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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 5.32
গোপালের আগে বিপ্র কহিতে লাগিল ।
“তুমি জান, নিজ-কন্যা ইহারে আমি দিল ॥” ৩২ ॥
gopālera āge vipra kahite lāgila
‘tumi jāna, nija-kanyā ihāre āmi dila’
Coming before Gopāla, the elderly brāhmaṇa said, “My dear Lord, please witness that I have given my daughter to this boy.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The elderly brāhmaṇa asks Gopāla to witness that he has given his daughter to the young man.
The purport calls a verbal marriage commitment vāg-datta. By the honest words of her father or guardian, the daughter is reserved for marriage to a particular man.
The purport explains that a promise made before the Deity is honored and cannot be canceled. In village disputes, words spoken before the Deity are taken as true, for no one would dare lie there.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Faith vindicated. The Deity bears witness; anxiety over a broken promise becomes astonishment and relief.
The mood of Madhya 5 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:
Thus the Gopāla Deity acted as a witness. When the two brāhmaṇas returned to Vidyānagara, the younger brāhmaṇa raised the question of this marriage, but the elderly brāhmaṇa, due to obligations to his friends and wife, answered that he could not remember his promise.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 5
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How carefully do I honor the words I give before the Lord?
Take one small step today toward fulfilling a promise you have already made.
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