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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 19: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī
Madhya 19.53Madhya 19.55

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.54

যোঽজ্ঞানমত্তং ভুবনং দয়ালুরুল্লাঘয়ন্নপ্যকরোৎ প্ৰমত্তম্‌ ।

স্বপ্রেমসম্পৎসুধয়াদ্ভুতেহং শ্রীকৃষ্ণচৈতন্যমমুং প্ৰপদ্যে ॥ ৫৪ ॥

yo ’jñāna-mattaṁ bhuvanaṁ dayālur

ullāghayann apy akarot pramattam

sva-prema-sampat-sudhayādbhutehaṁ

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanyam amuṁ prapadye

Translation

“We offer our respectful obeisances unto that merciful Supreme Personality of Godhead who has converted all three worlds, which were maddened by ignorance, and saved them from their diseased condition by making them mad with the nectar from the treasure-house of love of God. Let us take full shelter of that Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, whose activities are wonderful.”

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Take Shelter of Merciful Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya

  1. 1

    The prayer offers respectful obeisances to the merciful Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya.

  2. 2

    He saved the three worlds from their diseased condition of ignorance by making them mad with nectar from the treasure-house of love of God.

  3. 3

    The prayer calls us to take full shelter of Him, whose activities are wonderful.

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

Further reading

Madhya 19: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī

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

He was informed that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was going to Vṛndāvana from Jagannātha Purī through the forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa (Jharkhand); therefore he sent two people to Jagannātha Purī to find out when the Lord would leave for Vṛndāvana. In this way Rūpa Gosvāmī retired, but Sanātana Gosvāmī told the Nawab that he was sick and could not attend to his work.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. yaḥthat Personality of Godhead who
  2. ajñāna-mattammaddened by ignorance or foolishly passing time in karma, jñāna, yoga and Māyāvāda philosophy
  3. bhuvanamthe entire three worlds
  4. dayāluḥso merciful
  5. ullāghayansubduing such processes as karma, jñāna and yoga
  6. apidespite
  7. akarotmade
  8. pramattammaddened
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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: “merciful”

  • Prema · Love of Godhead

    The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “love”

  • Śaraṇāgati · Taking shelter

    Turning toward Kṛṣṇa through shelter, surrender, dependence on guru, and unconditional devotional fidelity. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “shelter”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What would it mean for me to take fuller shelter of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya?

Practice

Read this prayer aloud once as a personal appeal for shelter.

Live this todayTake Shelter of Merciful Śrī Kṛṣṇa CaitanyaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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