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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 1.37
এই ছয় গুরু—শিক্ষাগুরু যে আমার ।
তাঁ’ সবার পাদপদ্মে কোটি নমস্কার ॥ ৩৭ ॥
ei chaya guru — śikṣā-guru ye āmāra
tāṅ’-sabāra pāda-padme koṭi namaskāra
These six are my instructing spiritual masters, and therefore I offer millions of respectful obeisances unto their lotus feet.
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The author accepts the six Gosvāmīs as his instructing spiritual masters.
He therefore offers millions of respectful obeisances unto their lotus feet.
The purport makes obedience to the six Gosvāmīs essential: one should not be recognized as a Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava without it.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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 manifestation described is the spiritual master, who appears in two plenary parts called the initiating spiritual master and instructing spiritual master. They are identical because both of them are phenomenal manifestations of the Supreme Truth.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.
Śaraṇāgati · Taking shelter
Turning toward Kṛṣṇa through shelter, surrender, dependence on guru, and unconditional devotional fidelity. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “lotus feet”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Does my respect for spiritual instruction include a willingness to obey it?
Offer respectful obeisances to the six Gosvāmīs, reflecting on the importance of obedience to them.
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