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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 1.80
তালপত্রে শ্লোক লিখি’ চালেতে রাখিলা ।
সমুদ্রস্নান করিবারে রূপ-গোসাঞি গেলা ॥ ৮০ ॥
tāla-patre śloka likhi’ cālete rākhilā
samudra-snāna karibāre rūpa-gosāñi gelā
After writing this verse on a palm leaf, Rūpa Gosvāmī put it somewhere in his thatched roof and went to bathe in the sea.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rūpa Gosvāmī wrote the verse on a palm leaf.
He placed the leaf somewhere in his thatched roof.
He then went to bathe in the sea. The following verse describes the Lord finding and reading the leaf.
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 did writing the verse down make it available for the Lord to read?
Copy one sentence from Rūpa Gosvāmī’s verse onto a small piece of paper.
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