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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 6.40
মাধবেন্দ্রপুরীর ইঁহো শিষ্য, এই জ্ঞানে ।
আচার্য–গোসাঞিরে প্রভু গুরু করি’ মানে ॥ ৪০ ॥
mādhavendra-purīra iṅho śiṣya, ei jñāne
ācārya-gosāñire prabhu guru kari’ māne
Thinking “He [Śrī Advaita Ācārya] is a disciple of Śrī Mādhavendra Purī,” Lord Caitanya obeys Him, respecting Him as His spiritual master.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya respects and obeys Śrī Advaita Ācārya as His spiritual master, recognizing Him as a disciple of Śrī Mādhavendra Purī.
Mādhavendra Purī is an ācārya in the disciplic succession from Madhvācārya. His two principal disciples were Īśvara Purī and Śrī Advaita Prabhu.
The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava-sampradāya is therefore a disciplic succession from Madhvācārya. This is accepted in Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā and Prameya-ratnāvalī, as well as by Gopāla Guru Gosvāmī.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
That Advaita, the superintendent of the cosmic manifestation, has descended in the form of Advaita Ācārya to associate with Lord Caitanya. When He is addressed as the servitor of Lord Caitanya, His glories are magnified because unless one is invigorated by this mentality of servitorship one cannot understand the mellows derived from devotional service to the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
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