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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 2.64
শুন ভাই এই শ্লোক করহ বিচার ।
এক মুখ্যতত্ত্ব, তিন তাহার প্রচার ॥ ৬৪ ॥
śuna bhāi ei śloka karaha vicāra
eka mukhya-tattva, tina tāhāra pracāra
My dear brothers, kindly listen to the explanation of this verse and consider its meaning: the one original entity is known in His three different features.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The reader is warmly invited to listen to the explanation.
Listening is to be accompanied by considering the verse’s meaning.
The one original entity is known in His three different features.
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:
Because Lord Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is not different from Lord Kṛṣṇa, He is the cause of all causes; there is no cause beyond Him. He is eternal, and His form is spiritual.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.
How can I give both attentive listening and thoughtful consideration to this teaching?
Read the translation aloud, then spend one quiet minute considering how one original entity is known in three features.
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