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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 7.136
শ্রীধরানুগত কর ভাগবত-ব্যাখ্যান ।
অভিমান ছাড়ি’ ভজ কৃষ্ণ ভগবান্ ॥ ১৩৬ ॥
śrīdharānugata kara bhāgavata-vyākhyāna
abhimāna chāḍi’ bhaja kṛṣṇa bhagavān
“Put forth your explanation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam following in the footsteps of Śrīdhara Svāmī. Giving up your false pride, worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asks for an explanation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that follows Śrīdhara Svāmī.
He instructs the writer to give up false pride.
He directs him to worship Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The instruction joins faithful explanation with humble worship.
Pride softened by grace. Humor and correction lead toward humility and a relationship of devotion.
The mood of Antya 7 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:
Later, when Vallabha Bhaṭṭa became intimately connected with the Lord, the Lord advised him to take instructions from Gadādhara Paṇḍita. Thus the Lord expressed His feelings of love for Gadādhara Paṇḍita.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 7
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “humble”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might false pride distract me from worshiping Kṛṣṇa?
Offer a short prayer to Kṛṣṇa asking for help to give up false pride.
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