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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 9.52
সর্বলোকে মত্ত কৈলা আপন–সমান ।
প্রেমে মত্ত লোক বিনা নাহি দেখি আন ॥ ৫২ ॥
sarva-loke matta kailā āpana-samāna
preme matta loka vinā nāhi dekhi āna
With His saṅkīrtana movement the Lord made everyone mad like Himself. We do not find anyone who was not intoxicated by His saṅkīrtana movement.
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The Lord spread His saṅkīrtana movement among everyone.
Through this movement, He made everyone mad like Himself.
The translation emphasizes its reach: no one was found who was not intoxicated by His saṅkīrtana movement.
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:
The tree surrounds the entire world, and the fruits of the tree are to be distributed to everyone. In this way the tree of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu intoxicates the entire world.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 9
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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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What strikes me about everyone being affected by the Lord’s saṅkīrtana?
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