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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features
Ādi 7.23Ādi 7.25

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.24

লুটিয়া, খাইয়া, দিয়া, ভাণ্ডার উজাড়ে ।

আশ্চর্য ভাণ্ডার, প্রেম শতগুণ বাড়ে ॥ ২৪ ॥

luṭiyā, khāiyā, diyā, bhāṇḍāra ujāḍe

āścarya bhāṇḍāra, prema śata-guṇa bāḍe

Translation

Although the members of the Pañca-tattva plundered the storehouse of love of Godhead and ate and distributed its contents, there was no scarcity, for this wonderful storehouse is so complete that as the love is distributed, the supply increases hundreds of times.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Sharing spiritual love increases its abundance

  1. 1

    The storehouse of love of Godhead can never be depleted. As the Pañca-tattva tasted and distributed its contents, the supply increased hundreds of times.

  2. 2

    Actual spiritual consciousness increases the more it is distributed. Even if all living entities wanted to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, there would be no scarcity of love of Godhead or provision for their maintenance.

  3. 3

    The movement can continue unchecked by material opposition if its members keep to their principles and follow the Pañca-tattva. Those who spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness should therefore not be afraid.

Key points from the purport
  • A pseudo incarnation of Kṛṣṇa once told his disciple that he had emptied himself by giving him all knowledge and was thus spiritually bankrupt.
  • Bankruptcy is a term that applies in the material world, but the storehouse of love of Godhead in the spiritual world can never be depleted.
  • Therefore those who propagate the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should not be afraid of such rascals and fools.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Ādi 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features

Back to this verse in Ādi 7
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. luṭiyāplundering
  2. khāiyāeating
  3. diyādistributing
  4. bhāṇḍārastore
  5. ujāḍeemptied
  6. āścaryawonderful
  7. bhāṇḍārastore
  8. premalove of Godhead
  9. śata-guṇaone hundred times
  10. bāḍeincreases
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Audārya · Love that moves outward

    The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “distributed”

  • Prema · Love of Godhead

    The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “love of godhead”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the inexhaustible nature of spiritual love encourage me to share it?

Practice

Share the teaching that love of Godhead increases through distribution with one person today.

Live this todaySharing spiritual love increases its abundanceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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