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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.271
মুক্তি, কর্ম — দুই বস্তু ত্যজে ভক্তগণ ।
সেই দুই স্থাপ’ তুমি ‘সাধ্য’, ‘সাধন’ ॥ ২৭১ ॥
mukti, karma — dui vastu tyaje bhakta-gaṇa
sei dui sthāpa’ tumi ‘sādhya’, ‘sādhana’
“Both liberation and fruitive activity are rejected by devotees. You are trying to establish these things as life’s goal and the process for attaining it.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Devotees reject liberation as life’s goal.
They also reject fruitive activity as the process for attaining that goal.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu challenges the attempt to establish these rejected things as the goal and the means.
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:
At Pāṇḍarapura the Lord received news from Śrī Raṅga Purī that Śaṅkarāraṇya (Viśvarūpa) had disappeared there. He then went to the banks of the Kṛṣṇa-veṇvā River, where He collected from among the Vaiṣṇava brāhmaṇas a book written by Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura, Śrī Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 9
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I treating personal gain or liberation as the purpose of my devotional efforts?
Before one devotional activity today, examine whether you are seeking a personal reward.
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