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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.100

যে কিছু কহিলে তুমি, সব সত্য হয় ।

কৃষ্ণপ্রেমা সেই পায়, যার ভাগ্যোদয় ॥ ১০০ ॥

ye kichu kahile tumi, saba satya haya

kṛṣṇa-premā sei pāya, yāra bhāgyodaya

Translation

“Dear Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, what You have said is all true. Only one who is favored by fortune attains love of Godhead.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Love of Godhead Is Great Fortune

  1. 1

    The speakers acknowledge that everything Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said is true.

  2. 2

    They recognize that only one favored by fortune attains love of Godhead.

  3. 3

    The purport explains that one who is actually very fortunate can begin Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Key points from the purport
  • One who is actually very fortunate can begin Kṛṣṇa consciousness, as stated by Caitanya Mahāprabhu to Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī:

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

Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.

The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features

Back to this verse in Ādi 7
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. yeall
  2. kichuthat
  3. kahileYou spoke
  4. tumiYou
  5. sabaeverything
  6. satyatruth
  7. hayabecomes
  8. kṛṣṇa-premālove of Godhead
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Key ideas in this 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: “favored”

  • 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 of godhead”

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

Do I value the opportunity to begin Kṛṣṇa consciousness as great fortune?

Practice

Write one sentence expressing gratitude for the opportunity to learn about Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Live this todayLove of Godhead Is Great FortuneThis 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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