A Collection of Frequently Quoted Verses from Śrī Caitanya-Caritāmṛta

By Gopikā Rādhika Devī Dāsī

Picture compilation, layout and formatting by Bhakta Visham Singh Rawat
(GBC SPT Research- 15 March 2021)

Frequently Quoted Verses from Śrī Caitanya-Caritāmṛta

“Bhāgavata paro giya bhāgavata sthāne. Those who are practical bhāgavata, life bhāgavata, from
them…try to understand Bhāgavata.”—Śrīla Prabhupāda quotes Lord Caitanya’s personal secretary
Svarūpa Dāmodara in a lecture (10/29/72, Vrndāvana) on a well-known verse from Śrīmad-
Bhāgavatam—
naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā
bhagavaty uttama-śloke bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī
The verse prescribes nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā as the remedy to eliminate “all that is troublesome to
the heart” (translation) and in his purport Śrīla Prabhupāda unpacks the word “bhāgavata”, to reveal
that “there are two types of Bhāgavatas, namely the book Bhāgavata and the devotee Bhāgavata” and
that “the messages of the book Bhāgavata, therefore, have to be received from the devotee
Bhāgavata” (purport).
In line with this same principle, the bulk of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Introduction to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
comprises, “The life and teachings of Lord Caitanya”, who, being “the Absolute Personality of
Godhead…is both Bhagavān and Bhāgavatam in person and in sound” (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Introduction).
Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahaprabhu is para-tattva-sīmā—the highest limit of the Absolute Truth (Caitanya-
caritāmṛta Adi 2.110), the combined form of Sri Radha and Krsna—caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā
tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Adi 1.5), and “the father and inaugurator of the
saṅkīrtana movement” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Adi 3.78 purport), who is described in the Śrīmad-
Bhāgavatam thus:
kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam
yajṣaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ
“In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of
Godhead who constantly sings the names of Kṛṣṇa. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is
Kṛṣṇa Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions.”
(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.5.32)
Bounteously revealing the priceless jewels of the tattva (philosophical truths), līlā (pastimes) and śikṣā
(teachings) of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, is the Śrī Caitanya-
caritāmṛta, authored by Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī.
Literally meaning “the character of the living force in immortality”, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is a
prodigious transcendental literature comprising over 11,000 verses.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda often described Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta as “the postgraduate study of spiritual
knowledge” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Adi Introduction) and recounted his own spiritual master His Divine
Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura’s prediction that the time would come when people from
across the world would learn the Bengali language to read Caitanya-caritāmṛta.
“Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī confirms that what Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura wrote was actually spoken
by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and that Vṛndāvana dāsa simply repeated it. The same holds true for
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī wrote Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta in his old age, in an
invalid condition, but it is such a sublime literature that Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī
Mahārāja used to say,” The time will come when the people of the world will learn Bengali to read Śrī
Caitanya-caritāmṛta.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Adi 8.39 purport)
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is thus our incalculably priceless heirloom, mercifully delivered to us by our
Founder-Acarya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, Lord Caitanya’s
empowered emissary who spread Lord Caitanya’s message at an unprecedented scale across the
world thus playing a key role in materializing Lord Caitanya’s prophecy: pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi-
grāma sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma—“In every town and village of the world, the chanting of
My name will be heard” [Caitanya Bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 4.126].
In an attempt to support the ongoing Celebrating Caitanya-caritāmṛta event, offered below is a list of
40 prominently quoted Caitanya-caritāmṛta verses, drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda Ślokas compiled by
the Bhaktivedanta Archives.
Śrīla Prabhupāda writes in his purport to Bhagavad-gītā 17.15, “The process of speaking in spiritual
circles is to say something upheld by the scriptures. One should at once quote from scriptural authority
to back up what he is saying.”
Śrīla Prabhupāda wished his followers to be as expert in quoting from his books as the best lawyers
are in citing law books: “You should read these books so nicely. Just like big lawyer—they go to the
court and they cite: "Under such and such section or under such and such clause." Similarly, we have
got so many books. If we can give reference immediately from the books, that means you are
reading…There are so many lawyers. Why one becomes big lawyer? He can give quotations from the
law book immediately. That is the difference.” (Śrīla Prabhupāda Room Conversation—June 18, 1975,
Honolulu)
It is thus hoped that devotees will find this list of verses enlivening and useful both in terms of
deepening their personal absorption and connection with the Caitanya-caritāmṛta and in enriching
their presentation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness to others.

