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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 7.66
অলৌকিক বাক্য চেষ্টা তাঁর না বুঝিয়া ।
পরিহাস করিয়াছি তাঁরে ‘বৈষ্ণব’ বলিয়া ॥ ৬৬ ॥
alaukika vākya ceṣṭā tāṅra nā bujhiyā
parihāsa kariyāchi tāṅre ‘vaiṣṇava’ baliyā
“I could not realize when I first spoke with Rāmānanda Rāya that his topics and endeavors were all transcendentally uncommon. I made fun of him simply because he was a Vaiṣṇava.”
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Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya had mocked Rāmānanda Rāya because he was a Vaiṣṇava. As a mental speculator, he had not understood Rāmānanda Rāya’s spiritual topics and endeavors.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s activities are on the platform of spiritual understanding. Materialistic sense perception and mental speculation cannot reveal their true nature.
Unalloyed devotees receive knowledge from the Supreme Lord rather than depending on speculation. He gives this knowledge through the Bhagavad-gītā or from within as the caittya-guru.
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The purport of CC Madhya 7.66 quotesBG 10.10
As Lord Kṛṣṇa states in the Bhagavad-gītā (10.10):
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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:
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was beginning His tour, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya gave Him four sets of clothes and requested Him to see Rāmānanda Rāya, who was residing at that time on the bank of the river Godāvarī. Along with other devotees, Nityānanda Prabhu accompanied the Lord to Ālālanātha, but there Lord Caitanya left them all behind and went ahead with the brāhmaṇa Kṛṣṇadāsa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 7
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “depending”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When might I mistake my limited understanding for a sound judgment of a Vaiṣṇava?
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