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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 7.158
স্নান করিতে যবে যা’ন গঙ্গাতীরে ।
তাহাঞি সকল লোক হয় মহাভিড়ে ॥ ১৫৮ ॥
snāna karite yabe yā’na gaṅgā-tīre
tāhāñi sakala loka haya mahā-bhiḍe
Whenever Lord Caitanya went to the banks of the Ganges to take His bath, big crowds of many hundreds of thousands of people assembled there.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya went to the banks of the Ganges to take His bath.
Whenever He went there, great crowds assembled.
These gatherings numbered many hundreds of thousands of people.
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: “assembled”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What strikes me about crowds gathering whenever Lord Caitanya went to the Ganges?
Read the translation slowly and recall its three details: the Lord, His bath in the Ganges, and the vast gathering.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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