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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.7
বহুক্ষণে চৈতন্য নহে, ভোগের কাল হৈল ।
সার্বভৌম মনে তবে উপায় চিন্তিল ॥ ৭ ॥
bahu-kṣaṇe caitanya nahe, bhogera kāla haila
sārvabhauma mane tabe upāya cintila
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu remained unconscious for a long time. Meanwhile, the time for offering prasādam to Lord Jagannātha came, and the Bhaṭṭācārya tried to think of a remedy.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu remained unconscious for a long time.
Meanwhile, the time came for offering prasādam to Lord Jagannātha.
The Bhaṭṭācārya tried to think of a remedy for the situation.
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:
Meanwhile, Gopīnātha Ācārya, the brother-in-law of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, met Mukunda Datta and talked to him about Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s acceptance of sannyāsa and His journey to Jagannātha Purī. 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.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.
How can the Bhaṭṭācārya’s effort to find a remedy guide your response to a difficult situation?
Pause over one difficulty today and think of one practical step that could help.
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