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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 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
Madhya 6.101Madhya 6.103

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.102

ইতি দ্বাপর উর্বীশ স্তুবন্তি জগদীশ্বরম্ ।

নানাতন্ত্রবিধানেন কলাবপি তথা শৃণু ॥ ১০২ ॥

iti dvāpara urv-īśa

stuvanti jagad-īśvaram

nānā-tantra-vidhānena

kalāv api tathā śṛṇu

Translation

“ ‘In the Age of Kali, as well as in Dvāpara-yuga, the people offer prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by various mantras and observe the regulative principles of the supplementary Vedic literatures. Now please hear of this from me.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Worship Through Prayer and Regulated Practice

  1. 1

    In the Age of Kali and in Dvāpara-yuga, people offer prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead through various mantras.

  2. 2

    They also observe the regulative principles of the supplementary Vedic literatures.

  3. 3

    This quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam invites the listener to hear further about this worship.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Madhya 6.102 quotesSB 11.5.31

This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.31).

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

Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.

The mood of Madhya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

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

When Sārvabhauma met Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he asked Him to hear Vedānta philosophy from him. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted this proposal, and for seven days He continally heard Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya explain the Vedānta-sūtra.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. itithus
  2. dvāparein Dvāpara-yuga
  3. uru-īśaO King
  4. stuvantioffer prayers
  5. jagat-īśvaramunto the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  6. nānāvarious
  7. tantraof the supplementary Vedic literatures
  8. vidhānenaby regulative principles
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How attentive am I when hearing about prayer and the principles that guide worship?

Practice

Set aside a quiet minute today to offer a prayer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Live this todayWorship Through Prayer and Regulated PracticeThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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