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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 5.217
মো–অধমে দিল শ্রীগোবিন্দ দরশন ।
কহিবার কথা নহে অকথ্য–কথন ॥ ২১৭ ॥
mo-adhame dila śrī-govinda daraśana
kahibāra kathā nahe akathya-kathana
He granted to one as low as me the sight of Lord Govinda. Words cannot describe this, nor is it fit to be disclosed.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author humbly describes himself as low.
He received the gift of seeing Lord Govinda.
He says that words cannot describe this gift and that it is not fit to be disclosed.
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:
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. Therefore Rāmadāsa became sorry, broke his flute and went away.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
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