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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.74
তপশ্চরন্তীমাজ্ঞায় স্বপাদস্পর্শনাশয়া ।
সখ্যোপেত্যাগ্রহীৎ পাণিং সাহং তদ্গৃহমার্জনী ॥ ৭৪ ॥
tapaś carantīm ājñāya
sva-pāda-sparśanāśayā
sakhyopetyāgrahīt pāṇiṁ
sāhaṁ tad-gṛha-mārjanī
“Knowing me to be performing austerities with the desire to touch His feet, He came with His friend Arjuna and accepted my hand. Yet I am but a maidservant engaged in sweeping the floor of the house of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.”
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Queen Kālindī spoke these words to Draupadī when the family ladies of the Kuru and Yadu dynasties met at Samanta-pañcaka.
Kālindī performed austerities with the desire to touch Kṛṣṇa’s feet. Knowing her desire, He came with His friend Arjuna and accepted her hand.
Although accepted by Kṛṣṇa, she considered herself only a maidservant engaged in sweeping the floor of His house.
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The purport of CC Ādi 6.74 quotesSB 10.83.11
Like the previous verse, this verse appears in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.83.11) in connection with the meeting of the family ladies of the Kuru and Yadu dynasties at Samanta-pañcaka.
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Devotional appeal. The glory of Advaita frames service as the deepest form of greatness.
The mood of Ādi 6 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:
That Advaita, the superintendent of the cosmic manifestation, has descended in the form of Advaita Ācārya to associate with Lord Caitanya. When He is addressed as the servitor of Lord Caitanya, His glories are magnified because unless one is invigorated by this mentality of servitorship one cannot understand the mellows derived from devotional service to the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
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What can Kālindī’s willingness to sweep teach you about humble service?
Sweep a small area today, reflecting on Kālindī’s humble attitude toward serving Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
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