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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.23
দার্ঢ্য লাগি’ ‘হরের্নাম’–উক্তি তিনবার ।
জড় লোক বুঝাইতে পুনঃ ‘এব’–কার ॥ ২৩ ॥
dārḍhya lāgi’ ‘harer nāma’-ukti tina-vāra
jaḍa loka bujhāite punaḥ ‘eva’-kāra
“This verse repeats the word ‘eva’ [‘certainly’] three times for emphasis, and it also three times repeats ‘harer nāma’ [‘the holy name of the Lord’], just to make common people understand.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The words “eva,” meaning “certainly,” and “harer nāma,” meaning “the holy name of the Lord,” are each repeated three times. This repetition helps ordinary people understand the emphasis.
The Bṛhan-nāradīya Purāṇa emphasizes chanting so that people will take it seriously and become free from māyā. The purport describes people reaching the spiritual stage by regularly chanting according to the prescribed principles.
Śrīla Prabhupāda requests students to chant at least sixteen rounds daily, offenselessly and while following the regulative principles. He assures them that their success will then be without doubt.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
To understand Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s ecstatic love for Him, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The attitude of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is considered the superexcellent devotional mentality.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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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: “holy name”, “chanting”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What practical change would help you take regular chanting more seriously?
Choose a definite time for chanting today, keeping the instruction for sixteen daily rounds and the regulative principles in view.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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