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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.156
লক্ষ লক্ষ লোক আইসে প্রভুকে দেখিতে ।
মহাভিড় হৈল দ্বারে, নারে প্রবেশিতে ॥ ১৫৬ ॥
lakṣa lakṣa loka āise prabhuke dekhite
mahā-bhiḍa haila dvāre, nāre praveśite
The crowd at the door of His residence was so great that it numbered hundreds of thousands.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
A crowd gathered at the Lord’s residence.
The people crowded at the door.
The gathering was so great that it numbered hundreds of thousands.
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.
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
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In this verse: “gathered”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What impresses me about the vast number of people gathered at His door?
Pause after reading and picture the doorway surrounded by the immense crowd described here.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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