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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.17
এই ত’ করিবে বৈষ্ণব–ধর্মের প্রচার ।
ইহা হৈতে হবে দুই কুলের নিস্তার ॥ ১৭ ॥
ei ta’ karibe vaiṣṇava-dharmera pracāra
ihā haite habe dui kulera nistāra
“This child will preach the Vaiṣṇava cult and deliver both His maternal and paternal families.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Only Nārāyaṇa Himself or His bona fide representative can preach Vaiṣṇavism, or devotional service.
The child will preach devotional service and deliver both His maternal and paternal families.
When a Vaiṣṇava is born, he delivers both sides of his family simultaneously.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Parental tenderness and play. Nimāi’s childhood alternates affection, mischief, and revelations.
The mood of Ādi 14 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:
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has given a summary of this chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya: “In the fourteenth chapter there is a description of how Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu enjoyed His childhood pastimes — crawling, crying, eating dirt and giving intelligence to His mother, favoring a brāhmaṇa guest, riding on the shoulders of two thieves and misleading them to His own house, and, on the plea of being diseased, taking prasādam in the house of Hiraṇya and Jagadīśa on the Ekādaśī day.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 14
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “deliver”
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this teaching deepen your appreciation for a Vaiṣṇava’s presence in a family?
Read the translation aloud today, pausing to reflect on the blessing described for both families.
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