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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 2.25
ভক্তিযোগে ভক্ত পায় যাঁহার দর্শন ।
সূর্য যেন সবিগ্রহ দেখে দেবগণ ॥ ২৫ ॥
bhakti-yoge bhakta pāya yāṅhāra darśana
sūrya yena savigraha dekhe deva-gaṇa
Through their service, devotees see that Personality of Godhead, just as the denizens of heaven see the personality of the sun.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has an eternal form that cannot be seen by material eyes or mental speculation.
The demigods have eyes suitable for seeing the sun-god through the glaring sunshine. Similarly, seeing the Supreme Lord requires the spiritual eyes of devotional service.
Only transcendental devotional service reveals the Lord’s transcendental form. The ascending approach reaches impersonal Brahman and localized Paramātmā, but not the Supreme Transcendental Personality.
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:
This chapter explains that Lord Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa Himself. 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.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.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I trying to understand the Lord through speculation alone, or through devotional service?
Offer one small act of service to the Lord today, remembering that devotional service is the way to understand His form.
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