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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 7.50
কতেক শুনিব প্রভু তোমার নিন্দন ।
না পারি সহিতে, এবে ছাড়িব জীবন ॥ ৫০ ॥
kateka śuniba prabhu tomāra nindana
nā pāri sahite, ebe chāḍiba jīvana
“How long can we tolerate the blasphemy by Your critics against Your conduct? We should give up our lives rather than hear such blasphemy.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speakers expressed how painful it was to hear critics blaspheme the Lord’s conduct.
The purport identifies tolerance and submissiveness as important instructions of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for regular Vaiṣṇava behavior.
A Vaiṣṇava should be tolerant like a tree and submissive like grass.
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.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “tolerant”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
In what situation today could I practice greater tolerance and humility?
When a small irritation arises today, pause before responding and remember tolerance like a tree and submissiveness like grass.
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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