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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 7.40
বৃন্দাবন যাইতে প্রভু রহিলা কাশীতে ।
মায়াবাদিগণ তাঁরে লাগিল নিন্দিতে ॥ ৪০ ॥
vṛndāvana yāite prabhu rahilā kāśīte
māyāvādi-gaṇa tāṅre lāgila nindite
While Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was passing through Vārāṇasī on His way to Vṛndāvana, the Māyāvādī sannyāsī philosophers blasphemed against Him in many ways.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
While passing through Vārāṇasī on His way to Vṛndāvana, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was blasphemed by Māyāvādī sannyāsī philosophers.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu faced many Māyāvādī philosophers while preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness with full vigor.
The purport describes similar opposition to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. It credits successful defeat of opposing arguments to Lord Kṛṣṇa's grace.
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.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “grace”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When devotional teachings meet opposition, how can I remember dependence on Lord Kṛṣṇa's grace?
Before sharing a teaching of Kṛṣṇa consciousness today, take a moment to ask for Lord Kṛṣṇa's grace.
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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