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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 11.49
যদি সেই মহাপ্রভুর না পাই কৃপা-ধন ।
কিবা রাজ্য, কিবা দেহ, — সব অকারণ ॥ ৪৯ ॥
yadi sei mahāprabhura nā pāi kṛpā-dhana
kibā rājya, kibā deha, — saba akāraṇa
“If I do not receive Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy, my body and my kingdom are certainly useless.”
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Mahārāja Pratāparudra considered his body and kingdom useless without Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy.
The purport calls this an excellent example of dṛḍha-vrata, determination. Without the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s mercy, one’s life is defeated.
Unless one inquires into spiritual life, everything is useless. Without spiritual inquiry, both our labor and its object are a waste of time.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 11.49 quotesSB 5.5.5
In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (5.5.5) it is said: parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam.
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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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
While Advaita Ācārya and the other devotees were coming to Jagannātha Purī, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Govinda, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s two personal assistants, went to receive all the devotees with garlands. From the roof of his palace, King Pratāparudra could see all the devotees arriving.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 11
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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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What place does spiritual inquiry have among the things you work for each day?
Write down one sincere question about spiritual life and spend five minutes considering it.
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