346 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta {Madhya-lila, Ch. 6

tat te ‘nukampatn susamiksamano
bhufijana evatma-krtarn vipakam

hrd-vag-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te
jiveta yo bhakti-pade sa daya-bhak

SYNONYMS

tat—therefore; te—Your; anukampam—compassion; su-samiksamanah—hop-
ing for; bhuAjanah—enduring; eva—certainly; dtma-krtam—done by himself;
vipakam—fruitive results; hrt—with the heart; vak—words; vapurbhih—and
body; vidadhan—offering; namah—obeisances; te—unto You; jiveta—may live;
yah—anyone who; bhakti-pade—in devotional service; sah—he; daya-bhak—a
bona fide candidate.
TRANSLATION

{The verse read:] ‘‘One who seeks Your compassion and thus tolerates all
kinds of adverse conditions due to the karma of his past deeds, who engages
always in Your devotional service with his mind, words and body, and who al-
ways offers obeisances unto You is certainly a bona fide candidate for becom-
ing Your unalloyed devotee.”

PURPORT

When reading this verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.14.8), Sarvabhauma
Bhattacarya changed the original reading from mukti-pade to bhakti-pade. Mukti
means liberation and merging into the impersonal Brahman effulgence. Bhakti
means rendering transcendental service unto the Supreme Personality of God-
head. Because of having developed pure devotional service, the Bhattacdrya did
not like the word mukti-pade, which refers to the impersonal Brahman feature of
the Lord. However, he was not authorized to change a word in the Srimad-
Bhagavatam, as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will explain. Although the Bhattacarya
changed the word in his devotional ecstasy, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu did not ap-
prove of it.

TEXT 262

AE Bre, Afsricw—Vai 15 SA
‘Siwrcw’ CHCA AG, FS CBUTLA SAA i V2

prabhu kahe, ‘mukti-pade-——iha patha haya
‘bhakti-pade’ kene pada, ki tomdra asaya

SYNONYMS
prabhu kahe—the Lord said; mukti-pade—the word “mukti-pade”; iha—this;
patha—the reading; haya—is; bhakti-pade—“bhakti-pade”; kene—why; pada—
you read; ki—what; tomara—your; asaya—intention.
