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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.139
অতএব ‘ভক্তি’ — কৃষ্ণপ্রাপ্ত্যের উপায় ।
‘অভিধেয়’ বলি’ তারে সর্বশাস্ত্রে গায় ॥ ১৩৯ ॥
ataeva ‘bhakti’ — kṛṣṇa-prāptyera upāya
‘abhidheya’ bali’ tāre sarva-śāstre gāya
“The conclusion is that devotional service is the only means for approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This system is therefore called abhidheya. This is the verdict of all revealed scriptures.
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Devotional service is the only means for approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
This system is called abhidheya.
This conclusion is the verdict of all revealed scriptures.
The purport of CC Madhya 20.139 quotesBG 18.55
As Lord Kṛṣṇa states in the Bhagavad-gītā (18.55).
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Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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:
Thus the Lord described the many forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He also described the incarnations of God within the material world, incarnations such as the puruṣa-avatāras, manvantara-avatāras, guṇa-avatāras and śaktyāveśa-avatāras.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I make devotional service central to my spiritual practice?
Write down the meaning of abhidheya given here: devotional service, the means for approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
2 lectures given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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