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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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 15: The Lord’s Paugaṇḍa-līlā
Ādi 15.26Ādi 15.28

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 15.27

ন গৃহং গৃহমিত্যাহুর্গৃহিণী গৃহমুচ্যতে ।

তয়া হি সহিতঃ সর্বান্ পুরুষার্থান্ সমশ্নুতে ॥ ২৭ ॥

na gṛhaṁ gṛham ity āhur

gṛhiṇī gṛham ucyate

tayā hi sahitaḥ sarvān

puruṣārthān samaśnute

Translation

“Merely a house is not a home, for it is a wife who gives a home its meaning. If one lives at home with his wife, together they can fulfill all the interests of human life.”

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

A Home Means More Than a House

  1. 1

    Merely having a house does not make it a home.

  2. 2

    The Lord explains that a wife gives a home its meaning.

  3. 3

    Living together, husband and wife can fulfill all the interests of human life.

How it feels

Wonder touched by grief. Learning, family duty, the loss of Jagannātha Miśra, and marriage create mixed feeling.

The mood of Ādi 15 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 15: The Lord’s Paugaṇḍa-līlā

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

He narrated a story that Viśvarūpa, after accepting the sannyāsa order, invited Him in a dream to accept sannyāsa also , but the Lord refused and was therefore sent back home. When Jagannātha Miśra passed away, the Lord married the daughter of Vallabhācārya, whose name was Lakṣmī.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 15
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. nanot
  2. gṛhamthe home
  3. gṛhamthe house
  4. itithus
  5. āhuḥsaid
  6. gṛhiṇīthe wife
  7. gṛhamhome
  8. ucyateit is said
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Key ideas in this 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: “together”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this teaching shift your attention from a building to the relationship within it?

Practice

Write down one way a husband and wife can support each other in fulfilling life’s purposes.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

Quoted in 2 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Quoted in 2 lectures

In each of these he quotes this verse while speaking on another verse or subject. "Find the quote" opens the transcript at that spot.

Live this todayA Home Means More Than a HouseThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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