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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 6.277Madhya 6.279

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.278

যেই ভট্টাচার্য পড়ে পড়ায় মায়াবাদে ।

তাঁর ঐছে বাক্য স্ফুরে চৈতন্য-প্রসাদে ॥ ২৭৮ ॥

yei bhaṭṭācārya pade paḍāya māyāvāde

tāṅra aiche vākya sphure caitanya-prasāde

Translation

Indeed, that very person who had been accustomed to reading and teaching Māyāvāda philosophy was now even hating the word “mukti.” This was possible only by the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Transformation Comes Through the Lord’s Mercy

  1. 1

    Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya had been accustomed to reading and teaching Māyāvāda philosophy.

  2. 2

    He now even hated the word “mukti.”

  3. 3

    This change was possible only by the mercy of Śrī 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:

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.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. yeithat
  2. bhaṭṭācāryaSārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
  3. paḍereads
  4. paḍāyateaches
  5. māyāvādethe philosophy of Māyāvāda impersonalism
  6. tāṅrahis
  7. aichesuch
  8. vākyaexplanation
  9. sphuremanifested
  10. caitanya-prasādeby the mercy of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
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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: “mercy”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this change help me appreciate the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu?

Practice

Offer a brief prayer asking for the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Live this todayTransformation Comes Through the Lord’s MercyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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