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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.20
এই নব প্রীত্যঙ্কুর যাঁর চিত্তে হয় ।
প্রাকৃত-ক্ষোভে তাঁর ক্ষোভ নাহি হয় ॥ ২০ ॥
ei nava prīty-aṅkura yāṅra citte haya
prākṛta-kṣobhe tāṅra kṣobha nāhi haya
“If love for Kṛṣṇa in a seedling state has fructified in one’s heart, one is not agitated by material things.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Love for Kṛṣṇa begins in a seedling state within the heart.
When that love fructifies, it affects how one responds to material things.
One whose love has fructified is not agitated by material things.
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:
He then describes the gradual increase of love of God up to the point of mahābhāva. He then describes the five divisions of attraction and how they continue.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.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love for krsna”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do material things affect the steadiness of your heart?
When a material concern agitates you today, pause briefly to remember Kṛṣṇa.
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