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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.188
হরিদাস কহে, — “তুমি ঈশ্বর দয়াময় ।
তোমার গম্ভীর হৃদয় বুঝন না যায় ॥ ১৮৮ ॥
haridāsa kahe, — “tumi īśvara dayā-maya
tomāra gambhīra hṛdaya bujhana nā yāya
Haridāsa Ṭhākura said, “My dear Sir, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are most merciful toward us. No one can understand what is within Your deeply affectionate heart.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Haridāsa Ṭhākura addresses Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
He recognizes that the Lord is most merciful toward them.
The Lord’s heart is deeply affectionate, yet no one can fully understand what is within it.
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
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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”
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 can I acknowledge the Lord’s mercy without expecting to understand everything about it?
Take a quiet moment to express gratitude for the Lord’s mercy.
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