1 · LearnExplore more · 15 min
Prema Atlas
Follow one devotional concept through all three līlās — love given to everyone, and love tasted within — and find the chapters and verses to read.
Two currents, one revelation
Audārya — love given to all. Mādhurya — love inwardly relished.
- chapters
- 62
- chapters
- concepts
- 14
- concepts
- verses
- 12
- verses
- journeys
- 6
- journeys
- bridges
- 15
- bridges
Choose a conceptSwipe for all 14
Practice & service · Making room for grace
Dainya & humility
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka.
12 chapters · tap one
Dainya & humility · in the verses
2 verses to read
“ ‘My Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, in Your holy name there is all good fortune for the living entity, and therefore You have many names, such as “Kṛṣṇa” and “Govinda,” by which You expand Yourself. You have invested all Your potencies in those names, and there are no hard and fast rules for remembering them. My dear Lord, although You bestow such mercy upon the fallen, conditioned souls by liberally teaching Your holy names, I am so unfortunate that I commit offenses while chanting the holy name, and therefore I do not achieve attachment for chanting.’
Study note: The second prayer: the gift of the divine names and the speaker’s lack of attachment.
“ ‘One who thinks himself lower than the grass, who is more tolerant than a tree, and who does not expect personal honor but is always prepared to give all respect to others can very easily always chant the holy name of the Lord.’
Study note: The third prayer: humility, tolerance, honoring others, and continual chanting.
A question to carry
How does genuine humility differ from mere self-deprecation?
Concept links, journeys and bridges are an editorial study map. Only the verses — in Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation — are the text itself. Prema, bhāva, mahābhāva and vipralambha are devotional terms, not psychological labels.