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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.123
দর্শনের কার্য আছুক, যে তোমার ‘নাম’ শুনে ।
সেই কৃষ্ণপ্রেমে মত্ত, তারে ত্রিভুবনে ॥ ১২৩ ॥
darśanera kārya āchuka, ye tomāra ‘nāma’ śune
sei kṛṣṇa-preme matta, tāre tribhuvane
“Apart from seeing You, whoever listens to Your holy name is made mad with ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa and is able to deliver the three worlds.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Seeing the Lord is not the only way to receive this transformation; hearing His holy name is enough.
Whoever hears His holy name is made mad with ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
Such a person becomes able to deliver the three worlds.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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:
While stopping near a village on the way to Prayāga, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fainted in ecstatic love. Some Pāṭhāna soldiers who were passing through saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and falsely concluded that the Lord’s associates, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya and others, had killed the Lord with a poison named dhuturā and were taking His wealth.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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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”
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: “deliver”
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.
What attention do I give to hearing the Lord's holy name?
Spend one minute listening attentively as you chant the holy name.
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