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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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 12: The Cleansing of the Guṇḍicā Temple
Madhya 12.115Madhya 12.117

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.116

ভাল কর্ম দেখি’ তারে করে প্রসংশন ।

মনে না মিলিলে করে পবিত্র ভর্ত্‌সন ॥ ১১৬ ॥

bhāla karma dekhi’ tāre kare prasaṁśana

mane nā milile kare pavitra bhartsana

Translation

When He saw someone doing nicely, the Lord praised him, but if He saw that someone was not working to His satisfaction, He immediately chastised that person, not bearing him any grudge.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Praise and Correction Without a Grudge

  1. 1

    The Lord praised anyone He saw doing nicely.

  2. 2

    When someone was not working to His satisfaction, He immediately chastised that person.

  3. 3

    Even when correcting someone, He bore that person no grudge.

How it feels

Purification through joyful service. Collective cleansing becomes a visible devotional act before Ratha-yātrā.

The mood of Madhya 12 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 12: The Cleansing of the Guṇḍicā Temple

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

Advaita Prabhu said that Nityānanda Prabhu was unknown to anyone and that it was not the duty of a householder brāhmaṇa to accept dinner with a person unknown in society. In answer to this humorous statement, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu replied that Advaita Ācārya was a monist and that one could not know how his mind could be turned by eating with such an impersonalist.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. bhālagood
  2. karmawork
  3. dekhi’seeing
  4. tāreto him
  5. karedoes
  6. prasaṁśanapraising
  7. manein His mind
  8. nānot
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

When correction is needed, can you offer it without holding a grudge?

Practice

Give someone specific praise today for a task done well.

Live this todayPraise and Correction Without a GrudgeThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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