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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 7.86
কৃষ্ণনামের ফল—‘প্রেমা’, সর্বশাস্ত্রে কয় ।
ভাগ্যে সেই প্রেমা তোমায় করিল উদয় ॥ ৮৬ ॥
kṛṣṇa-nāmera phala — ‘premā’, sarva-śāstre kaya
bhāgye sei premā tomāya karila udaya
“ ‘The conclusion of all revealed scriptures is that one should awaken his dormant love of Godhead. You are greatly fortunate to have already done so.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The conclusion of all revealed scriptures is that one should awaken dormant love of Godhead.
Love of Godhead is described as dormant: it is to be awakened.
One who has already awakened this love is greatly fortunate.
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What place does awakening love of Godhead have among your goals?
Write down awakening love of Godhead as a goal, and pause to reflect on its value.
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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