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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.65
আপনে প্রকাশানন্দ হাতেতে ধরিয়া ।
বসাইলা সভামধ্যে সম্মান করিয়া ॥ ৬৫ ॥
āpane prakāśānanda hātete dhariyā
vasāilā sabhā-madhye sammāna kariyā
Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, however, caught Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally by the hand and seated Him with great respect in the midst of the assembly.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī personally took Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu by the hand and respectfully seated Him in the assembly.
The purport appreciates this behavior as ajñāta-sukṛti: pious activity performed unknowingly.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu tactfully gave Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī an opportunity to advance in ajñāta-sukṛti. This could help him become a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī in the future.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might a simple act of respect become an opportunity for spiritual advancement?
Offer someone a seat today with sincere respect and care.
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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