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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
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 25.6 Madhya 25.8

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.7

যাহাঁ তাহাঁ প্রভুর নিন্দা করে সন্ন্যাসীর গণ ।

শুনি’ দুঃখে মহারাষ্ট্রীয় বিপ্র করয়ে চিন্তন ॥ ৭ ॥

yāhāṅ tāhāṅ prabhura nindā kare sannyāsīra gaṇa

śuni’ duḥkhe mahārāṣṭrīya vipra karaye cintana

Translation

When the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs were criticizing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu anywhere and everywhere in Vārāṇasī, the Maharashtriyan brāhmaṇa, hearing this blasphemy, began to think about this unhappily.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Hearing criticism brings the brāhmaṇa sorrow

1
The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs criticized Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu anywhere and everywhere in Vārāṇasī.
2
The Maharashtriyan brāhmaṇa heard this blasphemy and began thinking about it unhappily.
3
In the following verse, his thoughts turn to how closely seeing the Lord’s characteristics leads one to recognize Him.

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

Madhya 25: How All the Residents of Vārāṇasī Became Vaiṣṇavas

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

A Maharashtriyan brāhmaṇa who was living in Benares was a great devotee of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He was always very happy to hear the glories of the Lord, and it was by his arrangement that all the sannyāsīs of Vārāṇasī became devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

yāhāṅ tāhāṅanywhere and everywhere
prabhura nindācriticism of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
karedo
sannyāsīra gaṇathe Māyāvādī sannyāsīs
śuni’hearing
duḥkhein great unhappiness
mahārāṣṭrīya viprathe brāhmaṇa of Maharashtra province
karaye cintanawas contemplating

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

When criticism troubles you, can you turn your attention toward the Lord’s characteristics?

Practice

Read the next verse slowly, noticing where the brāhmaṇa directs his thoughts.

Live this todayHearing criticism brings the brāhmaṇa sorrowThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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