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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.9
সহজে আমার কিছু অর্থ নাহি ভাসে ।
তোমা-সবার সঙ্গ-বলে যে কিছু প্রকাশে ॥ ৯ ॥
sahaje āmāra kichu artha nāhi bhāse
tomā-sabāra saṅga-bale ye kichu prakāśe
“Generally by Myself I cannot give an explanation, but by the strength of your association something may manifest itself.
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The speaker humbly says that generally He cannot give an explanation by Himself.
He credits the strength of His listener’s association with helping an explanation manifest.
The words “something may manifest itself” express openness rather than a claim of personal ability.
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
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