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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.52
চৈতন্যগোসাঞি মোরে করে গুরু–জ্ঞান ।
তথাপিহ মোর হয় দাস–অভিমান ॥ ৫২ ॥
caitanya-gosāñi more kare guru jñāna
tathāpiha mora haya dāsa-abhimāna
Śrī Advaita Ācārya thinks, “Lord Caitanya considers Me His spiritual master, yet I feel Myself to be only His servant.”
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Lord Caitanya considers Śrī Advaita Ācārya His spiritual master.
Yet Śrī Advaita Ācārya feels Himself to be only Lord Caitanya’s servant.
Being regarded as a spiritual master does not change His own feeling of service.
Devotional appeal. The glory of Advaita frames service as the deepest form of greatness.
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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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Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “servant”, “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When I receive respect, can I still keep a spirit of service?
Before one act of service today, pause and remember Śrī Advaita Ācārya’s feeling of being only Lord Caitanya’s servant.
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