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  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 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Madhya 2.57Madhya 2.59

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 2.58

অমূন্যধন্যানি দিনান্তরাণি হরে ত্বদালোকনমন্তরেণ ।

অনাথবন্ধো করুণৈকসিন্ধো হা হন্ত হা হন্ত কথং নয়ামি ॥ ৫৮ ॥

amūny adhanyāni dināntarāṇi

hare tvad-ālokanam antareṇa

anātha-bandho karuṇaika-sindho

hā hanta hā hanta kathaṁ nayāmi

Translation

“ ‘O My Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O friend of the helpless! You are the only ocean of mercy! Because I have not met You, My inauspicious days and nights have become unbearable. I do not know how I shall pass the time.’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Is the Friend of Helpless

  1. 1

    The prayer addresses the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the friend of the helpless and the only ocean of mercy.

  2. 2

    Not having met the Lord, the speaker finds days and nights unbearable and does not know how to pass the time.

  3. 3

    The purport identifies this prayer as a verse from the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta by Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura.

Key points from the purport
  • This is a verse from the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta (41), by Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Overwhelming divine separation. A preview of the last years reveals the Lord’s intense separation from Kṛṣṇa.

The mood of Madhya 2 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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

At that time the author, Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī, met Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, by whose mercy he also could memorize all the notes. In this way the author was able to complete this transcendental literature, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 2
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. amūniall those
  2. adhanyāniinauspicious
  3. dina-antarāṇiother days
  4. hareO My Lord
  5. tvatof You
  6. ālokanamseeing
  7. antareṇawithout
  8. anātha-bandhoO friend of the helpless
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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”

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 does addressing the Lord as the friend of the helpless mean to you?

Practice

Offer a brief prayer addressing the Lord as the friend of the helpless and an ocean of mercy.

Live this todayThe Lord Is the Friend of HelplessThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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