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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 7.28
যত যত প্রেমবৃষ্টি করে পঞ্চজনে ।
তত তত বাঢ়ে জল, ব্যাপে ত্রিভুবনে ॥ ২৮ ॥
yata yata prema-vṛṣṭi kare pañca-jane
tata tata bāḍhe jala, vyāpe tri-bhuvane
The more the five members of the Pañca-tattva cause the rains of love of Godhead to fall, the more the inundation increases and spreads all over the world.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The more the Pañca-tattva shower love of Godhead, the more its flood increases and spreads throughout the world.
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is neither stereotyped nor stagnant. The purport says it will spread despite objections.
Objections that Europeans and Americans cannot become brāhmaṇas or sannyāsīs cannot stop this spread. The whole world can be inundated with Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I place limits on who can take up Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
Reflect on one assumption you hold about someone’s background, and remind yourself that Kṛṣṇa consciousness can spread throughout the world.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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