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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 8.35
বৃন্দাবন–দাস কৈল ‘চৈতন্যমঙ্গল’ ।
যাঁহার শ্রবণে নাশে সর্ব অমঙ্গল ॥ ৩৫ ॥
vṛndāvana-dāsa kaila ‘caitanya-maṅgala’
yāṅhāra śravaṇe nāśe sarva amaṅgala
Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana dāsa has composed Śrī Caitanya-maṅgala. Hearing this book annihilates all misfortune.
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Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana dāsa composed Śrī Caitanya-maṅgala.
The verse directs attention to hearing this book.
Hearing Śrī Caitanya-maṅgala annihilates all misfortune.
Vulnerability and obedience. Kavirāja writes by mercy and command rather than personal self-assertion.
The mood of Ādi 8 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:
Previous to the composition of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura wrote a book called Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata. Only those subjects which were not discussed by Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura in his Caitanya-bhāgavata have been taken up by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī to be depicted in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 8
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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”
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