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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 7.136
আচার্য–কল্পিত অর্থ,—ইহা সভে জানি ।
সম্প্রদায়–অনুরোধে তবু তাহা মানি ॥ ১৩৬ ॥
ācārya-kalpita artha, — ihā sabhe jāni
sampradāya-anurodhe tabu tāhā māni
“We know that all this word jugglery springs from the imagination of Śaṅkarācārya, and yet because we belong to his sect, we accept it although it does not satisfy us.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The sannyāsīs acknowledged that this word jugglery sprang from the imagination of Śaṅkarācārya.
They accepted it because they belonged to his sect.
Although they accepted these explanations, they admitted that the explanations did not satisfy them.
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 accept an explanation merely from loyalty, even when it does not satisfy me?
Write down one point in your study that you accept but do not yet clearly understand.
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