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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 Antya 1.101
কৃষ্ণনামের মহিমা শাস্ত্র-সাধু-মুখে জানি ।
নামের মাধুরী ঐছে কাহাঁ নাহি শুনি ॥ ১০১ ॥
kṛṣṇa-nāmera mahimā śāstra-sādhu-mukhe jāni
nāmera mādhurī aiche kāhāṅ nāhi śuni
One has to learn about the beauty and transcendental position of the holy name of the Lord by hearing the revealed scriptures from the mouths of devotees. Nowhere else can we hear of the sweetness of the Lord’s holy name.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
We learn the beauty and transcendental position of the Lord’s holy name by hearing revealed scriptures from devotees. Its sweetness cannot be heard elsewhere.
The holy name’s vibration is completely spiritual and cannot be grasped by ordinary senses. It must be received from a spiritual master through hearing and then chanted.
Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī forbids hearing Kṛṣṇa’s holy name from non-Vaiṣṇavas, including professional actors and singers who are non-Vaiṣṇavas. The purport says such hearing has no effect, comparing it to milk touched by a serpent’s lips.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Recognition and encouragement. Rūpa’s devotional insight receives the Lord’s approval; even a dog receives mercy.
The mood of Antya 1 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:
Although he could not follow the Bengali devotees, after some time he also came to Jagannātha Purī, where he stayed with Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī composed an important verse beginning with the words priyaḥ so ’yam, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relished it very much.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 1
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: “holy name”, “chanted”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How carefully do you choose the spiritual sources from whom you hear the holy name?
Listen to a spiritual master chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, then chant what you have heard.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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