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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.116
রামদাস অভিরাম—সখ্য–প্রেমরাশি ।
ষোলসাঙ্গের কাষ্ঠ তুলি’ যে করিল বাঁশী ॥ ১১৬ ॥
rāmadāsa abhirāma — sakhya-premarāśi
ṣolasāṅgera kāṣṭha tuli’ ye karila vāṅśī
Rāmadāsa Abhirāma was fully absorbed in the mellow of friendship. He made a flute of a bamboo stick with sixteen knots.
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Rāmadāsa Abhirāma was fully absorbed in the mellow of friendship.
He made a flute from a bamboo stick with sixteen knots.
Abhirāma lived in Khānākula-kṛṣṇa-nagara.
Belonging and gratitude. Many devotees become branches of one living network of devotion.
The mood of Ādi 10 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
This chapter describes the branches of the tree named Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Back to this verse in Ādi 10
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellow”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which detail helps you remember Rāmadāsa Abhirāma’s absorption in friendship?
Read the translation slowly and write one sentence recalling Abhirāma’s mood and his flute.
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