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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.70
কৃষ্ণ অবতারিতে আচার্য প্রতিজ্ঞা করিয়া ।
কৃষ্ণপূজা করে তুলসী–গঙ্গাজল দিয়া ॥ ৭০ ॥
kṛṣṇa avatārite ācārya pratijñā kariyā
kṛṣṇa-pūjā kare tulasī-gaṅgājala diyā
With this consideration, Advaita Ācārya Prabhu, promising to cause Lord Kṛṣṇa to descend, began to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, with tulasī leaves and water of the Ganges.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Advaita Ācārya Prabhu promised to cause Lord Kṛṣṇa to descend.
He began worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, with tulasī leaves and Ganges water.
The purport says that tulasī leaves and Ganges water are sufficient materials for worship. A little sandalwood pulp may be added if possible.
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 13.70 quotesBG 9.26
The Lord says in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.26):
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
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:
After her ninth pregnancy she gave birth to a son, who was named Viśvarūpa. Then, in 1407 Śaka Era (A.D. 1486), in the full-moon evening of the month of Phālguna, with the constellation of Siṁha (Leo) on the horizon, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared as the son of Śrī Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra.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.
Do I overlook the simplicity of the offerings described here?
Write down the simple worship materials named here, noting that sandalwood pulp is optional.
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