1 · Learn4 of 6 · 5 min
Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.162
এ লীলা কহিব আগে বিস্তার করিয়া ।
সংক্ষেপে কহিলাঙ ইহাঁ প্রসঙ্গ পাইয়া ॥ ১৬২ ॥
ei līlā kahiba āge vistāra kariyā
saṅkṣepe kahilāṅ ihāṅ prasaṅga pāiyā
I have here given a brief account of these pastimes of Lord Caitanya, but later I shall describe them in an extensive way.
Read this verse on Vedabase.ioThis verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.
Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author has given a brief account of Lord Caitanya’s pastimes.
This account is a summary rather than an extensive description.
The author promises to describe these pastimes more fully later.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What would you like to understand more fully as you continue reading these pastimes?
Write down one detail from your reading that you would like to learn more about.
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.
Ask Caitanya CaritamrtaHave a question about CC Ādi 7.162? Get an answer from the verses themselves.