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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.62
এইমতে নানারূপ করে পূর্বপক্ষ ।
তাহারে নির্জিতে ভাগবত–পদ্য দক্ষ ॥ ৬২ ॥
ei-mate nānā-rūpa kare pūrva-pakṣa
tāhāre nirjite bhāgavata-padya dakṣa
In this way their arguments appear in various forms, but the poetry of the Bhāgavatam expertly refutes them all.
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Their arguments appear in various forms.
The poetry of the Bhāgavatam addresses these arguments.
It expertly refutes them all.
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:
The spiritual sky contains innumerable spiritual planets, the Vaikuṇṭhas, which are manifestations of the Supreme Lord’s internal energy. Innumerable material universes are similarly exhibited by His external energy, and the living entities are manifested by His marginal energy.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.
Am I willing to let the Bhāgavatam challenge an argument I find convincing?
Read the translation twice, pausing over the statement that the Bhāgavatam “expertly refutes them all.”
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