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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 4.171
যদ্যপি কাহার ‘মমতা’ বহুজনে হয় ।
প্রীতি-স্বভাবে কাহাতে কোন ভাবোদয় ॥ ১৭১ ॥
yadyapi kāhāra ‘mamatā’ bahu-jane haya
prīti-svabhāve kāhāte kona bhāvodaya
“Although one has affection for many persons, different types of ecstatic love awaken according to the nature of one’s personal relationships.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
One may have affection for many persons.
Different types of ecstatic love awaken according to the nature of one’s personal relationships.
In this context, the Lord explains that affection need not take the same form in every relationship.
Despair met with care. Sanātana’s wish to die is interrupted by the Lord’s protective insistence on his future service.
The mood of Antya 4 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu informed Sanātana Gosvāmī that because Sanātana was a pure devotee, the Lord was never inconvenienced by his bodily condition. Because the Lord was a sannyāsī, He did not consider one body better than another.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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: “relationships”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I assume that genuine affection must always be expressed in the same way?
Reflect on the Lord’s words today, noting that different expressions of affection need not mean an absence of closeness.
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