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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.113
যেই যেই কহে, সেই কহে কৃষ্ণনামে ।
কৃষ্ণনাম হইল সঙ্কেত সব-কামে ॥ ১১৩ ॥
yei yei kahe, sei kahe kṛṣṇa-nāme
kṛṣṇa-nāma ha-ila saṅketa saba-kāme
Whenever anyone had to speak, he did so by uttering the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. Consequently, the holy name of Kṛṣṇa became an indication for everyone who wanted something.
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Whenever anyone needed to speak, he uttered the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.
The holy name of Kṛṣṇa became an indication that someone wanted something.
Everyone used the holy name in communicating their needs.
Purification through joyful service. Collective cleansing becomes a visible devotional act before Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 12 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Advaita Prabhu said that Nityānanda Prabhu was unknown to anyone and that it was not the duty of a householder brāhmaṇa to accept dinner with a person unknown in society. In answer to this humorous statement, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu replied that Advaita Ācārya was a monist and that one could not know how his mind could be turned by eating with such an impersonalist.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 12
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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: “holy name”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you make more room for the holy name of Kṛṣṇa in your day?
Today, pause during a task to utter the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.
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