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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 13.92
সর্বশাস্ত্রে প্রবীণ, কাব্যপ্রকাশ-অধ্যাপক ।
পরমবৈষ্ণব, রঘুনাথ-উপাসক ॥ ৯২ ॥
sarva-śāstre pravīṇa, kāvya-prakāśa-adhyāpaka
parama-vaiṣṇava, raghunātha-upāsaka
Rāmadāsa Viśvāsa was very learned in all the revealed scriptures. He was a teacher of the famous book Kāvya-prakāśa and was known as an advanced devotee and worshiper of Raghunātha [Lord Rāmacandra].
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmadāsa Viśvāsa was learned in all the revealed scriptures and taught Kāvya-prakāśa. He was known as an advanced devotee and worshiper of Lord Rāmacandra.
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explains that anyone who desires to merge into the Lord’s existence cannot be a pure Vaiṣṇava. Although Rāmadāsa was a great devotee of Lord Rāmacandra, the purport describes him as almost a Vaiṣṇava.
In those days, people could not distinguish a pure Vaiṣṇava from a pseudo Vaiṣṇava. Rāmadāsa was therefore known as a Vaiṣṇava because he worshiped Lord Rāmacandra.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Concern and affectionate restraint. Devotees seek to care for the Lord while He maintains His renounced practice.
The mood of Antya 13 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:
When Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī left Vārāṇasī on his way to Jagannātha Purī after completing his education, he met Rāmadāsa Viśvāsa Paṇḍita. Viśvāsa Paṇḍita was very proud of his education, and being an impersonalist, he was not well received by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 13
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I more concerned with being known as a devotee or with cultivating pure devotion?
Take a quiet moment today to examine your devotional aim: pure devotion rather than merging into the Lord’s existence.
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