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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 8: Rāmacandra Purī Criticizes the Lord
Antya 8.32Antya 8.34

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 8.33

জগদ্গুরু মাধবেন্দ্র করি’ প্রেম দান ।

এই শ্লোক পড়ি’ তেঁহো কৈল অন্তর্ধান ॥ ৩৩ ॥

jagad-guru mādhavendra kari’ prema dāna

ei śloka paḍi’ teṅho kaila antardhāna

Translation

His Divine Grace Mādhavendra Purī, the spiritual master of the entire world, thus distributed ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa. While passing away from the material world, he chanted the following verse.

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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.

Distributing Ecstatic Love for Kṛṣṇa

  1. 1

    Mādhavendra Purī is honored as the spiritual master of the entire world.

  2. 2

    He distributed ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.

  3. 3

    While passing away from the material world, he chanted a verse expressing longing for the Lord.

How it feels

Discomfort and vigilance. Fault-finding disrupts devotional life, exposing the emotional cost of criticism.

The mood of Antya 8 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 8: Rāmacandra Purī Criticizes the Lord

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

Because Rāmacandra Purī had been rejected by his spiritual master, he became concerned only with finding faults in others and advising them according to dry Māyāvāda philosophy. For this reason he was not very respectful to the Vaiṣṇavas, and later he became so fallen that he began criticizing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for His eating.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 8
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. jagat-guruthe spiritual master of the entire world
  2. mādhavendraMādhavendra Purī
  3. kari’ prema dānagiving ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa as charity
  4. ei śloka paḍi’reciting this verse
  5. teṅhohe
  6. kaila antardhānapassed away from this material world
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Prema · Love of Godhead

    The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “love for krsna”, “ecstatic love”

  • Audārya · Love that moves outward

    The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “distributed”

  • Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life

    Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “grace”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What stands out to you about Mādhavendra Purī’s remembrance of the Lord while departing?

Practice

Read the prayer in the next verse slowly, noticing its longing for the Lord.

Live this todayDistributing Ecstatic Love for KṛṣṇaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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