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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 5.69
তবে আমি কহিলাঙ — শুন, মহামতি ।
তোমার স্ত্রী-পুত্র-জ্ঞাতির না হবে সম্মতি ॥ ৬৯ ॥
tabe āmi kahilāṅ — śuna, mahā-mati
tomāra strī-putra-jñātira nā habe sammati
“I then said, ‘Please hear. You are a learned brāhmaṇa. Your wife, friends and relatives will never agree to this proposal.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker asked the brāhmaṇa to hear his concern.
He respectfully acknowledged that the brāhmaṇa was learned.
He warned that the brāhmaṇa’s wife, friends, and relatives would never agree to the proposal.
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
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Whose response should I consider before making a commitment that affects others?
Before making a commitment today, identify the people whose agreement may be needed.
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