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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 7.55
না যাহ সন্ন্যাসী–গোষ্ঠী, ইহা আমি জানি ।
মোরে অনুগ্রহ কর নিমন্ত্রণ মানি’ ॥ ৫৫ ॥
nā yāha sannyāsi-goṣṭhī, ihā āmi jāni
more anugraha kara nimantraṇa māni’
“My dear Lord, I know that You never mix with other sannyāsīs, but please be merciful unto me and accept my invitation.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
An ācārya, a great personality of the Vaiṣṇava school, is very strict in his principles.
Although as hard as a thunderbolt, he can sometimes be as soft as a rose. He is independent and may sometimes relax his usual policy.
Lord Caitanya was known never to mix with Māyāvādī sannyāsīs. Yet He granted the brāhmaṇa’s request.
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.
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: “merciful”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this description help me appreciate both an ācārya’s strictness and tenderness?
Keep one devotional commitment today while being gentle in how you speak to others.
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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