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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 11.7
অসংখ্য অনন্ত গণ কে করু গণন ।
আপনা শোধিতে কহি মুখ্য মুখ্য জন ॥ ৭ ॥
asaṅkhya ananta gaṇa ke karu gaṇana
āpanā śodhite kahi mukhya mukhya jana
These branches and subbranches of devotees are innumerable and unlimited. Who could count them? For my personal purification I shall try to enumerate only the most prominent among them.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The branches and subbranches of devotees are innumerable. The author tries to name only the most prominent for his personal purification.
Transcendental literature should be written under the direction of a superior authority, not for material name, fame or profit. Writing under such authority brings purification.
All Kṛṣṇa conscious activities should be undertaken for personal purification, not for material gain.
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
Learn the words of the 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: “branches”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I approaching my Kṛṣṇa conscious activities for purification or for recognition and gain?
Before studying today, pause and set the intention to seek personal purification rather than praise or material gain.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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