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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 4.34
অনুগ্রহায় ভক্তানাং মানুষং দেহমাশ্রিতঃ ।
ভজতে তাদৃশীঃ ক্রীড়া যাঃ শ্রুত্বা তৎপরো ভবেৎ ॥ ৩৪ ॥
anugrahāya bhaktānāṁ
mānuṣaṁ deham āśritaḥ
bhajate tādṛśīḥ krīḍā
yāḥ śrutvā tat-paro bhavet
“Kṛṣṇa manifests His eternal humanlike form and performs His pastimes to show mercy to the devotees. Having heard such pastimes, one should engage in service to Him.”
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Kṛṣṇa manifests His eternal humanlike form and performs His pastimes to show mercy to devotees. Hearing these pastimes should lead to service to Him.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has innumerable expansions of His transcendental form eternally existing in the spiritual world. Time cannot deteriorate or interfere with existence there.
The material world is a perverted reflection of the spiritual world, where all existence is unadulterated goodness. Material goodness is contaminated by passion and ignorance.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Ādi 4.34 quotesSB 10.33.36
This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.33.36). The Supreme Personality of Godhead has innumerable expansions of His transcendental form who eternally exist in the spiritual world.
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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:
Lord Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of transcendental loving transactions with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. The subject of those loving transactions is the Lord Himself, and Rādhārāṇī is the object.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.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mercy”
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can my hearing about Kṛṣṇa lead to service rather than remain only information?
After reading this verse, offer one small act of service to Kṛṣṇa.
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