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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.33
এইমত মহাপ্রভুর অচিন্ত্য প্রভাব ।
এবে শুন প্রভুর যৈছে হয় ‘আবির্ভাব ।।’ ৩৩ ।। ॥ ৩৩ ॥
ei-mata mahāprabhura acintya prabhāva
ebe śuna prabhura yaiche haya ‘āvirbhāva’
In this way, one should understand the inconceivable potencies of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Now please hear how His appearance [āvirbhāva] takes place.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The account of Nakula Brahmacārī helps the reader understand the inconceivable potencies of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
The verse then turns to His appearance, called āvirbhāva.
The reader is invited to hear how this appearance takes place.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I ready to listen carefully as the text describes His inconceivable potencies?
Read the next passage slowly, attending to where and why Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared.
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