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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.68
সন্ন্যাসী হইয়া কর নর্তন–গায়ন ।
ভাবুক সব সঙ্গে লঞা কর সংকীর্তন ॥ ৬৮ ॥
sannyāsī ha-iyā kara nartana-gāyana
bhāvuka saba saṅge lañā kara saṅkīrtana
“You are a sannyāsī. Why then do You indulge in chanting and dancing, engaging in Your saṅkīrtana movement in the company of fanatics?
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī challenged the Lord’s chanting and dancing. He questioned why a sannyāsī would participate in the saṅkīrtana movement.
The purport identifies Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the object of Vedānta philosophical research.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu kindly determined who is qualified to study Vedānta philosophy. The supplied passage points to His Śikṣāṣṭaka for the first qualification, but does not yet state it.
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.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “saṅkīrtana”, “chanting”
Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association
Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “company of”
Śikṣāṣṭaka · The eightfold inner culmination
Eight prayers that lead from glorifying the holy name through humility and selfless love to unconditional attachment to Kṛṣṇa. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “śikṣāṣṭaka”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I willing to learn from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu what qualifies a person for spiritual study?
Spend a brief moment chanting today, remembering the Lord’s own participation in saṅkīrtana.
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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