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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.75
আত্মারামস্য তস্যেমা বয়ং বৈ গৃহদাসিকাঃ ।
সর্বসঙ্গনিবৃত্ত্যাদ্ধা তপসা চ বভূবিম ॥ ৭৫ ॥
ātmārāmasya tasyemā
vayaṁ vai gṛha-dāsikāḥ
sarva-saṅga-nivṛttyāddhā
tapasā ca babhūvima
“Through austerity and through renunciation of all attachments, we have become maidservants in the home of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is satisfied in Himself.”
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Queen Lakṣmaṇā spoke these words to Draupadī.
She describes becoming maidservants in the Lord’s home through austerity and renunciation of all attachments.
The Lord they serve is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is satisfied in Himself.
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 6.75 quotesSB 10.83.39
During the same incident, this verse, quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.83.39), was spoken to Draupadī by a queen of Kṛṣṇa’s named Lakṣmaṇā.
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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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
That Advaita, the superintendent of the cosmic manifestation, has descended in the form of Advaita Ācārya to associate with Lord Caitanya. When He is addressed as the servitor of Lord Caitanya, His glories are magnified because unless one is invigorated by this mentality of servitorship one cannot understand the mellows derived from devotional service to the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
Learn the words of the 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: “serve”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which attachment could you begin to loosen in order to give more attention to serving the Lord?
Set aside one optional comfort today and use that moment to reflect on becoming a servant of the self-satisfied Lord.
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