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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 7.133
এই মত প্রতিসূত্রে সহজার্থ ছাড়িয়া ।
গৌণার্থ ব্যাখ্যা করে কল্পনা করিয়া ॥ ১৩৩ ॥
ei mata pratisūtre sahajārtha chāḍiyā
gauṇārtha vyākhyā kare kalpanā kariyā
“To prove their philosophy, the members of the Māyāvāda school have given up the real, easily understood meaning of the Vedic literature and introduced indirect meanings based on their imaginative powers.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
To prove their philosophy, members of the Māyāvāda school abandon the easily understood meaning of Vedic literature and introduce imagined, indirect meanings.
The purport says the Śaṅkarite interpretation has covered almost the entire world. It therefore emphasizes the need to present the original, natural meaning of Vedic literature.
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is begins this work of presenting scripture according to the direct meaning of its words. The stated aim is to present all Vedic literature in this way.
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.
How can you notice when a preferred idea is pulling you away from a text’s direct meaning?
Read this translation and write a brief summary using its direct meaning rather than adding an imagined explanation.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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