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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 17.168
শুনি’ স্তব্ধ হৈল কাজী, নাহি স্ফুরে বাণী ।
বিচারিয়া কহে কাজী পরাভব মানি’ ॥ ১৬৮ ॥
śuni’ stabdha haila kājī, nāhi sphure vāṇī
vicāriyā kahe kājī parābhava māni’
After hearing these statements by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Kazi, his arguments stunned, could not put forward any more words. Thus, after due consideration, the Kazi accepted defeat and spoke as follows.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
After hearing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Kazi could offer no further argument. After due consideration, he accepted defeat.
The purport questions the claim that an unlimited God should have only one son rather than unlimited sons.
A śāstra cannot change at a person’s whim. It must be free from the four defects of human nature, and its statements must be correct for all time.
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:
The King of Vrajabhūmi is Nanda Mahārāja, and the same person in Navadvīpa is Jagannātha Miśra, the father of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Similarly, mother Yaśodā is the Queen of Vrajabhūmi, and in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya she is Śacīmātā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I willing to reconsider my position carefully when I cannot answer a sound argument?
Write down the purport’s standard for śāstra: freedom from human defects and correctness for all time.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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