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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.127
সেই সব লোকে প্রভু প্রসাদ করিল ।
কৃষ্ণপ্রেমে মত্ত লোক নিজ-ঘরে গেল ॥ ১২৭ ॥
sei saba loke prabhu prasāda karila
kṛṣṇa-preme matta loka nija-ghare gela
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then bestowed His causeless mercy upon all the people there, and everyone became ecstatic with love of God. Finally they all returned to their homes.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bestowed His causeless mercy upon all the people there.
Everyone became ecstatic with love of God.
After receiving His mercy, they all returned to their homes.
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:
While stopping near a village on the way to Prayāga, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fainted in ecstatic love. Some Pāṭhāna soldiers who were passing through saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and falsely concluded that the Lord’s associates, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya and others, had killed the Lord with a poison named dhuturā and were taking His wealth.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.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love”
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the description of mercy as causeless invite me to appreciate?
Pause at home today to reflect on Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's causeless mercy and the love of God it awakened.
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