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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 16.62
‘ভবানীভর্তুঃ’–শব্দ দিলে পাইয়া সন্তোষ ।
‘বিরুদ্ধমতিকৃৎ’ নাম এই মহা দোষ ॥ ৬২ ॥
‘bhavānī-bhartṛ’-śabda dile pāiyā santoṣa
‘viruddha-mati-kṛt’ nāma ei mahā doṣa
“Here is another great fault. You have arranged the word ‘bhavānī-bhartṛ’ to your great satisfaction, but this betrays the fault of contradiction.
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Another great fault is identified in the composition.
The word ‘bhavānī-bhartṛ’ was arranged to the composer's great satisfaction.
Despite that satisfaction, the wording contains the fault of contradiction.
Grief and transformed pride. Lakṣmīdevī’s departure brings sorrow; Keśava Kāśmīrī’s pride yields to surrender.
The mood of Ādi 16 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:
When the Lord returned home, He saw that His mother was overwhelmed with grief because of Lakṣmīdevī’s death. Therefore at her request He later married His second wife, Viṣṇupriyā-devī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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In this verse: “bhavānī-bhartṛ’”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I willing to examine wording I like for a possible contradiction?
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