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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 25: How All the Residents of Vārāṇasī Became Vaiṣṇavas
Madhya 25.5Madhya 25.7

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.6

সন্ন্যাসীরে কৃপা পূর্বে লিখিয়াছোঁ বিস্তারিয়া ।

উদ্দেশে কহিয়ে ইহাঁ সংক্ষেপ করিয়া ॥ ৬ ॥

sannyāsīre kṛpā pūrve likhiyāchoṅ vistāriyā

uddeśe kahiye ihāṅ saṅkṣepa kariyā

Translation

In the seventh chapter of the Ādi-līlā I have already elaborately described Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s deliverance of the sannyāsīs at Vārāṇasī, but I shall briefly repeat it in this chapter.

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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.

Revisit the account of the Lord’s mercy

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    The author had already elaborately described Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s deliverance of the sannyāsīs at Vārāṇasī.

  2. 2

    That earlier account appears in the seventh chapter of the Ādi-līlā.

  3. 3

    Here the author will briefly repeat the account, returning attention to the Lord’s mercy.

How it feels

Reconciliation and broad mercy. Opponents turn toward bhakti; the Lord returns to Purī and embraces devotees.

The mood of Madhya 25 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 25: How All the Residents of Vārāṇasī Became Vaiṣṇavas

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

He invited all the sannyāsīs to his house to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and this incident has been described in the seventh chapter of the Ādi-līlā. From that day, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became famous in the city of Vārāṇasī, and many important men in that city became His followers.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. sannyāsīre kṛpāmercy upon the sannyāsīs
  2. pūrvebefore this
  3. likhiyāchoṅI have described
  4. vistāriyāelaborately
  5. uddeśein reference to that
  6. kahiyelet me speak
  7. ihāṅhere
  8. saṅkṣepa kariyāin brief
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Key ideas in this 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: “deliverance”, “mercy”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What might you notice by thoughtfully revisiting an account you have already read?

Practice

Reread the preceding verse and write one sentence about the Lord’s mercy to the sannyāsīs.

Live this todayRevisit the account of the Lord’s mercyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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