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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.193

প্রভু কহে, — “কৃষ্ণকৃপা বলিষ্ঠ সবা হৈতে ।

তোমারে কাড়িল বিষয়-বিষ্ঠা-গর্ত হৈতে ।।” ১৯৩ ।। ॥ ১৯৩ ॥

prabhu kahe, — “kṛṣṇa-kṛpā baliṣṭha sabā haite

tomāre kāḍila viṣaya-viṣṭhā-garta haite”

Translation

Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “The mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa is stronger than anything else. Therefore the Lord has delivered you from the ditch of materialistic life, which is like a hole into which people pass stool.”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s mercy overcomes material bondage

  1. 1

    According to the law of karma, everyone is destined to suffer or enjoy according to a certain material standard. Kṛṣṇa’s mercy is so powerful that He can change all the reactions of one’s past karma.

  2. 2

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu compared bondage to materialistic life to a filthy ditch. Attachment can make people cling to material comforts even though that life is actually miserable.

  3. 3

    Only Kṛṣṇa’s special mercy can free one from this entanglement. Although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu knew Raghunātha dāsa was already liberated, He emphasized Kṛṣṇa’s mercy in delivering him from materialistic life.

Key points from the purport
  • Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu specifically drew attention to the mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
  • That mercy is more powerful than anything else, for it had saved Raghunātha dāsa from the strong bondage of materialistic life, which the Lord compared to a hole where people pass stool.
  • Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu gave His verdict that those addicted to the materialistic way of life are like worms that are living in stool but cannot give it up.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Longing fulfilled. Raghunātha’s sustained desire for the Lord culminates in arrival, shelter, and renunciation.

The mood of Antya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Therefore another name for Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī is Svarūpera Raghu, or the Raghunātha of Svarūpa Dāmodara. For five days Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī took prasādam at the temple, but later he would stand at the Siṁha-dvāra gate and eat only whatever he could gather by alms.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. prabhu kaheLord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said
  2. kṛṣṇa-kṛpāthe mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa
  3. baliṣṭhamore powerful
  4. sabā haitethan anything
  5. tomāreyou
  6. kāḍilaHe has delivered
  7. viṣayaof material enjoyment
  8. viṣṭhāof stool
  9. gartathe ditch
  10. haitefrom
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Key ideas in this 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: “mercy”, “delivered”, “delivering”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which material comfort do you find difficult to give up, and how might you seek Kṛṣṇa’s mercy rather than rely only on yourself?

Practice

Name one material attachment in a private prayer and ask Kṛṣṇa for His mercy to become free from its hold.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s mercy overcomes material bondageThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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