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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 21.77
সম্প্রতি পৃথিবীতে যেবা হৈয়াছিল ভার ।
অবতীর্ণ হঞা তাহা করিলা সংহার ॥’ ৭৭ ॥
samprati pṛthivīte yebā haiyāchila bhāra
avatīrṇa hañā tāhā karilā saṁhāra’
“ ‘Whatever burden was upon the earth You have taken away by descending to that planet.’
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
They acknowledged that the earth had carried a burden.
They declared that Kṛṣṇa had taken that burden away.
He had removed it by descending to the earth.
Awe becoming attraction. The Lord’s vast opulence is placed beside the intimate sweetness of Kṛṣṇa.
The mood of Madhya 21 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:
There is also a description of one of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes with Brahmā. In this chapter the author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta has presented some nice poems about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa’s superexcellent beauty.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 21
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What appreciation arises as you consider Kṛṣṇa’s removal of the earth’s burden?
Offer a brief prayer thanking Kṛṣṇa for descending to relieve the earth’s burden.
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