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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.252

দুই শ্লোক বাহির-ভিতে লিখিয়া রাখিল ।

তবে জগদানন্দ পত্রী প্রভুকে লঞা দিল ॥ ২৫২ ॥

dui śloka bāhira-bhite likhiyā rākhila

tabe jagadānanda patrī prabhuke lañā dila

Translation

Mukunda Datta then copied the two verses on the wall outside the room. After this, Jagadānanda took the palm leaf from Mukunda Datta and delivered it to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

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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.

Copying and Delivering the Verses

  1. 1

    Mukunda Datta copied the two verses on the wall outside the room.

  2. 2

    After the verses were copied, Jagadānanda took the palm leaf back from Mukunda Datta.

  3. 3

    Jagadānanda then delivered the palm leaf to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

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:

The Bhaṭṭācārya then recited one hundred verses in praise of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and offered his obeisances. After this, Gopīnātha Ācārya and all the others, having seen the wonderful potencies of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, became very joyful.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. duitwo
  2. ślokaverses
  3. bāhiraoutside
  4. bhiteon the wall
  5. likhiyāwriting
  6. rākhilakept
  7. tabethereafter
  8. jagadānandaJagadānanda Prabhu
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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”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How might copying devotional words help me give them closer attention?

Practice

Copy one sentence from today's reading into a notebook.

Live this todayCopying and Delivering the VersesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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