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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features
Ādi 7.146Ādi 7.148

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.147

এইমত সর্বসূত্রের ব্যাখ্যান শুনিয়া ।

সকল সন্ন্যাসী কহে বিনয় করিয়া ॥ ১৪৭ ॥

ei-mata sarva-sūtrera vyākhyāna śuniyā

sakala sannyāsī kahe vinaya kariyā

Translation

When all the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs thus heard the explanation of Caitanya Mahāprabhu on the basis of sambandha, abhidheya and prayojana, they spoke very humbly.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Hear Vedānta with Humility

  1. 1

    Those who truly desire to understand Vedānta must accept the explanation of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

  2. 2

    The Vaiṣṇava ācāryas also explain the Vedānta-sūtra according to the principles of bhakti-yoga.

  3. 3

    After hearing the Lord's explanation, the sannyāsīs headed by Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī became humble and obedient. They then spoke very humbly.

Key points from the purport
  • Everyone who actually desires to understand the Vedānta philosophy must certainly accept the explanation of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas who have also commented on the Vedānta-sūtra according to the principles of bhakti-yoga.
  • After hearing the explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, all the sannyāsīs, headed by Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, became very humble and obedient to the Lord, and they spoke as follows.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Ādi 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features

Back to this verse in Ādi 7
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. ei-matain this way
  2. sarva-sūtreraof all the aphorisms of the Vedānta-sūtra
  3. vyākhyānaexplanation
  4. śuniyāby hearing
  5. sakalaall
  6. sannyāsīthe groups of Māyāvādī sannyāsīs
  7. kahesaid
  8. vinayahumbly
  9. kariyādoing so
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Dainya & humility · Making room for grace

    The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “humble”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I willing to let the Lord's teaching change my attitude as well as my understanding?

Practice

Reread the Lord's explanation given here, then write one sentence about what you can humbly learn from it.

Live this todayHear Vedānta with HumilityThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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