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The following is a list of frequently quoted verses from Śrī Caitanya-Caritāmṛta.
Adi Madhya Antya
1.1 (Obeisances to Lord Caitanya and His Tattvas) 6.169 (Vedanta Vs. Mayavada) 1.99 (Nectar in the Two Syllables “Krsn-na”)
1.2 (Obeisances to Gaura-Nitai) 7.128-129 (Become a Spiritual Master) 4.176 (Dualities are Mental Concoctions)
1.4 (Benedictions to the Readers; External Reasons for the Lord’s appearance) 8.128 (Guru: Knower of the Science of Krsna) 6.220 (Renunciation of Mahaprabhu’s Devotees)
1.5 (Gaura-tattva: Combined form of Radha and Krsna) 8.274 (A Devotee Sees Krsna Everywhere) 7.11 (Unless Empowered by Krsna, One Cannot Spread Sankirtana)
2.117 (A sincere student should not neglect the discussion of such conclusions…) 11.8 (Seeing Sense Gratifiers is Like Drinking Poison)
2.86 (Authorities are above the four defects) 19.149 (Only a Devotee is Desireless and therefore, Peaceful)
4.165 (Lust Vs. Love contd.) 19.151 (Fortune of Receiving Bhakti-Lata-Bija)
5.142-143 (The Only Master of All Servants) 19.152 (Watering the Bhakti-latā-bīja by Śravaṇa and Kīrtana)
7.71 (“My spiritual master considered Me a fool”) 19.156 (The Mad-Elephant Offense)
7.74 (Holy Name: The Only Religious Principle) 20.102 (Sanatana Gosvami Inquires from Lord Caitanya)
8.15 (Apply your Logic to Lord Caitanya’s Mercy) 20.108 (The Living Entity’s Constitutional Position)
9.41 (Make Life Successful and Preach) 20.117 (Forgetfulness of Krsna Brings Misery)
17.22 (Nama-Avatara) 20.122 (Scriptures are Krsna’s Mercy)
22.31 (Krsna-Sun; Maya-Darkness)
22.54 (Glories of Association of a Devotee)
22.62 (What is Sraddha?)
22.87 (Importance of Avoiding Bad Association)
22.107 (Love for Krsna is Eternally Established in the Heart)
22.128-129 (The Topmost Five Limbs of Devotional Service)
25.278 (The Nectar of Krsna’s and Lord Caitanya’s Pastimes)

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Adi 1.1 Obeisances to Lord Chaitanya and His
Tattvas

vande gurūn īśa-bhaktān

īśam īśāvatārakān
tat-prakāśāṁś ca tac-chaktīḥ
kṛṣṇa-caitanya-saṁjṣakam

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual masters, the

devotees of the Lord, the Lord’s incarnations, His plenary portions,
His energies and the primeval Lord Himself, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya.

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Adi 1.2 Obeisances to Gaura-Nitai

vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-
nityānandau sahoditau
gauḍodaye puṣpavantau
citrau śan-dau tamo-nudau

I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord

Nityānanda, who are like the sun and moon. They have arisen
simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness
of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.

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Adi 1.4 Benedictions to the readers; external reasons
for the Lord’s appearance

anarpita-carīṁ cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau

samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasāṁ sva-bhakti-śriyam
hariḥ puraṭa-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandīpitaḥ
sadā hṛdaya-kandare sphuratu vaḥ śacī-nandanaḥ

May the Supreme Lord who is known as the son of Śrīmatī Śacī-devī
be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart.
Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold, He has appeared in the
Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has
ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant mellow of
devotional service, the mellow of conjugal love.

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Adi 1.5 Gaura-tattva: Combined form of Radha and
Krsna
rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād
ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau
caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ
rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental

manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency.
Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, previously They
separated Themselves. Now these two transcendental identities
have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to
Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and
complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.

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Adi 2.117 A sincere student should not neglect the
discussion of such conclusions

siddhānta baliyā citte nā kara alasa

ihā ha-ite kṛṣṇe lāge sudṛḍha mānasa

A sincere student should not neglect the discussion of such

conclusions, considering them controversial, for such discussions
strengthen the mind. Thus, one’s mind becomes attached to Śrī
Kṛṣṇa.

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Adi 2.86 Spotless character of sages

bhrama, pramāda, vipralipsā, karaṇāpāṭava

ārṣa-vijña-vākye nāhi doṣa ei saba

Mistakes, illusions, cheating and defective perception do not

occur in the sayings of the authoritative sages.

