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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.205
কৃষ্ণকৃপাদি-হেতু হৈতে সবার উদয় ।
কৃষ্ণগুণাকৃষ্ট হঞা তাঁহারে ভজয় ॥ ২০৫ ॥
kṛṣṇa-kṛpādi-hetu haite sabāra udaya
kṛṣṇa-guṇākṛṣṭa hañā tāṅhāre bhajaya
“Everyone is eligible to receive Kṛṣṇa’s mercy — including Vyāsadeva, the four Kumāras, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, lowborn creatures, trees, plants and beasts. By Kṛṣṇa’s mercy they are elevated and engaged in His service.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Everyone is eligible to receive Kṛṣṇa’s mercy. The verse includes Vyāsadeva, the four Kumāras and Śukadeva Gosvāmī.
Lowborn creatures, trees, plants and beasts are also included. Eligibility for His mercy is not restricted to great personalities.
By Kṛṣṇa’s mercy, living entities are elevated and engaged in His service. The purport points to the Bhagavad-gītā as confirmation.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 24.205 quotesBG 9.32
This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.32), wherein the Lord says:
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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 concluded that different classes of transcendentalists ( jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs ) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning of the verse.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mercy”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do you ever regard yourself or another living entity as beyond Kṛṣṇa’s mercy?
Write down “Everyone is eligible to receive Kṛṣṇa’s mercy,” and reflect on someone you might otherwise overlook.
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