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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.122
তোমার শিক্ষায় পড়ি যেন শুক-পাঠ ।
সাক্ষাৎ ঈশ্বর তুমি, কে বুঝে তোমার নাট ॥ ১২২ ॥
tomāra śikṣāya paḍi yena śuka-pāṭha
sākṣāt īśvara tumi, ke bujhe tomāra nāṭa
“I simply repeat like a parrot whatever instructions You have given me. You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. Who can understand Your dramatic performances?
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The speaker compares himself to a parrot, simply repeating the instructions he has received.
He acknowledges the Lord as the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.
He asks who can understand the Lord’s dramatic performances, acknowledging the limits of his own understanding.
Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 8 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:
Then Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya explained unalloyed devotional service, love of Godhead, and serving the Lord in the moods of pure servitude, fraternity and parental love. Finally he spoke of serving the Lord in conjugal love.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
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Can I receive and repeat the Lord’s instructions without claiming them as my own wisdom?
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