CC Madhya 16.75
Bengali
ক্রম করি’ কহে প্রভু ‘বৈষ্ণব’-লক্ষণ ।
‘বৈষ্ণব’, ‘বৈষ্ণবতর’, আর ‘বৈষ্ণবতম’ ॥ ৭৫ ॥
‘বৈষ্ণব’, ‘বৈষ্ণবতর’, আর ‘বৈষ্ণবতম’ ॥ ৭৫ ॥
Verse text
krama kari’ kahe prabhu ‘vaiṣṇava’-lakṣaṇa
‘vaiṣṇava’, ‘vaiṣṇavatara’, āra ‘vaiṣṇavatama’
‘vaiṣṇava’, ‘vaiṣṇavatara’, āra ‘vaiṣṇavatama’
Synonyms
krama kari’ — dividing according to grades; kahe prabhu — Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu spoke; vaiṣṇava-lakṣaṇa — the symptoms of Vaiṣṇavas; vaiṣṇava — the ordinary Vaiṣṇava (the positive platform); vaiṣṇava-tara — the better Vaiṣṇava (the comparative platform); āra — and; vaiṣṇava-tama — the best Vaiṣṇava (the superlative platform).
Translation
In this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught the distinctions between different types of Vaiṣṇavas — the Vaiṣṇava, Vaiṣṇavatara and Vaiṣṇavatama. He thus successively explained all the symptoms of a Vaiṣṇava to the inhabitants of Kulīna-grāma.