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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.107
ভ্রম, প্রমাদ, বিপ্রলিপ্সা, করণাপাটব ।
ঈশ্বরের বাক্যে নাহি দোষ এই সব ॥ ১০৭ ॥
bhrama, pramāda, vipralipsā, karaṇāpāṭava
īśvarera vākye nāhi doṣa ei saba
“The material defects of mistakes, illusions, cheating and sensory inefficiency do not exist in the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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Mistakes, illusions, cheating and sensory inefficiency do not exist in the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Mistakes involve accepting false knowledge, and illusion can arise from inattentive hearing. Passing defective knowledge to others is cheating.
Our senses are imperfect and cannot provide complete knowledge. The Vedic process is to hear from an authorized person through the chain of disciplic succession.
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The purport of CC Ādi 7.107 quotesBG 4.2
In the Bhagavad-gītā (4.2) the Lord says, evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ: “The supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way.”
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Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.
The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
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Where might inattentive hearing or trust in my imperfect senses be limiting my understanding?
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His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
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