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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.84
কৃষ্ণবিষয়ক প্রেমা—পরম পুরুষার্থ ।
যার আগে তৃণতুল্য চারি পুরুষার্থ ॥ ৮৪ ॥
kṛṣṇa-viṣayaka premā — parama puruṣārtha
yāra āge tṛṇa-tulya cāri puruṣārtha
“ ‘Religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation are known as the four goals of life, but before love of Godhead, the fifth and highest goal, these appear as insignificant as straw in the street.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation are the four goals of life. Before love of Godhead, the fifth and highest goal, they appear as insignificant as straw in the street.
While chanting the holy name, one should not desire material advancement or even liberation from the material world. The highest perfection of life is to develop love for Kṛṣṇa.
Enjoyment and liberation may attract those who seek them, but they are very insignificant to a pure devotee who has developed bhāva, the preliminary stage of love of Godhead.
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.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”, “love for krsna”
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”
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “insignificant”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When I chant, am I seeking personal gain or love for Kṛṣṇa?
Before chanting today, pause and set the intention to seek love for Kṛṣṇa rather than material gain or liberation.
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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