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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 8.82
চৈতন্যলীলাতে ‘ব্যাস’—বৃন্দাবন–দাস ।
তাঁর কৃপা বিনা অন্যে না হয় প্রকাশ ॥ ৮২ ।
caitanya-līlāte ‘vyāsa’ — vṛndāvana-dāsa
tāṅra kṛpā vinā anye nā haya prakāśa
Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura is the authorized writer on the pastimes of Lord Caitanya. Without his mercy, therefore, one cannot describe these pastimes.
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Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura is the authorized writer on the pastimes of Lord Caitanya.
His mercy is needed to describe these pastimes.
The author acknowledges that without this mercy, one cannot describe Lord Caitanya’s pastimes.
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:
Only those subjects which were not discussed by Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura in his Caitanya-bhāgavata have been taken up by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī to be depicted in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta. In his very old age, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī went to Vṛndāvana, and by the order of Śrī Madana-mohanajī he wrote Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 8
Learn the words of the verse.
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”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can this dependence on mercy shape my approach to Lord Caitanya’s pastimes?
Before reading today, offer a brief prayer for Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura’s mercy.
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