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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.151
উদ্বিগ্ন হইল প্রাণ, সহিতে না পারি ।
প্রভুর যে আজ্ঞা হয়, সেই শিরে ধরি ॥” ১৫১ ॥
udvigna ha-ila prāṇa, sahite nā pāri
prabhura ye ājñā haya, sei śire dhari”
“My mind has become very much agitated, and I cannot bear this anxiety. Now everything rests on the permission of Your Lordship. I will accept whatever You want to do.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya openly says that his mind is greatly agitated.
He cannot bear the anxiety, yet he recognizes that everything rests on the Lord's permission.
He declares that he will accept whatever the Lord wants to do.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can you express your anxiety to the Lord while remaining willing to accept His decision?
Offer one worry in prayer, then express your willingness to accept the Lord's decision.
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