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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 Antya 15.2

জয় জয় শ্রীকৃষ্ণচৈতন্য অধীশ্বর ।

জয় নিত্যানন্দ পূর্ণানন্দ-কলেবর ॥ ২ ॥

jaya jaya śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya adhīśvara

jaya nityānanda pūrṇānanda-kalevara

Translation

All glories to Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead! All glories to Lord Nityānanda, whose body is always filled with transcendental bliss!

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Glorifying the Lord and His Transcendental Bliss

  1. 1

    The verse offers all glories to Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya.

  2. 2

    Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa Himself.

  3. 3

    The verse also glorifies Lord Nityānanda, whose body is always filled with transcendental bliss.

How it feels

Absorbed searching. The Lord lives the gopīs’ search for Kṛṣṇa with ecstatic transformations.

The mood of Antya 15 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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

After seeing the upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once more began to feel ecstatic emotions. When He saw the garden on the beach by the sea, He again thought that He was in Vṛndāvana, and when He began to think of Kṛṣṇa engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. jaya jayaall glories
  2. śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanyato Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  3. adhīśvarathe Supreme Personality of Godhead
  4. jayaall glories
  5. nityānandato Lord Nityānanda
  6. pūrṇa-ānandafilled with transcendental pleasure
  7. kalevaraHis body
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does knowing that Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead shape your reading of His pastimes?

Practice

Read this verse aloud once today as an offering of praise.

Live this todayGlorifying the Lord and His Transcendental BlissThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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