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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.6
এক বন্দী ছাড়ে যদি নিজ-ধর্ম দেখিয়া ।
সংসার হইতে তারে মুক্ত করেন গোসাঞা ॥ ৬ ॥
eka bandī chāḍe yadi nija-dharma dekhiyā
saṁsāra ha-ite tāre mukta karena gosāñā
“If one releases a conditioned soul or imprisoned person according to religious principles, he himself is also released from material bondage by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana Gosvāmī explained that one who releases a conditioned soul according to religious principles is also released from material bondage by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The purport says it appears that Sanātana Gosvāmī was trying to cheat the superintendent. He praised him as a learned scholar just to satisfy him, although the jailkeeper had little or no education.
Sanātana Gosvāmī correctly explained the effects of spiritual activity, but the jailkeeper connected this explanation with releasing him from jail.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
When Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī was imprisoned by Nawab Hussain Shah, he received news from Rūpa Gosvāmī that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had gone to Mathurā. Sanātana Gosvāmī thereafter satisfied the superintendent of the jail by sweet solicitations and bribery.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.
How does the purport distinguish the spiritual meaning of release from the jailkeeper’s understanding?
Write down the distinction between release from jail and release from material bondage.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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