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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 8.6
এ–সব না মানে যেই পণ্ডিত সকল ।
তা–সবার বিদ্যাপাঠ ভেক–কোলাহল ॥ ৬ ॥
e-saba nā māne yei paṇḍita sakala
tā-sabāra vidyā-pāṭha bheka-kolāhala
The education cultivated by so-called learned scholars who do not believe these statements of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is like the tumultuous croaking of frogs.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The verse compares the learning of scholars who disbelieve these statements of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta to the loud croaking of frogs.
The purport explains that frogs croak loudly during the rainy season. Snakes hear them, approach, and swallow them.
Similarly, the speech of university professors without spiritual knowledge is compared to this croaking. Loud educational speech alone is not spiritual knowledge.
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:
The eighth chapter of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is summarized by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. In this chapter the glories of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda are described, and it is also stated that one who commits offenses in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra does not achieve love of Godhead, even after chanting for many years.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 8
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do you give more weight to impressive speech or to spiritual knowledge?
Reread this verse today and note its distinction between scholarly speech and spiritual knowledge.
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