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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 4.221

‘হরিভক্তিবিলাস’-গ্রন্থ কৈলা বৈষ্ণব-আচার ।

বৈষ্ণবের কর্তব্য যাহাঁ পাইয়ে পার ॥ ২২১ ॥

‘hari-bhakti-vilāsa’-grantha kailā vaiṣṇava-ācāra

vaiṣṇavera kartavya yāhāṅ pāiye pāra

Translation

He also compiled the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, from which we can understand the standard behavior of a devotee and the full extent of a Vaiṣṇava’s duty.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Devotional Conduct Follows Scripture

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    Hari-bhakti-vilāsa teaches the standard behavior of a devotee and the full extent of a Vaiṣṇava’s duty. Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī originally compiled it.

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    Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī later produced a shortened version and added the Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā. The work contains many quotations from the sātvata scriptures and strictly follows the Vedic scriptures.

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    The purport contrasts this pure scriptural guidance with the attitude of karmīs. Their attachment to the world and material activities leads them to oppose pure Vaiṣṇava understanding.

Key points from the purport
  • Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes, “The Hari-bhakti-vilāsa was originally compiled by Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī.
  • What is recorded in the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa strictly follows the Vedic scriptures and is certainly pure, but the attitude of the karmīs is always one of giving up the conclusion of pure Vaiṣṇava understanding.
  • Because the karmīs are very much attached to the world and material activities, they always try to establish atheistic principles that oppose the understanding of the Vaiṣṇavas.”

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

Despair met with care. Sanātana’s wish to die is interrupted by the Lord’s protective insistence on his future service.

The mood of Antya 4 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 4: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī

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

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu informed Sanātana Gosvāmī that because Sanātana was a pure devotee, the Lord was never inconvenienced by his bodily condition. Because the Lord was a sannyāsī, He did not consider one body better than another.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. hari-bhakti-vilāsaof the name Hari-bhakti-vilāsa
  2. granthabook
  3. kailācompiled
  4. vaiṣṇava-ācārathe standard behavior of a Vaiṣṇava
  5. vaiṣṇaveraof a devotee
  6. kartavyaduty
  7. yāhāṅin which
  8. pāiye pāraone can understand up to the extreme limit
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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: “hari-bhakti-vilāsa”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I willing to let scriptural guidance shape my conduct rather than simply follow my attachments?

Practice

Identify one attachment that may influence your choices, and write a question about it to explore through scriptural guidance.

Live this todayDevotional Conduct Follows ScriptureThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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