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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.10
চব্বিশ বৎসর প্রভু কৈল গৃহবাস ।
নিরন্তর কৈল কৃষ্ণ–কীর্তন–বিলাস ॥ ১০ ॥
cabbiśa vatsara prabhu kaila gṛha-vāsa
nirantara kaila kṛṣṇa-kīrtana-vilāsa
For twenty-four years Lord Caitanya lived in the gṛhastha-āśrama [household life], always engaging in the pastimes of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya lived in household life for twenty-four years.
This household stage is called the gṛhastha-āśrama.
Throughout these years, He always engaged in the pastimes of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement.
Jubilation and hope. The Lord appears in Navadvīpa; the theological promise becomes a lived story.
The mood of Ādi 13 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The entire Ādi-līlā describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s household life, and similarly the Antya-līlā describes His life in the sannyāsa order. Within the Lord’s antya-līlā, the first six years of His sannyāsa life are called the madhya-līlā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might you make room for Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting in your daily home life?
Set aside a brief moment at home today to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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