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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 1.26
সেই শ্লোকে কহি বাহ্যাবতার–কারণ ।
পঞ্চ ষষ্ঠ শ্লোকে কহি মূল–প্রয়োজন ॥ ২৬ ॥
sei śloke kahi bāhyāvatāra-kāraṇa
pañca ṣaṣṭha śloke kahi mūla-prayojana
In that verse I have also explained the external reason for Lord Caitanya’s incarnation. But in the fifth and sixth verses I have explained the prime reason for His advent.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author has explained the external reason for Lord Caitanya’s incarnation.
He has also explained the prime reason for His advent.
He distinguishes the external reason from the prime reason.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I noticing the distinction between the external and prime reasons for Lord Caitanya’s advent?
Reread the translation and note the two kinds of reasons the author distinguishes.
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