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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 6.10
সে পুরুষের অংশ—অদ্বৈত, নাহি কিছু ভেদ ।
শরীর–বিশেষ তাঁর,—নাহিক বিচ্ছেদ ॥ ১০ ॥
se puruṣera aṁśa — advaita, nāhi kichu bheda
śarīra-viśeṣa tāṅra — nāhika viccheda
Śrī Advaita Ācārya is a plenary part of that puruṣa and so is not different from Him. Indeed, Śrī Advaita Ācārya is not separate but is another form of that puruṣa.
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Śrī Advaita Ācārya is a plenary part of that puruṣa.
As a plenary part, He is not different from that puruṣa.
Śrī Advaita Ācārya is not separate from Him but is another form of Him.
Devotional appeal. The glory of Advaita frames service as the deepest form of greatness.
The mood of Ādi 6 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 truth of Advaita Ācārya has been described in two verses. It is said that material nature has two features, namely the material cause and the efficient cause.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
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