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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 11: The Expansions of Lord Nityānanda
Ādi 11.13Ādi 11.16

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Ādi 11.14-15

নিত্যানন্দে আজ্ঞা দিল যবে গৌড়ে যাইতে ।

মহাপ্রভু এই দুই দিলা তাঁর সাথে ॥ ১৪ ॥

অতএব দুইগণে দুঁহার গণন ।

মাধব–বাসুদেব ঘোষেরও এই বিবরণ ॥ ১৫ ॥

nityānande ājñā dila yabe gauḍe yāite

mahāprabhu ei dui dilā tāṅra sāthe

Translation

When Nityānanda Prabhu was ordered to go to Bengal to preach, these two devotees [Śrī Rāmadāsa and Gadādhara dāsa] were ordered to go with Him. Thus they are sometimes counted among the devotees of Lord Caitanya and sometimes among the devotees of Lord Nityānanda. Similarly, Mādhava Ghoṣa and Vāsudeva Ghoṣa belonged to both groups of devotees simultaneously.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Shared Service and the Deity’s Loving Care

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    Śrī Rāmadāsa and Gadādhara dāsa were ordered to accompany Nityānanda Prabhu to preach in Bengal. Like Mādhava Ghoṣa and Vāsudeva Ghoṣa, they belonged to both Lord Caitanya’s and Lord Nityānanda’s groups of devotees.

  2. 2

    Śrī Gopīnāthajī accepted Govinda Ghoṣa as His father. The purport describes the Deity performing the śrāddha ceremony on the anniversary of Govinda Ghoṣa’s death.

  3. 3

    Each year in Vaiśākha, Śrī Gopīnāthajī is taken to Kṛṣṇanagara for the bāradola ceremony with eleven other Deities. He is then brought back to the temple in Agradvīpa.

Key points from the purport
  • This Deity accepted Govinda Ghoṣa as His father.
  • Even until today, the Deity performs the śrāddha ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Govinda Ghoṣa.
  • The ceremony is performed with eleven other Deities, and then Śrī Gopīnāthajī is brought back to the temple in Agradvīpa.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Affectionate inclusiveness. Nityānanda’s branches show devotion multiplying through relationships.

The mood of Ādi 11 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 11: The Expansions of Lord Nityānanda

Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:

As the branches and subbranches of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu were described in the tenth chapter, in this eleventh chapter the branches and subbranches of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu are similarly listed.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. nityānandeunto Lord Nityānanda
  2. ājñāorder
  3. dilagave
  4. yabewhen
  5. gauḍeto Bengal
  6. yāiteto go
  7. mahāprabhuŚrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  8. ei duithese two
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana

    The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “gopīnāthajī”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What moves me about Śrī Gopīnāthajī accepting Govinda Ghoṣa as His father?

Practice

Write one sentence reflecting on the loving relationship between Śrī Gopīnāthajī and Govinda Ghoṣa.

Live this todayShared Service and the Deity’s Loving CareThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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