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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.141
ভগবান্–প্রাপ্তিহেতু যে করি উপায় ।
শ্রবণাদি ভক্তি—কৃষ্ণ–প্রাপ্তির সহায় ॥ ১৪১ ॥
bhagavān-prāpti-hetu ye kari upāya
śravaṇādi bhakti — kṛṣṇa-prāptira sahāya
“It is only by devotional service, beginning with hearing, that one can approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the only means to approach Him.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Māyāvādī philosophers are satisfied simply to understand Brahman as the sum total of knowledge.
Vaiṣṇava philosophers know in detail about the Supreme Personality of Godhead and know how to approach Him directly.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes nine kinds of devotional service, beginning with hearing. Devotional service is the only means to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
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: “service”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can my hearing become part of approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
Spend a few attentive minutes hearing this translation read aloud.
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