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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.96
শুনিয়া আচার্য কহে দুঃখী হঞা মনে ।
শাস্ত্রজ্ঞ করিঞা তুমি কর অভিমানে ॥ ৯৬ ॥
śuniyā ācārya kahe duḥkhī hañā mane
śāstra-jña kariñā tumi kara abhimāne
Upon hearing this, Gopīnātha Ācārya became very unhappy. He said to the Bhaṭṭācārya, “You consider yourself the knower of all Vedic scriptures.
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Gopīnātha Ācārya became very unhappy upon hearing what had been said.
He addressed the Bhaṭṭācārya directly.
He pointed out that the Bhaṭṭācārya considered himself the knower of all Vedic scriptures.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
There was then a discussion between the Bhaṭṭācārya and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu concerning the authority of the Vedic scriptures, specifically the Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra. The Bhaṭṭācārya was an impersonalist, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu proved that the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīnātha”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How readily do I regard my own scriptural knowledge as complete?
Before studying today, pause and acknowledge one thing about scripture that you do not yet understand.
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