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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.104
কে আছিলুঁ আমি পূর্বজন্মে কহ গণি’ ।
গণিতে লাগিলা সর্বজ্ঞ প্রভুবাক্য শুনি’ ॥ ১০৪ ॥
ke āchiluṅ āmi pūrva janme kaha gaṇi’
gaṇite lāgilā sarva-jña prabhu-vākya śuni’
“Please tell Me who I was in My previous birth,” the Lord said. “Please tell Me by your astrological computations.” Hearing the words of the Lord, the astrologer immediately began to calculate.
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The Lord asked who He had been in His previous birth, and the astrologer immediately began calculating. The purport says his knowledge was genuine, not a facade.
The purport describes the Bhṛgu-saṁhitā as a system for learning about past and future lives. Learned brāhmaṇas made such knowledge available even to the poorest people.
The brāhmaṇa did not demand payment; a poor person could offer a handful of rice or whatever he had. In a perfect society, knowledge is available without anxiety over payment.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 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:
As Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Kṛṣṇa Himself assumed the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī to taste Her ecstatic situation. No one else could do this.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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