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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.164
প্রভুরে দেখিয়া ম্লেচ্ছ করয়ে বিচার ।
এই যতি-পাশ ছিল সুবর্ণ অপার ॥ ১৬৪ ॥
prabhure dekhiyā mleccha karaye vicāra
ei yati-pāśa chila suvarṇa apāra
Seeing the Lord unconscious, the soldiers thought, “This sannyāsī must have possessed a large quantity of gold.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The soldiers saw the Lord unconscious.
They referred to Him as a sannyāsī.
They thought He must have possessed a large quantity of gold. The verse presents this as their thought, not an established fact.
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:
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. Thus the soldiers arrested them.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.
When do I mistake an assumption for something I actually know?
Pause over one judgment today and separate what you observed from what you assumed.
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