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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.164
মথুরাতে পাঠাইল রূপ–সনাতন ।
দুই সেনাপতি কৈল ভক্তি প্রচারণ ॥ ১৬৪ ॥
mathurāte pāṭhāila rūpa-sanātana
dui senā-pati kaila bhakti pracāraṇa
Lord Caitanya dispatched the two generals Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī to Vṛndāvana to preach the bhakti cult.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya sent Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī to Vṛndāvana to preach devotion. Through their preaching, temples were gradually constructed where there had been none.
The Gosvāmīs wrote books and constructed temples because both are needed for preaching work. Sanātana Gosvāmī constructed the Madana-mohana temple, and Rūpa Gosvāmī constructed the Govindajī temple.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted His saṅkīrtana movement to spread throughout the world. Distribution of books and construction of temples should continue side by side.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.
The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
Audārya · Love that moves outward
The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “distribution”
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”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you help the work of sharing devotional books or supporting temples?
Offer to lend a devotional book to someone who would like to read it.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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