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

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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 13: The Advent of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Ādi 13.120 Ādi 13.122

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.121

লগ্ন গণি’ হর্ষমতি, নীলাম্বর চক্রবর্তী,

গুপ্তে কিছু কহিল মিশ্রেরে ।

মহাপুরুষের চিহ্ন, লগ্নে অঙ্গে ভিন্ন ভিন্ন,

দেখি,—এই তারিবে সংসারে ॥ ১২১ ॥

lagna gaṇi’ harṣamati, nīlāmbara cakravartī,

gupte kichu kahila miśrere

mahāpuruṣera cihna, lagne aṅge bhinna bhinna,

dekhi, — ei tāribe saṁsāre

Translation

After calculating the birth moment of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Nīlāmbara Cakravartī privately said to Jagannātha Miśra that he saw all the different symptoms of a great personality in both the body and birth moment of the child. Thus he understood that in the future this child would deliver all the three worlds.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Child Would Deliver Three Worlds

1
Nīlāmbara Cakravartī calculated the birth moment of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
2
He privately told Jagannātha Miśra that both the child’s body and His birth moment showed the symptoms of a great personality.
3
From these signs, he understood that the child would deliver all the three worlds in the future.

How it feels

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

Ādi 13: The Advent of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Nīlāmbara Cakravartī, who was a great astrologer, immediately prepared a horoscope, and by astrological calculation he saw that the child was a great personality. This chapter describes the symptoms of this great personality.

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Word for word

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lagna gaṇi’by astrological calculation of the birth moment
harṣa-mativery pleased
nīlāmbara cakravartīNīlāmbara Cakravartī
guptein private
kichusomething
kahilasaid
miśrereunto Jagannātha Miśra
mahā-puruṣera cihnaall the symptoms of a great personality

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

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: “deliver”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What strikes you about the scope of the child’s future work of deliverance?

Practice

Write down Nīlāmbara Cakravartī’s conclusion that this child would deliver all the three worlds.

Live this todayThe Child Would Deliver Three WorldsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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