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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.38

তদ্বা ইদং ভুবনমঙ্গল মঙ্গলায়

ধ্যানে স্ম নো দরশিতং ত উপাসকানাম্ ।

তস্মৈ নমো ভগবতেঽনুবিধেম তুভ্যং

যোঽনাদৃতো নরকভাগ ভিরসৎপ্ৰসঙ্গৈঃ ॥ ৩৮ ॥

tad vā idaṁ bhuvana-maṅgala maṅgalāya

dhyāne sma no daraśitaṁ ta upāsakānām

tasmai namo bhagavate ’nuvidhema tubhyaṁ

yo ’nādṛto naraka-bhāgbhir asat-prasaṅgaiḥ

Translation

“ ‘O most auspicious one! For our benefit, You enable our worship of You by manifesting Your transcendental form, which You show to us in our meditation. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Person, and we worship You, whom impersonalists do not accept due to their poor fund of knowledge. Thus they are liable to descend into a hellish condition.’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Manifests His Form for Worship

  1. 1

    For our benefit, the Lord manifests His transcendental form and shows it in meditation. In this way, He enables us to worship Him.

  2. 2

    The prayer offers respectful obeisances and worship to the Lord as the Supreme Person.

  3. 3

    Impersonalists do not accept Him because of their poor fund of knowledge. The verse warns that they are therefore liable to descend into a hellish condition.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Madhya 25.38 quotesSB 3.9.4

This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.9.4).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Reconciliation and broad mercy. Opponents turn toward bhakti; the Lord returns to Purī and embraces devotees.

The mood of Madhya 25 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 25: How All the Residents of Vārāṇasī Became Vaiṣṇavas

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

He was always very happy to hear the glories of the Lord, and it was by his arrangement that all the sannyāsīs of Vārāṇasī became devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He invited all the sannyāsīs to his house to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and this incident has been described in the seventh chapter of the Ādi-līlā.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 25
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. tatthat
  2. vāor
  3. idamthis
  4. bhuvana-maṅgalaO most auspicious of the entire world
  5. maṅgalāyafor the benefit
  6. dhyānein meditation
  7. smacertainly
  8. naḥof us
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the Lord’s willingness to reveal His form inspire gratitude in me?

Practice

Offer one respectful prayer of gratitude to the Supreme Person for enabling worship of Him.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

2 lectures given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Live this todayThe Lord Manifests His Form for WorshipThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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