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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 12.60
প্রশ্রয়-পাগল শুদ্ধ-বৈদগ্ধী না জানে ।
অন্তরে সুখী হৈলা প্রভু তার সেই গুণে ॥ ৬০ ॥
praśraya-pāgala śuddha-vaidagdhī nā jāne
antare sukhī hailā prabhu tāra sei guṇe
An intimate relationship sometimes makes a person overstep formal etiquette. Thus Parameśvara actually pleased the Lord in His heart by his simple and affectionate behavior.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
An intimate relationship can sometimes lead a person to overstep formal etiquette. Parameśvara’s simple, affectionate behavior nevertheless pleased the Lord in His heart.
Praśraya includes affection, humility, faith, and asking for or accepting a special concession.
Pāgala includes impudence, arrogance, and influence. Vaidagdhī includes cunningness, humor, beauty, expertise, learning, tricky behavior, and indications.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Loving anger and reconciliation. Jagadānanda’s hurt over rejected oil is healed through personal service and prasāda.
The mood of Antya 12 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 year a devotee named Parameśvara dāsa Modaka also went with his family to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī. The devotees often invited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to eat with them.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 12
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “relationship”
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “humility”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
In your close relationships, how can affection remain simple and humble?
Express affection to someone today in a simple way, without asking for special treatment.
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