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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.93
এত বলি’ এক শ্লোক শিখাইল মোরে ।
ভাগবতের সার এই বলে বারে বারে ॥ ৯৩ ॥
eta bali’ eka śloka śikhāila more
bhāgavatera sāra ei — bale vāre vāre
“Saying this, My spiritual master taught Me a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. It is the essence of all the Bhāgavatam’s instructions; therefore he recited this verse again and again.
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The spiritual master repeatedly recited a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam because it contains the essence of the Bhāgavatam’s instructions.
Śrī Nārada Muni spoke this verse to Vasudeva to teach bhāgavata-dharma. Vasudeva had already achieved its result, since Lord Kṛṣṇa had appeared in his house as his son.
Still, Vasudeva desired to hear and be enlightened in bhāgavata-dharma in order to teach others. This shows the humility of a great devotee.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Ādi 7.93 quotesSB 11.2.40
This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.2.40) was spoken by Śrī Nārada Muni to Vasudeva to teach him about bhāgavata-dharma.
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
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.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Are you willing to hear familiar teachings again with humility?
Reread one instruction from this study slowly, with a willingness to learn rather than assuming you already understand.
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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