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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 16: The Pastimes of the Lord in His Childhood and Youth
Ādi 16.26Ādi 16.28

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.27

সেই অংশ কহি, তাঁরে করি’ নমস্কার ।

যা শুনি’ দিগ্বিজয়ী কৈল আপনা ধিক্কার ॥ ২৭ ॥

sei aṁśa kahi, tāṅre kari’ namaskāra

yā’ śuni’ digvijayī kaila āpanā dhik-kāra

Translation

Offering my obeisances to Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura, I shall try to describe that portion of the Lord’s analysis which, when he heard it, made the Digvijayī feel himself condemned.

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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.

Begin With Obeisances

  1. 1

    The author offers obeisances to Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura.

  2. 2

    He then undertakes to describe a portion of the Lord’s analysis.

  3. 3

    Hearing this analysis made the Digvijayī feel himself condemned.

How it feels

Grief and transformed pride. Lakṣmīdevī’s departure brings sorrow; Keśava Kāśmīrī’s pride yields to surrender.

The mood of Ādi 16 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 16: The Pastimes of the Lord in His Childhood and Youth

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

During His kaiśora-līlā the Lord also sported in the water. He went to East Bengal to secure financial assistance, cultivate knowledge and introduce the saṅkīrtana movement, and there He met Tapana Miśra, whom He instructed about spiritual advancement and ordered to go to Vārāṇasī.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. seithat
  2. aṁśaportion
  3. kahiI mention
  4. tāṅreunto Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura
  5. kari’making
  6. namaskāraobeisances
  7. yā’of which
  8. śunihearing
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana

    The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “vṛndāvana”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What can you learn from the author’s offering of obeisances before beginning his description?

Practice

Before studying today, offer obeisances to Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura.

Live this todayBegin With ObeisancesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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