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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 3.26
যুগধর্ম–প্রবর্তন হয় অংশ হৈতে ।
আমা বিনা অন্যে নারে ব্রজপ্রেম দিতে ॥ ২৬ ॥
yuga-dharma-pravartana haya aṁśa haite
āmā vinā anye nāre vraja-prema dite
“My plenary portions can establish the principles of religion for each age. No one but Me, however, can bestow the kind of loving service performed by the residents of Vraja.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord's plenary portions can establish religious principles.
These principles can be established for each age.
Only the Lord Himself can bestow the kind of loving service performed by the residents of Vraja.
Compassion and urgency. The holy name is offered for the age; divine love moves outward toward others.
The mood of Ādi 3 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:
The incarnation for this age especially preaches this process, but only Kṛṣṇa Himself can explain the confidential loving service performed in the four principal varieties of loving affairs between the Supreme Lord and His devotees. Lord Kṛṣṇa therefore personally appeared, with His plenary portions, as Lord Caitanya.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 3
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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: “vraja”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this unique gift of loving service invite me to seek?
Offer a short prayer asking for the loving service described in this verse.
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