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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 7.154

প্রভুকে দেখিতে আইসে সকল সন্ন্যাসী ।

প্রভুর প্রশংসা করে সব বারাণসী ॥ ১৫৪ ॥

prabhuke dekhite āise sakala sannyāsī

prabhura praśaṁsā kare saba vārāṇasī

Translation

Many Māyāvādī sannyāsīs of Vārāṇasī came to see the Lord after this incident, and the entire city praised Him.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Vārāṇasī Praises the Lord

  1. 1

    After this incident, many Māyāvādī sannyāsīs came to see the Lord.

  2. 2

    These sannyāsīs were from Vārāṇasī.

  3. 3

    The entire city praised Him.

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. prabhukeunto Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  2. dekhiteto see
  3. āisethey came
  4. sakalaall
  5. sannyāsīthe Māyāvādī sannyāsīs
  6. prabhuraof Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  7. praśaṁsāpraise
  8. karethey do
  9. sabaall
  10. vārāṇasīthe city of Vārāṇasī
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What stands out to me about both the sannyāsīs and the city responding to the Lord?

Practice

Read the translation aloud, pausing at the words “the entire city praised Him.”

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Live this todayVārāṇasī Praises the LordThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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