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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 15.83
সেই ভিতে হাত দিয়া ফল পরশিলা ।
কৃষ্ণ-যোগ্য নহে, ফল অপবিত্র হৈলা ॥ ৮৩ ॥
sei bhite hāta diyā phala paraśilā
kṛṣṇa-yogya nahe, phala apavitra hailā
“ ‘After touching the ceiling above the door, you have touched the coconuts. Now they are no longer fit to be offered to Kṛṣṇa because they are contaminated.’
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Rāghava Paṇḍita considered the coconuts contaminated after they were touched by someone who had touched the ceiling. He said they were no longer fit to offer to Kṛṣṇa.
He was an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, not someone suffering from a cleansing mania. Everything he saw was related to the Lord’s service.
Imitating him on the level of material purity and impurity will not help anyone. On the transcendental platform, there is no higher or lower, pure or impure.
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 15.83 quotesCC Antya 4.174
As explained in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya-līlā 4.174), bhadrābhadra-vastu-jñāna nāhika ‘prākṛte.’
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Festive affection and reconciliation. Festivals, reciprocal hospitality, and the deliverance of Amogha show affectionate grace.
The mood of Madhya 15 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in return, worshiped Advaita Ācārya with the flowers and tulasī that remained on the offered plate and said a mantra, yo ’si so ’si namo ’stu te (“Whatever You are, You are — but I offer My respects unto You”). Then Advaita Ācārya Prabhu invited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for prasādam.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 15
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “offered”, “service”, “servant”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I thinking about serving Kṛṣṇa, or merely copying outward standards of purity?
Before one act of service today, pause and consider how you can do it for Kṛṣṇa rather than as an outward imitation.
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