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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 10.5
যত যত মহান্ত কৈলা তাঁ–সবার গণন ।
কেহ করিবারে নারে জ্যেষ্ঠ–লঘু–ক্রম ॥ ৫॥
yata yata mahānta kailā tāṅ-sabāra gaṇana
keha karibāre nāre jyeṣṭha-laghu-krama
All the great personalities in the line of Lord Caitanya enumerated these devotees, but they could not distinguish between the greater and the lesser.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Great personalities in the line of Lord Caitanya enumerated these devotees.
Even these great personalities could not distinguish between the greater and the lesser.
Their enumeration of the devotees did not establish a ranking.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What can you learn from the great personalities’ inability to rank these devotees?
Reread this verse and remind yourself not to treat a list of devotees as a ranking.
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