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  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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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 11: The Beḍā-kīrtana Pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Madhya 11.46Madhya 11.48

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 11.47

অদর্শনীয়ানপি নীচজাতীন্

সংবীক্ষতে হন্ত তথাপি নো মাম্ ।

মদেকবর্জং কৃপয়িষ্যতীতি

নির্ণীয় কিং সোঽবততার দেবঃ ॥ ৪৭ ॥

adarśanīyān api nīca-jātīn

saṁvīkṣate hanta tathāpi no mām

mad-eka-varjaṁ kṛpayiṣyatīti

nirṇīya kiṁ so ’vatatāra devaḥ

Translation

“ ‘Alas, has Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu made His advent deciding that He will deliver all others with the exception of me? He bestows His merciful glance upon many lower-class men who are usually not even to be seen.’”

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Longing for the Lord’s Merciful Glance

  1. 1

    The King lamented, wondering whether Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had come to deliver everyone except him.

  2. 2

    He acknowledged that the Lord bestowed His merciful glance upon many people considered lower-class and usually not even to be seen.

  3. 3

    The purport identifies this lament as a verse from Śrī Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭaka.

Key points from the purport
  • This verse is found in the Śrī Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭaka (8.28).

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

Communal anticipation. Arriving devotees, kīrtana, and longing to meet the Lord converge.

The mood of Madhya 11 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 11: The Beḍā-kīrtana Pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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

During Anavasara, while Lord Jagannātha was resting for fifteen days, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, being unable to see Lord Jagannātha, went to Ālālanātha. Later, when the devotees from Bengal came to see Him, He returned to Jagannātha Purī.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 11
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. adarśanīyānupon those who are unfit to be seen
  2. apialthough
  3. nīca-jātīnthe lower class of men
  4. saṁvīkṣateputs His merciful glance
  5. hantaalas
  6. tathā apistill
  7. na unot
  8. māmupon me
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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: “merciful”, “deliver”

  • Vipralambha · Love in separation

    Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “lamented”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the Lord’s mercy toward socially excluded people deepen your own hope for mercy?

Practice

Express your longing for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s merciful glance in a short prayer.

Live this todayLonging for the Lord’s Merciful GlanceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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