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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse
Madhya 24.333Madhya 24.335

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.334

পঞ্চ, ষোড়শ, পঞ্চাশৎ উপচারে অর্চন ।

পঞ্চকাল পূজা আরতি, কৃষ্ণের ভোজন-শয়ন ॥ ৩৩৪ ॥

pañca, ṣoḍaśa, pañcāśat upacāre arcana

pañca-kāla pūjā ārati, kṛṣṇera bhojana-śayana

Translation

“Also describe Deity worship, wherein one should offer food to Kṛṣṇa at least five times daily and in due time place Him on a bed. You should also describe the process for offering ārati and the worship of the Lord according to the list of five, sixteen or fifty ingredients.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Serve Kṛṣṇa Through Regular Deity Worship

  1. 1

    Deity worship includes offering food to Kṛṣṇa at least five times daily and placing Him on a bed at the proper time.

  2. 2

    The process of ārati and worship with five, sixteen or fifty ingredients should be described. The five ingredients are very good scents, very good flowers, incense, a lamp and something edible.

  3. 3

    The sixteen ingredients include welcoming and seating Kṛṣṇa, offering water, bathing and dressing Him, and decorating Him with ornaments. They also include scents, flowers, incense, a lamp, good food and prayers.

Key points from the purport
  • The five ingredients for Deity worship are (1) very good scents, (2) very good flowers, (3) incense, (4) a lamp and (5) something edible.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.

The mood of Madhya 24 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

He then concluded that different classes of transcendentalists ( jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs ) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning of the verse.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. pañcafive
  2. ṣoḍaśasixteen
  3. pañcāśatfifty
  4. upacārewith ingredients
  5. arcanaoffering worship
  6. pañca-kālafive times
  7. pūjāworshiping
  8. āratioffering ārati
  9. kṛṣṇera bhojana-śayanain this way offering eatables to Kṛṣṇa and laying Him down to rest
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What do these detailed offerings teach you about caring for Kṛṣṇa in Deity worship?

Practice

Write out the five ingredients for Deity worship and read the list slowly.

Live this todayServe Kṛṣṇa Through Regular Deity WorshipThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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