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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 9.18
বিশ বিশ শাখা করি’ এক এক মণ্ডল ।
মহা–মহা–শাখা ছাইল ব্রহ্মাণ্ড সকল ॥ ১৮ ॥
viśa viśa śākhā kari’ eka eka maṇḍala
mahā-mahā-śākhā chāila brahmāṇḍa sakala
Thus the branches of the Caitanya tree formed a cluster or society, with great branches covering all the universe.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The branches of the Caitanya tree formed a cluster or society.
Its great branches covered all the universe.
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is one of the branches of the Caitanya tree.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Overflowing generosity. The gardener distributes the fruits of love without restriction.
The mood of Ādi 9 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:
Paramānanda Purī and eight other great sannyāsīs are like the spreading roots of the tree. From the main trunk there extend two special branches, Advaita Prabhu and Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, and from those branches grow other branches and twigs.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 9
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “branches”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does seeing a devotional society as a branch of the Caitanya tree shape my understanding of it?
Write a brief note identifying the International Society for Krishna Consciousness as one branch of the Caitanya tree.
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