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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 7.64
প্রভু কহে,—আমি হই হীন–সম্প্রদায় ।
তোমা–সবার সভায় বসিতে না যুয়ায় ॥ ৬৪ ॥
prabhu kahe, — āmi ha-i hīna-sampradāya
tomā-sabāra sabhāya vasite nā yuyāya
The Lord replied, “I belong to a lower order of sannyāsīs. Therefore I do not deserve to sit with you.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord humbly said that He belonged to a lower order of sannyāsīs and did not deserve to sit with them.
The purport criticizes the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs’ pride in Sanskrit learning and their Śaṅkara-sampradāya affiliation. They mistakenly regard birth and scholarship as essential qualifications for renunciation and preaching.
Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya himself condemned mere grammatical word jugglery. He warned that attention to grammar without worshiping Govinda would not save his disciples.
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.
Does my learning support worship, or am I using it to feel superior?
Set aside a brief moment today to worship Govinda rather than only gathering information.
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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