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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 1.137
রায় কহে, — “প্ররোচনাদি কহ দেখি, শুনি ?” রূপ কহে, — মহাপ্রভুর শ্রবণেচ্ছা জানি ॥ ১৩৭ ॥
rāya kahe, — “prarocanādi kaha dekhi, śuni?”
rūpa kahe, — “mahāprabhura śravaṇecchā jāni”
Rāmānanda Rāya said, “Please recite the prarocanā portion so that I may hear and examine it.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmānanda Rāya asked Rūpa Gosvāmī to recite the prarocanā portion.
He wanted to hear and examine that portion of the play.
Śrī Rūpa replied that he considered Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s desire to hear to be prarocanā.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Recognition and encouragement. Rūpa’s devotional insight receives the Lord’s approval; even a dog receives mercy.
The mood of Antya 1 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:
One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Rāmānanda Rāya, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and others went to the place of Haridāsa Ṭhākura and heard some of the verses Rūpa Gosvāmī had composed for his books Lalita-mādhava and Vidagdha-mādhava. After examining the manuscripts of these two books, Rāmānanda Rāya approved and appreciated them very much.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 1
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What can you learn from Rāmānanda Rāya’s wish both to hear and to examine?
Read this exchange aloud once, then pause to consider Śrī Rūpa’s reply.
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