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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 17.323
দশমেতে মূল–স্কন্ধের ‘শাখাদি–গণন’ ।
সর্বশাখাগণের যৈছে ফল–বিতরণ ॥ ৩২৩ ॥
daśamete mūla-skandhera ‘śākhādi-gaṇana’
sarva-śākhā-gaṇera yaiche phala-vitaraṇa
The tenth chapter describes the branches and subbranches of the main trunk and the distribution of their fruits.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The tenth chapter describes the branches of the main trunk.
It also describes the subbranches.
The chapter includes the distribution of their fruits.
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Audārya · Love that moves outward
The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “distribution”
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “branches”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What catches my attention in this description of branches, subbranches and distributed fruits?
Draw a simple trunk with branches and subbranches, and add a note that their fruits are distributed.
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