gosvami remained home.
Thus he gave up government service and did not go to the royal court.
The greedy masters of his clerical and secretarial staff performed the
government duties while Sanatana personally remained home and dis-
cussed the revealed scriptures. Sri Sanatana Gosvami used to discuss
Srimad-Bhagavatam in an assembly of twenty or thirty learned brahmana
scholars. While Sanatana Gosvami was studying Srimad-Bhagavatam in
the assembly of learned brahmanas, one day the Nawab of Bengal and
another person suddenly appeared. As soon as all the brahmanas and
Sanatana Gosvami saw the Nawab appear, they all stood up and
respectfully gave him a sitting place to honor him. The Nawab said, ‘I sent
my physician to you, and he has reported that you are not diseased. As
far as he could see, you are.completely healthy. | am depending on you
to carry out so many of my activities, but you have given up.your govern-
mental duties to sit here at home. You have spoiled all my activities. What
is your intention? Please tell me frankly.’ (pp.252-258)
