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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.42
জগতে যতেক জীব, তার পাপ লঞা ।
নরক ভুঞ্জিতে চাহে জীব ছাড়াইয়া ॥ ৪২ ॥
jagate yateka jīva, tāra pāpa lañā
naraka bhuñjite cāhe jīva chāḍāiyā
Śrīla Vāsudeva Datta Ṭhākura wanted to suffer for the sinful activities of all the people of the world so that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu might deliver them.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīla Vāsudeva Datta Ṭhākura wanted to suffer for the sinful activities of others.
His concern extended to all the people of the world.
He wanted to bear their suffering so that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu might deliver them.
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
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
Learn the words of the 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: “deliver”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might your concern for others become less limited to those you know?
Offer a brief prayer to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu for the deliverance of all people.
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