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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.101
কৃপা করি,’ যদি মোরে করিয়াছ উদ্ধার ।
আপন-কৃপাতে কহ ‘কর্তব্য’ আমার ॥ ১০১ ॥
kṛpā kari’ yadi more kariyācha uddhāra
āpana-kṛpāte kaha ‘kartavya’ āmāra
“Out of Your causeless mercy, You have delivered me from the materialistic path. Now, by the same causeless mercy, please tell me what my duty is.
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The speaker credits his deliverance from the materialistic path to causeless mercy.
Having been delivered, he now asks to understand his duty.
He seeks this guidance through the same causeless mercy, rather than claiming to know the way himself.
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
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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”, “delivered”, “deliverance”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I willing to ask what my duty is rather than assume I already know?
Offer a brief prayer asking for mercy to understand your duty.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
6 lectures given on it · quoted in 1 more lecture. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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