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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 12: The Expansions of Advaita Ācārya and Gadādhara Paṇḍita
Ādi 11.61Ādi 12.2

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.1

অদ্বৈতাঙ্ঘ্রব্জভৃঙ্গাংস্তান্ সারাসারভৃতোঽখিলান্ ।

হিত্বাঽসারান্‌ সারভৃতো নৌমি চৈতন্যজীবনান্ ॥১ ॥

advaitāṅghry-abja-bhṛṅgāṁs tān

sārāsāra-bhṛto ’khilān

hitvāsārān sāra-bhṛto

naumi caitanya-jīvanān

Translation

The followers of Śrī Advaita Prabhu were of two kinds. Some were real followers, and the others were false. Rejecting the false followers, I offer my respectful obeisances to Śrī Advaita Ācārya’s real followers, whose life and soul was Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Honor the Real Followers

  1. 1

    The followers of Śrī Advaita Prabhu were of two kinds: real followers and false followers.

  2. 2

    The author rejects the false followers and offers respectful obeisances to the real followers.

  3. 3

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was the life and soul of Śrī Advaita Ācārya’s real followers.

How it feels

Loyalty and discernment. The narrative distinguishes fidelity to the ācārya from deviation.

The mood of Ādi 12 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 12: The Expansions of Advaita Ācārya and Gadādhara Paṇḍita

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

The twelfth chapter describes the followers of Advaita Prabhu, among whom the followers of Acyutānanda, the son of Advaita Ācārya, are understood to be the pure followers who received the cream of the philosophy Śrī Advaita Ācārya enunciated. Other so-called descendants and followers of Advaita Ācārya are not to be recognized.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. advaita-aṅghrithe lotus feet of Advaita Ācārya
  2. abjalotus flower
  3. bhṛṅgānbumblebees
  4. tānall of them
  5. sāra-asārareal and not real
  6. bhṛtaḥaccepting
  7. akhilānall of them
  8. hitvāgiving up
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts

    Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “followers”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What would it mean to make Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu my life and soul?

Practice

Offer respectful obeisances to Śrī Advaita Ācārya’s real followers, remembering their devotion to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Live this todayHonor the Real FollowersThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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