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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 23: Life’s Ultimate Goal — Love of Godhead
Madhya 23.71Madhya 23.73

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.72

বিদগ্ধশ্চতুরো দক্ষঃ কৃতজ্ঞঃ সুদৃঢ়ব্রতঃ ।

দেশকালসুপাত্রজ্ঞঃ শাস্ত্রচক্ষুঃ শুচির্বশী ॥ ৭২ ॥

vidagdhaś caturo dakṣaḥ

kṛta-jñaḥ su-dṛḍha-vrataḥ

deśa-kāla-supātra-jñaḥ

śāstra-cakṣuḥ śucir vaśī

Translation

“ ‘Kṛṣṇa is very expert in artistic enjoyment. He is highly cunning, expert, grateful and firmly determined in His vows. He knows how to deal according to time, person and country, and He sees through the scriptures and authoritative books. He is very clean and self-controlled.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa Is Expert, Grateful and Self-Controlled

  1. 1

    Kṛṣṇa is very expert in artistic enjoyment. He is highly cunning, expert, grateful and firmly determined in His vows.

  2. 2

    He knows how to deal according to time, person and country.

  3. 3

    He sees through the scriptures and authoritative books. He is very clean and self-controlled.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 23: Life’s Ultimate Goal — Love of Godhead

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

There is also a description of the sixty-four transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa and the twenty-five transcendental qualities of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then describes those candidates who are eligible to taste the mellows of devotional service.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. vidagdhaḥexpert in artistic enjoyment
  2. caturaḥcunning
  3. dakṣaḥexpert
  4. kṛta-jñaḥgrateful
  5. su-dṛḍha-vrataḥfirmly determined
  6. deśaof country
  7. kālatime
  8. su-pātraof fitness
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which quality described here would you like to remember more carefully today?

Practice

Remember Kṛṣṇa’s gratitude and express one sincere thank-you today.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa Is Expert, Grateful and Self-ControlledThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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