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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.316
তুমি — বক্তা ভাগবতের, তুমি জান অর্থ ।
তোমা বিনা অন্য জানিতে নাহিক সমর্থ ॥” ৩১৬ ॥
tumi — vaktā bhāgavatera, tumi jāna artha
tomā vinā anya jānite nāhika samartha”
“My dear Lord, You are the original speaker of the Bhāgavatam. You therefore know its real import. But for You, no one can understand the confidential meaning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana Gosvāmī calls the Lord the original speaker of the Bhāgavatam. Therefore, the Lord knows its real import.
Sanātana Gosvāmī states that without the Lord, no one can understand the confidential meaning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that his introduction to the First Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was written following this statement of Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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:
He then concluded that different classes of transcendentalists ( jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs ) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning of the verse.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I recognize my dependence on the Lord for understanding the Bhāgavatam’s confidential meaning?
Before studying today, offer a brief prayer asking the Lord for help in understanding Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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