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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 3.77
প্রভু কহে, — “সব জীব মুক্তি যবে পাবে ।
এই ত’ ব্রহ্মাণ্ড তবে জীবশূন্য হবে !” ৭৭ ।। ॥ ৭৭ ॥
prabhu kahe, — “saba jīva mukti yabe pābe
ei ta’ brahmāṇḍa tabe jīva-śūnya habe!”
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied, “If all living entities are liberated, the entire universe will be devoid of living beings.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replies to the statement that all living entities have been freed.
He says that if all living entities are liberated, the entire universe will be devoid of living beings.
His reply introduces the issue that Haridāsa addresses next: how the universe will remain filled even as living entities are delivered.
Steadfast compassion. Haridāsa’s spiritual conviction and the reach of the holy name confront prejudice and temptation.
The mood of Antya 3 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:
Haridāsa Ṭhākura replied that their deliverance would be possible if they very loudly chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, for hearing the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra chanted loudly, even with but little realization, would help them. After describing this incident, the author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta also describes how Haridāsa Ṭhākura was tested at Benāpola, a village near Śāntipura.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 3
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: “delivered”
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “haridāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I patiently consider a question before assuming I understand its answer?
Read the Lord’s reply, then read Haridāsa’s answer in the following verses.
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