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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.108
কিন্তু কাহোঁ ‘কৃষ্ণ’ দেখে, কাহোঁ ‘ভ্রম’ মানে ।
স্থাণু-পুরুষে যৈছে বিপরীত-জ্ঞানে ॥ ১০৮ ॥
kintu kāhoṅ ‘kṛṣṇa’ dekhe, kāhoṅ ‘bhrama’ māne
sthāṇu-puruṣe yaiche viparīta-jñāne
“But where they are seeing Kṛṣṇa is their mistake. It is like considering a dry tree to be a person.”
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Sthāṇu means a dry tree without leaves. Mistaking such a tree for a person from a distance is called sthāṇu-puruṣa.
Although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was living in Vṛndāvana, the inhabitants considered Him an ordinary human being or sannyāsī.
They mistook the fisherman for Kṛṣṇa and the torchlight for bright jewels on Kālīya’s hoods. Every human being is prone to such mistakes.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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:
Their mistake was corrected by the Lord. In this way, their Kṛṣṇa consciousness was awakened, and they could understand that a sannyāsī is simply a living entity and not the Supreme Personality of Godhead.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can remembering my tendency to make mistakes help me judge appearances more humbly?
Today, reconsider one judgment about a person that you made from appearances alone.
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