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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.100
আপনার হিতাহিত কিছুই না জানি !
গ্রাম্য-ব্যবহারে পণ্ডিত, তাই সত্য মানি ॥ ১০০ ॥
āpanāra hitāhita kichui nā jāni!
grāmya-vyavahāre paṇḍita, tāi satya māni
“I do not know what is beneficial for me or what is detrimental. Nonetheless, in ordinary dealings people consider me a learned scholar, and I am also thinking of myself as such.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker admits that he does not know what is beneficial for him or what is detrimental.
In ordinary dealings, people consider him a learned scholar.
He also thinks of himself as learned, yet acknowledges this gap in his understanding.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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:
Sanātana Gosvāmī and his servant then spent the night in a small hotel on the way to Benares. The hotel owner knew that Sanātana Gosvāmī and his servant had eight gold coins, and he decided to kill them and take the money.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Does thinking of myself as knowledgeable keep me from admitting what I do not understand?
Write down one thing you do not yet understand about what is truly beneficial for you.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
5 lectures given on it · quoted in 18 more lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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