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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.82
স্বরূপ-গোসাঞিরে কহেন, — “গাও এক গীত ।
যাতে আমার হৃদয়ের হয়ে ত’ ‘সম্বিৎ’ ।।” ৮২ ।। ॥ ৮২ ॥
svarūpa-gosāñire kahena, — “gāo eka gīta
yāte āmāra hṛdayera haye ta’ ‘samvit’ ”
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then said to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, “Please sing a song that will bring consciousness to My heart.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī to sing.
His request was specific: a song that would bring consciousness to His heart.
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī responded by singing a verse about remembering Kṛṣṇa.
Absorbed searching. The Lord lives the gopīs’ search for Kṛṣṇa with ecstatic transformations.
The mood of Antya 15 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:
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited a verse from the Gīta-govinda just suitable to the Lord’s emotions. Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How attentively do I listen to songs about Kṛṣṇa?
Read the song beginning “Here in the arena of the rāsa dance” slowly, giving its words your full attention.
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