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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 2.75
অনুবাদ না কহিয়া না কহি বিধেয় ।
আগে অনুবাদ কহি, পশ্চাদ্বিধেয় ॥ ৭৫ ॥
anuvāda nā kahiyā nā kahi vidheya
āge anuvāda kahi, paścād vidheya
“If I do not state a subject, I do not state a predicate. First I speak the former and then I speak the latter.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker does not state a predicate without first stating a subject.
The subject is spoken first.
The predicate follows the subject, keeping the explanation in its proper order.
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:
Innumerable material universes are similarly exhibited by His external energy, and the living entities are manifested by His marginal energy. Because Lord Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is not different from Lord Kṛṣṇa, He is the cause of all causes; there is no cause beyond Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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