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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.147

এবে তুমি শান্ত হৈলে, আসি’ মিলিলাঙ্‌ ।

ভাগ্য মোর,—তোমা হেন অতিথি পাইলাঙ ॥ ১৪৭ ॥

ebe tumi śānta haile, āsi, mililāṅ

bhāgya mora, — tomā hena atithi pāilāṅ

Translation

“Now that You have become pacified, I have come to You. It is my good fortune to receive a guest like Your Honor.

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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.

Receiving the Lord as Good Fortune

  1. 1

    The Kazi said that the Lord had now become pacified.

  2. 2

    He explained that he had therefore come before the Lord.

  3. 3

    He considered it his good fortune to receive such an honored guest.

How it feels

Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.

The mood of Ādi 17 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 17: The Pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu in His Youth

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

In the ecstatic love of the gopīs, all worshipable forms but Kṛṣṇa are rejected. Among all the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī has the highest ecstatic love.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. ebenow
  2. tumiYou
  3. śāntapacified
  4. hailehave become
  5. āsi’coming
  6. mililāṅI have met (You)
  7. bhāgya morait is my great fortune
  8. tomaYou
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How do you express appreciation when you have the opportunity to welcome someone?

Practice

Offer a sincere word of welcome to someone you receive or meet today.

Live this todayReceiving the Lord as Good FortuneThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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