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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.115
শত-হস্তে করেন যেন ক্ষালন-মার্জন ।
প্রতিজন-পাশে যাই’ করান শিক্ষণ ॥ ১১৫ ॥
śata-haste karena yena kṣālana-mārjana
pratijana-pāśe yāi’ karāna śikṣaṇa
It appeared as though Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu were cleansing and washing with a hundred hands. He approached every devotee just to teach him how to work.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was personally cleansing and washing.
It appeared as though He were working with a hundred hands.
He approached every devotee to teach him how to work.
Purification through joyful service. Collective cleansing becomes a visible devotional act before Ratha-yātrā.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
This incident is very significant, for it awoke within the devotee ecstatic love. Then the son of Advaita Prabhu named Gopāla fainted during kīrtana, and when he did not come to his senses, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu favored him by awakening him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 12
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Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
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