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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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 7.38Ādi 7.40

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.39

তবে নিজ ভক্ত কৈল যত ম্লেচ্ছ আদি ।

সবে এড়াইল মাত্র কাশীর মায়াবাদী ॥ ৩৯ ॥

tabe nija bhakta kaila yata mleccha ādi

sabe eḍāila mātra kāśīra māyāvādī

Translation

All were converted into devotees of Lord Caitanya, even the mlecchas and yavanas. Only the impersonalist followers of Śaṅkarācārya evaded Him.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Becoming Open to Devotional Service

  1. 1

    Lord Caitanya brought people of many backgrounds into devotion, including Muslims and other mlecchas.

  2. 2

    People attached to fruitive activities, great logicians, blasphemers, nondevotees and degraded students gradually became His devotees.

  3. 3

    The impersonalist followers of Śaṅkarācārya were extremely difficult to convert. They tactfully evaded Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's efforts.

Key points from the purport
  • In this verse it is clearly indicated that although Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu converted Muslims and other mlecchas into devotees, the impersonalist followers of Śaṅkarācārya could not be converted.
  • After accepting the renounced order of life, Caitanya Mahāprabhu converted many karma-niṣṭhas who were addicted to fruitive activities, many great logicians like Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, nindakas (blasphemers) like Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, pāṣaṇḍīs (nondevotees) like Jagāi and Mādhāi, and adhama paḍuyās (degraded students) like Mukunda and his friends.
  • All of them gradually became devotees of the Lord, even the Pāṭhāns (Muslims), but the worst offenders, the impersonalists, were extremely difficult to convert, for they very tactfully escaped the devices of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

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. tabethereafter
  2. nijaown
  3. bhaktadevotee
  4. kailaconverted
  5. yataall
  6. mlecchaone who does not follow the Vedic principles
  7. ādiheading the list
  8. sabeall those
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts

    Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “followers”

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

Am I willing to receive devotional teaching, or do I look for ways to avoid it?

Practice

Read this translation slowly and identify one way you can be more receptive to devotional service today.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Live this todayBecoming Open to Devotional ServiceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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