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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.61
প্রভু কহে, — “এহো বাহ্য, আগে কহ আর ।”
রায় কহে, “স্বধর্ম-ত্যাগ, — এই সাধ্য-সার ॥” ৬১ ॥
prabhu kahe, — “eho bāhya, āge kaha āra”
rāya kahe, — “svadharma-tyāga, ei sādhya-sāra”
“This is also external,” Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said. “Please proceed and speak further on this matter.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again calls the proposal external and asks to hear more.
A brāhmaṇa may renounce family life and accept sannyāsa. Kṣatriyas and vaiśyas may also give up family life and take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Such renunciation is called karma-tyāga. By this renunciation, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is satisfied.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
In the evening, Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya used to come to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Rāmānanda Rāya, who was clothed in ordinary dress, offered the Lord respectful obeisances.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.
When I think about renunciation, is my focus on taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
Write one sentence explaining that the renunciation described here is for taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
Quoted in 1 lecture. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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