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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 11.55
ভাগবতে কৃষ্ণলীলা বর্ণিলা বেদব্যাস ।
চৈতন্য–লীলাতে ব্যাস—বৃন্দাবন দাস ॥ ৫৫ ॥
bhāgavate kṛṣṇa-līlā varṇilā vedavyāsa
caitanya-līlāte vyāsa — vṛndāvana dāsa
Śrīla Vyāsadeva described the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The Vyāsa of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was Vṛndāvana dāsa.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīla Vyāsadeva described Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Vṛndāvana dāsa was the Vyāsa of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura was a combined incarnation of Vedavyāsa and Kusumāpīḍa, a friendly cowherd boy in kṛṣṇa-līlā.
He was the author of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata and the son of Nārāyaṇī, Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s niece. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura’s commentary on that work gives biographical details of his life.
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: “vṛndāvana”, “cowherd”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What connection does this verse draw between Vyāsadeva and Vṛndāvana dāsa?
Write a short note pairing each author with the pastimes he described.
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