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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 7.79
তব ধৈর্য ধরি’ মনে করিলুঁ বিচার ।
কৃষ্ণনামে জ্ঞানাচ্ছন্ন হইল আমার ॥ ৭৯ ॥
tabe dhairya dhari’ mane kariluṅ vicāra
kṛṣṇa-nāme jñānācchanna ha-ila āmāra
“Collecting My patience, therefore, I began to consider that chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa had covered all My spiritual knowledge.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Collecting His patience, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu considered that chanting had covered all His spiritual knowledge.
To chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, one does not need to speculate on the philosophical aspects of the science of God.
The purport explains that through chanting one automatically becomes ecstatic, spontaneously chanting, dancing, laughing, crying and singing.
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”
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: “crying”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I feel I must resolve every philosophical question before I can chant?
Take a short break from philosophical deliberation today and chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.
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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