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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 11.30

জগদীশ পণ্ডিত হয় জগৎ–পাবন ।

কৃষ্ণপ্রেমামৃত বর্ষে, যেন বর্ষা ঘন ॥ ৩০ ॥

jagadīśa paṇḍita haya jagat-pāvana

kṛṣṇa-premāmṛta varṣe, yena varṣā ghana

Translation

Jagadīśa Paṇḍita, the fifteenth branch of Lord Nityānanda’s followers, was the deliverer of the entire world. Devotional love of Kṛṣṇa showered from him like torrents of rain.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Showering Devotional Love of Kṛṣṇa

  1. 1

    Jagadīśa Paṇḍita was the fifteenth branch of Lord Nityānanda’s followers and the deliverer of the entire world. Devotional love of Kṛṣṇa showered from him like torrents of rain.

  2. 2

    His parents were great devotees of Lord Viṣṇu. After their death, he moved with his wife and brother to Śrī Māyāpur to live among Jagannātha Miśra and other Vaiṣṇavas.

  3. 3

    Lord Caitanya asked him to preach the hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana movement in Jagannātha Purī. After returning, he established Deities of Jagannātha in Yaśaḍā-grāma on Lord Jagannātha’s order.

Key points from the purport
  • Lord Caitanya asked Jagadīśa to go to Jagannātha Purī to preach the hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana movement.
  • It is said that when Jagadīśa Paṇḍita brought the Deity of Jagannātha to Yaśaḍā-grāma, he tied the heavy Deity to a stick and thus brought Him to the village.
  • The priests of the temple still show the stick used by Jagadīśa Paṇḍita to carry the Jagannātha Deity.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Ādi 11: The Expansions of Lord Nityānanda

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. jagadīśa paṇḍitaJagadīśa Paṇḍita
  2. hayabecomes
  3. jagat-pāvanathe deliverer of the world
  4. kṛṣṇa-prema-amṛta varṣehe always pours torrents of devotional service
  5. yenalike
  6. varṣārainfall
  7. ghanaheavy
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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”, “followers”

  • 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: “deliverer”

  • 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 krsna”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What inspires you about Jagadīśa Paṇḍita’s service of sharing devotional love?

Practice

Set aside a few minutes today to chant the holy name, remembering Jagadīśa Paṇḍita’s preaching service.

Live this todayShowering Devotional Love of KṛṣṇaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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