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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.70|CC Antya 5.70, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna Miśra said, “My dear Lord, You have made me extremely obliged to You because You have drowned me in a nectarean ocean of talks about Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div class="heading">A spiritually advanced person who is authorized to act as the spiritual master speaks as the Supreme Personality of Godhead dictates from within. Thus it is not he that is personally speaking. In other words, when a pure devotee or spiritual master speaks, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the paramparā system.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.71|CC Antya 5.71, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“I cannot properly describe the discourses of Rāmānanda Rāya, for he is not an ordinary human being. He is fully absorbed in the devotional service of the Lord.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>One is forbidden to accept the guru, or spiritual master, as an ordinary human being (guruṣu nara-matiḥ). When Rāmānanda Rāya spoke to Pradyumna Miśra, Pradyumna Miśra could understand that Rāmānanda Rāya was not an ordinary human being. A spiritually advanced person who is authorized to act as the spiritual master speaks as the Supreme Personality of Godhead dictates from within. Thus it is not he that is personally speaking. In other words, when a pure devotee or spiritual master speaks, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the paramparā system.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.72|CC Antya 5.72, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“There is one other thing Rāmānanda Rāya said to me: ‘Do not consider me the speaker in these talks about Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.73|CC Antya 5.73, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“‘Whatever I speak is personally spoken by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Like a stringed instrument, I vibrate whatever He causes me to speak.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.74|CC Antya 5.74, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"In this way the Lord speaks through my mouth to preach the cult of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Within the world, who will understand this pastime of the Lord"s?’</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.75|CC Antya 5.75, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“What I have heard from Rāmānanda Rāya is like a nectarean ocean of discourses about Kṛṣṇa. Even the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahmā, cannot understand all these topics.</p>
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