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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.49
শ্ৰীমুরারি গুপ্ত শাখা—প্রেমের ভাণ্ডার ।
প্রভুর হৃদয় দ্রবে শুনি’ দৈন্য যাঁর ॥ ৪৯ ॥
śrī-murāri gupta śākhā — premera bhāṇḍāra
prabhura hṛdaya drave śuni’ dainya yāṅra
Murāri Gupta, the twenty-first branch of the tree of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, was a storehouse of love of Godhead. His great humility and meekness melted the heart of Lord Caitanya.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Murāri Gupta was a storehouse of love of Godhead. His great humility and meekness melted the heart of Lord Caitanya.
Lord Caitanya exhibited His Varāha form in Murāri Gupta’s house. During His mahā-prakāśa, He appeared before Murāri Gupta as Lord Rāmacandra.
Lord Caitanya taught Murāri Gupta to offer respects first to Nityānanda Prabhu, who was older. Murāri Gupta accepted this correction and followed it the next day.
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.
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: “humility”, “meekness”
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”
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can Murāri Gupta’s willingness to accept correction help me become more humble?
Recall one helpful correction you have received and put it into practice today.
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