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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 7.153
চৈতন্যলীলার আদি-অন্ত নাহি জানি ।
সেই লিখি, যেই মহান্তের মুখে শুনি ॥ ১৫৩ ॥
caitanya-līlāra ādi-anta nāhi jāni
sei likhi, yei mahāntera mukhe śuni
I admit that I do not know the beginning or the end of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes. However, whatever I have written I have heard from the mouths of great personalities.
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The author admits that he does not know the beginning of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes.
He also admits that he does not know their end.
Whatever he has written, he has heard from the mouths of great personalities.
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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Can I acknowledge the limits of my knowledge while faithfully sharing what I have heard?
When sharing one teaching today, name your source and avoid claiming more than you know.
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