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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.20
শুনি’ শচী–মিশ্রের মনে আনন্দ বাড়িল ।
ব্রাহ্মণ–ব্রাহ্মণী আনি’ মহোৎসব কৈল ॥ ২০ ॥
śuni’ śacī-miśrera mane ānanda bāḍila
brāhmaṇa-brāhmaṇī āni’ mahotsava kaila
After hearing Nīlāmbara Cakravartī’s prediction, Śacīmātā and Jagannātha Miśra observed the name-giving festival in great joy, inviting all the brāhmaṇas and their wives.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
After hearing Nīlāmbara Cakravartī’s prediction, Śacīmātā and Jagannātha Miśra joyfully held the name-giving festival. They invited all the brāhmaṇas and their wives.
The Vedic system especially invites brāhmaṇas to festivals, including birthdays, marriages, name-giving ceremonies and the beginning of education.
The brāhmaṇas are fed first. When pleased, they bless the festival by chanting Vedic mantras or the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “festival”
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: “bless”
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What place do hospitality and sacred chanting have in your understanding of a joyful festival?
Chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra today, remembering its place in these joyful festivals.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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