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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 Madhya 1.69
মোর শ্লোকের অভিপ্রায় না জানে কোন জনে ।
মোর মনের কথা তুমি জানিলে কেমনে? ॥ ৬৯ ॥
mora ślokera abhiprāya nā jāne kona jane
mora manera kathā tumi jānile kemane?
“No one knows the purport of My verse,” Caitanya Mahāprabhu said. “How could you understand My intention?”
Read this verse on Vedabase.ioThis verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.
Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that no one knew the purport of His verse.
He asked Rūpa Gosvāmī how he had understood His intention.
The Lord’s question concerned the intention behind His verse, not merely its words.
Anticipation and hidden longing. The author previews later pastimes, including the inner Vraja mood expressed at Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 1 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 is also a description of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstasy that occurred when He recited the verse beginning yaḥ kaumāra-haraḥ, as well as a description of how that ecstasy was explained in the verse beginning priyaḥ so ’yaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ, by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Because he wrote that verse, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was specifically blessed by the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 1
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When I read, do I pause to consider the intention behind the words?
Reread the Lord’s question and spend a moment reflecting on the word “intention.”
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