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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.220
তোমার প্রসাদে মোর ঘুচিল কুমতি ।
এই কৃপা কর,—যেন তোমাতে রহু ভক্তি ॥ ২২০ ॥
tomāra prasāde mora ghucila kumati
ei kṛpā kara, — yena tomāte rahu bhakti
“Only by Your mercy have my bad intentions vanished. Kindly favor me so that my devotion may always be fixed upon You.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker credits the Lord’s mercy alone with removing his bad intentions.
He asks the Lord to favor him further.
His prayer is that his devotion may always remain fixed upon the Lord.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 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:
Therefore the son of Śacī is the son of Yaśodā. Śrī Nityānanda occupies an ecstatic position of parental love in servitude and fraternal attraction.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “mercy”, “favor”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What would you like to change within yourself so that your devotion can remain steady?
Offer a short prayer today asking the Lord to remove bad intentions and keep your devotion fixed upon Him.
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