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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.68
অদ্ভুত-দয়ালু চৈতন্য — অদ্ভুত-বদান্য! ঐছে দয়ালু দাতা লোকে নাহি শুনি অন্য ॥ ৬৮ ॥
adbhuta-dayālu caitanya — adbhuta-vadānya!
aiche dayālu dātā loke nāhi śuni anya
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is wonderfully merciful and wonderfully magnanimous. We have heard of no one else within this world so merciful and charitable.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is wonderfully merciful.
He is also wonderfully magnanimous, showing extraordinary generosity.
The author says that we have heard of no one else in this world so merciful and charitable.
Inconceivable ecstatic absorption. The Lord’s overwhelming love manifests extraordinary bodily changes.
The mood of Antya 17 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the seventeenth chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Absorbed in transcendental ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went out one night without opening the doors to His room. After crossing over three walls, He fell down among some cows belonging to the district of Tailaṅga. There He remained unconscious, assuming the aspect of a tortoise.Back to this verse in Antya 17
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Audārya · Love that moves outward
The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “magnanimous”
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: “merciful”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which quality draws my attention today: His mercy or His generosity?
Offer a brief expression of gratitude to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for His mercy.
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