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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.123
‘মুঞি যে শিখালুঁ তোরে স্ফুরুক সকল’ ।
এই তোমার বর হৈতে হবে মোর বল ॥” ১২৩ ॥
‘muñi ye śikhāluṅ tore sphuruka sakala’
ei tomāra vara haite habe mora bala”
“Now, will You please tell me, ‘Let whatever I have instructed all be fully manifested unto you.’ By blessing me in this way, You will give me strength to describe all this.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker asks that all the instructions he has received be fully manifested to him.
He longs for a blessing that will make the teachings clear within him.
He says that this blessing will give him strength to describe the instructions.
Theological emotional crescendo. Bhāva, prema, the devotional rasas, and mahābhāva are systematically expounded.
The mood of Madhya 23 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:
In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu blessed Sanātana Gosvāmī, placing His hand on his head. Thus Sanātana received the power to describe these subjects in books like Hari-bhakti-vilāsa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 23
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “blessing”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I seek to understand the teachings fully before trying to describe them?
Before reviewing one instruction today, pray for it to become clear to you.
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