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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 1.106
“মিতঞ্চ সারঞ্চ বচো হি বাগ্মিতা” ইতি ॥ ১০৬ ॥
“mitaṁ ca sāraṁ ca vaco hi vāgmitā” iti
“Essential truth spoken concisely is true eloquence.”
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True eloquence communicates essential truth.
That essential truth is spoken concisely.
The verse joins truth and conciseness in its definition of eloquence.
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:
This philosophical truth, which is pursuant to the Vedānta-sūtra, is called acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, or the conception of simultaneous oneness and difference. In the latter portion of this chapter, the transcendental position of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and that of Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu are described with reference to the above theistic facts.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
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