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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 7.77
এই আজ্ঞা পাঞা নাম লই অনুক্ষণ ।
নাম লৈতে লৈতে মোর ভ্রান্ত হৈল মন ॥ ৭৭ ॥
ei ājñā pāñā nāma la-i anukṣaṇa
nāma laite laite mora bhrānta haila mana
“Since I received this order from My spiritual master, I always chant the holy name, but I thought that by chanting and chanting the holy name I had been bewildered.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
He received the order to chant from His spiritual master.
Following that order, He always chanted the holy name.
As He continued chanting, He thought that the holy name had bewildered Him.
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: “chant”, “holy name”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can the spiritual master’s instruction help me remain steady in chanting?
Set aside a few minutes today to chant the holy name, remembering the instruction to chant.
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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