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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 11.22
রঘুনাথ বৈদ্য উপাধ্যায় মহাশয় ।
যাঁহার দর্শনে কৃষ্ণপ্রেমভক্তি হয় ॥ ২২ ॥
raghunātha vaidya upādhyāya mahāśaya
yāṅhāra darśane kṛṣṇa-prema-bhakti haya
The physician Raghunātha, also known as Upādhyāya, was so great a devotee that simply by seeing him one would awaken his dormant love of Godhead.
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Raghunātha was a physician, also known as Upādhyāya.
He was a very great devotee.
Simply by seeing him, one would awaken one’s dormant love of Godhead.
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
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.Back to this verse in Ādi 11
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What hope do you find in the description of love of Godhead as dormant?
Pause for one minute to reflect on Raghunātha’s ability to awaken love of Godhead simply by his presence.
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