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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 1.104
এই দুই শ্লোকে কৈল মঙ্গল–বন্দন ।
তৃতীয় শ্লোকের অর্থ শুন সর্বজন ॥ ১০৪ ॥
ei dui śloke kaila maṅgala-vandana
tṛtīya ślokera artha śuna sarva-jana
I have invoked the benediction of the Lords with these two verses [texts 1 and 2 of this chapter]. Now please hear attentively the purport of the third verse.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author has invoked the benediction of the Lords through the preceding two verses.
He now turns to explaining the meaning of the third verse.
He asks the reader to hear that explanation attentively.
Reverence and gratitude. The narrator takes shelter of the guru-paramparā; receptivity begins with humility.
The mood of Ādi 1 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:
The first of the fourteen verses is a symbolic representation of the Supreme Truth, and the entire first chapter is in actuality devoted to this single verse, which describes Lord Caitanya in His six different transcendental expansions. The first manifestation described is the spiritual master, who appears in two plenary parts called the initiating spiritual master and instructing spiritual master.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
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