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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 18: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Visit to Śrī Vṛndāvana
Madhya 18.54Madhya 18.56

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.55

প্রস্তাবে কহিলুঁ গোপাল-কৃপার আখ্যান ।

তবে মহাপ্ৰভু গেলা ‘শ্রীকাম্যবন’ ॥ ৫৫ ॥

prastāve kahiluṅ gopāla-kṛpāra ākhyāna

tabe mahāprabhu gelā ‘śrī-kāmyavana’

Translation

In the course of this story, I have given a description of Lord Gopāla’s mercy. After seeing the Gopāla Deity, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to Śrī Kāmyavana.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Remembering Lord Gopāla’s Mercy

  1. 1

    The author identifies this account as a description of Lord Gopāla’s mercy.

  2. 2

    After seeing the Gopāla Deity, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to Śrī Kāmyavana.

  3. 3

    The purport notes that Kāmyavana is mentioned in the Ādi-varāha Purāṇa.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 18: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Visit to Śrī Vṛndāvana

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Seeing a great crowd in Mathurā, He moved His residence near Akrūra-ghāṭa, and from there He went every day to Vṛndāvana to see Kālīya-hrada, Dvādaśāditya-ghāṭa, Keśī-ghāṭa, Rāsa-sthalī, Cīra-ghāṭa and Āmli-talā. At Kālīya Lake, many people mistook a fisherman for Kṛṣṇa.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. prastāvein the course of the story
  2. kahiluṅI have stated
  3. gopāla-kṛpāraof the mercy of Gopāla
  4. ākhyānadescription
  5. tabeafter this
  6. mahāprabhuŚrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  7. gelāwent
  8. śrī-kāmya-vanato Śrī Kāmyavana
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the author’s emphasis on mercy shape my reading of this account?

Practice

Pause today to reflect on the account as a description of Lord Gopāla’s mercy.

Live this todayRemembering Lord Gopāla’s MercyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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