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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.170
সবাকার পাদপদ্মে কোটি নমস্কার ।
যৈছে তৈছে কহি কিছু চৈতন্য–বিহার ॥ ১৭০ ॥
sabākāra pādapadme koṭi namaskāra
yaiche taiche kahi kichu caitanya-vihāra
I again and again offer obeisances unto the Pañca-tattva. Thus I think that I will be able to describe something about the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author offers obeisances unto the Pañca-tattva again and again.
Through these repeated obeisances, he hopes to be able to describe the Lord’s pastimes.
He speaks modestly of describing something about the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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.
How might offering obeisances shape your attitude toward describing the Lord’s pastimes?
Offer obeisances to the Pañca-tattva today before reading about Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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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