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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.69
তবে সূত গোসাঞি মনে পাঞা বড় ভয় ।
যার যে লক্ষণ তাহা করিল নিশ্চয় ॥ ৬৯ ॥
tabe sūta gosāñi mane pāñā baḍa bhaya
yāra ye lakṣaṇa tāhā karila niścaya
This made Sūta Gosvāmī greatly apprehensive. Therefore he distinguished each incarnation by its specific symptoms.
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Sūta Gosvāmī became greatly apprehensive.
He therefore distinguished each incarnation individually.
He made these distinctions through each incarnation’s specific symptoms, or characteristics.
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
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