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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 3.73
অঙ্গোপাঙ্গ তীক্ষ্ণ অস্ত্র প্রভুর সহিতে ।
সেই সব অস্ত্র হয় পাষণ্ড দলিতে ॥ ৭৩ ॥
aṅgopāṅga tīkṣṇa astra prabhura sahite
sei saba astra haya pāṣaṇḍa dalite
Thus the Lord is equipped with sharp weapons in the form of His parts and plenary portions. All these weapons are competent enough to crush the faithless atheists.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
A pāṣaṇḍa compares the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the demigods and tries to bring Him down to a mundane level.
Such people may invent a God or advertise an ordinary person as an incarnation, even when his activities contradict those of a genuine incarnation.
One who intelligently studies the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s characteristics with reference to the Vedic context cannot be bewildered by these claims.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Compassion and urgency. The holy name is offered for the age; divine love moves outward toward others.
The mood of Ādi 3 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:
Lord Kṛṣṇa therefore personally appeared, with His plenary portions, as Lord Caitanya. As stated in this chapter, it was for this purpose that Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared personally in Navadvīpa in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 3
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What should guide my judgment when someone is presented as an incarnation of God?
Reread the purport and identify its standard for evaluating claims about an incarnation.
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