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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 5.57
বিপ্র কহে, — ‘শুন, লোক, মোর নিবেদন ।
কবে কি বলিয়াছি, মোর নাহিক স্মরণ ॥’ ৫৭ ॥
vipra kahe, — ‘śuna, loka, mora nivedana
kabe ki baliyāchi, mora nāhika smaraṇa’
The elderly brāhmaṇa said, “My dear friends, please hear what I have to submit. I do not exactly remember making a promise like that.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The elderly brāhmaṇa asks his friends to hear what he has to submit.
He says he does not exactly remember making such a promise.
His statement expresses uncertainty about his memory, rather than a definite denial that he made the promise.
Faith vindicated. The Deity bears witness; anxiety over a broken promise becomes astonishment and relief.
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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.
How carefully do I distinguish what I do not remember from what I know did not happen?
Today, if you are unsure about a past conversation, say plainly that you do not remember exactly.
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