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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 6.150
‘অপাণি-পাদ’-শ্রুতি বর্জে ‘প্রাকৃত’ পাণি-চরণ ।
পুনঃ কহে, শীঘ্র চলে, করে সর্ব গ্রহণ ॥ ১৫০ ॥
‘apāṇi-pāda’-śruti varje ‘prākṛta’ pāṇi-caraṇa
punaḥ kahe, śīghra cale, kare sarva grahaṇa
“The Vedic ‘apāṇi-pāda’ mantra rejects material hands and legs, yet it states that the Lord goes very fast and accepts everything offered to Him.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Vedic “apāṇi-pāda” mantra rejects material hands and legs in the Lord.
Yet the same mantra states that the Lord goes very fast.
It also states that the Lord accepts everything offered to Him. Rejecting material limbs does not deny His ability to act.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
The mood of Madhya 6 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:
The real philosophy of the Absolute Truth states that the Lord and His creation are inconceivably and simultaneously one and different. The conclusion is that the Māyāvādī philosophers are actually atheists.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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: “offered”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this mantra challenge the assumption that the Lord needs material limbs to act?
Read the translation slowly, noticing both what the mantra rejects and what it affirms.
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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