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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 7.99
কতক্ষণে রহি’ প্রভু তারে আলিঙ্গিয়া ।
বিদায় করিল তারে শক্তি সঞ্চারিয়া ॥ ৯৯ ॥
kata-kṣaṇe rahi’ prabhu tāre āliṅgiyā
vidāya karila tāre śakti sañcāriyā
After some time the Lord would embrace these people and bid them return home, having invested each of them with spiritual potency.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord embraced the people and sent them home, investing each with spiritual potency.
This spiritual potency is the essence of the pleasure potency and the knowledge potency. Together, these potencies empower one with devotional service.
Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself or His representative, the unalloyed devotee, can mercifully bestow these potencies, enabling one to become an unalloyed devotee. Those favored by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu received this bhakti-śakti and could preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness by divine grace.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
After teaching the people of one village, the Lord proceeded to other villages to increase devotees. In this way He finally reached Kūrma-sthāna.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 7
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mercifully”, “grace”, “favored”
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “together”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does seeing devotional service as a gift of mercy shape your approach to it?
Before one act of devotional service today, pray for the Lord’s mercy to serve Him purely.
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