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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya1185_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="184" link="CC Madhya 1.185" link_text="CC Madhya 1.185">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.185|CC Madhya 1.185, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In great humility, both brothers took bunches of straw between their teeth and, each binding a cloth around his neck, fell down like rods before the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1187_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="186" link="CC Madhya 1.187" link_text="CC Madhya 1.187">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.187|CC Madhya 1.187, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The two brothers got up, and again taking straw between their teeth, they humbly offered their prayers with folded hands.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11154_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2421" link="CC Madhya 11.154" link_text="CC Madhya 11.154">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.154|CC Madhya 11.154, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus Murāri Gupta, catching two bunches of straw in his teeth, went before Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu with humility and meekness.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1946_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4285" link="CC Madhya 19.46" link_text="CC Madhya 19.46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.46|CC Madhya 19.46, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Seeing the Lord from a distance, the two brothers put two clumps of straw between their teeth and immediately fell down on the ground like rods, offering Him obeisances.</p>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG134MiamiFebruary271975_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="352" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Miami, February 27, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Miami, February 27, 1975">
<div class="heading">If I approach somebody with a straw in my mouth, that means I have become very humble to him. So he says, dante nidhāya tṛṇakam, "Taking a straw in my teeth," and padayor nipatya, "and falling down on your leg," kāku-śataṁ kṛtvā ca, "hundred times flattering you," ahaṁ bravīmi, "I want to submit something."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Miami, February 27, 1975|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Miami, February 27, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Male devotee: Should we beg people to read these books, Śrīla Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, by touching their leg, "Please read." That is the process.</p>
:dante nidhāya tṛṇakaṁ padayor nipatya
:kṛtvā ca kāku-śatam etad ahaṁ bravīmi
:he sādhavaḥ sakalam eva vihāya dūrād
:caitanya-candra-caraṇe kurutānurāgam
<p>This is the instruction of Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī. He says that "Taking a straw in my mouth..." That is a Indian system to become humble. If I approach somebody with a straw in my mouth, that means I have become very humble to him. So he says, dante nidhāya tṛṇakam, "Taking a straw in my teeth," and padayor nipatya, "and falling down on your leg," kāku-śataṁ kṛtvā ca, "hundred times flattering you," ahaṁ bravīmi, "I want to submit something."</p>
<p>Naturally the man will be inclined: "All right, you say it. What you want?" So he says, he sādhavaḥ: "You are very nice man, you are very great man, but you kindly forget what you have learned. (laughter) You all nonsense, whatever you have learned, please forget." "Then, what I have to do?" Caitanya-candra-caraṇe kurutānurāgam: "Just take shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Your life will be successful."</p>
<p>So we shall flatter, we shall hold our hands, we shall fall on the feet and do everything, but we shall, "You nonsense, please forget what you have learned." That is our submission.</p>
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