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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.360
প্রভুর তীর্থযাত্রা-কথা শুনে যেই জন ।
চৈতন্যচরণে পায় গাঢ় প্রেমধন ॥ ৩৬০ ॥
prabhura tīrtha-yātrā-kathā śune yei jana
caitanya-caraṇe pāya gāḍha prema-dhana
Whoever hears of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage to various holy places attains the riches of very deep ecstatic love.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Whoever hears of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage attains the riches of very deep ecstatic love.
The purport rejects the idea that the Lord’s forms are imaginary or that Deity worship is merely the conditioned soul’s illusion. Neither Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam nor Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepts worship of imagined forms for sense gratification as spiritually significant.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu confirms that the Supreme Lord is simultaneously one with and different from His creation. This philosophy, acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, teaches unity in diversity.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Wonder and inclusion. Meetings across sacred places display the broad reach of devotional mercy.
The mood of Madhya 9 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:
Thus the Lord visited almost all the holy places in South India. He finally returned to Jagannātha Purī by taking the same route, after visiting Vidyānagara again.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 9
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the teaching that the Lord’s forms are not imaginary shape your approach to hearing about Him?
Read aloud a passage about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage and listen attentively.
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