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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 7.99
প্রভুর মিষ্টবাক্য শুনি’ সন্ন্যাসীর গণ ।
চিত্ত ফিরি’ গেল, কহে মধুর বচন ॥ ৯৯ ॥
prabhura miṣṭa-vākya śuni’ sannyāsīra gaṇa
citta phiri’ gela, kahe madhura vacana
After hearing Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, all the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs were moved. Their minds changed, and thus they spoke with pleasing words.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs met Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Vārāṇasī to criticize His participation in the saṅkīrtana movement.
The purport describes opposition to saṅkīrtana as a recurring demonic tendency. Prahlāda Mahārāja’s chanting also displeased his father and caused misunderstanding.
After hearing Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the sannyāsīs were moved, their minds changed, and they spoke pleasing words.
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 7.99 quotesBG 7.15
In the Bhagavad-gītā (7.15) the Lord says:
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.
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: “saṅkīrtana”, “chanting”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I willing to listen carefully when I feel critical of saṅkīrtana?
Reread the translation slowly, noticing how hearing changed criticism into pleasing speech.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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