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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.26
সজ্জন, দুর্জন, পঙ্গু, জড়, অন্ধগণ ।
প্রেমবন্যায় ডুবাইল জগতের জন ॥ ২৬ ॥
saj-jana, durjana, paṅgu, jaḍa, andha-gaṇa
prema-vanyāya ḍubāila jagatera jana
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will inundate the entire world and drown everyone, whether one be a gentleman, a rogue or even lame, invalid or blind.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement can reach everyone, regardless of social standing or physical disability. Its flood does not exclude a gentleman or a rogue.
This spiritual movement is not concerned with the external body of skin and bones. Nationality and bodily circumstances are not barriers to participation.
The movement is properly conducted under the guidance of the Pañca-tattva, strictly following the regulative principles. In this way, it is not limited by external impediments.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What external qualities might I mistakenly treat as barriers to someone’s devotional life?
Notice one judgment you make about someone’s body or social standing today, and remind yourself that it does not exclude them from Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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