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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 5.52
‘আরে অধম! মোর ভগ্নী চাহ বিবাহিতে ।
বামন হঞা চাঁদ যেন চাহ ত’ ধরিতে ॥’ ৫২ ॥
‘āre adhama! mora bhagnī cāha vivāhite
vāmana hañā cāṅda yena cāha ta’ dharite’
The son said, “Oh, you are most degraded! You want to marry my sister, just like a dwarf who wants to catch the moon!”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The son addressed the young man as “most degraded.”
He mocked the young man's wish to marry his sister.
He compared that wish to a dwarf wanting to catch the moon.
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.
Do your words ever belittle someone rather than address what they are asking?
Avoid one belittling remark today; state your concern without insulting the person.
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