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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.17
তথা এক ভৌমিক হয়, তার ঠাঞি গেলা ।
‘পর্বত পার কর আমা’ — বিনতি করিলা ॥ ১৭ ॥
tathā eka bhaumika haya, tāra ṭhāñi gelā
‘parvata pāra kara āmā’ — vinati karilā
After reaching Pātaḍā, he met a landholder and submissively requested him to get him across that hilly tract of land.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
After reaching Pātaḍā, Sanātana met a landholder.
He requested the landholder’s help in crossing the hilly tract of land.
He made his request submissively.
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:
Thus the owner helped them cross the hilly tract and proceed toward Vārāṇasī. On the way, Sanātana Gosvāmī met his brother-in-law, Śrīkānta, at Hājipura, and Śrīkānta helped him after he had heard about all Sanātana’s troubles.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.
Can I ask for needed help with humility rather than making demands?
Make one respectful request for help with something you cannot easily do alone.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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