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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.94
গৌরলীলামৃতসিন্ধু—অপার অগাধ ।
কে করিতে পারে তাহাঁ অবগাহ–সাধ ॥ ৯৪ ॥
gaura-līlāmṛta-sindhu — apāra agādha
ke karite pāre tāhāṅ avagāha-sādha
The ocean of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is immeasurable and unfathomable. Who can have the courage to measure that great ocean?
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu are compared to a great ocean.
That ocean is immeasurable and unfathomable.
The author asks who could have the courage to measure it, expressing humility before its greatness.
Loyalty and discernment. The narrative distinguishes fidelity to the ācārya from deviation.
The mood of Ādi 12 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:
In his early life Gopāla fainted during the cleansing of the Guṇḍicā-mandira at Jagannātha Purī and thus became a recipient of the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The story of Kamalākānta Viśvāsa concerns his borrowing three hundred rupees from Pratāparudra Mahārāja to clear a debt of Advaita Ācārya’s, for which Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chastised him when He came to know of it.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 12
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “humility”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this image of an unfathomable ocean affect your approach to studying these pastimes?
Reread the ocean image slowly, acknowledging that these pastimes cannot be fully measured.
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