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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.136
loka-hita lāgi’ tomāra saba vyavahāra
āmi saba nā jāni gambhīra hṛdaya tomāra”
“All Your activities are for the benefit of people in general. We cannot understand them, for Your intentions are deep and grave.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Paramānanda Purī affirmed that all the Lord’s activities benefit people in general.
He admitted that they could not understand those activities fully.
The Lord’s intentions are deep and grave. Paramānanda Purī expressed trust while acknowledging the limits of his understanding.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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:
One year after this incident, Junior Haridāsa went to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā and committed suicide. In his spiritual body, however, he continued to sing devotional songs, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard them.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I acknowledge what I do not understand while trusting the Lord’s good intentions?
Read this verse slowly and pause to acknowledge that the Lord’s intentions may exceed your understanding.
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