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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.70
কোন্ সম্প্রদায়ে সন্ন্যাস কর্যাছেন গ্রহণ ।
কিবা নাম ইঁহার, শুনিতে হয় মন ॥’ ৭০ ॥
kon sampradāye sannyāsa karyāchena grahaṇa
kibā nāma iṅhāra, śunite haya mana’
“From which sampradāya has He accepted the sannyāsa order, and what is His name?”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker asks from which sampradāya He accepted sannyāsa.
The question concerns His acceptance of the sannyāsa order.
The speaker also asks what His name is.
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.
Do I ask questions when I do not know someone’s spiritual background?
Write down the two things requested here: His sampradāya and His name.
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