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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 10.134
এই পঞ্চ পুত্র তোমার মোর প্রিয়পাত্র ।
রামানন্দ সহ মোর দেহ–ভেদ মাত্র ১৩৪ ॥
ei pañca putra tomāra mora priyapātra
rāmānanda saha mora deha-bheda mātra
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu told Bhavānanda Rāya, “Your five sons are all My dear devotees. Rāmānanda Rāya and I are one, although our bodies are different.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu called all five sons His dear devotees. He said that He and Rāmānanda Rāya were one, although their bodies were different.
Rāmānanda Rāya was a most confidential devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The purport identifies him as formerly Arjuna and also records identifications with Lalitā and, in others’ opinion, Viśākhādevī.
The Lord praised Rāmānanda Rāya for remaining undisturbed even when touching a woman. This prerogative belonged only to Rāmānanda Rāya; no one should imitate him.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Belonging and gratitude. Many devotees become branches of one living network of devotion.
The mood of Ādi 10 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
This chapter describes the branches of the tree named Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Back to this verse in Ādi 10
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “bhavānanda”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you honor Rāmānanda Rāya’s exalted position without treating his exceptional activities as permission to imitate them?
Write one sentence distinguishing honoring Rāmānanda Rāya from imitating his exceptional activities.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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