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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 7.138
ভট্ট কহে, — “যদি মোরে হইলা প্রসন্ন ।
একদিন পুনঃ মোর মান’ নিমন্ত্রণ ।।” ১৩৮ ।। ॥ ১৩৮ ॥
bhaṭṭa kahe, — “yadi more ha-ilā prasanna
eka-dina punaḥ mora māna’ nimantraṇa”
Vallabha Bhaṭṭa Ācārya requested Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, “If You are actually pleased with me, please accept my invitation once again.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Vallabha Bhaṭṭa Ācārya addresses Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu with a request.
He asks the Lord to accept his invitation once again.
He connects this request with the Lord’s pleasure, saying, “If You are actually pleased with me.”
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:
There was some joking behavior between these two personalities, and finally Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu corrected Vallabha Bhaṭṭa and sympathetically accepted an invitation from him. Before this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw that Vallabha Bhaṭṭa was greatly attached to Gadādhara Paṇḍita.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 7
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I make pleasing the Lord central to what I offer?
Before one act of worship today, pause and express your wish to please the Lord.
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