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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 1.24
তৃতীয় শ্লোকেতে করি বস্তুর নির্দেশ ।
যাহা হইতে জানি পরতত্ত্বের উদ্দেশ ॥ ২৪ ॥
tṛtīya ślokete kari vastura nirdeśa
yāhā ha-ite jāni para-tattvera uddeśa
In the third verse I indicate the Absolute Truth, who is the ultimate substance. With such a description, one can visualize the Supreme Truth.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author indicates the Absolute Truth in the verse he describes.
The Absolute Truth is the ultimate substance.
Through such a description, one can visualize the Supreme Truth.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this teaching encourage you to attend carefully to descriptions of the Absolute Truth?
Read the translation slowly, pausing over the words “the Absolute Truth, who is the ultimate substance.”
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