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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 1.211
শ্রীরূপ কহেন, — “আমি কিছুই না জানি ।
যেই মহাপ্রভু কহান, সেই কহি বাণী ।।” ২১১ ।। ॥ ২১১ ॥
śrī-rūpa kahena, — “āmi kichui nā jāni
yei mahāprabhu kahāna, sei kahi vāṇī”
Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī said, “I do not know anything. The only transcendental words I can utter are those which Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu makes me speak.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī says that he knows nothing independently. He speaks only the transcendental words Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu makes him speak.
A writer dealing with transcendental subjects is not an ordinary writer or translator. Empowerment by the Supreme Personality of Godhead makes such writing effective.
Materialistic poetry cannot describe the Lord’s transcendental pastimes or the conclusions of devotional service. Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī therefore warns beginners not to hear from a non-Vaiṣṇava.
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:
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī composed an important verse beginning with the words priyaḥ so ’yam, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relished it very much. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 1
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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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Rūpa Gosvāmī’s humility teach me about receiving transcendental knowledge?
Read these words of Rūpa Gosvāmī slowly, remembering that he credits the Lord rather than himself.
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