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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 7.74
নাম বিনা কলিকালে নাহি আর ধর্ম ।
সর্বমন্ত্রসার নাম, এই শাস্ত্রমর্ম ॥ ৭৪ ॥
nāma vinu kali-kāle nāhi āra dharma
sarva-mantra-sāra nāma, ei śāstra-marma
“ ‘In this Age of Kali there is no religious principle other than the chanting of the holy name, which is the essence of all Vedic hymns. This is the purport of all scriptures.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Spiritual knowledge is received through disciplic succession. Trying to grasp what lies beyond limited perception through argument and experiment makes it difficult to understand the holy name.
Kṛṣṇa and His holy name are identical, so the name is eternally pure and beyond material contamination. It is the Supreme Personality of Godhead as transcendental vibration, not material sound.
In Kali-yuga, chanting the holy name is the religious principle and the essence of all Vedic hymns. Offenseless chanting can free a conditioned soul from all subtle and gross material conditions.
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: “chanting”, “holy name”
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 approaching the holy name as ordinary sound or as Kṛṣṇa Himself?
Before chanting today, pause to remember that Kṛṣṇa and His holy name are identical.
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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