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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 9.32
অলৌকিক বৃক্ষ করে, সর্বেন্দ্ৰিয়–কর্ম ।
স্থাবর হইয়া ধরে জঙ্গমের ধর্ম ॥ ৩২ ॥
alaukika vṛkṣa kare sarvendriya-karma
sthāvara ha-iyā dhare jaṅgamera dharma
“Since the tree of devotional service is transcendental, every one of its parts can perform the action of all the others. Although a tree is supposed to be immovable, this tree nevertheless moves.
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The tree of devotional service is transcendental. Every part can perform the action of all the others.
Material trees stand in one place, but a tree in the spiritual world can move from place to place. Everything there is called alaukika, uncommon or transcendental.
Material roots gather food from deep within the earth. In the spiritual world, twigs, branches and leaves can also act like roots.
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:
It is figuratively described that both the tree itself and the trunk of the tree are Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Paramānanda Purī and eight other great sannyāsīs are like the spreading roots of the tree.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.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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 this description challenge my habit of understanding spiritual things through material experience?
Write down one contrast from this verse between a material tree and the transcendental tree.
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