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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.135
এইমত দশদিন প্রয়াগে রহিয়া ।
শ্রীরূপে শিক্ষা দিল শক্তি সঞ্চারিয়া ॥ ১৩৫ ॥
ei-mata daśa-dina prayāge rahiyā
śrī-rūpe śikṣā dila śakti sañcāriyā
For ten days Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stayed at Prayāga and instructed Rūpa Gosvāmī, empowering him with the necessary potency.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stayed at Prayāga for ten days, instructing Rūpa Gosvāmī and empowering him with the necessary potency.
Unless one is specifically empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one cannot spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
An empowered devotee sees and feels himself to be the lowest of men. He knows that whatever he does is due to the inspiration given by the Lord in the heart.
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The purport of CC Madhya 19.135 quotesBG 10.10
This is confirmed by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā (10.10):
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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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī finally reached Prayāga and met with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for ten successive days. During this time, Vallabha Bhaṭṭa extended an invitation to the Lord with great respect.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “lowest”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might remembering the Lord’s inspiration change the way you view your own service?
Before one act of devotional service today, pause to ask the Lord for inspiration.
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