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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 13: The Advent of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Ādi 13.76Ādi 13.78

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.77

নৈতচ্চিত্রং ভগবতি হ্যনন্তে জগদীশ্বরে ।

ওতং প্রোতমিদং যস্মিন্ তন্তুষ্বঙ্গ যথা পটঃ ॥ ৭৭ ॥

naitac citraṁ bhagavati

hy anante jagad-īśvare

otaṁ protam idaṁ yasmin

tantuṣv aṅga yathā paṭaḥ

Translation

“As the threads in a cloth spread both lengthwise and breadthwise, so the Supreme Personality of Godhead exists directly and indirectly within everything we see in this cosmic manifestation. This is not very wonderful for Him.”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Exists Within Everything

  1. 1

    Threads spread both lengthwise and breadthwise throughout a cloth.

  2. 2

    In the same way, the Supreme Personality of Godhead exists directly and indirectly within everything we see in the cosmic manifestation.

  3. 3

    Such all-pervading presence is not very wonderful for Him.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Ādi 13.77 quotesSB 10.15.35

This is a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.15.35).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Ādi 13: The Advent of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. nanot
  2. etatthis
  3. citramwonderful
  4. bhagavatiin the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  5. hicertainly
  6. anantein the unlimited
  7. jagat-īśvarethe master of the universe
  8. otamlengthwise
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the image of threads in cloth help you understand about the Lord’s presence?

Practice

Look closely at a piece of cloth and use its threads to recall the Lord’s presence within everything.

Live this todayThe Lord Exists Within EverythingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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