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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 1.202
এই দুই ভাইয়ে আমি পাঠাইলুঁ বৃন্দাবনে ।
শক্তি দিয়া ভক্তিশাস্ত্র করিতে প্রবর্তনে ॥ ২০২ ॥
ei dui bhāiye āmi pāṭhāiluṅ vṛndāvane
śakti diyā bhakti-śāstra karite pravartane
“I empowered both of these brothers to go to Vṛndāvana to expand the literature of bhakti.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu empowered both brothers to go to Vṛndāvana and expand the literature of bhakti, or devotional service.
An unalloyed devotee serves without material contamination, with tolerance like a tree and humility greater than the grass. Free from material bondage, such a devotee remains engaged in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities without hypocrisy.
Sanātana Gosvāmī combined humility, renunciation, and learned scholarship as an ideal pure devotee. Like Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya, he understood the conclusions of devotional service and could describe that transcendental knowledge.
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:
After the period of Cāturmāsya, all the devotees who had come from Bengal returned to their homes. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, however, remained at Jagannātha Purī for some time.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 1
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”, “serves”
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”
Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association
Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “pure devotee”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you use what you learn for devotional service without seeking personal gratification?
Set aside one small sense-gratifying activity today and use that time to study devotional literature with humility.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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