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4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 19: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī

Madhya 19.121 Madhya 19.123

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.122

এইমত কর্ণপূর লিখে স্থানে-স্থানে ।

প্রভু কৃপা কৈলা যৈছে রূপ-সনাতনে ॥ ১২২ ॥

ei-mata karṇapūra likhe sthāne-sthāne

prabhu kṛpā kailā yaiche rūpa-sanātane

Translation

The characteristics of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī have thus been described in various places by the poet Kavi-karṇapūra. An account has also been given of how Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bestowed His causeless mercy upon Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Accounts of Character and Causeless Mercy

1
The poet Kavi-karṇapūra described Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s characteristics in various places.
2
An account was also given of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy upon Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
3
Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī also received Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s causeless mercy.

How it feels

Empowerment and hope. The seed of bhakti is received, planted, and watered; intimate realization becomes transmissible.

The mood of Madhya 19 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Madhya 19: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī

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

When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu started for Vṛndāvana through the forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa, Rūpa Gosvāmī left home and sent news to Sanātana that he was leaving with his younger brother (Anupama Mallika) to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī finally reached Prayāga and met with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for ten successive days.

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Word for word

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ei-matain this way
karṇapūrathe poet known as Kavi-karṇapūra
likhewrites
sthāne-sthānein various places
prabhuŚrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
kṛpā kailāshowed His mercy
yaichehow
rūpa-sanātaneto Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī

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

What draws my attention in this account of the Lord’s causeless mercy?

Practice

Reread the translation and pause over the words “causeless mercy.”

Live this todayAccounts of Character and Causeless MercyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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