1 · Learn4 of 6 · 5 min
Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 5.45
তুমি যদি কহ, — ‘আমি কিছুই না জানি ।
তবে আমি ন্যায় করি’ ব্রাহ্মণেরে জিনি ॥” ৪৫ ॥
tumi yadi kaha, — ‘āmi kichui nā jāni’
tabe āmi nyāya kari’ brāhmaṇere jini”
“If you simply say, ‘I do not remember,’ I shall take care of the rest. By argument, I shall defeat the young brāhmaṇa.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The son was expert in financial dealings, but the purport describes him as foolish. He had no faith in the Supreme Personality of Godhead or the spiritual position of the Deity.
He considered the Lord's form to be merely stone or wood. He therefore assured his father that the Deity could neither speak nor come from far away to bear witness.
He planned to use his father's claim of forgetfulness as the basis for defeating the young brāhmaṇa by word jugglery. His aim was to prevent the marriage and preserve the family's aristocracy.
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:
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. Because of this, the younger brāhmaṇa returned to Vṛndāvana and narrated the whole story to Gopālajī.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.
Do you sometimes use clever arguments to protect your status rather than acknowledge the truth?
Before making one argument today, pause and check whether you are seeking truth or merely trying to win.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
Ask Caitanya CaritamrtaHave a question about CC Madhya 5.45? Get an answer from the verses themselves.