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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.182
আমা-সব অধমে যে করিয়াছ অঙ্গীকার ।
দীনদয়ালু-গুণ তোমার তাহাতে প্রচার ।।” ১৮২ ।। ॥ ১৮২ ॥
āmā-saba adhame ye kariyācha aṅgīkāra
dīna-dayālu-guṇa tomāra tāhāte pracāra”
“My Lord, we are all fallen, but You have accepted us due to Your attribute of being merciful to the fallen. This is well known all over the world.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Haridāsa describes himself and the others as fallen.
He attributes their acceptance to the Lord’s mercy toward the fallen, not to their own qualifications.
He says that this merciful quality of the Lord is well known throughout the world.
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:
The Lord also informed him that He was maintaining Sanātana and the other devotees just like a father. Therefore the moisture oozing from Sanātana’s itching skin did not affect the Lord at all.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.
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”, “mercy”
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: “fallen”
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.
How does remembering the Lord’s mercy help me acknowledge my shortcomings honestly?
Offer a brief prayer acknowledging one shortcoming and expressing gratitude for the Lord’s mercy.
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