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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.65
তাহাঁ সিদ্ধি করে — হেন অন্যে না দেখিয়ে ।
আমার ‘দুষ্কর’ কর্ম, তোমা হৈতে হয়ে ॥ ৬৫ ॥
tāhāṅ siddhi kare — hena anye nā dekhiye
āmāra ‘duṣkara’ karma, tomā haite haye
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “You can perform a task that even I cannot do. But for You, I cannot find anyone in Gauḍa-deśa who can fulfill My mission there.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya’s mission is to deliver the fallen souls of this age. Socially elevated people can also be fallen from the spiritual point of view.
Jagāi and Mādhāi were delivered solely by Nityānanda Prabhu’s mercy. Although they injured Him, He saved them from the Lord’s wrath and elevated them to the transcendental position.
In the incarnation of Gaura-Nitāi, the Lord delivers demons by preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness rather than killing them. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu acknowledged Nityānanda Prabhu’s unique ability to fulfill His mission in Gauḍa-deśa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
When the devotees arrived, Caitanya Mahāprabhu sent His blessings in the form of garlands. In that year also, the Guṇḍicā temple was cleansed, and when the Cāturmāsya period was over, all the devotees returned to their homes in Bengal.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 16
Learn the words of the verse.
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”, “deliver”
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “fallen”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Nityānanda Prabhu’s mercy challenge my tendency to judge someone as beyond spiritual help?
Reflect today on one person you tend to dismiss, remembering that Nityānanda Prabhu delivered even those who injured Him.
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