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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 5.114
কবি কহে, — “জগন্নাথ — সুন্দর-শরীর ।
চৈতন্য-গোসাঞি — শরীরী মহাধীর ॥ ১১৪ ॥
kavi kahe, — ‘jagannātha — sundara-śarīra
caitanya-gosāñi — śarīrī mahā-dhīra
The poet said, “Lord Jagannātha is a most beautiful body, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is exceptionally grave, is the owner of that body.
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The poet calls Lord Jagannātha a most beautiful body.
He describes Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as exceptionally grave and as the owner of that body. These are the poet’s claims in his explanation.
The purport explains that śarīrī means a person who owns the śarīra, or body.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Antya 5.114 quotesBG 2.13
As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā (2.13):
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Humility and discernment. The Lord directs a seeker to Rāmānanda and clarifies genuine spiritual qualification.
The mood of Antya 5 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:
A brāhmaṇa from Bengal composed a drama about the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and went to Jagannātha Purī to show it to the associates of the Lord. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, heard the drama, he discerned a tinge of Māyāvāda philosophy and pointed it out to the author.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 5
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Can I clearly distinguish the meanings of śarīra and śarīrī?
Write down the two terms śarīra and śarīrī, with their meanings: body and owner of the body.
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