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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.17
ভট্টাচার্য পণ্ডিত বিশ ত্রিশ লঞা ।
ভাগবত বিচার করেন সভাতে বসিয়া ॥ ১৭ ॥
bhaṭṭācārya paṇḍita biśa triśa lañā
bhāgavata vicāra karena sabhāte vasiyā
Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī used to discuss Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in an assembly of twenty or thirty learned brāhmaṇa scholars.
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Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī used to discuss Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with learned brāhmaṇa scholars.
The assembly included twenty or thirty scholars, making this a shared study.
Commenting on bhāgavata vicāra, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura notes that there are two kinds of educational systems.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Empowerment and hope. The seed of bhakti is received, planted, and watered; intimate realization becomes transmissible.
The mood of Madhya 19 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:
Giving this excuse, he sat at home and studied Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with learned brāhmaṇa scholars. The Nawab Hussain Shah first sent his personal physician to see what the real facts were; then he personally came to see why Sanātana was not attending to official business.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
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In this verse: “discuss”
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