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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 4.90
কোন্ কোন্ কার্য তুমি কর কোন্ দ্বারে ।
তুমি না জানাইলে কেহ জানিতে না পারে ॥ ৯০ ॥
kon kon kārya tumi kara kon dvāre
tumi nā jānāile keha jānite nā pāre
“Unless You inform us, we cannot understand what Your purpose is or what You want to do through whom.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Haridāsa Ṭhākura says that they cannot understand the Lord’s purpose unless He informs them.
They cannot independently know what Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wants to do.
They also cannot know through whom He wishes to act unless He reveals 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:
I want you to preach the cult of devotional service and go to Vṛndāvana to excavate the lost holy places.” After having thus spoken, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu left, and Haridāsa Ṭhākura and Sanātana Gosvāmī had many talks about this subject.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.
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.
Am I willing to admit that I do not know the Lord’s purpose?
Offer a brief prayer asking for understanding rather than assuming you already know the Lord’s intention.
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