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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.190
আলিঙ্গিয়া কৈলা তার কন্দর্প-সম অঙ্গ ।
বুঝিতে না পারি তোমার কৃপার তরঙ্গ ।।” ১৯০ ।। ॥ ১৯০ ॥
āliṅgiyā kailā tāra kandarpa-sama aṅga
bujhite nā pāri tomāra kṛpāra taraṅga”
“By embracing him You made his body as beautiful as that of Cupid. We cannot understand the waves of Your mercy.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
By embracing Vāsudeva, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu transformed his body.
His body became as beautiful as that of Cupid.
Haridāsa Ṭhākura describes the Lord’s mercy as waves that they cannot understand.
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:
Because his disease produced wet sores on his body, Sanātana Gosvāmī used to avoid embracing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, but nevertheless the Lord would embrace him by force. This made Sanātana Gosvāmī very unhappy, and therefore he consulted Jagadānanda Paṇḍita about what he should do.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: “mercy”, “transformed”
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.
What does Haridāsa Ṭhākura’s response teach me about humility before the Lord’s mercy?
Read this verse slowly and pause over the words “waves of Your mercy.”
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