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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.48
প্রতিভার কাব্য তোমার দেবতা সন্তোষে ।
ভালমতে বিচারিলে জানি গুণদোষে ॥ ৪৮ ॥
pratibhāra kāvya tomāra devatā santoṣe
bhāla-mate vicārile jāni guṇa-doṣe
“There is no doubt that your poetry is full of ingenuity, and certainly it has satisfied the Supreme Lord. Yet if we scrutinizingly consider it we can find both good qualities and faults.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord acknowledged that the brāhmaṇa’s poetry was full of ingenuity.
He affirmed that the poetry had certainly satisfied the Supreme Lord.
He nevertheless explained that careful scrutiny could reveal both good qualities and faults.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can you appreciate something sincerely while still recognizing its faults?
Review a short piece of your own writing today, noting one good quality and one fault without dismissing its value.
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