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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.283
এইত কহিলুঁ প্রথম পুরুষের তত্ত্ব ।
দ্বিতীয় পুরুষের এবে শুনহ মহত্ত্ব ॥ ২৮৩ ॥
eita kahiluṅ prathama puruṣera tattva
dvitīya puruṣera ebe śunaha mahattva
“I have thus explained the truth of the first Personality of Godhead, Mahā-Viṣṇu. I shall now explain the glories of the second Personality of Godhead.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Mahā-Viṣṇu is identified here as the first Personality of Godhead.
The explanation of the truth of Mahā-Viṣṇu has now been given.
The teaching now turns to the glories of the second Personality of Godhead.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What have you understood about Mahā-Viṣṇu before the teaching moves on?
Pause and write one sentence summarizing what you have learned about Mahā-Viṣṇu.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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