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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 1.73
প্রভুর নৃত্য-শ্লোক শুনি’ শ্রীরূপ-গোসাঞি ।
সেই শ্লোকার্থ লঞা শ্লোক করিলা তথাই ॥ ৭৩ ॥
prabhura nṛtya-śloka śuni’ śrī-rūpa-gosāñi
sei ślokārtha lañā śloka karilā tathāi
When Rūpa Gosvāmī heard a verse uttered by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu during the ceremony, he immediately composed another verse dealing with the same subject.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rūpa Gosvāmī heard a verse uttered by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu during the ceremony.
He immediately composed another verse in response.
His verse dealt with the same subject as the verse he had heard.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you keep your response to a teaching closely connected to what you have heard?
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