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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 11.40
তাঁর পুত্র—মহাশয় শ্রীকানু ঠাকুর ।
যাঁর দেহে রহে কৃষ্ণ–প্রেমামৃতপূর ॥ ৪০ ॥
tāṅra putra — mahāśaya śrī-kānu ṭhākura
yāṅra dehe rahe kṛṣṇa-premāmṛta-pūra
Śrī Kānu Ṭhākura, a very respectable gentleman, was the son of Puruṣottama dāsa Ṭhākura. He was such a great devotee that Lord Kṛṣṇa always lived in his body.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Kānu Ṭhākura was the son of Puruṣottama dāsa Ṭhākura. He was such a great devotee that Lord Kṛṣṇa always lived in his body.
He was the cowherd boy Dāma during kṛṣṇa-līlā. Because he was a great devotee from the beginning of his life, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu named him Śiśu Kṛṣṇadāsa.
At five years old, he went to Vṛndāvana with Jāhnavā-mātā. Seeing his ecstatic symptoms, the Gosvāmīs gave him the name Kānāi Ṭhākura.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”, “cowherd”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What moves you about Kānu Ṭhākura’s devotion from the very beginning of his life?
Reread the translation and spend a minute appreciating Kānu Ṭhākura’s closeness to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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