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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 5.208
প্রেমে মত্ত নিত্যানন্দ কৃপা–অবতার ।
উত্তম, অধম, কিছু না করে বিচার ॥ ২০৮ ॥
preme matta nityānanda kṛpā-avatāra
uttama, adhama, kichu nā kare vicāra
Because He is intoxicated by ecstatic love and is an incarnation of mercy, He does not distinguish between the good and the bad.
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He is intoxicated by ecstatic love.
He is an incarnation of mercy.
Because of this ecstatic love and mercy, He does not distinguish between the good and the bad.
Shelter and wonder. The glory of Nityānanda reveals the intimate support behind the descent.
The mood of Ādi 5 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 description it is revealed that the author’s original paternal home and birthplace were in the district of Katwa, in the village of Jhāmaṭapura, which is near Naihāṭī. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja’s brother invited Śrī Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa, a great devotee of Lord Nityānanda, to his home, but a priest named Guṇārṇava Miśra did not receive him well, and Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī’s brother, not recognizing the glories of Lord Nityānanda, also took sides with the priest.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
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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: “mercy”
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does mercy that does not distinguish between good and bad challenge my judgments?
Today, offer one small kindness to someone you might otherwise dismiss as bad.
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