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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.17
এই দুই জনের সূত্র দেখিয়া শুনিয়া ।
বর্ণনা করেন বৈষ্ণব ক্রম যে করিয়া ॥ ১৭ ॥
ei dui janera sūtra dekhiyā śuniyā
varṇanā karena vaiṣṇava krama ye kariyā
By seeing and hearing the notes recorded by these two great personalities, a Vaiṣṇava, a devotee of the Lord, can know these pastimes one after another.
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Two great personalities recorded notes about these pastimes.
A Vaiṣṇava, a devotee of the Lord, can learn by seeing and hearing these notes.
Through these records, the devotee can know the pastimes one after another.
Jubilation and hope. The Lord appears in Navadvīpa; the theological promise becomes a lived story.
The mood of Ādi 13 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 entire Ādi-līlā describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s household life, and similarly the Antya-līlā describes His life in the sannyāsa order. Within the Lord’s antya-līlā, the first six years of His sannyāsa life are called the madhya-līlā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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