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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.74
বদন্তি তত্তত্ত্ববিদস্তত্ত্বং যজ্জ্ঞানমদ্বয়ম্ ।
ব্রহ্মেতি পরমাত্মেতি ভগবানিতি শব্দ্যতে ॥ ৭৪ ॥
vadanti tat tattva-vidas
tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam
brahmeti paramātmeti
bhagavān iti śabdyate
“ ‘Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth say that it is nondual knowledge and is called impersonal Brahman, localized Paramātmā and the Personality of Godhead.’
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Learned transcendentalists describe the Absolute Truth as nondual knowledge.
They call this one truth impersonal Brahman, localized Paramātmā and the Personality of Godhead.
The purport identifies this statement as a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
The purport of CC Madhya 24.74 quotesSB 1.2.11
This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.11).
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
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 explained this verse in sixty-one different ways. He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations.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.
What does ‘nondual knowledge’ suggest about the relationship between these three descriptions?
Write the three descriptions of the Absolute Truth together, with ‘one Absolute Truth’ above them.
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