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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 12.85
কাষ্ঠের পুতলী যেন কুহকে নাচায় ।
ঈশ্বর-চরিত্র কিছু বুঝন না যায় ॥ ৮৫ ॥
kāṣṭhera putalī yena kuhake nācāya
īśvara-caritra kichu bujhana nā yāya
As a wooden doll dances to the will of a puppeteer, everything is accomplished by the will of the Lord. Who can understand the characteristics of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
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A wooden doll dances according to the will of a puppeteer.
Through this comparison, the verse explains that everything is accomplished by the Lord’s will.
The closing question invites humility before the characteristics of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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:
The devotees often invited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to eat with them. When the Lord bade them all farewell, He talked very pleasingly 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.
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the image of the wooden doll challenge your sense of being fully in control?
When something does not go as planned today, pause and recall the verse’s image of the wooden doll.
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