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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya
Madhya 8.307Madhya 8.309

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.308

চৈতন্যের গূঢ়তত্ত্ব জানি ইহা হৈতে ।

বিশ্বাস করি’ শুন, তর্ক না করিহ চিত্তে ॥ ৩০৮ ॥

caitanyera gūḍha-tattva jāni ihā haite

viśvāsa kari’ śuna, tarka nā kariha citte

Translation

The author requests every reader to hear these talks with faith and without argument. By studying them in this way, one will be able to understand the confidential truth of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Hear With Faith and Without Argument

  1. 1

    The author asks every reader to hear these talks with faith.

  2. 2

    He also asks that they be heard without argument.

  3. 3

    Studying in this way enables one to understand the confidential truth of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Gradually Rāmānanda Rāya could understand the position of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited His real form, Rāmānanda Rāya fell unconscious. After some days, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Rāmānanda Rāya to retire from government service and come to Jagannātha Purī.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. caitanyeraof Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  2. gūḍha-tattvathe confidential truth
  3. jāniwe can learn
  4. ihā haitefrom these talks
  5. viśvāsa kari’having firm faith
  6. śunahear
  7. tarkaarguments
  8. nānot
  9. karihado
  10. cittewithin the heart
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What would hearing with faith and without argument look like in your study today?

Practice

Reread one of these translations with faith, setting aside the impulse to argue and attending to what it says.

Live this todayHear With Faith and Without ArgumentThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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