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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

Antya 5.9 Antya 5.11

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 5.10

ধর্মঃ স্বনুষ্ঠিতঃ পুংসাং বিষ্বক্সেনকথাসু যঃ ।

নোৎপাদয়েদ্যদি রতিং শ্রম এব হি কেবলম্ ॥ ১০ ॥

dharmaḥ sv-anuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ

viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ

notpādayed yadi ratiṁ

śrama eva hi kevalam

Translation

“ ‘A person who properly performs his regulative duties according to varṇa and āśrama but does not develop his dormant attachment for Kṛṣṇa or awaken his taste for hearing and chanting about Kṛṣṇa is certainly laboring fruitlessly.’”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Duties Should Awaken Attachment for Kṛṣṇa

1
A person may properly perform the regulative duties of varṇa and āśrama yet fail to develop dormant attachment for Kṛṣṇa.
2
Without awakening a taste for hearing and chanting about Kṛṣṇa, such work is described as fruitless labor.
3
The purport identifies this teaching as a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Antya 5.10 quotesSB 1.2.8

This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.8).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Humility and discernment. The Lord directs a seeker to Rāmānanda and clarifies genuine spiritual qualification.

The mood of Antya 5 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Antya 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

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

Pradyumna Miśra, a resident of Śrīhaṭṭa, came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to hear from Him about Lord Kṛṣṇa and His pastimes. The Lord, however, sent him to Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya.

Read the whole chapter summary Back to this verse in Antya 5

Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

dharmaḥexecution of the system of varṇa and āśrama
su-anuṣṭhitaḥproperly executed
puṁsāmof men
viṣvaksena-kathāsuin talks about Viṣvaksena, or Kṛṣṇa
yaḥwhich
nanot
utpādayetawakens
yadiif

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: “chanting”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Are your daily duties helping you develop a taste for hearing and chanting about Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Set aside a few minutes among today’s duties to hear and chant about Kṛṣṇa.

Live this todayDuties Should Awaken Attachment for KṛṣṇaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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