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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 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Madhya 2.85Madhya 2.87

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 2.86

নাহি কাহাঁ সবিরোধ,     নাহি কাহাঁ অনুরোধ,

সহজ বস্তু করি বিবরণ ।

যদি হয় রাগোদ্দেশ,     তাহাঁ হয়ে আবেশ,

সহজ বস্তু না যায় লিখন ॥ ৮৬ ॥

nāhi kāhāṅ savirodha, nāhi kāhāṅ anurodha,

sahaja vastu kari vivaraṇa

yadi haya rāgoddeśa, tāhāṅ haye āveśa,

sahaja vastu nā yāya likhana

Translation

In this Caitanya-caritāmṛta there is no contradictory conclusion, nor is anyone else’s opinion accepted. I have written this book to describe the simple substance as I have heard it from superiors. If I become involved in someone’s likes and dislikes, I cannot possibly write the simple truth.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Transmit Truth Without Injecting Personal Opinion

  1. 1

    Following one’s predecessors is the simplest path. Attachment to them leads along the way of devotional service indicated by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

  2. 2

    The author did not inject personal opinion into Caitanya-caritāmṛta. He described what he understood from his superiors without being carried away by others’ likes and dislikes.

  3. 3

    These facts are matters for realization and are understandable to real devotees. Mundane scholarship cannot awaken or describe spontaneous love of Godhead.

Key points from the purport
  • The author says, however, that he cannot consider the opinions of those who become attracted or repelled by such things, because one cannot write impartially in that way.
  • Mundane scholarship and its concomitant attachments and detachments cannot arouse spontaneous love of Godhead.
  • Such love cannot be described by a mundane scholar.

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. nāhithere is not
  2. kāhāṅanywhere
  3. sa-virodhaopposing element
  4. nāhithere is not
  5. kāhāṅanywhere
  6. anurodhaacceptance of someone’s opinion
  7. sahajasimple
  8. vastusubstance
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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 of godhead”

  • Sevā · Love translated into service

    Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “service”

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

Where might my likes and dislikes interfere with receiving what my predecessors teach?

Practice

Summarize one teaching from this purport in a sentence, checking that you have not added your own opinion.

Live this todayTransmit Truth Without Injecting Personal OpinionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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