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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 5.75

যে-সব শুনিলুঁ, কৃষ্ণ-রসের সাগর ।

ব্রহ্মাদি-দেবের এ সব না হয় গোচর ॥ ৭৫ ॥

ye-saba śuniluṅ, kṛṣṇa-rasera sāgara

brahmādi-devera e saba nā haya gocara

Translation

“What I have heard from Rāmānanda Rāya is like a nectarean ocean of discourses about Kṛṣṇa. Even the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahmā, cannot understand all these topics.

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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.

An ocean beyond complete understanding

  1. 1

    Pradyumna Miśra described what he heard from Rāmānanda Rāya as a nectarean ocean of discourses about Kṛṣṇa.

  2. 2

    Even the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahmā, cannot understand all these topics.

  3. 3

    His words express both deep appreciation for what he heard and recognition that these topics exceed complete understanding.

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

Further reading

Antya 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

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

The Lord, however, elaborately described the character of Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya. Then Pradyumna Miśra went to see Rāmānanda Rāya again to hear about the transcendental truth from him.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. ye-sabaall that
  2. śuniluṅI heard
  3. kṛṣṇa-raseraof the nectar of Lord Kṛṣṇa
  4. sāgarathe ocean
  5. brahmā-ādi-deveraof the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahmā
  6. e sabaall this
  7. nā haya gocarais not possible to be understood
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Can you value hearing about Kṛṣṇa without expecting to understand everything at once?

Practice

Reread one passage from this batch and note one teaching you appreciate and one point you still wish to understand.

Live this todayAn ocean beyond complete understandingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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