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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.25
তবে মহাপ্রভু, তাঁর হৃদে হস্ত ধরি’ ।
‘উঠহ, গোপাল,’ কৈল বল ‘হরি’ ‘হরি’ ॥ ২৫ ॥
tabe mahāprabhu, tāṅra hṛde hasta dhari’
‘uṭhaha, gopāla,’ kaila bala ‘hari’ ‘hari’
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu then put His hand on the chest of Gopāla and told him, “My dear Gopāla, get up and chant the holy name of the Lord!”
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Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu put His hand on Gopāla’s chest.
He addressed him affectionately as “My dear Gopāla.”
He told Gopāla to get up and chant the holy name of the Lord.
Loyalty and discernment. The narrative distinguishes fidelity to the ācārya from deviation.
The mood of Ādi 12 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
In his early life Gopāla fainted during the cleansing of the Guṇḍicā-mandira at Jagannātha Purī and thus became a recipient of the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The story of Kamalākānta Viśvāsa concerns his borrowing three hundred rupees from Pratāparudra Mahārāja to clear a debt of Advaita Ācārya’s, for which Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chastised him when He came to know of it.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 12
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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chant”, “holy name”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you respond today to the Lord’s instruction to chant His holy name?
Take a quiet moment today to chant the holy name of the Lord.
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