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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.49
শুনি’ সার্বভৌম মনে বিচার করিল ।
বৈষ্ণব-সন্ন্যাসী ইঁহো, বচনে জানিল ॥ ৪৯ ॥
śuni’ sārvabhauma mane vicāra karila
vaiṣṇava-sannyāsī iṅho, vacane jānila
Hearing these words, Sārvabhauma understood Lord Caitanya to be a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sārvabhauma listened to the words spoken.
Hearing those words, he understood Lord Caitanya to be a sannyāsī.
He recognized Lord Caitanya specifically as a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī.
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:
After hearing about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s fainting and His being carried to the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, people crowded there to see the Lord. Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu and other devotees then visited the Jagannātha temple, and when they came back to the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to external consciousness.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.
Do I listen carefully before forming an understanding of someone?
Read the translation slowly, noticing what Sārvabhauma understood through hearing.
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