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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 10.16
তাঁর শিষ্য–উপশিষ্য,—তাঁর উপশাখা ।
এইমত সব শাখা–উপশাখার লেখা ॥ ১৬ ॥
tāṅra śiṣya-upaśiṣya, — tāṅra upaśākhā
eimata saba śākhā-upaśākhāra lekhā
His disciples and granddisciples are his subbranches. To describe them all would be difficult.
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His disciples are described as his subbranches.
His granddisciples are also included among those subbranches.
Describing all these subbranches would be difficult.
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
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the inclusion of both disciples and granddisciples help you notice about these subbranches?
Sketch a branch extending into disciples and then granddisciples, using the translation’s image.
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