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Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 16.104

Keep the Door Open to Hearing

“Please go back home, and tomorrow we may meet again so that I may hear discourses on the śāstras from your mouth.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta Ādi 16.104, translation

What the purport teaches

  • The Lord asked the poet to return home.
  • He suggested that they might meet again the next day.
  • He expressed a wish to hear discourses on the śāstras from the poet’s mouth.

Try this today

Arrange a short time to hear someone discuss the śāstras.

Ask yourself

Am I still willing to hear from someone after a disagreement?

Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.

The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.

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