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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.30
সেই পত্রীর কথা আচার্য নাহি জানে ।
কোন পাকে সেই পত্রী আইল প্রভুস্থানে ॥ ৩০ ॥
sei patrīra kathā ācārya nāhi jāne
kona pāke sei patrī āila prabhu-sthāne
No one knew of that note, but somehow or other it reached the hands of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
No one knew of the note.
Somehow or other, the note reached Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s hands.
The translation does not explain how it reached Him.
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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