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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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 10.119Ādi 10.121

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.120

মহা–কৃপাপাত্র প্রভুর জগাই, মাধাই ।

‘পতিতপাবন’ নামের সাক্ষী দুই ভাই ॥ ১২০ ॥

mahā-kṛpā-pātra prabhura jagāi, mādhāi

‘patita-pāvana’ nāmera sākṣī dui bhāi

Translation

Jagāi and Mādhāi, the eighty-ninth and ninetieth branches of the tree, were the greatest recipients of Lord Caitanya’s mercy. These two brothers were the witnesses who proved that Lord Caitanya was rightly named Patita-pāvana, “the deliverer of the fallen souls.”

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Mercy and chanting deliver the fallen

  1. 1

    Jagāi and Mādhāi were the greatest recipients of Lord Caitanya’s mercy. They proved that His name Patita-pāvana means “the deliverer of the fallen souls.”

  2. 2

    Although born in respectable brāhmaṇa families, the brothers became thieves and rogues. They became involved in undesirable activities, especially woman-hunting, intoxication and gambling.

  3. 3

    By the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, they were initiated and received the chance to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. Through chanting, both became exalted devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Key points from the purport
  • In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (115) it is said that the two brothers Jagāi and Mādhāi were formerly the doorkeepers named Jaya and Vijaya, who later became Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu.
  • Jagāi and Mādhāi were born in respectable brāhmaṇa families, but they adopted the professions of thieves and rogues and thus became implicated in all kinds of undesirable activities, especially woman-hunting, intoxication and gambling.
  • The tombs of these two brothers, Jagāi and Mādhāi, are in a place known as Ghoṣahāṭa, or Mādhāitalā-grāma, which is situated about one mile south of Katwa.

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.
Back to this verse in Ādi 10
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. mahā-kṛpā-pātraobject of very great mercy
  2. prabhuraof the Lord
  3. jagāi mādhāithe two brothers Jagāi and Mādhāi
  4. patita-pāvanadeliverer of the fallen
  5. nāmeraof this name
  6. sākṣīwitness
  7. dui bhāithese two brothers
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life

    Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “mercy”, “deliverer”, “grace”

  • 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: “branches”

  • Dainya & humility · Making room for grace

    The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “fallen”

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

How does the brothers’ transformation strengthen your hope in mercy and chanting?

Practice

Chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra today, remembering the mercy received by Jagāi and Mādhāi.

Live this todayMercy and chanting deliver the fallenThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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