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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.91
এত ভাবি’ কহে,—শুন, নিমাঞি পণ্ডিত ।
তব ব্যাখ্যা শুনি’ আমি হইলাঙ বিস্মিত ॥ ৯১ ॥
eta bhāvi’ kahe — śuna, nimāñi paṇḍita
tava vyākhyā śuni’ āmi ha-ilāṅ vismita
Thinking thus, the paṇḍita said, “My dear Nimāi Paṇḍita, please hear me. Hearing Your explanation, I am simply struck with wonder.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The paṇḍita addressed Him as “My dear Nimāi Paṇḍita.”
He asked Nimāi Paṇḍita to hear him.
He openly admitted that hearing the explanation had struck him with wonder.
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:
In this prayer the Lord found five kinds of literary ornaments and five kinds of literary faults, thus defeating the paṇḍita. Later the Kāśmīrī Paṇḍita, who was known to have been victorious all over the country, submitted himself to the goddess of learning, and by her order he met Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu on the morning of the next day and surrendered unto Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I willing to acknowledge when someone’s explanation fills me with wonder?
Put into one sentence what strikes you with wonder in today’s reading.
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