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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 11.42
আচার্য বৈষ্ণবানন্দ ভক্তি–অধিকারী ।
পূর্বে নাম ছিল যাঁর ‘রঘুনাথ পুরী’ ॥ ৪২ ॥
ācārya vaiṣṇavānanda bhakti-adhikārī
pūrve nāma chila yāṅra ‘raghunātha purī’
The twenty-seventh prominent devotee of Nityānanda Prabhu was Ācārya Vaiṣṇavānanda, a great personality in devotional service. He was formerly known as Raghunātha Purī.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Ācārya Vaiṣṇavānanda was the twenty-seventh prominent devotee of Nityānanda Prabhu and a great personality in devotional service.
He was formerly known as Raghunātha Purī.
The Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā says that Raghunātha Purī was previously very powerful in the eight mystic successes. He was an incarnation of one of these successes.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What quality does the translation emphasize in describing Ācārya Vaiṣṇavānanda’s greatness?
Read the translation again and note its description of Vaiṣṇavānanda’s devotional service.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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