50 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 20

TEXT 101

Srl sfa ate catca sfaate Cara |
SAA-BHCS SS “SGA OHTA Sod tt

krpa kari’ yadi more kariyacha uddhara
dpana-krpate kaha ‘kartavya’ amara

SYNONYMS

krpa kari’—by Your causeless mercy; yadi—if; more—unto me; kariyacha—
You have done; uddhdra—deliverance; dpana-krpéte—by Your own mercy;
kaha—please speak; kartavya 4mara—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

‘cm Sify, CECA BAA Sica SA |
Zal nfs otfa—‘caaca fae SW 1502 0

‘ke ami’, ‘kene amaya jare tapa-traya’
iha nahi jani—‘kemane hita haya’

SYNONYMS
ke ami—who am |; kene—why; dmaya—unto me; jdre—give trouble; tapa-
traya—the three kinds of miserable conditions; iha—this; nahi jani—l do not
know; kemane—how; hita—my welfare; haya—there is.

TRANSLATION

“(Who am |? Why do the threefold miseries always give me trouble? If | do
not know this, how can | 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,
