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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.40
ধন্যস্যায়ং নবপ্রেমা যস্যোন্মীলতি চেতসি ।
অন্তর্বাণিভিরপ্যস্য মুদ্রা সুষ্ঠু সুদুর্গমা ॥ ৪০ ॥
dhanyasyāyaṁ nava-premā
yasyonmīlati cetasi
antar-vāṇibhir apy asya
mudrā suṣṭhu su-durgamā
“ ‘Even a most learned scholar cannot understand the activities and symptoms of an exalted personality in whose heart love of Godhead has awakened.’
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Love of Godhead has awakened in the heart of the exalted personality described here.
Even a most learned scholar cannot understand that personality’s activities.
The symptoms of that awakened love are also beyond the scholar’s understanding.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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 chapter Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes the symptoms of emotion and love and the awakening of one’s original loving relationship with the Lord, as well as the characteristics of a devotee who has actually attained that stage. He then describes the gradual increase of love of God up to the point of mahābhāva.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 of godhead”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this verse teach you about scholarship’s limits?
Write one sentence about why learned scholarship alone cannot explain the symptoms of awakened love.
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