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Adi 4.165 Lust Vs. Love
ātmendriya-prīti-vāṣchā—tāre bali ’kāma’
kṛṣṇendriya-prīti-icchā dhare ’prema’ nāma

The desire to gratify one’s own senses is kāma [lust], but the
desire to please the senses of Lord Kṛṣṇa is prema [love].

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Adi 5.142-143 The only master of all servants
ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa, āra saba bhṛtya
yāre yaiche nācāya, se taiche kare nṛtya
ei mata caitanya-gosāṣi ekale īśvara
āra saba pāriṣada, keha vā kiṅkara

Lord Kṛṣṇa alone is the supreme controller, and all others are His
servants. They dance as He makes them do so. Thus, Lord
Caitanya is also the only controller. All others are His associates
or servants.

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Adi 7.71 My spiritual master considered Me a fool

prabhu kahe—śuna, śrīpāda, ihāra kāraṇa

guru more mūrkha dekhi’ karila śāsana

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied to Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, My

dear sir, kindly hear the reason. My spiritual master considered
Me a fool, and therefore he chastised Me.

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Adi 7.74 Holy Name: The only religious principle

nāma vinu kali-kāle nāhi āra dharma

sarva-mantra-sāra nāma, ei śāstra-marma

In this Age of Kali there is no religious principle other than the

chanting of the holy name, which is the essence of all Vedic
hymns. This is the purport of all scriptures.

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Adi 8.15 Apply your logic to Lord Caitanya’s mercy

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-dayā karaha vicāra

vicāra karile citte pābe camatkāra

If you are indeed interested in logic and argument, kindly apply

it to the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. If you do so, you will
find it to be strikingly wonderful.

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Adi 9.41 Make life successful and preach
bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya janma yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra

One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of
India [Bhārata-varṣa] should make his life successful and work for
the benefit of all other people.

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Adi 17.22 Nama-avatara

kali-kāle nāma-rūpe kṛṣṇa-avatāra

nāma haite haya sarva-jagat-nistāra

In this Age of Kali, the holy name of the Lord, the Hare Kṛṣṇa
mahā-mantra, is the incarnation of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Simply by
chanting the holy name, one associates with the Lord directly.
Anyone who does this is certainly delivered.

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Madhya 6.169 Vedanta vs. Mayavada

jīvera nistāra lāgi’ sūtra kaila vyāsa

māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa

Śrīla Vyāsadeva presented the Vedānta philosophy for the

deliverance of conditioned souls, but if one hears the
commentary of Śaṅkarācārya, everything is spoiled. (Lord
Caitanya to Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya)

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Madhya 7.128-129 Become a spiritual master

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ’kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa

āmāra ājṣāya guru haṣā tāra’ ei deśa
kabhu nā bādhibe tomāra viṣaya-taraṅga
punarapi ei ṭhāṣi pābe mora saṅga”

Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa as they

are given in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this
way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this
land.” Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu further advised the brāhmaṇa
Kūrma, If you follow this instruction, your materialistic life at
home will not obstruct your spiritual advancement. Indeed, if you
follow these regulative principles, we will again meet here, or,
rather, you will never lose My company. (Lord Caitanya to Kurma
brahmana)

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Madhya 8.128 Guru: Knower of the science of Krsna

kibā vipra, kibā nyāsī, śūdra kene naya

yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei ’guru’ haya

Whether one is a brāhmaṇa, a sannyāsī or a śūdra—regardless of

what he is—he can become a spiritual master if he knows the
science of Kṛṣṇa.” (Lord Caitanya to Ramananda Raya)

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Madhya 8.274 A devotee sees Krsna everywhere

sthāvara-jaṅgama dekhe, nā dekhe tāra mūrti

sarvatra haya nija iṣṭa-deva-sphūrti

The mahā-bhāgavata, the advanced devotee, certainly sees

everything mobile and immobile, but he does not exactly see
their forms. Rather, everywhere he immediately sees manifest the
form of the Supreme Lord.” (Lord Caitanya to Ramananda Raya)

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Madhya 11.8 Seeing sense gratifiers is like drinking
poison

niṣkiṣcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya
pāraṁ paraṁ jigamiṣor bhava-sāgarasya
sandarśanaṁ viṣayiṇām atha yoṣitāṁ ca
hā hanta hanta viṣa-bhakṣaṇato ’py asādhu

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Greatly lamenting, the Lord then informed Sārvabhauma
Bhaṭṭācārya, ‘Alas, for a person who is seriously desiring to cross
the material ocean and engage in the transcendental loving
service of the Lord without material motives, seeing a materialist
engaged in sense gratification or seeing a woman who is similarly
interested is more abominable than drinking poison willingly.’
(Lord Caitanya to Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya)

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Madhya 19.149 Only a devotee is desireless and
therefore peaceful

kṛṣṇa-bhakta—niṣkāma, ataeva ’śānta’

bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī—sakali ’aśānta’

Because a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is desireless, he is peaceful.

