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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 13.5
জয় শ্রীচৈতন্যচন্দ্রের ভক্ত চন্দ্রগণ ।
সবার প্রেম–জ্যোৎস্নায় উজ্জ্বল ত্রিভুবন ॥ ৫ ॥
jaya śrī-caitanyacandrera bhakta candra-gaṇa
sabāra prema jyotsnāya ujjvala tri-bhuvana
All glories to the moons who are devotees of the principal moon, Lord Caitanyacandra! Their bright moonshine illuminates the entire universe.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The devotees are praised as moons around the principal moon, Lord Caitanyacandra. Their bright moonshine illuminates the entire universe.
The purport explains that moons look brilliant because they reflect sunshine. It uses this image to explain the devotees’ brightness.
Śrī Kṛṣṇa, or Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme powerful. His devotees are bright and illuminating because they reflect Him, the supreme sun.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Ādi 13.5 quotesBG 10.21
In the Bhagavad-gītā (10.21) the Lord says, nakṣatrāṇām ahaṁ śaśī: “Among the stars, I am the moon.”
The purport of CC Ādi 13.5 quotesCC Madhya 22.31
The Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.31) states:
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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
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does seeing devotees’ brightness as reflected light deepen my appreciation of the Lord?
Write one sentence explaining how the devotees’ light depends on the Supreme Lord.
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