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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 8.13
অতএব পুনঃ কহোঁ ঊর্ধ্ববাহু হঞা ।
চৈতন্য–নিত্যানন্দ ভজ কুতর্ক ছাড়িয়া ॥ ১৩ ॥
ataeva punaḥ kahoṅ ūrdhva-bāhu hañā
caitanya-nityānanda bhaja kutarka chāḍiyā
Therefore I say again, lifting my arms: O fellow human beings, please worship Śrī Caitanya and Nityānanda without false arguments!
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī earnestly asks everyone to worship Śrī Caitanya and Nityānanda without false arguments.
The purport says that practicing kṛṣṇa-bhakti without understanding Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Prabhu Nityānanda simply wastes time.
The author requests worship of Śrī Caitanya, Nityānanda Prabhu and the Pañca-tattva. He assures readers that this will bring success in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Vulnerability and obedience. Kavirāja writes by mercy and command rather than personal self-assertion.
The mood of Ādi 8 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
In this chapter the glories of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda are described, and it is also stated that one who commits offenses in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra does not achieve love of Godhead, even after chanting for many years. In this connection, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura warns against artificial displays of the bodily symptoms called aṣṭa-sāttvika-vikāra.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 8
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I willing to receive this invitation without using false arguments to resist it?
Take a quiet moment today to offer respects to Śrī Caitanya and Nityānanda Prabhu.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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