Fruitive workers desire material enjoyment, jṣānīs desire
liberation, and yogīs desire material opulence; therefore, they are
all lusty and cannot be peaceful. (Lord Caitanya to Rupa
Gosvami)

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Madhya 19.151 Fortune of receiving Bhakti-Lata-Bija

brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva

guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja

According to their karma, all living entities are wandering

throughout the entire universe. Some of them are being elevated
to the upper planetary systems, and some are going down into
the lower planetary systems. Out of many millions of wandering
living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to
associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa.
By the mercy of both Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a
person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.
(Lord Caitanya to Rupa Gosvami)

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Madhya 19.152 Watering the Bhakti-latā-bīja by
Śravaṇa and Kīrtana

mālī hañā kare sei bīja āropaṇa

śravaṇa-kīrtana-jale karaye secana

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When a person receives the seed of devotional service, he should
take care of it by becoming a gardener and sowing the seed in
his heart. If he waters the seed gradually by the process of
śravaṇa and kīrtana [hearing and chanting], the seed will begin
to sprout.

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Madhya 19.156 The mad-elephant offense

yadi vaiṣṇava-aparādha uṭhe hātī mātā

upāḍe vā chiṇḍe, tāra śukhi’ yāya pātā

If the devotee commits an offense at the feet of a Vaiṣṇava while

cultivating the creeper of devotional service in the material
world, his offense is compared to a mad elephant that uproots
the creeper and breaks it. In this way the leaves of the creeper
are dried up. (Lord Caitanya to Rupa Gosvami)

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Madhya 20.102 Sanatana Gosvami enquires from
Lord Caitanya

’ke āmi’, ’kene āmāya jāre tāpa-traya’

ihā nāhi jāni—’kemane hita haya’

Who am I? Why do the threefold miseries always give me

trouble? If I do not know this, how can I be benefited?

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Madhya 20.108 The living entity’s constitutional
position

jīvera ’svarūpa’ haya—kṛṣṇera ’nitya-dāsa’

kṛṣṇera ’taṭasthā-śakti’ ’bhedābheda-prakāśa’

It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal

servant of Kṛṣṇa because he is the marginal energy of Kṛṣṇa and
a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the
Lord.

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Madhya 20.117 Forgetfulness of Krsna brings misery

kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha

ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha

Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, the living entity has been attracted by the

external feature from time immemorial. Therefore the illusory
energy [māyā] gives him all kinds of misery in his material
existence. (Lord Caitanya to Sanatana Gosvami)

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Madhya 20.122 Scriptures are Krsna’s mercy

māyā-mugdha jīvera nāhi svataḥ kṛṣṇa-jñāna

jīvere kṛpāya kailā kṛṣṇa veda-purāṇa

The conditioned soul cannot revive his Kṛṣṇa consciousness by

his own effort. But out of causeless mercy, Lord Kṛṣṇa compiled
the Vedic literature and its supplements, the Purāṇas. (Lord
Caitanya to Sanatana Gosvami)

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Madhya 22.31 Krsna-sun; Maya-darkness

kṛṣṇa—sūrya-sama, māyā haya andhakāra

yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa, tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra

Kṛṣṇa is compared to sunshine, and māyā is compared to

darkness. Wherever there is sunshine, there cannot be darkness.
As soon as one takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the darkness of
illusion (the influence of the external energy) will immediately
vanish. (Lord Caitanya to Sanatana Gosvami)

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Madhya 22.54 Glories of association of a devotee

’sādhu-saṅga’, ’sādhu-saṅga’—sarva-śāstre kaya

lava-mātra sādhu-saṅge sarva-siddhi haya

The verdict of all revealed scriptures is that by even a moment’s

association with a pure devotee, one can attain all success. (Lord
Caitanya to Sanatana Gosvami)

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Madhya 22.62 What is Sraddha?

