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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 7.137
অঙ্গ হৈতে যেই কীড়া খসিয়া পড়য় ।
উঠাঞা সেই কীড়া রাখে সেই ঠাঞ ॥ ১৩৭ ॥
aṅga haite yei kīḍā khasiyā paḍaya
uṭhāñā sei kīḍā rākhe sei ṭhāña
Although suffering from leprosy, the brāhmaṇa Vāsudeva was enlightened. As soon as one worm fell from his body, he would pick it up and place it back again in the same location.
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Although Vāsudeva suffered from leprosy, he was enlightened.
Whenever a worm fell from his body, he would pick it up.
He would place the worm back in the same location on his body.
Expansive compassion. The Lord carries nāma and mercy from village to village, including deliverance of Vāsudeva.
The mood of Madhya 7 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:
While there, He bestowed His causeless mercy upon a brāhmaṇa called Kūrma and cured another brāhmaṇa, named Vāsudeva, who was suffering from leprosy. After curing this brāhmaṇa leper, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu received the title Vāsudevāmṛta-prada, meaning “one who delivered nectar to the leper Vāsudeva.”Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 7
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The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
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