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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 17.144
ভাবকালি বেচিতে আমি আইলাঙ কাশীপুরে ।
গ্রাহক নাহি, না বিকায়, লঞা যাব ঘরে ॥ ১৪৪ ॥
bhāvakāli vecite āmi āilāṅa kāśīpure
grāhaka nāhi, nā vikāya, lañā yāba ghare
“I have come here to sell My emotional ecstatic sentiments in this city of Kāśī, but I cannot find any customers. If they are not sold, I must take them back home.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker describes His emotional ecstatic sentiments as something He has come to sell.
He has brought them to the city of Kāśī but cannot find any customers.
He says that if they are not sold, He must take them back home.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu next passed through Prayāga and Mathurā and then took His lunch at the home of a Sānoḍiyā brāhmaṇa, a disciple of Mādhavendra Purī. He bestowed His blessings upon the brāhmaṇa by accepting lunch at his place.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 17
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the image of finding no customers make me consider about my own receptivity?
Reread the verse and briefly consider whether you would be a willing customer for these ecstatic sentiments.
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