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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 7.88Ādi 7.91

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Ādi 7.89-90

স্বেদ, কম্প, রোমাঞ্চাশ্রু, গদ্‌গদ, বৈবর্ণ্য ।

উন্মাদ, বিষাদ, ধৈর্য, গর্ব, হর্ষ, দৈন্য ॥ ৮৯ ॥

এত ভাবে প্রেমা ভক্তগণেরে নাচায় ।

কৃষ্ণের আনন্দামৃতসাগরে ভাসায় ॥ ৯০ ॥

sveda, kampa, romāñcāśru, gadgada, vaivarṇya

unmāda, viṣāda, dhairya, garva, harṣa, dainya

Translation

“ ‘Perspiration, trembling, standing on end of one’s bodily hairs, tears, faltering voice, fading complexion, madness, melancholy, patience, pride, joy and humility — these are various natural symptoms of ecstatic love of Godhead, which causes a devotee to dance and float in an ocean of transcendental bliss while chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Pure Love Requires Purity of Purpose

  1. 1

    Transcendental love of Godhead belongs to the Supreme Lord’s pleasure potency, not the material energy. It melts the heart and brings natural ecstatic symptoms while chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.

  2. 2

    Ecstatic symptoms alone do not establish complete perfection in devotional life. Improper personal dealings or continuing attraction to material affairs show that perfection has not yet been reached.

  3. 3

    Āśaya-śuddhi means the perfection of existence: freedom from material enjoyment and absorption in transcendental love of Godhead. At this stage, devotional service has no material cause and is purely spiritual.

Key points from the purport
  • Transcendental love of Godhead is not under the jurisdiction of the material energy, for it is the transcendental bliss and pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
  • One who attains the perfection of existence is completely averse to material enjoyment and engrossed in transcendental love of Godhead.
  • These are characteristics of transcendental love of Godhead, as stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.6):

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

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Ādi 7.89-90 quotesSB 1.2.6

These are characteristics of transcendental love of Godhead, as stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.6):

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

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. svedaperspiration
  2. kampatrembling
  3. romāñcastanding of the hairs on the body
  4. aśrutears
  5. gadgadafaltering
  6. vaivarṇyachanging of bodily color
  7. unmādamadness
  8. viṣādamelancholy
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Key ideas in this 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”, “ecstatic love”

  • 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”

  • 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: “humility”

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

Do your everyday dealings and motives support the devotion you express while chanting?

Practice

Chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra today with the intention to serve rather than gain a material reward.

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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 todayPure Love Requires Purity of PurposeThis 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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