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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 8.63
নিরন্তর শুনে তেঁহো ‘চৈতন্যমঙ্গল’ ।
তাঁহার প্রসাদে শুনেন বৈষ্ণবসকল ॥ ৬৩ ॥
nirantara śune teṅho ‘caitanya-maṅgala’
tāṅhāra prasāde śunena vaiṣṇava-sakala
He always heard the reading of Śrī Caitanya-maṅgala, and all the other Vaiṣṇavas used to hear it by his grace.
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He always heard the reading of Śrī Caitanya-maṅgala.
All the other Vaiṣṇavas also used to hear it.
Their hearing took place by his grace.
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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Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
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