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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.16
তবে নিত্যানন্দ–গোসাঞির ব্যাস–পূজন ।
নিত্যানন্দাবেশে কৈল মুষল ধারণ ॥ ১৬ ॥
tabe nityānanda-gosāñira vyāsa-pūjana
nityānandāveśe kaila muṣala dhāraṇa
Nityānanda Prabhu then arranged to offer Vyāsa-pūjā, or worship of the spiritual master, to Lord Śrī Gaurasundara. But Lord Caitanya carried the plowlike weapon called muṣala in the ecstasy of being Nityānanda Prabhu.
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By Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s order, Nityānanda Prabhu arranged Vyāsa-pūjā on the full-moon night. Worship of the spiritual master bears this name because Vyāsadeva is the original spiritual master of all who follow Vedic principles.
While saṅkīrtana was going on, Nityānanda Prabhu tried to garland Lord Caitanya and saw Himself in the Lord. Lord Caitanya carried the plowlike weapon called muṣala in the ecstasy of being Nityānanda Prabhu.
There is no difference between the spiritual positions of Lord Caitanya and Nityānanda Prabhu, or Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. All are different manifestations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the devotees understood during this ceremony.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 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:
The seventeenth chapter, as summarized by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes from His sixteenth year until the time He accepted the renounced order of life. Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has already vividly described these pastimes in the Caitanya-bhāgavata; therefore Kṛṣṇa dāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī describes them only briefly.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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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: “saṅkīrtana”
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How does this ceremony deepen my understanding of Lord Caitanya and Nityānanda Prabhu?
Write one sentence explaining why worship of the spiritual master is called Vyāsa-pūjā.
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