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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.117
কৃষ্ণ ভুলি’ সেই জীব অনাদি-বহির্মুখ ।
অতএব মায়া তারে দেয় সংসার-দুঃখ ॥ ১১৭ ॥
kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha
ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha
“Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, the living entity has been attracted by the external feature from time immemorial. Therefore the illusory energy [māyā] gives him all kinds of misery in his material existence.
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The living entity is eternally part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa and His servant. Forgetting this position, he becomes entrapped by the illusory, external energy.
The living entity is called marginal energy because he is spiritual by nature but can live in either the material energy or the spiritual energy.
His forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa has existed since time immemorial. Desiring to enjoy in competition with Kṛṣṇa, he enters material existence and experiences misery.
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Quoted in the purport ofSB 4.26.8
Therefore the illusory energy of Kṛṣṇa is giving him different types of miseries in material existence.”
Quoted in the purport ofSB 5.11.5
ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha. Due to the living entity’s forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa, one is bound by the laws of material nature.
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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:
First they discussed the constitutional position of the living entities, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained to Sanātana Gosvāmī how the living entity is one of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s energies. After this, the Lord explained the way of devotional service.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “servant”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Where do I notice a desire to enjoy independently of Kṛṣṇa rather than serve Him?
Today, pause before one activity and remember, “I am an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa.”
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it · quoted in 31 more lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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