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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 8.3
জয় জয়াদ্বৈত আচার্য কৃপাময় ।
জয় জয় গদাধর পণ্ডিত মহাশয় ॥ ৩॥
jaya jayādvaita ācārya kṛpāmaya
jaya jaya gadādhara paṇḍita mahāśaya
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Advaita Ācārya, who is very merciful, and also to that great personality Gadādhara Paṇḍita, the learned scholar.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author offers respectful obeisances to Advaita Ācārya.
Advaita Ācārya is described as very merciful.
The author also honors Gadādhara Paṇḍita as a great personality and learned scholar.
Vulnerability and obedience. Kavirāja writes by mercy and command rather than personal self-assertion.
The mood of Ādi 8 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
One should seriously and sincerely continue to chant the Pañca-tattva names śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. All these ācāryas will bestow their causeless mercy upon a devotee and gradually purify his heart.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 8
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
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In this verse: “merciful”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can remembering these qualities deepen the respect you offer?
Offer respects to Advaita Ācārya and Gadādhara Paṇḍita, remembering the qualities named here.
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