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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 9.41
ভারত–ভূমিতে হৈল মনুষ্য–জন্ম যার ।
জন্ম সার্থক করি’ কর পর–উপকার ॥ ৪১ ॥
bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya janma yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra
“One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of India [Bhārata-varṣa] should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
A person born as a human being in India, Bhārata-varṣa, should make life successful and work for the benefit of others.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu addresses all inhabitants of India, not only Bengalis, although Bengalis have a special duty toward Him because He was born in Bengal.
The purport presents this instruction as an expression of His magnanimity and states that actual human civilization can be developed in India.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 4.25.13
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra. Thus whoever takes birth in the land of Bhārata-varṣa attains all the facilities of life.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 5.4.9
“One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of India (Bhārata-varṣa) should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people.”
Quoted in the purport ofSB 5.19.21
These facts are further explained in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 9.41): “One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of India [Bhārata-varṣa] should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people.”
Quoted in the purport ofSB 6.10.10
As stated in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 9.41): “One who has taken birth as a human being in the land of India [Bhārata-varṣa] should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 6.16.58
This statement is confirmed in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 9.41).
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
Overflowing generosity. The gardener distributes the fruits of love without restriction.
The mood of Ādi 9 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:
From the main trunk there extend two special branches, Advaita Prabhu and Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, and from those branches grow other branches and twigs. The tree surrounds the entire world, and the fruits of the tree are to be distributed to everyone.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 9
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Audārya · Love that moves outward
The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “magnanimity”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can my efforts to make life successful also benefit other people?
Do one concrete act today for another person’s benefit, keeping this instruction in mind.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
Quoted in 36 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
In each of these he quotes this verse while speaking on another verse or subject. "Find the quote" opens the transcript at that spot.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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