CC Ādi 16.19
Bengali
এই মত বঙ্গের লোকের কৈলা মহা হিত ।
‘নাম’ দিয়া ভক্ত কৈল, পড়াঞা পণ্ডিত ॥ ১৯ ॥
‘নাম’ দিয়া ভক্ত কৈল, পড়াঞা পণ্ডিত ॥ ১৯ ॥
Verse text
ei mata baṅgera lokera kailā mahā hita
‘nāma’ diyā bhakta kaila, paḍāñā paṇḍita
‘nāma’ diyā bhakta kaila, paḍāñā paṇḍita
Synonyms
Translation
In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu contributed the greatest benefit to the people of East Bengal by initiating them into hari-nāma, the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, and making them learned scholars by educating them.
Purport
Following in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is distributing the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and inducing people all over the world to chant. We are giving people an immense treasury of transcendental literature, translated into all the important languages of the world, and by the grace of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu this literature is selling profusely and people are chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra with great delight. This is the preaching process of the Caitanya cult. Since the Lord wanted this cult preached all over the world, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness is acting in a humble way so that the vision of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu may be fulfilled all over the world, especially in the Western countries.