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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.25
জীব-বহু মারি’ কৈল চাক্লা সব নাশ ।
এথা তুমি কৈলা মোর সর্ব কার্য নাশ ॥ ২৫ ॥
jīva-bahu māri’ kaila cāklā saba nāśa
ethā tumi kailā mora sarva kārya nāśa
“By killing many living entities, your elder brother has destroyed all Bengal. Now here you are destroying all my plans.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker accuses the elder brother of killing many living entities.
He describes this killing as having destroyed all Bengal.
He also accuses the person he addresses of destroying all his plans.
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 deposited ten thousand gold coins with a grocer, and the balance he brought in two boats to a place called Bāklā Candradvīpa. There he divided this money among the brāhmaṇas, Vaiṣṇavas and his relatives, and a portion he kept for emergency measures and personal needs.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might my actions affect living beings and the plans of others?
Before carrying out one plan today, consider whether it could harm another living being.
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