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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 9: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Travels to the Holy Places
Madhya 9.179Madhya 9.181

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.180

কৃতমালায় স্নান করি’ আইলা তাঁর ঘরে ।

ভিক্ষা কি দিবেন বিপ্র, — পাক নাহি করে ॥ ১৮০ ॥

kṛtamālāya snāna kari’ āilā tāṅra ghare

bhikṣā ki dibena vipra, — pāka nāhi kare

Translation

After bathing in the river Kṛtamālā, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the brāhmaṇa’s house to take lunch, but He saw that the food was unprepared because the brāhmaṇa had not cooked it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lunch Was Not Yet Prepared

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bathed in the river Kṛtamālā.

  2. 2

    After bathing, He went to the brāhmaṇa’s house to take lunch.

  3. 3

    He saw that the food was unprepared because the brāhmaṇa had not cooked it.

How it feels

Wonder and inclusion. Meetings across sacred places display the broad reach of devotional mercy.

The mood of Madhya 9 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 9: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Travels to the Holy Places

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

Then the Lord took His bath in the river Kṛtamālā. On the hill known as Mahendra-śaila, the Lord saw Paraśurāma.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. kṛtamālāyain the Kṛtamālā River
  2. snāna kari’bathing
  3. āilācame
  4. tāṅraof the brāhmaṇa
  5. ghareto the home
  6. bhikṣāoffering of alms
  7. ki dibenawhat shall give
  8. viprathe brāhmaṇa
  9. pākacooking
  10. nāhi karedid not do
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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: “cooked”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What did Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu find when He arrived for lunch?

Practice

Reread the translation and recall its three events in order: bathing, arriving and finding the food unprepared.

Live this todayThe Lunch Was Not Yet PreparedThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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