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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.7

স্বরূপ-গোসাঞি আর রঘুনাথ-দাস ।

এই দুইর কড়চাতে এ-লীলা প্রকাশ ॥ ৭ ॥

svarūpa-gosāñi āra raghunātha-dāsa

ei duira kaḍacāte e-līlā prakāśa

Translation

Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded all these transcendental activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in their notebooks.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Recorded Activities, Not Imagined Worship

  1. 1

    Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded these transcendental activities in their notebooks.

  2. 2

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa and consequent madness cannot be understood by a person on the material platform.

  3. 3

    The purport rejects the nadīyā-nāgarī group’s introduction of Viṣṇupriyā worship as imaginative. It also states that stalwart devotees like Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura rejected other unauthorized methods of worshiping Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Key points from the purport
  • Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s transcendental feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa and His consequent madness are not at all understandable by a person on the material platform.
  • Many other methods of worshiping Caitanya Mahāprabhu have also been introduced, but they have all been rejected by stalwart devotees like Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura.
  • The groups practicing such unauthorized worship have been listed by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura:

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Intense yearning. Darśana, dreams, and visions of Vraja bring overwhelming separation.

The mood of Antya 14 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 14: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Feelings of Separation from Kṛṣṇa

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa resulted in highly elevated transcendental madness. When He was standing near the Garuḍa-stambha and praying to Lord Jagannātha, a woman from Orissa put her foot on the Lord’s shoulder in her great eagerness to see Lord Jagannātha.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. svarūpa-gosāñiSvarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī
  2. āraand
  3. raghunātha-dāsaRaghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī
  4. ei duiraof these two
  5. kaḍacātein the notebooks
  6. e-līlāthese pastimes
  7. prakāśadescribed
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Vipralambha · Love in separation

    Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “separation”, “madness”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can I keep my understanding of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu grounded in recorded teachings rather than imagination?

Practice

Check one statement in your study notes against this translation and purport, removing any unsupported addition.

Live this todayRecorded Activities, Not Imagined WorshipThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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