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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta।
[[Madhya-līlā, Ch. 20]]
TEXT 101
কুপা করি’ যদি মোরে করিয়াছ উদ্ধার । আপন-কুপাতে কহ ‘কর্তব্য’ আমার ॥ ১০১ ॥
kıpā kari’ yadi more kariyācha uddhāra āpana-kıpāte kaha ‘kartavya’ āmāra
SYNONYMS
kṛpā kari’ —by Your causeless mercy;  yadi —if;  more —unto me;  kariyācha —You have done;  uddhāra —deliverance;  āpana-kṛpāte —by Your own mercy;  kaha —please speak;  kartavya āmāra —my duty.
TRANSLATION
“Out of Your causeless mercy, You have delivered me from the materialistic path. Now, by the same causeless mercy, please tell me what my duty is.
TEXT 102
‘কে আমি’, ‘কেনে আমায় জারে তাপত্রয়’ । 
ইহা নাহি জানি—‘কেমনে হিত হয়’ ॥ ১০২ ॥
‘ke āmi’, ‘kene āmāya jāre tāpa-traya’ ihā nāhi jāni—‘kemane hita haya’
SYNONYMS
ke āmi —who am I;  kene —why;  āmāya —unto me;  jāre —give trouble;  tāpa-traya —the three kinds of miserable conditions;  ihā —this;  nāhi jāni —I do not know;  kemane —how;  hita —my welfare;  haya —there is.
TRANSLATION
“Who am I? Why do the threefold miseries always give me trouble? If I do not know this, how can I be benefited?
PURPORT
The threefold material miseries are miseries arising from the body and the mind, miseries arising from dealings with other living entities, and miseries arising from natural disturbances. Sometimes we suffer bodily when we are attacked by a fever, and sometimes we suffer mentally when a close relative dies. Other living entities also cause us misery. There are living entities born of the human embryo,