1 · Learn4 of 6 · 5 min
Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.139
পুরুষ, যোষিৎ, কিবা স্থাবর-জঙ্গম ।
সর্ব-চিত্তাকর্ষক, সাক্ষাৎ মন্মথ-মদন ॥ ১৩৯ ॥
puruṣa, yoṣit, kibā sthāvara-jaṅgama
sarva-cittākarṣaka, sākṣāt manmatha-madana
“The very name Kṛṣṇa means that He attracts even Cupid. He is therefore attractive to everyone — male and female, moving and inert living entities. Indeed, Kṛṣṇa is known as the all-attractive one.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The name Kṛṣṇa means that He attracts even Cupid. He attracts everyone—male and female, moving and inert living entities.
Just as the material world has many stars and planets, the spiritual world has many spiritual planets called Vaikuṇṭhalokas.
The spiritual universe is situated far beyond the cluster of material universes. The purport contrasts its existence with scientists’ inability even to estimate all the planets and stars within this universe.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 8.139 quotesBG 8.20
According to the Bhagavad-gītā (8.20), there is also a spiritual world:
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 8 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:
This conjugal love attains its highest perfection in Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s love for Kṛṣṇa. He next described the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the transcendental mellows of love of God.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Audārya · Love that moves outward
The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “to everyone”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the name “all-attractive” help me understand about Kṛṣṇa?
Read the translation slowly and pause to reflect on Kṛṣṇa’s name as “the all-attractive one.”
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
Ask Caitanya CaritamrtaHave a question about CC Madhya 8.139? Get an answer from the verses themselves.