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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.67
কিন্তু সর্বলোক দেখি’ কৃষ্ণবহির্মুখ ।
বিষয়ে নিমগ্ন লোক দেখি’ পায় দুঃখ ॥ ৬৭ ॥
kintu sarva-loka dekhi’ kṛṣṇa-bahirmukha
viṣaye nimagna loka dekhi’ pāya duḥkha
But Śrī Advaita Ācārya Prabhu felt pained to see all the people without Kṛṣṇa consciousness simply merging in material sense enjoyment.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Advaita Ācārya Prabhu felt pained to see people without Kṛṣṇa consciousness absorbed in material sense enjoyment.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura taught that the world's only scarcity is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is the vision of pure devotees.
Lacking Kṛṣṇa consciousness, people suffer in an ocean of ignorance and sense gratification. A genuine devotee is deeply saddened by their condition.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does a devotee's concern for suffering people differ from simply criticizing them?
Take a quiet moment today to consider someone's suffering with compassion rather than criticism.
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