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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.63
নিত্যানন্দে কহে প্রভু, — শুনহ, শ্ৰীপাদ ।
এই আমি মাগি, তুমি করহ প্রসাদ ॥ ৬৩ ॥
nityānande kahe prabhu, — śunaha, śrīpāda
ei āmi māgi, tumi karaha prasāda
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then told Nityānanda Prabhu, “Please hear Me, O holy man: I now request something of You. Kindly grant My request.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Nityānanda Prabhu to hear Him.
He addressed Nityānanda Prabhu as “O holy man.”
The Lord said He had a request and kindly asked Nityānanda Prabhu to grant it.
Yearning and deferral. Attempts, delays, meetings, and farewells heighten the desire to reach Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 16 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:
Caitanya Mahāprabhu forbade Nityānanda to visit Nīlācala every year. Questioned by the inhabitants of Kulīna-grāma, Caitanya Mahāprabhu again repeated the symptoms of a Vaiṣṇava.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 16
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can the Lord’s courteous words shape the way I make requests?
Make one request today with respectful words rather than a demand.
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