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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.262
নিস্তারিতে আইলাম আমি, হৈল বিপরীত ।
এসব দুর্জনের কৈছে হইবেক হিত ॥ ২৬২ ॥
nistārite āilāma āmi, haila viparīta
e-saba durjanera kaiche ha-ibeka hita
“I have come to deliver all the fallen souls, but now just the opposite has happened. How can these rogues be delivered? How may they be benefited?
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord says that He has come to deliver all the fallen souls.
He observes that the opposite of His purpose has happened.
He asks how even these rogues can be delivered and benefited.
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:
All the Lord’s other associates, situated in their original love, engage in the service of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The same Absolute Truth who enjoys as Kṛṣṇa, Śyāmasundara, who plays His flute and dances with the gopīs, sometimes takes birth in a brāhmaṇa family and plays the part of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, accepting the renounced order of life.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “deliver”
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: “fallen”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the Lord’s concern challenge my tendency to dismiss others?
Today, consider how someone you tend to dismiss might be benefited.
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