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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 1.29
এই চৌদ্দ শ্লোকে করি মঙ্গলাচরণ ।
তঁহি মধ্যে কহি সব বস্তুনিরূপণ ॥ ২৯ ॥
ei caudda śloke kari maṅgalācaraṇa
taṅhi madhye kahi saba vastu-nirūpaṇa
These fourteen verses, therefore, offer auspicious invocations and describe the Supreme Truth.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author summarizes the opening verses as a whole.
These verses offer auspicious invocations.
They also describe 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 chapter of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta begins with fourteen Sanskrit verses that describe the Absolute Truth. Then the next three Sanskrit verses describe the principal Deities of Vṛndāvana, namely, Śrī Rādhā-Madana-mohana, Śrī Rādhā-Govindadeva and Śrī Rādhā-Gopīnāthajī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
Learn the words of the verse.
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How can I attend to both the prayers and the teaching in these opening verses?
Reread the translation, pausing at its two purposes: offering auspicious invocations and describing the Supreme Truth.
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