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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.17
মুনয়ো বাতবসনাঃ শ্রমণা ঊর্ধ্বমন্থিনঃ ।
ব্রহ্মাখ্যং ধাম তে যান্তি শান্তাঃ সন্ন্যাসিনোঽমলাঃ ॥ ১৭ ॥
munayo vāta-vāsanāḥ
śramaṇā ūrdhva-manthinaḥ
brahmākhyaṁ dhāma te yānti
śāntāḥ sannyāsino ’malāḥ
“Naked saints and sannyāsīs who undergo severe physical penances, who can raise the semen to the brain, and who are completely equipoised in Brahman can live in the realm known as Brahmaloka.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
These mendicants do not care about material things, including clothing. They depend wholly on nature and live by begging.
They practice strict celibacy and endure bodily suffering. Their minds remain fixed on the Absolute Truth, without desire for material enjoyment.
Through austerities under strict discipline, they attain a neutral state beyond the modes of nature. They merge into the impersonal Brahman.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Ādi 2.17 quotesSB 11.6.47
In this verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.6.47), vāta-vāsanāḥ refers to mendicants who do not care about anything material, including clothing, but who depend wholly on nature.
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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:
Therefore, the Brahman effulgence is the bodily luster of Lord Caitanya, and the localized Supersoul situated in the heart of every living entity is His partial representation. The puruṣa-avatāras are also explained in this connection.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “depend”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the desire for material enjoyment distract me from contemplating the Absolute Truth?
Set aside one optional material distraction today and spend a quiet minute contemplating the Absolute Truth.
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