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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.194
তোমার সিদ্ধান্ত-সঙ্গ করে যেই জনে ।
‘এক’ বস্তু বিনা সেই ‘দ্বিতীয়’ নাহি মানে ॥ ১৯৪ ॥
tomāra siddhānta-saṅga kare yei jane
‘eka’ vastu vinā sei ‘dvitīya’ nāhi māne
“One who participates in Your impersonal monistic philosophy does not accept anything but the one Brahman.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The impersonal monist accepts only the one Brahman, rather than accepting God as the only object of worship and living entities as His eternal servants.
Monists hold that God and the devotee may be separate in the material state but have no difference when spiritually situated. This is called advaita-siddhānta.
Monists consider devotional service material activity, the same as karma, or fruitive activity. The purport calls this mistake a great stumbling block on the road to devotional service.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Purification through joyful service. Collective cleansing becomes a visible devotional act before Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 12 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:
Advaita Prabhu said that Nityānanda Prabhu was unknown to anyone and that it was not the duty of a householder brāhmaṇa to accept dinner with a person unknown in society. In answer to this humorous statement, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu replied that Advaita Ācārya was a monist and that one could not know how his mind could be turned by eating with such an impersonalist.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 12
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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”, “servants”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does remembering that living entities are God’s eternal servants shape my understanding of devotional service?
Before one devotional activity today, pause to remember God as the object of worship and yourself as His eternal servant.
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