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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 1.23
প্রথম দুই শ্লোকে ইষ্টদেব–নমস্কার ।
সামান্য–বিশেষ–রূপে দুই ত’ প্রকার ॥ ২৩ ॥
prathama dui śloke iṣṭa-deva-namaskāra
sāmānya-viśeṣa-rūpe dui ta’ prakāra
The first two verses offer respectful obeisances, generally and specifically, to the Lord, who is the object of worship.
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The opening two verses offer respectful obeisances.
These obeisances are offered both generally and specifically.
They are directed to the Lord, who is the object of worship.
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:
Since we belong to this chain of disciplic succession from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, this edition of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta will contain nothing newly manufactured by our tiny brains, but only remnants of food originally eaten by the Lord Himself. Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu does not belong to the mundane plane of the three qualitative modes.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “offered”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does offering respectful obeisances mean to you?
Take a moment today to offer respectful obeisances to the Lord.
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