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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.265
অন্তর্যামী ঈশ্বরের এই রীতি হয়ে ।
বাহিরে না কহে, বস্তু প্রকাশে হৃদয়ে ॥ ২৬৫ ॥
antaryāmī īśvarera ei rīti haye
bāhire nā kahe, vastu prakāśe hṛdaye
Rāmānanda Rāya continued, “The Supersoul within everyone’s heart speaks not externally but from within. He instructs the devotees in all respects, and that is His way of instruction.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Supersoul speaks from within everyone’s heart, not externally. He instructs the devotees in all respects.
Rāmānanda Rāya acknowledges that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supersoul who inspires the devotee.
The Supersoul is the original source of the Gāyatrī mantra. Savitā, the original source of all intelligence, is Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 8.265 quotesSB 2.4.22
This is confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.4.22):
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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:
Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya also explained that all stages of conjugal love can be attained through the mercy of the residents of Vṛndāvana, especially by the mercy of the gopīs. All these subject matters were thus vividly described.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does knowing the Lord as the source of intelligence affect your approach to learning?
Offer a brief prayer to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for intelligence to understand His instruction.
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