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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 7.108
উপনিষৎ– সহিত সূত্র কহে যেই তত্ত্ব ।
মুখ্যবৃত্ত্যে সেই অর্থ পরম মহত্ত্ব ॥ ১০৮ ॥
upaniṣat-sahita sūtra kahe yei tattva
mukhya-vṛttye sei artha parama mahattva
“The Absolute Truth is described in the Upaniṣads and Brahma-sūtra, but one must understand the verses as they are. That is the supreme glory in understanding.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Upaniṣads and Brahma-sūtra describe the Absolute Truth. Understanding their statements as they are is glorious.
Vedic knowledge cannot be altered according to personal preference. Inventing meanings misleads readers rather than helping them understand.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu confirms that Vedic literatures must be understood according to their original statements. Explaining them through imperfect senses and invented meanings is a serious error.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I try to understand what scripture states, or make it fit what I already prefer?
Choose one sentence from this translation and write its direct meaning without adding a symbolic interpretation.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
2 lectures given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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