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Bound Together by Love for God

“All glories to Nityānanda Prabhu, the greatest of mendicants, who bound the entire world with a knot of ecstatic love for God!”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 8.3, translation

What the purport teaches

  • The author offers all glories to Nityānanda Prabhu.
  • Nityānanda Prabhu is praised as the greatest of mendicants, those living in renunciation.
  • He bound the entire world with a knot of ecstatic love for God.

Try this today

Read Nityānanda Prabhu’s praise aloud, pausing over the words “ecstatic love for God.”

Ask yourself

What does the image of a knot of love for God suggest to me?

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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