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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.55
এই ত’ প্রস্তাবে আছে বহুত বিচার ।
গ্রন্থ–বাহুল্য–ভয়ে নারি লিখিবার ॥ ৫৫ ॥
ei ta’ prastāve āche bahuta vicāra
grantha-bāhulya-bhaye nāri likhibāra
In this statement there are many confidential considerations. I do not write of them all, fearing an unnecessary increase in the volume of the book.
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The statement contains many confidential considerations.
The author does not write about all of them.
He holds back these details to avoid unnecessarily increasing the volume of the book.
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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