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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 Antya 2.14
সেই জীবে নিজ-ভক্তি করেন প্রকাশে ।
তাহার দর্শনে ‘বৈষ্ণব’ হয় সর্বদেশে ॥ ১৪ ॥
sei jīve nija-bhakti karena prakāśe
tāhāra darśane ‘vaiṣṇava’ haya sarva-deśe
Thus He empowered living beings [His pure devotees] by manifesting in them so much of His own devotion that people in all other countries became devotees by seeing them.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu empowered living beings who were His pure devotees.
He manifested so much of His own devotion in them that others were changed by seeing them.
People in all other countries became devotees by seeing these empowered devotees.
The purport of CC Antya 2.14 quotesCC Antya 7.11
As stated in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 7.11):
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Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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:
Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, wanted to explain direct meetings with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, meetings with those empowered by Him, and His āvirbhāva appearance. Thus he described the glories of Nṛsiṁhānanda and other devotees.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this verse help you appreciate the influence of a pure devotee?
Reread the verse and identify both the source of the devotees’ empowerment and its effect on others.
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