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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.165
নিত্যানন্দ–গোসাঞে পাঠাইলা গৌড়দেশে ।
তেঁহো ভক্তি প্রচারিলা অশেষ–বিশেষে ॥ ১৬৫ ॥
nityānanda-gosāñe pāṭhāilā gauḍa-deśe
teṅho bhakti pracārilā aśeṣa-viśeṣe
As Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī were sent toward Mathurā, so Nityānanda Prabhu was sent to Bengal to preach extensively the cult of Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Nityānanda Prabhu was sent to Bengal to preach extensively the cult of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, just as Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī were sent toward Mathurā.
One should not stress the importance of Lord Nityānanda over Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, or Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu over Lord Nityānanda.
Respect should be offered equally to the Pañca-tattva without considering one greater than another. All devotees of Lord Caitanya or Nityānanda are worshipable persons.
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: “offered”
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 you offer respect without making comparisons that diminish others?
Recite respectfully: “śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda.”
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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