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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.87
তোমার নাহিক দোষ, শাস্ত্রে এই কহে ।
পাণ্ডিত্যাদ্যে ঈশ্বরতত্ত্ব-জ্ঞান কভু নহে ॥’ ৮৭ ॥
tomāra nāhika doṣa, śāstre ei kahe
pāṇḍityādye īśvara-tattva-jñāna kabhu nahe’
“It is not your fault; it is the verdict of the scriptures. You cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead simply by scholarship.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Gopīnātha Ācārya presented the limitation of scholarship as the verdict of scripture, not merely a personal fault.
Even great scholars can make mistakes when trying to understand Kṛṣṇa and comment on the Bhagavad-gītā.
Reading the Bhagavad-gītā means understanding Kṛṣṇa. Scholarship alone does not ensure that understanding.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
However, Gopīnātha Ācārya convinced Sārvabhauma that no one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead without being favored by Him. He proved by śāstric quotation, quotations from the revealed scriptures, that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was Kṛṣṇa Himself in person.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīnātha”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When I read the Bhagavad-gītā, is understanding Kṛṣṇa my purpose?
Before your next reading of the Bhagavad-gītā, remind yourself: “My purpose is to understand Kṛṣṇa.”
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