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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 6.54
ইহার প্রমাণ শুন—শাস্ত্রের ব্যাখ্যান ।
মহদনুভব যাতে সুদৃঢ় প্রমাণ ॥ ৫৪ ॥
ihāra pramāṇa śuna — śāstrera vyākhyāna
mahad-anubhava yāte sudṛḍha pramāṇa
For evidence, please listen to the examples described in the revealed scriptures, which are corroborated by the realization of great souls.
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The reader is invited to listen to examples as evidence.
These examples are described in the revealed scriptures.
The realization of great souls corroborates these scriptural examples.
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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