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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 10.43
হরিদাসঠাকুর শাখার অদ্ভুত চরিত ।
তিন লক্ষ নাম তেঁহো লয়েন অপতিত ॥ ৪৩ ॥
haridāsa-ṭhākura śākhāra adbhuta carita
tina lakṣa nāma teṅho layena apatita
The twentieth branch of the Caitanya tree was Haridāsa Ṭhākura. His character was wonderful. He used to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa 300,000 times a day without fail.
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Haridāsa Ṭhākura chanted the holy name of Kṛṣṇa 300,000 times daily without fail. No ordinary person should artificially imitate his behavior.
Everyone should fulfill a specific vow to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Śrīla Prabhupāda prescribed at least sixteen rounds daily for all students in his Society.
Chanting must be offenseless to be of high quality. Mechanical chanting is not as powerful as chanting without offenses.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chant”, “holy name”, “haridāsa”
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you give more care to both steadiness and quality in your chanting?
Set aside a definite time today to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra carefully rather than mechanically.
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