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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 7.63
ইহাঁ আইস, ইহাঁ আইস, শুনহ শ্রীপাদ ।
অপবিত্র স্থানে বৈস, কিবা অবসাদ ॥ ৬৩ ॥
ihāṅ āisa, ihāṅ āisa, śunaha śrīpāda
apavitra sthāne vaisa, kibā avasāda
“Please come here. Please come here, Your Holiness. Why do You sit in that unclean place? What has caused Your lamentation?”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
In the material world, everyone wants to appear important and great. Caitanya Mahāprabhu instead introduced Himself very humbly and meekly.
The Māyāvādīs occupied an exalted position, while Caitanya Mahāprabhu sat in a place that was not even clean.
The sannyāsīs thought that He must be aggrieved. Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī invited Him closer and asked the cause of His lamentation.
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.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “lamentation”
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: “meekly”
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 do I feel a strong need to appear important?
In one conversation today, refrain from mentioning something merely to make yourself seem important.
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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