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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features
Ādi 7.81Ādi 7.83

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.82

হাসায়, নাচায়, মোরে করায় ক্রন্দন ।

এত শুনি’ গুরু হাসি বলিলা বচন ॥ ৮২ ॥

hāsāya, nācāya, more karāya krandana

eta śuni’ guru hāsi balilā vacana

Translation

“ ‘Chanting the holy name in ecstasy causes Me to dance, laugh and cry.’ When My spiritual master heard all this, he smiled and then began to speak.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Spiritual Progress Gladdens the Spiritual Master

  1. 1

    He tells His spiritual master that chanting in ecstasy causes Him to dance, laugh and cry.

  2. 2

    When a disciple makes very good progress in spiritual life, the spiritual master feels glad and smiles in ecstasy.

  3. 3

    The spiritual master enjoys the disciple’s progress like a smiling parent watching a child learn to stand or crawl.

Key points from the purport
  • When a disciple very perfectly makes progress in spiritual life, this gladdens the spiritual master, who then also smiles in ecstasy, thinking, “How successful my disciple has become!”
  • He feels so glad that he smiles as he enjoys the progress of the disciple, just as a smiling parent enjoys the activities of a child who is trying to stand up or crawl perfectly.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Ādi 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features

Back to this verse in Ādi 7
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. hāsāyait causes Me to laugh
  2. nācāyait causes Me to dance
  3. moreunto Me
  4. karāyait causes
  5. krandanacrying
  6. etathus
  7. śuni’hearing
  8. guruMy spiritual master
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Key ideas in this 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.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does knowing that a disciple’s progress gladdens the spiritual master encourage me?

Practice

Give a few attentive minutes to chanting today, remembering the spiritual master’s joy in a disciple’s progress.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Live this todaySpiritual Progress Gladdens the Spiritual MasterThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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