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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.270
তুমি ত’ ঈশ্বর বট,—সাক্ষাৎ নারায়ণ ।
কৃপা করি’ কর মোর সংসার মোচন ॥ ২৭০ ॥
tumi ta’ īśvara baṭa, — sākṣāt nārāyaṇa
kṛpā kari’ kara mora saṁsāra mocana
“Sir, you are directly Nārāyaṇa. Therefore please be merciful unto Me. Deliver Me from this material bondage.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker addresses the person before Him as directly Nārāyaṇa.
He asks for mercy with the words, “Please be merciful unto Me.”
His request is to be delivered from material bondage.
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: “merciful”, “deliver”, “mercy”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can this appeal help me ask sincerely for mercy?
Take a quiet moment today to pray for mercy and deliverance from material bondage.
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