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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 1.105
বক্তব্য–বাহুল্য, গ্রন্থ–বিস্তারের ডরে ।
বিস্তারে না বর্ণি, সারার্থ কহি অল্পাক্ষরে ॥ ১০৫ ॥
vaktavya-bāhulya, grantha-vistārera ḍare
vistāre nā varṇi, sārārtha kahi alpākṣare
I purposely avoid extensive description for fear of increasing the bulk of this book. I shall describe the essence as concisely as possible.
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The author deliberately avoids an extensive description.
He does not want to increase the bulk of the book unnecessarily.
His aim is to describe the essence as concisely as possible.
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:
It does not deviate even slightly from the revealed scriptures, and therefore anyone who follows in the disciplic line will be able to realize the essence of this book simply by the method of aural reception. The first chapter of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta begins with fourteen Sanskrit verses that describe the Absolute Truth.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
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