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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.69
কৃষ্ণ অবতরি’ করেন ভক্তির বিস্তার ।
তবে ত’ সকল লোকের হইবে নিস্তার ॥ ৬৯ ॥
kṛṣṇa avatari’ karena bhaktira vistāra
tabe ta’ sakala lokera ha-ibe nistāra
Śrīla Advaita Ācārya Prabhu thought, “If Kṛṣṇa Himself appears in order to distribute the cult of devotional service, then only will liberation be possible for all people.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīla Advaita Ācārya Prabhu thought that Kṛṣṇa Himself should appear to distribute devotional service. In this way, liberation would be possible for all people.
The purport compares deliverance to a condemned person receiving special favor from a president or king.
People of Kali-yuga can be delivered only by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself or someone especially empowered for this purpose. Advaita Ācārya desired the Lord's own appearance to deliver fallen souls.
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Audārya · Love that moves outward
The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “distribute”
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: “deliverance”, “favor”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this teaching show me about dependence on the Lord's mercy?
Offer a brief prayer today asking for the Lord's mercy and the opportunity for devotional service.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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