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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 8.22

অদ্যাপিহ দেখ চৈতন্য–নাম যেই লয় ।

কৃষ্ণ–প্রেমে পুলকাশ্রু–বিহ্বল সে হয় ॥ ২২ ॥

adyāpiha dekha caitanya-nāma yei laya

kṛṣṇa-preme pulakāśru-vihvala se haya

Translation

Whether he is offensive or inoffensive, anyone who even now chants śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda is immediately overwhelmed with ecstasy, and tears fill his eyes.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Holy Names Awaken Love

  1. 1

    Whether offensive or inoffensive, anyone who chants śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda can be immediately overwhelmed with ecstasy and tears.

  2. 2

    The purport describes people with little knowledge of Vaiṣṇava philosophy and little observance of its rules whose chanting of nitāi-gaura nevertheless evokes tears and other ecstatic signs.

  3. 3

    Their chanting shows swift advancement on the path of love of Godhead. Contact with a pure devotee will make their lives successful.

Key points from the purport
  • The prākṛta-sahajiyās who chant nitāi-gaura rādhe śyāma have very little knowledge of the Bhāgavata conclusion, and they hardly follow the Vaiṣṇava rules and regulations, and yet because they chant bhaja nitāi-gaura, their chanting immediately evokes tears and other signs of ecstasy.
  • Their ecstatic tears will of course help them in the long run, for as soon as they come in contact with a pure devotee their lives will become successful.
  • Even in the beginning, however, because they are chanting the holy names of nitāi-gaura, their swift advancement on the path of love of Godhead is very prominently visible.

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

How it feels

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

Further reading

Ādi 8: The Author Receives the Orders of Kṛṣṇa and Guru

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

One should seriously and sincerely continue to chant the Pañca-tattva names śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. All these ācāryas will bestow their causeless mercy upon a devotee and gradually purify his heart.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 8
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. adyāpihaeven up to date
  2. dekhayou see
  3. caitanya-nāmaLord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s name
  4. yeianyone
  5. layawho takes
  6. kṛṣṇa-premein love of Kṛṣṇa
  7. pulaka-aśrutears in ecstasy
  8. vihvalaoverwhelmed
  9. sehe
  10. hayabecomes
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Key ideas in this 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: “chants”

  • 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”

  • Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association

    Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “pure devotee”

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

How can I value both chanting the holy names and contact with a pure devotee?

Practice

Spend a quiet minute chanting śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda.

Live this todayThe Holy Names Awaken LoveThis 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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