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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.194
রঘুনাথ মনে কহে, — ‘কৃষ্ণ নাহি জানি ।
তব কৃপা কাড়িল আমা, — এই আমি মানি ।।’ ১৯৪ ।। ॥ ১৯৪ ॥
raghunātha mane kahe, — ‘kṛṣṇa nāhi jāni
tava kṛpā kāḍila āmā, — ei āmi māni’
Raghunātha dāsa answered within his mind, “I do not know who Kṛṣṇa is. I simply know that Your mercy, O my Lord, has saved me from my family life.”
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Raghunātha dāsa answered within his mind rather than speaking aloud.
He humbly said that he did not know who Kṛṣṇa was. He simply knew that the Lord’s mercy had saved him.
He credited his deliverance from family life to the Lord’s mercy, not to his own efforts.
Longing fulfilled. Raghunātha’s sustained desire for the Lord culminates in arrival, shelter, and renunciation.
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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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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”, “deliverance”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What help in your spiritual life can you gratefully recognize as the Lord’s mercy?
Offer a brief prayer of gratitude for help you have received in your spiritual life.
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