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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 8.78
এই গ্রন্থ লেখায় মোরে ‘মদনমোহন’ ।
আমার লিখন যেন শুকের পঠন ॥ ৭৮ ॥
ei grantha lekhāya more ‘madana-mohana’
āmāra likhana yena śukera paṭhana
Actually Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is not my writing but the dictation of Śrī Madana-mohana. My writing is like the repetition of a parrot.
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The author describes Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta as the dictation of Śrī Madana-mohana, not his own writing. He compares his writing to a parrot’s repetition.
The purport says that this should be the attitude of all devotees.
When the Supreme Personality of Godhead recognizes a devotee, He gives intelligence and dictates how the devotee may go back home, back to Godhead.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Ādi 8.78 quotesBG 10.10
This is confirmed in Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā (10.10):
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Vulnerability and obedience. Kavirāja writes by mercy and command rather than personal self-assertion.
The mood of Ādi 8 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 his very old age, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī went to Vṛndāvana, and by the order of Śrī Madana-mohanajī he wrote Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Thus we are now able to relish its transcendental bliss.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 8
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might your service change if you relied less on personal credit and more on the Lord’s guidance?
Before one act of devotional service today, pray for intelligence to serve without claiming the credit.
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