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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 17.118
যেই তাঁরে দেখে, সেই ঈশ্বর করি’ কহে ।
ঐছে মোহন-বিদ্যা — যে দেখে সে মোহে ॥ ১১৮ ॥
yei tāṅre dekhe, sei īśvara kari’ kahe
aiche mohana-vidyā — ye dekhe se mohe
“Whoever sees Him accepts Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Since He has some mystic power by which He hypnotizes people, everyone who sees Him becomes illusioned.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker said that whoever saw Him accepted Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
He attributed this response to a supposed mystic power that hypnotized people.
He called those who saw Him illusioned. This was the speaker’s accusation, not an affirmation of their recognition.
Wonder and contagious joy. Even forest animals chant; nature seems drawn into the saṅkīrtana movement.
The mood of Madhya 17 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:
At Vārāṇasī, Vaidya Candraśekhara, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s old friend, also rendered service unto Him. Seeing the behavior of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, a Maharashtriyan brāhmaṇa informed Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, the leader of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 17
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