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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 11.37
কালা–কৃষ্ণদাস বড় বৈষ্ণবপ্রধান ।
নিত্যানন্দ–চন্দ্র বিনু নাহি জানে আন ॥ ৩৭ ॥
kālā-kṛṣṇadāsa baḍa vaiṣṇava-pradhāna
nityānanda-candra vinu nahi jāne āna
The twenty-second devotee of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu was Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa, who was the ninth cowherd boy. He was a first-class Vaiṣṇava and did not know anything beyond Nityānanda Prabhu.
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Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa was the twenty-second devotee of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu and the ninth cowherd boy.
He was a first-class Vaiṣṇava who did not know anything beyond Nityānanda Prabhu.
Also known as Kāliyā Kṛṣṇadāsa, he was formerly the cowherd boy Lavaṅga. He was one of the twelve cowherd boys.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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.
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: “cowherd”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What impresses you about Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa’s complete devotion to Nityānanda Prabhu?
Give one undistracted minute today to remembering Nityānanda Prabhu.
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