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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.255
সাধ্য-সাধন আমি না জানি ভালমতে ।
সাধ্য-সাধন-শ্রেষ্ঠ জানাহ আমাতে ॥ ২৫৫ ॥
sādhya-sādhana āmi nā jāni bhāla-mate
sādhya-sādhana-śreṣṭha jānāha āmāte
Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “I do not know very well the aim of life and how to achieve it. Please tell Me of the best ideal for humanity and how to attain it.”
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Caitanya Mahāprabhu presented Himself as not knowing very well the aim of life or how to achieve it.
He asked about the best ideal for humanity.
He also asked how that ideal could be attained.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The Lord next visited Phalgu-tīrtha, Tritakūpa, Pañcāpsarā, Sūrpāraka and Kolāpura. At Pāṇḍarapura the Lord received news from Śrī Raṅga Purī that Śaṅkarāraṇya (Viśvarūpa) had disappeared there.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 9
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I seeking both a worthy aim of life and a clear way to attain it?
Write down two questions today: What is life’s highest aim, and how can it be attained?
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