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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
Madhya 6.212Madhya 6.214

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.213

‘জগৎ নিস্তারিলে তুমি, — সেহ অল্পকার্য ।

আমা উদ্ধারিলে তুমি, — এ শক্তি আশ্চর্য ॥ ২১৩ ॥

‘jagat nistārile tumi, — seha alpa-kārya

āmā uddhārile tumi, — e śakti āścarya

Translation

Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya said, “My dear Sir, You have delivered the entire world, but that is not a very great task. However, You have also delivered me, and that is certainly the work of very wonderful powers.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Marveling at the Lord’s Power to Deliver

  1. 1

    Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya said that the Lord had delivered the entire world.

  2. 2

    He described delivering the world as not a very great task for the Lord.

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    Yet he considered his own deliverance the work of very wonderful powers.

How it feels

Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.

The mood of Madhya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

After this, Gopīnātha Ācārya and all the others, having seen the wonderful potencies of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, became very joyful. One morning after this incident, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu received some prasādam from Jagannātha and offered it to Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. jagatthe whole world
  2. nistārilehave delivered
  3. tumiYou
  4. sehathat
  5. alpa-kāryaminor activity
  6. āmāme
  7. uddhārilehave delivered
  8. tumiYou
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life

    Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “delivered”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the Bhaṭṭācārya’s wonder at his own deliverance teach me about humility?

Practice

Offer one humble prayer expressing appreciation for the Lord’s power to deliver.

Live this todayMarveling at the Lord’s Power to DeliverThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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