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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 10: The Trunk, Branches and Subbranches of the Caitanya Tree
Ādi 10.112Ādi 10.114

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.113

রামদাস, কবিচন্দ্র, শ্রীগোপালদাস ।

ভাগবতাচার্য, ঠাকুর সারঙ্গদাস ॥ ১১৩ ॥

rāmadāsa, kavicandra, śrī-gopāladāsa

bhāgavatācārya, ṭhākura sāraṅgadāsa

Translation

The seventy-third branch of the original tree was Rāmadāsa, the seventy-fourth was Kavicandra, the seventy-fifth was Śrī Gopāla dāsa, the seventy-sixth was Bhāgavata Ācārya, and the seventy-seventh was Ṭhākura Sāraṅga dāsa.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Explaining Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Through Bhakti-Yoga

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    Bhāgavata Ācārya compiled Kṛṣṇa-prema-taraṅgiṇī and was a most beloved devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. His real name was Raghunātha.

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    When Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu stayed at his house in Varāhanagara, he began reading Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. His explanation expounded bhakti-yoga, and the Lord immediately became unconscious in ecstasy.

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    The Lord praised his explanation and gave him the name Bhāgavata Ācārya. He instructed him that his only duty was to recite Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Key points from the purport
  • Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya, “In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (203) it is said, ‘Bhāgavata Ācārya compiled a book entitled Kṛṣṇa-prema-taraṅgiṇī, and he was the most beloved devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.’
  • When Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited Varāhanagara, now a suburb of Calcutta, He stayed in the house of a most fortunate brāhmaṇa who was a very learned scholar in Bhāgavata literature.
  • As soon as this brāhmaṇa saw Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he began to read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Belonging and gratitude. Many devotees become branches of one living network of devotion.

The mood of Ādi 10 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 10: The Trunk, Branches and Subbranches of the Caitanya Tree

Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:

This chapter describes the branches of the tree named Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. rāmadāsaRāmadāsa
  2. kavicandraKavicandra
  3. śrī gopāla-dāsaŚrī Gopāla dāsa
  4. bhāgavata-ācāryaBhāgavata Ācārya
  5. ṭhākura sāraṅga-dāsaṬhākura Sāraṅga dāsa
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts

    Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “branch”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the Lord’s response help you appreciate about explaining Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam through bhakti-yoga?

Practice

Recite a short passage from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam today, remembering the Lord’s instruction to Bhāgavata Ācārya.

Live this todayExplaining Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Through Bhakti-YogaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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