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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 5.176
একেতে বিশ্বাস, অন্যে না কর সম্মান ।
“অর্ধকুক্কুটী–ন্যায়” তোমার প্রমাণ ॥ ১৭৬ ॥
ekete viśvāsa, anye nā kara sammāna
“ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya” tomāra pramāṇa
“If you have faith in one but disrespect the other, your logic is like the logic of accepting half a hen.*
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author challenges having faith in one brother while disrespecting the other.
He compares this approach to accepting half a hen.
The comparison exposes the faulty logic of accepting one while rejecting the other.
Shelter and wonder. The glory of Nityānanda reveals the intimate support behind the descent.
The mood of Ādi 5 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:
Therefore this chapter describes two Śvetadvīpas — one in the abode of Kṛṣṇa and the other in the ocean of milk in every universe. The Śvetadvīpa in the abode of Kṛṣṇa is identical with Vṛndāvana-dhāma, which is the place where Kṛṣṇa appears Himself to display His loving pastimes.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I trying to combine faith in one brother with disrespect for the other?
Write one sentence explaining why honoring only one of the two brothers is inconsistent.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
Quoted in 7 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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