Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 14.9
Faithful Records Without Embellishment
“These two great personalities [Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī] recorded the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu moment by moment. They described these activities briefly as well as elaborately in their notebooks.”
What the purport teaches
- Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s activities moment by moment.
- Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recorded the pastimes briefly, while Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded them elaborately.
- Both simply recorded the facts. They did not create descriptive literary embellishments.
Try this today
Write one factual sentence from today’s reading without adding imagined details.
Ask yourself
How can their care for factual accuracy guide the way you share what you study?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.