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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 1.21
তিনের স্মরণে হয় বিঘ্নবিনাশন ।
অনায়াসে হয় নিজ বাঞ্ছিতপূরণ ॥ ২১ ॥
tinera smaraṇe haya vighna-vināśana
anāyāse haya nija vāñchita-pūraṇa
Such remembrance destroys all difficulties and very easily enables one to fulfill his own desires.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author describes remembrance as having the power to destroy all difficulties.
Such remembrance enables one to fulfill one's desires.
The translation emphasizes that remembrance makes this fulfillment very easy.
Reverence and gratitude. The narrator takes shelter of the guru-paramparā; receptivity begins with humility.
The mood of Ādi 1 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:
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura accepted Śrīla Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, the spiritual master of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, who in turn accepted Śrīla Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī, the spiritual master of Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, the divine master of our humble self. Since we belong to this chain of disciplic succession from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, this edition of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta will contain nothing newly manufactured by our tiny brains, but only remnants of food originally eaten by the Lord Himself.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
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What difficulty or desire comes to mind as you reflect on the power of remembrance?
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