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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.200
‘নির্বিশেষ-গোসাঞি’ লঞা করেন ব্যাখ্যান ।
‘সাকার-গোসাঞি’ — সেব্য, কারো নাহি জ্ঞান ॥ ২০০ ॥
‘nirviśeṣa-gosāñi’ lañā karena vyākhyāna
‘sākāra-gosāñi’ — sevya, kāro nāhi jñāna
“Usually they describe the Lord’s impersonal aspect, but they hardly know that the Lord’s personal feature is worshipable. They are undoubtedly lacking this knowledge.
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The saintly Muslim admits that those supposedly conversant with the Koran could not understand its essence.
Because of this, they accepted only the Lord’s impersonal feature. Generally, they recited and explained only that portion.
The Lord’s transcendental body is worshipable, but most of these scholars were unaware of this.
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:
Thus the leader of the soldiers, named Vijulī Khān, surrendered to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and he and his party became devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The same village today is known as the village of Pāṭhāna Vaiṣṇavas.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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In this verse: “saintly”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does knowing that the Lord’s personal feature is worshipable deepen your understanding of worship?
Offer a brief prayer of reverence to the Lord, remembering that His transcendental body is worshipable.
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