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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 8.39
মনুষ্যে রচিতে নারে ঐছে গ্রন্থ ধন্য ।
বৃন্দাবনদাস–মুখে বক্তা শ্রীচৈতন্য ॥ ৩৯ ॥
manuṣye racite nāre aiche grantha dhanya
vṛndāvana-dāsa-mukhe vaktā śrī-caitanya
The subject matter of this book is so sublime that it appears that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has personally spoken through the writings of Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The subject matter of Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura’s book is sublime.
Its quality is such that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appears to have personally spoken through it.
The verse honors these writings as a medium through which the Lord’s own speech seems to reach the reader.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
Previous to the composition of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura wrote a book called Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata. Only those subjects which were not discussed by Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura in his Caitanya-bhāgavata have been taken up by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī to be depicted in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.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.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might this description shape the attention you give to these writings?
Read a short passage from Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura’s book slowly and attentively.
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