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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.42

বিদ্যাপতি, জয়দেব, চণ্ডীদাসের গীত ।

আস্বাদেন রামানন্দ–স্বরূপ–সহিত ॥ ৪২ ॥

vidyāpati, jayadeva, caṇḍīdāsera gīta

āsvādena rāmānanda-svarūpa-sahita

Translation

The Lord used to read the books of Vidyāpati, Jayadeva and Caṇḍīdāsa, relishing their songs with His confidential associates like Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Relishing Songs of Separation from Kṛṣṇa

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    The Lord read the books of Vidyāpati, Jayadeva and Caṇḍīdāsa. He relished their songs with confidential associates such as Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.

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    Vidyāpati was a famous composer of songs about the pastimes of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. He was born in a brāhmaṇa family in Mithilā.

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    Vidyāpati’s songs express intense feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relished them in His own ecstasy of separation from Kṛṣṇa.

Key points from the purport
  • Vidyāpati was a famous composer of songs about the pastimes of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.
  • It is calculated that he composed his songs during the reign of King Śivasiṁha and Queen Lachimādevī, in the beginning of the fourteenth century of the Śaka Era, almost one hundred years before the appearance of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
  • Vidyāpati’s songs about the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa express intense feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relished all those songs in His ecstasy of separation from Kṛṣṇa.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Jubilation and hope. The Lord appears in Navadvīpa; the theological promise becomes a lived story.

The mood of Ādi 13 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 13: The Advent of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

During this time, Caitanya Mahāprabhu toured southern India, went to Vṛndāvana, returned from Vṛndāvana and preached the saṅkīrtana movement. A learned brāhmaṇa named Upendra Miśra, who resided in the district of Śrīhaṭṭa, was the father of Jagannātha Miśra, who came to Navadvīpa to study under the direction of Nīlāmbara Cakravartī and then settled there after marrying Nīlāmbara Cakravartī’s daughter, Śacīdevī.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. vidyāpatithe author of the name Vidyāpati
  2. jayadevaJayadeva
  3. caṇḍīdāseraCaṇḍīdāsa
  4. gītatheir songs
  5. āsvādenatastes
  6. rāmānandaRāmānanda
  7. svarūpaSvarūpa
  8. sahitaalong with
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association

    Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “associates”

  • Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose

    The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “rādhā-kṛṣṇa”

  • Vipralambha · Love in separation

    Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “separation”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What feelings in Vidyāpati’s songs did Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relish?

Practice

Write one sentence about why Vidyāpati’s songs were dear to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Live this todayRelishing Songs of Separation from KṛṣṇaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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