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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.264
এত তত্ত্ব মোর চিত্তে কৈলে প্রকাশন ।
ব্রহ্মাকে বেদ যেন পড়াইল নারায়ণ ॥ ২৬৪ ॥
eta tattva mora citte kaile prakāśana
brahmāke veda yena paḍāila nārāyaṇa
“You have manifested all these transcendental truths in my heart. This is exactly the way Nārāyaṇa educated Lord Brahmā.”
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Rāmānanda Rāya credits the Lord with manifesting these transcendental truths in his heart.
He says that Nārāyaṇa educated Lord Brahmā in exactly this way.
The purport explains that the Supreme Personality of Godhead enlightened Brahmā’s heart, as stated in the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 8 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 next described the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the transcendental mellows of love of God. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya then recited a verse of his own concerning the platform of ecstatic vision, technically called prema-vilāsa-vivarta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does it mean to receive understanding as the Lord’s gift?
Before studying today, briefly ask the Lord to enlighten your heart.
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