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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.88
যাঁর ভগবত্তা হৈতে অন্যের ভগবত্তা ।
‘স্বয়ং–ভগবান্’–শব্দের তাহাতেই সত্তা ॥ ৮৮ ॥
yāṅra bhagavattā haite anyera bhagavattā
‘svayaṁ-bhagavān’-śabdera tāhātei sattā
“Only the Personality of Godhead, the source of all other Divinities, is eligible to be designated svayaṁ bhagavān, or the primeval Lord.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Personality of Godhead is the source of all other Divinities.
Only that source is eligible to be designated svayaṁ bhagavān.
Svayaṁ bhagavān means the primeval Lord.
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
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