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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 17.218

‘হরি’ ‘কৃষ্ণ’ ‘নারায়ণ’—লৈলে তিন নাম ।

বড় ভাগ্যবান্‌ তুমি, বড় পুণ্যবান্ ॥ ২১৮ ॥

‘hari’ ‘kṛṣṇa’ ‘nārāyaṇa’ — laile tina nāma

baḍa bhāgyavān tumi, baḍa puṇyavān

Translation

“Because you have chanted three holy names of the Lord — Hari, Kṛṣṇa and Nārāyaṇa — you are undoubtedly the most fortunate and pious.”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Chanting Makes Anyone Most Fortunate

  1. 1

    The Supreme Lord, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, confirms the potency of the holy names Hari, Kṛṣṇa and Nārāyaṇa.

  2. 2

    Anyone who chants these names without offense is extremely fortunate and immediately becomes most pious. This applies whether one is Indian or non-Indian, Hindu or non-Hindu.

  3. 3

    The purport urges following in Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s footsteps and carrying out the mission peacefully, without being deterred by opposition to people from other places becoming Vaiṣṇavas.

Key points from the purport
  • Here the Supreme Lord, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, con-firms that anyone who chants the holy names Hari, Kṛṣṇa and Nārāyaṇa without offense is certainly extremely fortunate, and whether Indian or non-Indian, Hindu or non-Hindu, he immediately comes to the level of the most pious personality.
  • We therefore do not care about the statements of pāṣaṇḍīs who protest against our movement’s making the members of other cities or countries into Vaiṣṇavas.
  • We have to follow in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, executing our mission peacefully, or, if necessary, kicking the heads of such protesters.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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:

When Kṛṣṇa in His form of Nārāyaṇa saw Rādhārāṇī, He could not keep His position as Nārāyaṇa and again assumed the form of Kṛṣṇa. The King of Vrajabhūmi is Nanda Mahārāja, and the same person in Navadvīpa is Jagannātha Miśra, the father of Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. hari kṛṣṇa nārāyaṇathe holy names of Lord Hari, Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Nārāyaṇa
  2. laileyou have taken
  3. tinathree
  4. nāmaholy names
  5. baḍavery
  6. bhāgyavānfortunate
  7. tumiyou are
  8. baḍavery
  9. puṇyavānpious
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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: “chanted”, “names of”, “hari”

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 can you honor the spiritual opportunity that chanting offers everyone?

Practice

Respectfully chant Hari, Kṛṣṇa and Nārāyaṇa today, with the intention to chant without offense.

Live this todayChanting Makes Anyone Most FortunateThis 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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