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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 7.56
প্রভু হাসি’ নিমন্ত্রণ কৈল অঙ্গীকার ।
সন্ন্যাসীরে কৃপা লাগি’ এ ভঙ্গী তাঁহার ॥ ৫৬ ॥
prabhu hāsi’ nimantraṇa kaila aṅgīkāra
sannyāsīre kṛpā lāgi’ e bhaṅgī tāṅhāra
Lord Caitanya smiled and accepted the invitation of the brāhmaṇa. He made this gesture to show His mercy to the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Tapana Miśra and Candraśekhara expressed their grief over the sannyāsīs’ criticism of the Lord. Caitanya Mahāprabhu merely smiled.
The Lord wanted to fulfill His devotees’ desires. The brāhmaṇa’s invitation provided an opportunity to be among the other sannyāsīs.
This coincidence was made possible by the Lord’s omnipotency. He accepted the invitation to show mercy to the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs.
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: “mercy”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the Lord’s wish to show mercy to His critics teach me?
Recall someone whose criticism troubles you, and offer a brief prayer for that person to receive the Lord’s mercy.
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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