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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 4.8
স্বয়ং–ভগবানের কর্ম নহে ভারহরণ ।
স্থিতিকর্তা বিষ্ণু করেন জগৎপালন ॥ ৮ ॥
svayaṁ-bhagavānera karma nahe bhāra-haraṇa
sthiti-kartā viṣṇu karena jagat-pālana
To take away this burden, however, is not the work of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The maintainer, Lord Viṣṇu, is the one who protects the universe.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Taking away the earth’s burden is not the work of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Lord Viṣṇu is identified as the maintainer.
Lord Viṣṇu is the one who protects the universe.
Profound longing. Kṛṣṇa desires to taste Rādhā’s love, His own sweetness as She sees it, and Her joy.
The mood of Ādi 4 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 chapter of the epic Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has stressed that Lord Caitanya appeared for three principal purposes of His own. The first purpose was to relish the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, who is the prime reciprocator of transcendental love of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
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How does this verse clarify whose work it is to protect the universe?
Read the translation once more and note Lord Viṣṇu’s role as maintainer and protector.
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