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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 17.253
পড়ুয়া সহস্র যাহাঁ পড়ে একঠাঞি ।
প্রভুর বৃত্তান্ত দ্বিজ কহে তাহাঁ যাই ॥ ২৫৩ ॥
paḍuyā sahasra yāhāṅ paḍe eka-ṭhāñi
prabhura vṛttānta dvija kahe tāhāṅ yāi
The brāhmaṇa student ran to a place where a thousand students were studying together. There he described the incident to them.
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The brāhmaṇa student described the incident to a thousand students studying together. The purport explains that the word dvija identifies him as a brāhmaṇa.
The purport describes Vedic study as reserved for brāhmaṇas in those days. Kṣatriyas learned warfare, while vaiśyas learned business from their fathers or other businessmen.
Śrīla Prabhupāda criticizes giving everyone the same type of education without knowing its result. He describes the results as most unsatisfactory, especially in Western countries.
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 same Absolute Truth who enjoys as Kṛṣṇa, Śyāmasundara, who plays His flute and dances with the gopīs, sometimes takes birth in a brāhmaṇa family and plays the part of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, accepting the renounced order of life. It appears contradictory that the same Kṛṣṇa accepted the ecstasy of the gopīs, and of course this is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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