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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 2.63
বদন্তি তত্তত্ত্ববিদস্তত্ত্বং যজ্জ্ঞানমদ্বয়ম্ ।
ব্রহ্মেতি পরমাত্মেতি ভগবানিতি শব্দ্যতে ॥ ৬৩ ॥
vadanti tat tattva-vidas
tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam
brahmeti paramātmeti
bhagavān iti śabdyate
“Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth say that it is nondual knowledge and is called impersonal Brahman, the localized Paramātmā and the Personality of Godhead.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth describe it as nondual knowledge.
It is called impersonal Brahman, the localized Paramātmā and the Personality of Godhead.
The purport identifies this statement as coming from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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:
Mahā-Viṣṇu is the reservoir of all conditioned souls, but, as confirmed in the authoritative scriptures, Lord Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate fountainhead, the source of numerous plenary expansions, including Nārāyaṇa, who is generally accepted by Māyāvādī philosophers to be the Absolute Truth. The Lord’s manifestation of prābhava and vaibhava expansions, as well as partial incarnations and incarnations with delegated powers, are also explained.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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How does “nondual knowledge” help me understand these three descriptions of the Absolute Truth?
Read the three descriptions aloud, then repeat that the Absolute Truth is nondual knowledge.
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