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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 4.226
সেই দ্বারে প্রবর্তাইল কলিযুগ–ধর্ম ।
চৈতন্যের দাসে জানে এই সব মর্ম ॥ ২২৬ ॥
sei dvāre pravartāila kali-yuga-dharma
caitanyera dāse jāne ei saba marma
Thus He initiated the dharma for the Age of Kali. The devotees of Lord Caitanya know all these truths.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, the absolute enjoyer of the love of the gopīs.
He assumes the role of the gopīs to taste the happiness of transcendental mellows from their position.
While appearing in that mode, He also propagated the religious process for the Age of Kali in a most fascinating way. Only His confidential devotees can understand this transcendental secret.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Profound longing. Kṛṣṇa desires to taste Rādhā’s love, His own sweetness as She sees it, and Her joy.
The mood of Ādi 4 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:
Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was the principal figure among Lord Caitanya’s confidential devotees. The records of his diary have revealed these confidential purposes of the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellows”
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: “gopīs”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the statement that only His confidential devotees understand this secret encourage humility in my study?
Reread the purport and note both His inner purpose and His work of establishing the religious process for this age.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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