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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.67
অচিন্ত্যশক্ত্যে কর তুমি তাহার ঘটন ।
যে করাহ, সেই করি, নাহিক নিয়ম ॥ ৬৭ ॥
acintya-śaktye kara tumi tāhāra ghaṭana
ye karāha, sei kari, nāhika niyama
“By Your inconceivable energy, You can do whatever You like, and whatever You make Me do, I do without restriction.”
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By His inconceivable energy, the Lord can do whatever He likes.
Lord Brahmā belongs to jīva-tattva, not viṣṇu-tattva. Yet by the Lord’s grace and instruction through the heart, he could create a huge universe.
The Lord, always situated in the heart, instructs His pure devotees. Even an insignificant living entity can perform the most difficult tasks by following His instructions and receiving His grace.
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 16.67 quotesBG 18.61
Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe’rjuna tiṣṭhati. If he follows the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the living entity, even though an insignificant creature, can perform the most difficult tasks by the Lord’s grace.
The purport of CC Madhya 16.67 quotesBG 10.10
Lord Kṛṣṇa confirms this in the Bhagavad-gītā (10.10):
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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.
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: “insignificant”
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: “grace”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can remembering the Lord’s grace change your attitude toward a difficult task?
Before beginning one difficult task today, pause and pray for the Lord’s grace to follow His instructions.
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