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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 11.19
বাসুদেব গীতে করে প্রভুর বর্ণনে ।
কাষ্ঠ–পাষাণ দ্রবে যাহার শ্রবণে ॥ ১৯ ॥
vāsudeva gīte kare prabhura varṇane
kāṣṭha-pāṣāṇa drave yāhāra śravaṇe
When Vāsudeva Ghoṣa described Lord Caitanya and Nityānanda while performing kīrtana, even wood and stone would melt upon hearing it.
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Vāsudeva Ghoṣa performed kīrtana.
In his kīrtana, he described Lord Caitanya and Nityānanda.
Even wood and stone would melt upon hearing his descriptions.
Affectionate inclusiveness. Nityānanda’s branches show devotion multiplying through relationships.
The mood of Ādi 11 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
As the branches and subbranches of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu were described in the tenth chapter, in this eleventh chapter the branches and subbranches of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu are similarly listed.Back to this verse in Ādi 11
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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: “kīrtana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the image of melting wood and stone affect your appreciation of this kīrtana?
Read the translation aloud slowly, giving attention to whom Vāsudeva Ghoṣa described.
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