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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.168
এই ত’ কহিল পঞ্চতত্ত্বের ব্যাখ্যান ।
ইহার শ্রবণে হয় চৈতন্যতত্ত্ব–জ্ঞান ॥ ১৬৮ ॥
ei ta’ kahila pañca-tattvera vyākhyāna
ihāra śravaṇe haya caitanya-tattva jñāna
I have thus explained the truth of the Pañca-tattva. One who hears this explanation increases in knowledge of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Understanding the Pañca-tattva is very important for understanding Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Hearing this explanation increases our knowledge of Him.
When chanting the names of the Pañca-tattva, one should fully offer obeisances: śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. Such chanting blesses one with the competency to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra without offense.
One should chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra fully, rather than adopt invented slogans. To receive the effects of chanting, one must strictly follow the great ācāryas.
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.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “names of”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “blesses”
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 give more care to chanting fully and following the great ācāryas?
Today, chant the full Pañca-tattva names given above, then chant: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.
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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