’śraddhā’-śabde—viśvāsa kahe sudṛḍha niścaya

kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya

Śraddhā is confident, firm faith that by rendering transcendental

loving service to Kṛṣṇa one automatically performs all subsidiary
activities. Such faith is favorable to the discharge of devotional
service. (Lord Caitanya to Sanatana Gosvami)

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Madhya 22.87 Importance of avoiding bad
association

asat-saṅga-tyāga,—ei vaiṣṇava-ācāra
’strī-saṅgī’—eka asādhu, ’kṛṣṇābhakta’ āra

For a Vaiṣṇava, the standard behavior is to avoid the assocation

of ordinary people not interested in kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Such common
people are, first, those who are too materially attached,
especially to women, and, second, people who are not at all
devotees of Lord Krsna. Vaisnavas should avoid the company of
these two kinds of people. (Lord Caitanya to Sanatana Gosvami)

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Madhya 22.107 Love for Krsna is eternally
established in the heart

nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema ’sādhya’ kabhu naya

śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya

Pure love for Kṛṣṇa is eternally established in the hearts of the

living entities. It is not something to be gained from another
source. When the heart is purified by hearing and chanting, this
love naturally awakens. (Lord Caitanya to Sanatana Gosvami)

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Madhya 22.128-129 The topmost five limbs of
devotional service

sādhu-saṅga, nāma-kīrtana, bhāgavata-śravaṇa

mathurā-vāsa, śrī-mūrtira śraddhāya sevana

One should associate with devotees, chant the holy name of the
Lord, hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, reside at Mathurā and worship
the Deity with faith and veneration.

sakala-sādhana-śreṣṭha ei pañca aṅga

kṛṣṇa-prema janmāya ei pāṅcera alpa saṅga

These five limbs of devotional service are the best of all. Even a
slight performance of these five awakens love for Kṛṣṇa.

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Madhya 25.278 The nectar of Krsna’s and Lord
Caitanya’s pastimes

ye līlā-amṛta vine, khāya yadi anna-pāne,

tabe bhaktera durbala jīvana
yāra eka-bindu-pāne, utphullita tanu-mane,
hāse, gāya, karaye nartana

Men become strong and stout by eating sufficient grains, but the
devotee who simply eats ordinary grains but does not taste the
transcendental pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Kṛṣṇa
gradually becomes weak and falls down from the transcendental
position. However, if one drinks but a drop of the nectar of
Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes, his body and mind begin to bloom, and he
begins to laugh, sing and dance.

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Antya 1.99 Nectar in the two syllables “Krsn-na”

tuṇḍe tāṇḍavinī ratiṁ vitanute tuṇḍāvalī-labdhaye

karṇa-kroḍa-kaḍambinī ghaṭayate karṇārbudebhyaḥ spṛhām
cetaḥ-prāṅgaṇa-saṅginī vijayate sarvendriyāṇāṁ kṛtiṁ
no jāne janitā kiyadbhir amṛtaiḥ kṛṣṇeti varṇa-dvayī

I do not know how much nectar the two syllables ’Kṛṣ-ṇa’ have
produced. When the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is chanted, it appears to
dance within the mouth. We then desire many, many mouths.
When that name enters the holes of the ears, we desire many
millions of ears. And when the holy name dances in the courtyard
of the heart, it conquers the activities of the mind, and therefore
all the senses become inert. (Rupa Gosvami’s verse Vidagdha-
mādhava (1.15) spoken by Lord Caitanya)

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Antya 4.176 Dualities are mental concoctions

’dvaite’ bhadrābhadra-jñāna, saba—’manodharma’

’ei bhāla, ei manda’,—ei saba ’bhrama’

In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all

mental speculations. Therefore, saying ’This is good’ and ’This is
bad’ is all a mistake. (Lord Caitanya to Sanatana Gosvami)

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Antya 6.220 Renunciation of Mahaprabhu’s devotees

mahāprabhura bhakta-gaṇera vairāgya pradhāna

yāhā dekhi’ prīta hana gaura-bhagavān

Renunciation is the basic principle sustaining the lives of Śrī

Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s devotees. Seeing this renunciation, Śrī
Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is
extremely satisfied.

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Antya 7.11 Unless empowered by Krsna, one cannot
spread Sankirtana

kali-kālera dharma—kṛṣṇa-nāma-saṅkīrtana
kṛṣṇa-śakti vinā nahe tāra pravartana

The fundamental religious system in the Age of Kali is the

chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. Unless empowered by Kṛṣṇa,
one cannot propagate the saṅkīrtana movement. (Vallabha
Bhatta to Lord Caitanya)

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