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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.8
সেকালে এ-দুই রহেন মহাপ্রভুর পাশে ।
আর সব কড়চা-কর্তা রহেন দূরদেশে ॥ ৮ ॥
se-kāle e-dui rahena mahāprabhura pāśe
āra saba kaḍacā-kartā rahena dūra-deśe
In those days, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī lived with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, whereas all other commentators lived far away from Him.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī lived with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, while all other commentators lived far away.
Many others also recorded His activities. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura believed that the world would benefit greatly if such notes were available.
The purport calls it most unfortunate for human society that none of these notebooks is still extant.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the loss of these notebooks deepen my appreciation for accounts of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s activities?
Write one sentence about why the records of those who lived with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are valuable.
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