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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 22.3
এইত কহিলুঁ সম্বন্ধ-তত্ত্বের বিচার ।
বেদশাস্ত্রে উপদেশে, কৃষ্ণ — এক সার ॥ ৩ ॥
eita kahiluṅ sambandha-tattvera vicāra
veda-śāstre upadeśe, kṛṣṇa — eka sāra
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “I have described one’s relationship with Kṛṣṇa in various ways. This is the subject matter of all the Vedas. Kṛṣṇa is the center of all activities.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has described one’s relationship with Kṛṣṇa in various ways.
One’s relationship with Kṛṣṇa is the subject matter of all the Vedas.
Kṛṣṇa is the center of all activities.
Trust and resolution. Devotional practice and association offer a steady path for awakening love.
The mood of Madhya 22 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:
In the twenty-second chapter, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes the process of devotional service. In the beginning He describes the truth about the living entity and the superexcellence of devotional service.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 22
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “relationship”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What would it mean to place Kṛṣṇa at the center of your activities?
Before one activity today, pause to consider how it can be centered on Kṛṣṇa.
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