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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 14.9

ক্ষণে ক্ষণে অনুভবি’ এই দুইজন ।

সংক্ষেপে বাহুল্যে করেন কড়চা-গ্রন্থন ॥ ৯ ॥

kṣaṇe kṣaṇe anubhavi’ ei dui-jana

saṅkṣepe bāhulye karena kaḍacā-granthana

Translation

These two great personalities [Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī] recorded the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu moment by moment. They described these activities briefly as well as elaborately 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.

Faithful Records Without Embellishment

  1. 1

    Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s activities moment by moment.

  2. 2

    Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recorded the pastimes briefly, while Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded them elaborately.

  3. 3

    Both simply recorded the facts. They did not create descriptive literary embellishments.

Key points from the purport
  • For future reference, we should remember that Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recorded the pastimes briefly, whereas Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded them elaborately.
  • These two great personalities simply recorded the facts; they did not create any descriptive literary embellishments.

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:

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. Govinda chastised her for this, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu praised her eagerness.
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. kṣaṇe kṣaṇemoment by moment
  2. anubhavi’understanding
  3. ei dui-janathese two persons
  4. saṅkṣepein brief
  5. bāhulyeelaborately
  6. karenado
  7. kaḍacā-granthanacompiling the notebooks
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can their care for factual accuracy guide the way you share what you study?

Practice

Write one factual sentence from today’s reading without adding imagined details.

Live this todayFaithful Records Without EmbellishmentThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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