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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.274
যদ্যপি তোমার অর্থ এই শব্দে কয় ।
তথাপি ‘আশ্লিষ্য-দোষে’ কহন না যায় ॥ ২৭৪ ॥
yadyapi tomāra artha ei śabde kaya
tathāpi ‘āśliṣya-doṣe’ kahana nā yāya
“Although Your explanation is correct, it should not be used, because there is ambiguity in the word ‘mukti-pada.’
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya accepts that the explanation is correct.
Nevertheless, he says that it should not be used.
His objection concerns ambiguity in the word “mukti-pada,” not the correctness of the explanation.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
On another day, the Bhaṭṭācārya wanted to change the reading of the tat te ’nukampām verse because he did not like the word mukti-pada. He wanted to substitute the word bhakti-pada.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I distinguish between an explanation being correct and its wording being clear?
Write one sentence summarizing why Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya objects despite accepting the explanation.
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