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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.37
আচার্য গোসাঞি চৈতন্যের মুখ্য অঙ্গ ।
আর এক অঙ্গ তাঁর প্রভু নিত্যানন্দ ॥ ৩৭ ॥
ācārya gosāñi caitanyera mukhya aṅga
āra eka aṅga tāṅra prabhu nityānanda
Śrī Advaita Ācārya is a principal limb of Lord Caitanya. Another limb of the Lord is Nityānanda Prabhu.
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Śrī Advaita Ācārya is a principal limb of Lord Caitanya.
Nityānanda Prabhu is another limb of the Lord.
Both are described through their close relationship with Lord Caitanya.
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 efficient causal activities are caused by Mahā-Viṣṇu, and the material causal activities are caused by another form of Mahā-Viṣṇu, known as Advaita. That Advaita, the superintendent of the cosmic manifestation, has descended in the form of Advaita Ācārya to associate with Lord Caitanya.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
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Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
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What does the description of these personalities as the Lord’s limbs help you appreciate?
Write one sentence naming Śrī Advaita Ācārya and Nityānanda Prabhu as limbs of Lord Caitanya.
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