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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.71
প্রভু কহে—শুন, শ্রীপাদ, ইহার কারণ ।
গুরু মোরে মূর্খ দেখি’ করিল শাসন ॥ ৭১ ॥
prabhu kahe — śuna, śrīpāda, ihāra kāraṇa
guru more mūrkha dekhi’ karila śāsana
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied to Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, “My dear sir, kindly hear the reason. My spiritual master considered Me a fool, and therefore he chastised Me.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī to kindly hear His explanation.
He presented Himself as a fool whom His spiritual master had chastised.
By doing so, He indicated that Kali-yuga is an age of fools and rascals. Perfection cannot be obtained simply by reading Vedānta philosophy and meditating.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.
The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How willing am I to receive correction rather than rely only on my own understanding?
Reread Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's reply and pause to reflect on His humble manner.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it · quoted in 4 more lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
In each of these he quotes this verse while speaking on another verse or subject. "Find the quote" opens the transcript at that spot.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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