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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 1.36
পথে চলি’ আইসে নাটকের ঘটনা ভাবিতে ।
কড়চা করিয়া কিছু লাগিলা লিখিতে ॥ ৩৬ ॥
pathe cali’ āise nāṭakera ghaṭanā bhāvite
kaḍacā kariyā kichu lāgilā likhite
On his way to Gauḍa-deśa, Rūpa Gosvāmī had been thinking of how to write the action of the drama. Thus he had made some notes and begun to write.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
On his way to Gauḍa-deśa, Rūpa Gosvāmī thought about how to write the action of the drama.
He made notes to help develop his writing.
His planning was accompanied by action: he had already begun to write.
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 night, however, the dog could not get any food and therefore went directly to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī. The next day, when Śivānanda and his party reached Jagannātha Purī, Śivānanda saw the dog eating some coconut pulp offered to it by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.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 small step could help you turn a thoughtful intention into action?
Make a brief note about something you learned concerning Lord Kṛṣṇa, then develop it into two sentences.
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