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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.59
তাঁহাতে হইল চৈতন্যের ‘আবির্ভাব’ ।
অলৌকিক ঐছে প্রভুর অনেক স্বভাব ॥ ৫৯ ।
tāṅhāte ha-ila caitanyera ‘āvirbhāva’
alaukika aiche prabhura aneka svabhāva
In his body there were symptoms of āvirbhāva. Such appearances are uncommon, but Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu displayed many such pastimes through His different features.
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Nakula Brahmacārī displayed āveśa, or special prowess, and Pradyumna Brahmacārī displayed āvirbhāva, or appearance. Such appearances are uncommon, and many devotees have no special symptoms.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally spread the saṅkīrtana movement. He advised all inhabitants of Bhāratavarṣa to take up His teachings and preach them throughout the world.
In the Age of Kali, the only spiritual function is to broadcast the holy name of the Lord. This requires actual empowerment by Lord Kṛṣṇa, called āveśa or śakty-āveśa.
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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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “saṅkīrtana”, “holy name”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I giving more attention to the holy name or to unusual symptoms?
Spend a few minutes today chanting the holy name of the Lord.
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