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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.44
প্রভু কহে, দেবের বরে তুমি—‘কবিবর’ ।
ঐছে দেবের বরে কেহো হয় ‘শ্ৰতিধর’ ॥ ৪৪ ৷৷
prabhu kahe, devera vare tumi — ‘kavi-vara’
aiche devera vare keho haya ‘śrutidhara’
The Lord replied, “By the grace of the Lord someone may become a great poet, and similarly by His grace someone else may become a great śruti-dhara who can memorize anything immediately.”
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By the Lord’s grace, someone may become a great poet. By His grace, another may become a great śruti-dhara who memorizes anything immediately.
Śruti means “hearing,” and dhara means “one who can capture.” Before Kali-yuga, almost everyone, especially the intelligent brāhmaṇas, was a śruti-dhara.
Students would remember forever the Vedic hymns and explanations heard from their spiritual master. There was no need to consult books.
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Grief and transformed pride. Lakṣmīdevī’s departure brings sorrow; Keśava Kāśmīrī’s pride yields to surrender.
The mood of Ādi 16 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:
While Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was touring East Bengal, His wife, Lakṣmīdevī, was bitten by a serpent or by the serpent of separation, and thus she left this world. When the Lord returned home, He saw that His mother was overwhelmed with grief because of Lakṣmīdevī’s death.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “grace”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might recognizing the Lord’s grace change the way you regard your abilities?
Before studying today, offer a brief prayer acknowledging that the ability to learn comes by the Lord’s grace.
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