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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 12.154
জগদানন্দের ‘প্রেমবিবর্ত’ শুনে যেই জন ।
প্রেমের ‘স্বরূপ’ জানে, পায় প্রেমধন ॥ ১৫৪ ॥
jagadānandera ‘prema-vivarta’ śune yei jana
premera ‘svarūpa’ jāne, pāya prema-dhana
Anyone who hears about the loving exchanges between Jagadānanda Paṇḍita and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, or who reads Jagadānanda’s book Prema-vivarta, can understand what love is. Moreover, he achieves ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Vivarta means accepting something to be the opposite of what it appears. Jagadānanda Paṇḍita’s apparent anger was a manifestation of his great love for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Prema-vivarta is also the name of Jagadānanda Paṇḍita’s book. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī uses these words to refer both to reading that book and to hearing about Jagadānanda Paṇḍita’s loving dealings.
Anyone who hears about these loving exchanges or reads Prema-vivarta can understand what love is. Such a person very soon achieves ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Loving anger and reconciliation. Jagadānanda’s hurt over rejected oil is healed through personal service and prasāda.
The mood of Antya 12 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:
The Lord tried to pacify him and asked Jagadānanda Paṇḍita to cook for Him. Jagadānanda Paṇḍita became so pleased when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted his cooking that he broke his fast.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 12
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Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of krsna”, “ecstatic love”, “prema-vivarta”
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