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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.60
তোমা দেখি, তোমা স্পর্শি, গাই তোমার গুণ ।
সর্বেন্দ্রিয়-ফল, — এই শাস্ত্র-নিরূপণ ॥ ৬০ ॥
tomā dekhi, tomā sparśi, gāi tomāra guṇa
sarvendriya-phala, — ei śāstra-nirūpaṇa
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “By seeing you, by touching you and by glorifying your transcendental qualities, one can perfect the purpose of all sense activity. This is the verdict of the revealed scriptures.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that seeing and touching the person He addresses can perfect the purpose of sense activity.
Glorifying that person’s transcendental qualities also brings the senses to their perfection.
This teaching is the verdict of the revealed scriptures. The purport points to confirmation in the Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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:
When Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī was imprisoned by Nawab Hussain Shah, he received news from Rūpa Gosvāmī that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had gone to Mathurā. Sanātana Gosvāmī thereafter satisfied the superintendent of the jail by sweet solicitations and bribery.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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-bhakti-sudhodaya”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How could I use my speech to glorify transcendental qualities?
Reread the translation aloud, paying attention to the purpose it gives for sense activity.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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