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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.166
অঙ্গুলিতে ক্ষত হবে জানি’ দামোদর ।
ভয়ে নিজ-করে নিবারয়ে প্রভু-কর ॥ ১৬৬ ॥
aṅgulite kṣata habe jāni’ dāmodara
bhaye nija-kare nivāraye prabhu-kara
Fearing that the Lord would injure His finger by writing in this way, Svarūpa Dāmodara checked Him with his own hand.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara feared that the Lord might injure His finger by writing in this way.
He responded to this concern by checking the Lord.
Svarūpa Dāmodara used his own hand to stop Him.
Public ecstasy with inward longing. The festival’s collective joy carries the profound Vraja mood of meeting and separation.
The mood of Madhya 13 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 performing kīrtana, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited various symptoms of transcendental ecstasy, and Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exchanged Their feelings very blissfully. When the cars reached the place known as Balagaṇḍi, the devotees offered the deities simple food.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What can I learn from Svarūpa Dāmodara’s attentive concern for the Lord?
Reflect for one minute on how Svarūpa Dāmodara’s care became a concrete action.
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