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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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Antya-līlā · Chapter 4: Sanātana Gosvāmī Visits the Lord at Jagannātha Purī
Antya 4.66Antya 4.68

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.67

যেই ভজে সেই বড়, অভক্ত — হীন, ছার ।

কৃষ্ণভজনে নাহি জাতি-কুলাদি-বিচার ॥ ৬৭ ॥

yei bhaje sei baḍa, abhakta — hīna, chāra

kṛṣṇa-bhajane nāhi jāti-kulādi-vicāra

Translation

“Anyone who takes to devotional service is exalted, whereas a nondevotee is always condemned and abominable. Therefore in the discharge of devotional service to the Lord, there is no consideration of the status of one’s family.

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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.

Devotional Service Makes a Person Exalted

  1. 1

    Anyone who takes to devotional service is exalted.

  2. 2

    The verse strongly condemns the absence of devotion, rather than a person’s family background.

  3. 3

    In devotional service to the Lord, there is no consideration of family status.

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:

I want you to preach the cult of devotional service and go to Vṛndāvana to excavate the lost holy places.” After having thus spoken, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu left, and Haridāsa Ṭhākura and Sanātana Gosvāmī had many talks about this subject.
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. yei bhajeanyone who takes to devotional service
  2. seihe
  3. baḍaexalted
  4. abhaktanondevotee
  5. hīna chāramost condemned and abominable
  6. kṛṣṇa-bhajanein discharging devotional service
  7. nāhithere is not
  8. jāticaste
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Sevā · Love translated into service

    Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “service”

  • Vipralambha · Love in separation

    Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “absence”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I giving more importance to devotion or to social standing?

Practice

Appreciate one person’s devotional service today without considering their family status.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

Quoted in 7 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Quoted in 7 lectures

In each of these he quotes this verse while speaking on another verse or subject. "Find the quote" opens the transcript at that spot.

Live this todayDevotional Service Makes a Person ExaltedThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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