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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 2.108
এ সব সিদ্ধান্ত তুমি জান ভালমতে ।
তবু পূর্বপক্ষ কর আমা চালাইতে ॥ ১০৮ ॥
e saba siddhānta tumi jāna bhāla-mate
tabu pūrva-pakṣa kara āmā cālāite
“You know all the conclusions of the scriptures very well. You create these logical arguments just to agitate me.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
One who has thoroughly studied the scriptures cannot hesitate to accept Śrī Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The person addressed knows the conclusions of the scriptures very well.
The purport explains that a learned person arguing against this conclusion must be doing so to agitate opponents.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Revelatory awe. The identity of Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa is established; wonder becomes theological confidence.
The mood of Ādi 2 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:
Lord Caitanya is directly the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, as the evidence of authoritative scriptures proves. This chapter stresses that a devotee who wishes to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness must have knowledge of Kṛṣṇa’s personal form, His three principal energies, His pastimes and the relationship of the living entities with Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When discussing scripture, am I seeking understanding or trying to agitate someone?
Before one discussion today, pause and check whether your intention is to understand or to provoke.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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