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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.313
তাতে আদি–লীলার করি পরিচ্ছেদ গণন ।
প্রথম পরিচ্ছেদে কৈলুঁ ‘মঙ্গলাচরণ’ ॥ ৩১৩ ॥
tāte ādi-līlāra kari pariccheda gaṇana
prathama paricchede kailuṅ ‘maṅgalācaraṇa’
Therefore I shall enumerate the chapters of the Ādi-līlā. In the first chapter I offer obeisances to the spiritual master, for this is the beginning of auspicious writing.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author begins to enumerate the chapters of Ādi-līlā.
In the first chapter, he offers obeisances to the spiritual master.
Offering these obeisances is the beginning of auspicious writing.
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:
There is no need of mundane arguments in this connection, because mundane arguments are meaningless in regard to inconceivable potency. At the end of the seventeenth chapter, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, following in the footsteps of Śrīla Vyāsadeva, has summarized all the ādi-līlā pastimes separately.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.
How can I begin my writing with respect for the spiritual master?
Before writing your study notes today, offer obeisances to the spiritual master.
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