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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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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 6: The Glories of Śrī Advaita Ācārya
Ādi 6.11Ādi 6.13

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.12

জগৎ–মঙ্গল অদ্বৈত, মঙ্গল–গুণধাম ।

মঙ্গল–চরিত্র সদা, ‘মঙ্গল’ যাঁর নাম ॥ ১২ ॥

jagat-maṅgala advaita, maṅgala-guṇa-dhāma

maṅgala-caritra sadā, ‘maṅgala’ yāṅra nāma

Translation

Being a reservoir of all auspicious attributes, Śrī Advaita Ācārya is all-auspicious for the world. His characteristics, activities and name are always auspicious.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Advaita’s Name and Activities Are Always Auspicious

  1. 1

    Śrī Advaita Prabhu is an incarnation of Mahā-Viṣṇu and an ācārya, or teacher. His characteristics, activities and name are always auspicious.

  2. 2

    Anyone who sees the all-auspiciousness in Lord Viṣṇu’s pastimes also becomes auspicious. One attracted by His devotional service can render the greatest service to human society.

  3. 3

    Pure devotional service is the eternal function of living entities and actual liberation from conditioned life. Refusing to understand this leaves one bereft of devotional service.

Key points from the purport
  • All His activities and all the other activities of Viṣṇu are auspicious.
  • Therefore, since Lord Viṣṇu is the fountainhead of auspiciousness, anyone who is attracted by the devotional service of Lord Viṣṇu can render the greatest service to human society.
  • Rejected persons of the material world who refuse to understand pure devotional service as the eternal function of the living entities, and as actual liberation of the living being from conditioned life, become bereft of all devotional service because of their poor fund of knowledge.

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

Devotional appeal. The glory of Advaita frames service as the deepest form of greatness.

The mood of Ādi 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 6: The Glories of Śrī Advaita Ācārya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

The truth of Advaita Ācārya has been described in two verses. It is said that material nature has two features, namely the material cause and the efficient cause.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. jagat-maṅgalaall-auspicious for the world
  2. advaitaAdvaita Ācārya
  3. maṅgala-guṇa-dhāmathe reservoir of all auspicious attributes
  4. maṅgala-caritraall characteristics are auspicious
  5. sadāalways
  6. maṅgalaauspicious
  7. yāṅra nāmawhose name
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Key ideas in this verse

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”

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 might understanding pure devotional service as your eternal function change what you value?

Practice

Spend a quiet minute reflecting on Śrī Advaita Ācārya’s auspicious name and your desire for pure devotional service.

Live this todayAdvaita’s Name and Activities Are Always AuspiciousThis 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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