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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.66
তাঁর সঙ্গে আনন্দ করে বৈষ্ণবের গণ ।
কৃষ্ণকথা, কৃষ্ণপূজা, নামসংকীর্তন ॥ ৬৬ ॥
tāṅra saṅge ānanda kare vaiṣṇavera gaṇa
kṛṣṇa-kathā, kṛṣṇa-pūjā, nāma-saṅkīrtana
In the house of Advaita Ācārya, all the Vaiṣṇavas took pleasure in always talking of Kṛṣṇa, always worshiping Kṛṣṇa and always chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
In Advaita Ācārya’s house, the Vaiṣṇavas took pleasure in always talking of Kṛṣṇa.
They always worshiped Kṛṣṇa and chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement proceeds on these principles only. Its business is to talk of Kṛṣṇa, worship Kṛṣṇa and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
Śrī Śacīdevī gave birth to eight children, all daughters, who died one after another immediately after birth. After her ninth pregnancy she gave birth to a son, who was named Viśvarūpa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “chanted”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you make more room today for the activities that gave these Vaiṣṇavas pleasure?
Spend a few minutes today chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
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