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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.46
এত শুনি’ মহাপ্রভু হাসিতে লাগিলা ।
বোলাইয়া কমলাকান্তে প্রসন্ন হইলা ॥ ৪৬ ॥
eta śuni’ mahāprabhu hāsite lāgilā
bolāiyā kamalākānte prasanna ha-ilā
Hearing this, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu laughed with satisfaction and immediately called Kamalākānta Viśvāsa.
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Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard what had been said.
He laughed with satisfaction.
He immediately called Kamalākānta Viśvāsa.
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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