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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.15
জগদ্গুরুতে তুমি কর ঐছে উপদেশ ।
তোমার এই উপদেশে নষ্ট হইল দেশ ॥ ১৫ ॥
jagad-gurute tumi kara aiche upadeśa
tomāra ei upadeśe naṣṭa ha-ila deśa
He told his father, “Your instruction that Keśava Bhāratī is the spiritual master of Caitanya Mahāprabhu will spoil the entire country.
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He directly addressed his father about the instruction he had given.
His objection concerned the statement that Keśava Bhāratī was Caitanya Mahāprabhu's spiritual master.
He warned his father that this instruction would spoil the entire country.
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
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 12
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