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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 15.106
প্রভু কহে, — “যাঁর মুখে শুনি একবার ।
কৃষ্ণনাম, সেই পূজ্য, — শ্রেষ্ঠ সবাকার ॥” ১০৬ ॥
prabhu kahe, — “yāṅra mukhe śuni eka-bāra
kṛṣṇa-nāma, sei pūjya, — śreṣṭha sabākāra”
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied, “Whoever chants the holy name of Kṛṣṇa just once is worshipable and is the topmost human being.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that whoever chants Kṛṣṇa’s holy name just once is worshipable. Such a person should be regarded as a Vaiṣṇava.
The holy name is identical with Kṛṣṇa Himself. It is Kṛṣṇa personified in sound, perfectly transcendental and eternally free from material contamination.
Faith in the holy name allows one to begin a life of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. With this faith, one must continue chanting.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Festive affection and reconciliation. Festivals, reciprocal hospitality, and the deliverance of Amogha show affectionate grace.
The mood of Madhya 15 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:
Rāmānanda Vasu and Satyarāja Khān asked some questions, and Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu instructed them that all householder devotees must engage themselves in the service of Vaiṣṇavas exclusively devoted to chanting the holy name of the Lord. He also instructed the Vaiṣṇavas from Khaṇḍa, as well as Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and Vidyā-vācaspati, and He praised Murāri Gupta for his firm faith in the lotus feet of Lord Rāmacandra.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 15
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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: “chants”, “holy name”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How would remembering that Kṛṣṇa’s name is identical with Him change my chanting?
Chant Kṛṣṇa’s holy name today while remembering that His name and He Himself are identical.
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