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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 10.56
ভক্তে কৃপা করেন প্রভু এ–তিন স্বরূপে ।
‘সাক্ষাৎ’, ‘আবেশ’ আর ‘আবির্ভাব’–রূপে ॥ ৫৬ ॥
bhakte kṛpā karena prabhu e-tina svarūpe
‘sākṣāt,’ ‘āveśa’ āra ‘āvirbhāva’-rūpe
Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bestows His causeless mercy upon His devotees in three features: His own direct appearance [sākṣāt], His prowess within someone He empowers [āveśa], and His manifestation [āvirbhāva].
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bestows causeless mercy through sākṣāt, His direct personal presence.
Āveśa means His power invested in someone He empowers. Nakula Brahmacārī is given as an example.
Āvirbhāva is His manifestation when He is not personally present. When Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura performed saṅkīrtana, everyone felt Lord Caitanya’s presence even in His absence.
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.
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”
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: “saṅkīrtana”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “absence”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do these three features deepen my appreciation of Lord Caitanya’s causeless mercy?
Write down sākṣāt, āveśa and āvirbhāva, with a short definition of each.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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