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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.16
এই দেখ, — চৈতন্যের কৃপা-মহাবল ।
তার অনুসন্ধান বিনা করায় সফল ॥ ১৬ ॥
ei dekha, — caitanyera kṛpā-mahābala
tāra anusandhāna vinā karāya saphala
How powerful is the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! Without even inquiring about the King, the Lord made everything successful.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy is so powerful that it acts automatically. Without inquiring about the King, He made everything successful.
Loving service rendered to Kṛṣṇa never goes in vain.
Such service is recorded in a spiritual account and will fructify in due 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 14.16 quotesBG 2.40
This is confirmed by the Bhagavad-gītā (2.40):
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Intimacy and ecstatic play. Mercy to Pratāparudra and discussion of the gopīs reveal deep relational sweetness.
The mood of Madhya 14 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:
The Lord, in His ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa, immediately embraced the King and thus bestowed mercy upon him. When there was an offering of prasādam in the garden, Lord Caitanya also partook of it.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 14
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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”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can this assurance help me serve patiently without demanding immediate results?
Do one small act of loving service to Kṛṣṇa today, remembering that it never goes in vain.
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