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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.62
এত কহি কহে প্রভু, — “শুন, সনাতন ।
কৃষ্ণ — বড় দয়াময়, পতিত-পাবন ॥ ৬২ ॥
eta kahi kahe prabhu, — “śuna, sanātana
kṛṣṇa — baḍa dayāmaya, patita-pāvana
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “My dear Sanātana, please hear from Me. Kṛṣṇa is very merciful, and He is the deliverer of all fallen souls.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu affectionately addresses Sanātana and asks him to hear.
He tells Sanātana that Kṛṣṇa is very merciful.
Kṛṣṇa is the deliverer of all fallen souls.
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
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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: “merciful”, “deliverer”
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “fallen”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What hope does Kṛṣṇa’s mercy toward all fallen souls give me?
Read this translation slowly today and reflect for one minute on Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
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