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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.61
এই — মহাভাগবত, যাঁহার দর্শনে ।
ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন-স্মৃতি হয় সর্বজনে ॥ ৬১ ॥
ei — mahā-bhāgavata, yāṅhāra darśane
vrajendra-nandana-smṛti haya sarva-jane
“Here is a great devotee,” Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said. “Upon seeing him, everyone can remember the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, son of Mahārāja Nanda.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
A materialist accepts the body and mind as sources of material enjoyment. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu neither judged the prince as a materialist because of his father nor considered Himself the enjoyer.
The Lord’s transcendental form is not a material body. The purport rejects the Māyāvādī idea that God’s form is imagined in matter and that God is ultimately formless.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, yet He placed Himself in the position of a gopī. He accepted the King’s son directly as Vrajendra-nandana Hari and praised him as a great devotee whose presence reminded everyone of Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 12.61 quotesSB 10.84.13
As indicated by the technical words bhauma ijya-dhīḥ, materialistic Māyāvādīs imagine the form of God in matter, although according to their imagination, God is ultimately formless.
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
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:
The prince visited the Lord dressed like a Vaiṣṇava, and this awakened remembrance of Kṛṣṇa. Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu delivered the son of Mahārāja Pratāparudra.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 12
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “nanda”, “gopī”
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: “hari”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might judging someone by family or bodily identity limit your vision?
Notice one judgment you make today based on someone’s family or outward identity, and pause before accepting it as the whole truth.
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