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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 7.45
কাশীতে লেখক শূদ্র–শ্রীচন্দ্রশেখর ।
তাঁর ঘরে রহিলা প্রভু স্বতন্ত্র ঈশ্বর ॥ ৪৫ ॥
kāśīte lekhaka śūdra-śrīcandraśekhara
tāṅra ghare rahilā prabhu svatantra īśvara
This time Lord Caitanya stayed at the house of Candraśekhara, although he was regarded as a śūdra or kāyastha, for the Lord, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is completely independent.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya stayed at Candraśekhara’s house although a sannyāsī was not supposed to reside in a śūdra’s house. As the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is completely independent.
Candraśekhara was a clerk from a kāyastha family, but the social system regarded him as a śūdra. In Bengal, even many people from other higher castes were considered non-brāhmaṇas.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not accept this artificial principle introduced by self-interested men.
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 judge someone’s spiritual standing merely by their family background?
Notice one assumption you make about someone’s family background, and reconsider it in light of the Lord’s example.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture 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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