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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 22.62
‘শ্রদ্ধা’-শব্দে — বিশ্বাস কহে সুদৃঢ় নিশ্চয় ।
কৃষ্ণে ভক্তি কৈলে সর্বকর্ম কৃত হয় ॥ ৬২ ॥
‘śraddhā’-śabde — viśvāsa kahe sudṛḍha niścaya
kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya
“Śraddhā is confident, firm faith that by rendering transcendental loving service to Kṛṣṇa one automatically performs all subsidiary activities. Such faith is favorable to the discharge of devotional service.
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Śraddhā means firm faith and confidence that loving service to Kṛṣṇa automatically fulfills all subsidiary activities. Such faith favors devotional service.
One engaged in the Lord’s devotional service has satisfied the forefathers, ordinary living entities, and demigods. These responsibilities do not need to be met separately.
Fruitive activity is meant to satisfy the conditioned soul’s senses, and its best achievement is detachment from material life. A devotee firmly engaged in the Lord’s service enjoys this detachment spontaneously.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 4.28.39
As said in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.62), kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya: when one comes to the conclusion that Kṛṣṇa is everything by worshiping or by rendering devotional service unto Kṛṣṇa, one actually becomes perfect in all respects.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 4.31.14
As confirmed in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.62), kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya: if one is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, everything is automatically accomplished.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 11.3.26
The definition of śraddhā, or faith, is given as follows in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.62): ‘śraddhā’-śabde — viśvāsa kahe sudṛḍha niścaya
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Trust and resolution. Devotional practice and association offer a steady path for awakening love.
The mood of Madhya 22 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:
If one has firm faith in the words of a great soul, pure devotional service will awaken. In this chapter Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu differentiates between a pure devotee and others.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 22
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “favorable”, “favors”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How firmly do I trust that loving service to Kṛṣṇa fulfills subsidiary responsibilities?
Before one act of devotional service today, recall the meaning of śraddhā: firm faith and confidence in loving service to Kṛṣṇa.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
Quoted in 31 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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